Clement Nyirenda's blog world
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Ramblings on Technology and its use in the fight against poverty
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The 2009 Nsima party in Tokyo, Japan
In order to commemorate Malawi’s Independence day, 6 July, the Malawi Embassy in Japan has organized the Nsima party in liaison with Malawi Society of Japan. This party will take place at JICA Hiroo Centre (Chikyu Hiroba, i.e. Global Plaza) in Tokyo on 4 July, 2009 from 3:00 to
Steel rolling factory opens in Malawi
Malawi, the Warm Heart of Africa The Daily Times is reporting that a new steel rolling factory worth K1 billion, that uses recycled scrap metal to manufacture steel bars, has opened at Makata industrial site in Blantyre, Malawi.The company, called Malawi Iron and Steel Corporation Limited (Miscor), is born
Africa Bags killing two birds with one stone.
In her talk at the recent NYU Development Research Institute conference on What Would the Poor Say: Debates in Aid Evaluation in New York City, June Arungo, Director of Corporate Affairs at BSL, said that the aid industry is responsible for human resource diversion in Africa. She further
Mobile Money service in Malawi hampered by bureacratic hurdles?
Lives of thousands and thousands of poor people in the rural areas of Kenya are being transformed because of M-PESA, a service that allows users to transfer money using a mobile phone. M-PESA (M for Mobile and PESA for money in Swahili) operated by Safaricom, Kenya’s leading mobile operator,
Old phones save lives in developing countries
Last summer, Josh Nesbit, a student of international health and bioethics at Stanford University, and his friends came up with an interesting system that uses mobile technology in the delivery of health care in low resource settings. This system was first implemented at tiny St. Gabriel’s Hospital in
The new eLeaders ICTs for Development Best Practices Forum
The United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID) has organized a new forum for young people to showcase their experiences in using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for community development projects. The new eLeaders ICT4D Best Practices Forum, powered by TakingITGlobal, gives all young people involved
First edition of the combined Chichewa-to-English and English-to-
The Foundation Heart for Malawi, led by Dr. Steven Paas, has announced the release of the combined Chichewa to English and English to Chichewa dictionary. As pointed out earlier, the main objective of this project is to bridge the gap of communication between speakers of Chichewa/ Chinyanja (C) and
Congratulations to Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika and the Democratic Prog
For the past three days, just like most Malawians in the diaspora, I have had sleepless nights listening to Zodiak radio which has been covering this year’s parliamentary and presidential election results in Malawi. President Bingu wa Mutharika, Source: africanelections.org The pundits were predicting that the presidential race was
SEACOM undersea cable is 54 days from completion but Malawi will
SEACOM, the much anticipated undersea fibre-optic cable system that will connect Africa to the World at a blazing 1.28Tbps, is 54 days from completion.The folks at SEACOM have now created a twitter account through which they share the latest updates on their progress in the lead up to their
Responsible e-waste recycling
Sometime last year, I wrote a post about the disposal of used cars in developing countries, in which I proposed that automobile companies like Toyota should be following up their scrap cars in developing countries with an aim of either recycling them or properly disposing them. I am of the
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