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Ron Nixon on Following Disappearing Aid Money

December 1, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Where does all the aid money sent to Africa actually go? Ron Nixon of the New York Times attempts to answer that very question with ...
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Stephane Boyera on the Evolution of the Mobile Web

November 30, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Stephane Boyera of the World Wide Web Foundation discusses the next 20 years of the internet and how the mobile web is poised to dramatically ...
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Roscoe Nsumbuga: Banking the Unbanked Using Biometrics

November 30, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Roscoe Nsumbuga of Mapswitch on using biometric identification cards used as part of a money transfer service that is enabling millions of Ugandans to access ...
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Paul Bagyenda: Geography is History

November 29, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Ugandan computer scientist Paul Bagyenda discusses how the internet has changed Uganda over the past decade and why ‘geography is history’. Recorded November 23 ...
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TEDx Week

November 28, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
This week we’ll be distributing all the talks recorded last week at TEDxKampala. What was TEDxKampala? On November 23rd, 2009, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor ...
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