When Hope Means a Radio School
When you peer into a Grade 2 classroom, you expect to see little children sitting on tiny chairs at desks built for them. So it was slightly incongruous watching a six-foot 17-year old young man...
Why Kenya’s School Laptops Programme is Not the Answer
This blog originally appeared in ONE. The Kenyan government is delivering on an election promise and has awarded a supply contract for 1.2 million laptops to be given to first year primary school...
Africa Unplugged: Energy Costs Price Many Africans Out of ICTs
Energy access – a costly barrier to growth in Africa. Read all about Africa unplugged in Phil Goodwin’s latest blog on The Energy Collective.
Radio Without Broadcasting: Hope for the Unschooled
By Dr. Emile McAnany, Senior Research Advisor for the Center for Science Technology and Society, Santa Clara University. Zambia is one of the poorer countries in Africa, but it is a country with...
From Nyamata to New York
In the summer of 2006, Tech Museum of Innovation Award Laureates were invited to the opening of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in New York City. By chance I happened to be in town. Afterwards the group...
