Macha Works Zambia

LinkNet published a number of its documents on http://www.dcern.org/. This portal considers five key sectors and suggests ways in which incorporating good communication practice can enhance the delivery of development outcomes.

Link http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/projects_list.php shows numerous links to sites in conjunction with ICT for development.

At http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6246989.htm there is news about the current status of the USD 100 laptop. It would be ideal to try this venture in the wonderful connected environment of LinkNet, in Macha.

The website for the laptop is www.laptop.org

Inveneo is a San Francisco based enterprise, offers a new alternative through its open, non-centralized and sustainable approach for providing ICT systems. Inveneo focuses on designing, integrating and supporting affordable technology systems that match the needs of people and organizations in under-served areas of the world. They provide complete, ready-to-install solutions. They share their designs, both equipment specifications and open source software, so that the systems can be created, adapted and supported locally. Their main goal is to make ICT more available and sustainable so that it can be used to by organizations to build capacity to deliver vital services and for people as tools to improve their lives.

Nic Novelly send the following link http://www.howtoforge.com/wireless_hotspot_howto
Oscar Kaate send http://www.linksysinfo.org/portal/forums/showthread.php?t=46731&page=3
Marijn Rijken send http://www.kblink.co.uk/admin/home/?PHPSESSID=319c4c03196cd4952e6bf44faea0caa6
Joel de Winter send http://www.informatione.gmxhome.de/DDWRT/Standard/V23final/index-2.html

Source: http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?area=/insight/insight__economy__business/&articleid=283612

Instant messaging service MXit cuts the cost of an SMS, priced at up to 80c to send a one-word message such as “hello”, by 100 000 times to just 0,0008c.

More than one million South Africans -- mostly under the age of 25 -- are using MXit. New users are signing up at the rate of 12 000 a day.

There are no set-up or sign-on fees, but users need late-model cellphones capable of running on GPRS.

Adrian Plais told that University of Cape Town has a very active group in the use of communications technology for HIV/AIDS treatment. The website is cell-life.org. An article about one of their text messaging applications for ARV treatment is published at http://ihealthbeat.org/index.cfm?Action=dspItem&itemID=113467.

Published on ITWEB by Vanessa Haarhoff

Africa has yet to be recorded on the Linux Timeline, a barometer kept to mark the achievements of Linux developers, despite contributions from the continent in recent years. This is according to Alastair Otter, founder of free software news portal Tectonic, who is encouraging Africa's developers to contribute Linux landmarks to the timeline. The timeline is being updated to celebrate the kernel's 15^th birthday and Linux Journal's 150^th anniversary. “At the moment, the timeline ends in August 2002, with none of Africa's achievements recorded thus far,” Otter says.