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As Africa continues to develop rapidly, Western countries and companies are increasingly interested in bringing it into existing internat...

Back in May, Techdirt pointed to a presentation from Mike Palmedo listing a wide range of research that demonstrates the lack of a conn...

One of the most heartening developments recently has been Africa's current embrace of computer technology . That includes open source...

Patents are bad enough, because they enclose knowledge. But when they steal that knowledge from the lore of traditional medicine, it's ...

Following my recent post about Bill Gates helping to push genetically-modified and patented seeds towards needy African farmers, Roy Schest...

Here's a brilliant, must-read feature exposing some of the hidden agendas of the Green Revolution and the dark side of the Gates Founda...

Microsoft is stitching up Africa in the cruellest way: Microsoft is on its way to becoming a dominant brand in Africa, mainly through the d...

Well, a groovy African name worked for Ubuntu, so maybe it will for Kongoni : Named after the Shona word for the GNU, Kongoni has a strong B...

If there were ever a region that could benefit immensely from open source, it is Africa. And yet South Africa aside, not much seems to be h...

I am a great believer in trees and the commons they form; it seems to me that going beyond preserving them to extend their coverage across t...

Here's another straw in the wind : MOBILE PHONE builder China Techfaith said Wednesday that it has signed up Egyptian firm Quicktel to d...

FLOSSInclude may sound like a dental hygiene programme, but is in fact yet another heartening exmaple of the EU backing open source: The FL...

I am constantly struck by the fact that the more you ponder certain things, the more complex they get. One area where that's particular...

A proposal to set up a Pan-African Intellectual Property Organisation (PAIPO) though still in its infancy already faces opposition and conce...

Apparently : Although the idea of discussions on a Treaty on Access to Knowledge appears to have strong support in the African Group, Asian ...

Alas, not many people care enough about the threat posed by DRM. But I suspect that quite a few care about their TV viewing, and the tradit...

Here's an interesting point : Many have observed that the African American economy in the US is probably bigger than even South Africa, ...