Africans innovators called to participate in Project Incubator Award

African innovators have another chance to walk away with USD15,000 cash prize in a project incubator award 2012 launched Monday by the EMRC and the Rabobank Foundation of Netherlands. The finalists will be selected and invited to present their business projects to an audience of 400 professionals, composed of interested partners and investors from Africa, [...]

KENYA: Orange subscribers to enjoy free access to Wikipedia

Orange is now offering mobile phone access to Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia at no connectivity cost. Any customer with an Orange SIM and mobile internet enabled phone will be able to access Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopaedia in the world, through their mobile browser. They can access the Wikipedia encyclopaedia services for as many [...]

Telecommunication industry in Nepal, a question of options…

Communication and technology has advanced so much that cell phones have become an essential part of our lives. We use cell phones and its services like anything. From the wake up alarm to calculating future forecast-zodiac signs everything is possible with in a press of a button. One thing I’m really amazed of is in [...]

Simple Elegance to Wonderful Complexity – A journey (Part 1) (VIDEO)

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line. —Benoit Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature When I was a 5 year old kid, there used to be a popular brand of barley sold under the name ‘Purity Indian [...]

Pakistan’s Sustainable Development Strategy

As announced at the Rio+20 summit, Pakistan has a new national sustainable development strategy (NSDS) that will see the creation of a knowledge management system that is based on science, technology and innovation. As reported by SciDev, the knowledge management system will support key economic, environmental and social goals through academic research and foster solution-driven [...]

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