I started blogging almost three years ago with an aim of sharing my thoughts on technology and its use in the fight against poverty. Since then, I have written 209 posts (including this one) on this blog and 10 posts on my new blog, where I write about my experiences in Japan and Afro-Japanese issues. [...]

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The issue of Ethanol driven cars in Malawi is very close to my heart. In case, you want to refer to the previous articles that I have written on this issue, here is Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. This series will continue, albeit with different titles depending on the nature of [...]

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ITNewsAfrica reports that cutthroat competition that exists in the cybernet café industry in South Africa has seen operators reduce their prices significantly to attract customers. Some internet café operators have now reduced charges to an average of R1 for about 25 minutes. Before, most operators charged R1 for 12 minutes.

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Towards the end of last year, a fatal head-on collision accident, somewhere in Ntcheu on the M1 road, claimed the life of one of my best friends, Piyasoni Kachepatsonga. When I heard the news of his death, I was so shaken. Up to now I still do not understand why Piya had to leave this [...]

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I recently stumbled on Wadja,a social networking site that allows its members to send free SMS messages across the world. Just like I usually do when I find good sites, I wanted to share the link with my friends on Facebook. But to my surprise, Facebook could not accept the wadja link. This was actually [...]

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The United Nations University (UNU) will organize the tenth regular session of its six-week UNU International Courses (UNU IC) at the UNU Centre in Tokyo, Japan, from 11 May through 19 June 2009.
Applications are open to postgraduate students and professionals in various occupations – with a college or university degree. The closing date for receiving [...]

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I have just discovered that the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has announced that qualified undergraduate students are welcome to apply for the OFID Scholarship 2009/10. The OFID Scholarship will be awarded to support an undergraduate student from any developing country, to pursue higher education in a relevant field of development, in any [...]

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Happy New Year to all of you! It’s that time of the year again when I share with you links to ten great posts from this blog which you might have missed in the previous  year. The list for 2008 is as follows:

Ten Primary School teachers that made a huge influence on my academic life
Are [...]

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It appears Google chose to wind up the year 2008 with a Toolbar PageRank update. After seeing many sites reporting changes in their Toolbar PageRank, I decided to check site’s PR. I am glad to report that this blog has moved from PR3 to PR4. This is a great achievement especially when you consider the [...]

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