Clement Nyirenda's blog world
A blog by nyirendac
Blog description:
Ramblings on Technology and its use in the fight against poverty
Blog Rank:
Clement Nyirenda's blog world ranks 114 in Africa and 1 in Malawi. According to site visitors it ranks 215, and 255 according to page views:
According to blogroll links it ranks 260 and 351 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts
Africa’s first: South Africa’s waste-generated electricity
A landmark project that converts gas from household waste into electricity was officially launched in Durban, South Africa, last week. While other countries have been generating energy from waste for sometime now, this kind of project is the first in Africa. The plant captures harmful methane gas from a landfill
The Society of Malawian Students (SMS) in Japan donates to Karong
The Society of Malawian Students (SMS) in Japan, of which this blogger is a member, has donated 60,000Yen to help Karonga earthquake victims. This money was raised from contributions by members of the society. The handover ceremony of the funds to the Malawi Embassy in Japan took place yesterday
Professor Abe Mamdani is no more
It was great shock and sorrow to me when I read a message from Professor Lotfi Zadeh, the father of fuzzy logic, about the premature passing away of Professor Abe Mamdani, one of the prominent figures within the fuzzy logic community. Among other things, Prof Mamdani will be remembered for his
Maravi Post, a new Malawi current affairs site!
The Maravi Post, a current affairs website, which aims to provide unbiased reporting on a wide range of developments in Malawi, was launched early this month. Prior to this, Nyasatimes, Blantyre Newspapers Ltd (BNL), and Nation Online (which looks abandoned) were the only sites providing Malawian news. Therefore, the introduction
Malawi:Online donations for Karonga earthquake victims
For sometime, I have been looking for a mechanism that would enable my blog visitors to make online donations for Karonga earthquake victims. I searched all over the net, but without success. As I was about to give up, I discovered that the Malawi Washington Association (MWA), a registered non-political,
Malawi: Nations Publications Ltd must focus on online advertising
Malawi government has set a policy to deny advertisements to Nations Publications Limited (NPL), publishers of daily Nation, Weekend and Sunday Nation newspapers, allegedly due to the newspapers’ editorial slant. Some adverts which were booked for publication in the papers had been withdrawn. According to Maravi Post, the Monday’s
Find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer, says Germany
The big news making rounds on the Internet today is that the German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security. This warning comes after Microsoft admitted that it was IE’s vulnerability that enabled the recent attacks on Google’s systems.
Finally Zain Zap comes to Malawi!
For some months now, I have been curious as to why Malawi was being left behind in the mobile money revolution that is transforming lives of thousands and thousands of poor people in the rural areas of Kenya in East Africa. Some folks told me that Zain wanted to
The 2009 Malawian style Christmas Party in Tokyo, Japan
It started as a plan for a small Christmas event for Chomora Mikeka, James and Yvonne Kenani, and my family. But we thought that it was going to be better if we had floated the idea to our friends within the Society of Malawian Students (SMS) in Japan. Someone
Let’s make 2010 a year of tremendous progress in the adoption o
Towards the end of last year, the small Southern African nation of Malawi suffered the worst fuel crisis in its history. There were long queues at service stations across the country in search of fuel which scarcely came. Business was almost brought to a complete standstill.At the peak of
Sign in or sign up using any of
Friends
Not following anyone at the moment.