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Innovation Flowers in a Crowded, Crumbling African University - International - The Chronicle of Higher Education

TEEAL: The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library

Inveneo

Inveneo 2008, Inveneo, San Francisco, CA, viewed 23 July 2009, .

Inveneo is a California-based Non-Profit working to bridge the Global Digital Divide (GDD) in Africa. This website has some concrete examples of ICT development projects that have been completed in Africa. It also has various links to information about the digital divide and actual technological information about Inveneo's products and processes. This website can inform various parts of my paper including: a general discussion of the GDD, specific tactics that have been used in the developing world, and specifically the use of Open Source Software. Inveneo has designed computing and networking systems built upon Open Source Software. This is a specific example of how OSS can be used effectively for development purposes.

The social mission of Inveneo is "to get the tools of information communications technology (ICT), such as computers, telephony, and Internet access to those who need it most — people and organizations in rural and highly underserved communities of the developing world." Inveneo’s approach is to work with local groups to train individuals to use ICT to improve lives within communities. Inveneo’s clients include other NGOs, local governments and local private enterprises. The computing and communications systems developed by Iveneo are low power, wireless and uses open-source software to reduce licensing costs. Their work began in Uganda in 2005 and now they have 25 projects in seven African nations. Inveneo’s goal is to match relevant technology to local organizations that provide education, healthcare, economic development, microfinance and relief services. The products and solutions offered by Inveneo include the Inveneo Computing Station, the Inveneo Communication Station, the Inveneo Hub Server and the Inveneo Desktop Linux. All of these systems require ultra-low power and are designed to perform in conditions of high dust and humidity, and these systems are compatible with Open Source Software programs. Inveneo systems are designed for beginner level users and are equipped with multi-lingual word processing capabilities. Inveneo also provides on-going training and support for its clients.

juliaroyall.com

Postings from Mulago Hill
Julia Royall, Chief, International Programs, National Library of Medicine, NIH, Fulbright Scholar to Uganda 2007-2008

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
The 351 titles in the collection include sermons on racial pride and political activism; annual reports of charitable, educational, and political organizations; and college catalogs and graduation orations from the Hampton Institute, Morgan College, and Wilberforce University. Also included are biographies, slave narratives, speeches by members of Congress, legal documents, poetry, playbills, dramas, and librettos. Other pamphlets focus on segregation, voting rights, violence against African-Americans, and the colonization of Africa by freed slaves.

Globalization: Media in Africa

Kwetu.net

Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa:

Mellon Foundation - Special International Emphasis: South Africa

The main goal of the Foundation’s higher education program in South Africa is to develop capacity in higher education by providing opportunities for individuals who were previously disadvantaged and individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to the previously disadvantaged.

Grants from the Foundation have supported regional library collaborations of universities and technikons (now universities of technology). All 21 higher education institutions and the National Library of South Africa have benefited from our support of five regional consortia. The Foundation also made grants to the South African Bibliographic Network (SABINET) to support library collaboration at the national level and to promote access to JSTOR, a scholarly journal archive (www.jstor.org). In addition, the Foundation has worked to improve access to the Internet for all of South African higher education through the Tertiary Education Network (www.tenet.ac.za).

Africa Attracts Renewed Attention From American Universities - Chronicle.com

Partnerships with African universities-- Botswana-UPenn Partnership is highlighted.

Wired Campus: Virtual Network Planned to Connect American and African Universities - Chronicle.com

Broadband Internet for Africa -- Juma and Moyer 320 (5881): 1261 -- Science

Critical arts [electronic resource].

. Critical arts [electronic resource]. 1992-6049 series [Johannesburg, South Africa] : [Critical Arts Study Group]
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Balancing Act News Update

Balancing Act News Update
Covers Internet and new media technologies in Africa

International historical statistics : Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-2000 / B.R. Mitchell.

Mitchell, B. R. (Brian R.) . International historical statistics : Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-2000 / B.R. Mitchell. 4th ed. 0333994124 series Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Call#: Van Pelt Library HA4675 .M552 2003

Contexts, motives and experiences of Nigerian overseas nurses: understanding links to globalization.

"Contexts, motives and experiences of Nigerian overseas nurses: understanding links to globalization." Journal of clinical nursing [0962-1067] 16.12 (2007). 2237-.

Balancing Act News Update

Balancing Act News Update
Covers Internet and new media technologies in Africa

Kwetu.net

Kwetu.net
Searchable fulltext (PDF-format) documents from African research organizations, NGOs, educational institutions, and government agencies. Topics covered include agriculture, AIDS support services, arid lands research, children and family and social services, environmental conservation and forest and water resources, finance and economic development including the informal sector, journalism, human rights and social justice, peace and conflict resolution, politics and elections, population issues and family planning, urban development, and women's issues.

Journal of Modern African Studies

Journal of Modern African Studies
-from Cambridge Journals
Holdings: 1997-

Globalization: Media in Africa

The Role of a University in Education and Training in the Field of Nanotechnology : The Case of the University of the Witwatersrand

Education for Chemical Engineers vol 2. iss 1. 2007, Pages 56-67

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Xala

For this project, I have chosen to investigate Ousmane Sembene's 1975 film Xala. The film raises a multitude of issues pertaining to post-colonial African government and culture. Sembene largely criticizes the incompetence of the new governments, using the sexual impotence of the film's main character as a metaphor. For the research portion of the project, I sought to answer the following closely-related questions: How have post-colonial African peoples navigated the dichotomy between tradition and modernity in the realms of gender, sex and women