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SCIENCE: Different Visions Compete to Control Africa’s Witchweed
A biotechnology approach to controlling African farmers' persistent enemy - witchweed - may be getting the upper hand on more "ecological" solutions to the problem, thanks to funding from Western agencies.TECHNOLOGY-MEXICO: Bringing Internet to the Poor
Efforts by the Mexican government to bring poor communities around the country into the digital age have drawn criticism from those who say there are more urgent priorities to address among the poor, and from others who complain that the initiative will be under the Microsoft yoke.PAKISTAN: Gov’t Scrambles to Launch Satellite, Eyes Bigger Plans
Pakistan's concern about permanently losing its slot in geo stationary space has led it to put a leased communications satellite by yearend, while keeping an eye on the bigger aim of developing its own satellite presence.ENVIRONMENT-LATAM: Satellite to Revolutionise Climate Prediction
The Humidity Sounder of Brazil (HSB), one of the devices carried by the Aqua satellite that is orbiting the earth as part of a U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) project, will provide vital meteorological information for South America.ENVIRONMENT-PERU: High Winds, Extreme Cold in Preamble to El Niño
The return of snow storms in southern Peru after a quarter century, and hurricane-force winds in Chile are the clearest signs, say experts, of the approach of El Niño, a cyclical warm current in the Pacific Ocean that causes climate disturbances worldwide.HEALTH: Spanish Researcher Presents ‘Therapeutic’ AIDS Vaccine
An experimental "therapeutic" vaccine against AIDS, produced and tested with some success in Spain, was presented Thursday at the 14th International AIDS Conference in this northeastern Spanish port city.TECHNOLOGY: Internet Domain Name .za Shipped Out of South Africa
The administrator of the South African internet domain name has taken computer files, essential to the smooth running of the World Wide Web in South Africa, out of the country.TECHNOLOGY: U.N. Delegates, Companies Deplore Digital Divide
Goverments, companies, and non-governmental organisations must forge stronger partnerships to promote information and communication technologies (ICT) in developing countries, a two-day U.N. General Assembly meeting concluded Tuesday.CHILE: Small Companies to Reach Europe with Help of Internet
Over the next few years the Internet will become an essential tool for small and medium-sized companies in Chile to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the free trade deal recently signed with the European Union (EU).TECHNOLOGY: UN Must Incorporate Science or Risk Losing Authority
The United Nations runs the risk of losing control over the major decisions of the future if it does not incorporate a scientific and technological focus into its diplomatic operations, warn academics and experts.TECHNOLOGY: African Culture Gets a Media Boost
How is a small African nation that believes its colourful indigenous culture is its foremost economic asset to get this message across to an unaware world?ENVIRONMENT: The Tasmanian Tiger’s Controversial Comeback
Scientists at the Australian Museum here were visibly jubilant when they announced recently that they are closer to resurrecting the Tasmanian tiger from extinction through cloning, but other scientists and environmentalists have greeted the news with more sobriety.TECHNOLOGY: Linking Africa to the Information Superhighway
A system for Africans, developed and run by Africans. That is how one Telkom executive describes the 639-million-U.S.-dollar undersea fibre optic cable.//CORRECTED REPEAT//TECHNOLOGY: Linking the Language of IT to African Languages
"Mkathimbani" means cyberspace in the indigenous Nguni languages of Southern Africa.TECHNOLOGY: Linking the Language of IT to African Languages
"Mkathimbani" means cyberspace in the indigenous Nguni languages of Southern Africa.TECHNOLOGY-RUSSIA: High Aims with Low Funds
When the hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan collapsed Sunday, many hopes for Russia's space programme came down with it./REPEAT/TECHNOLOGY-AFRICA: Internet Users Ripped Off by Western Companies
African Internet users are being forced by Western companies to pay the full cost of connecting to the World Wide Web, while European and American users pay nothing. This is one of the main hurdles blamed for the slow spread of the Internet in the world's poorest continent./REPEAT/TECHNOLOGY-AFRICA: Internet Users Ripped Off by Western Companies
African Internet users are being forced by Western companies to pay the full cost of connecting to the World Wide Web, while European and American users pay nothing. This is one of the main hurdles blamed for the slow spread of the Internet in the world's poorest continent.TECHNOLOGY-AFRICA: Internet Users Ripped Off by Western Companies
African Internet users are being forced by Western companies to pay the full cost of connecting to the World Wide Web, while European and American users pay nothing. This is one of the main hurdles blamed for the slow spread of the Internet in the world's poorest continent.SCIENCE: Experts say Genetic Map of Rice Could Help Feed Millions
Two independent groups of scientists have cracked the genetic code of rice in a breakthrough that many believe holds greater potential for developing countries than the sequencing of the human genome in 2001.TECHNOLOGY: First African to Fly into Space
Even though it is a privately funded, the flight by South African millionaire, Mark Shuttleworth, to the International Space Station (ISS) on a Russian Soyuz craft is being billed as the first African in Space Project.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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