This week's top stories from Computerworld Zambia
by Fred OConnor on 9 Oct, 2009 | in
Study: Ethiopia only sub-Sahara Africa nation to filter Net
Though various African countries monitor and restrict Internet access in some way, Ethiopia is the only country with a technical filtering regime in the sub-Saharan region, according to a report by OpenNet Initiative, a collaborative partnership between Harvard, Toronto, Cambridge and
Oxford universities.
Small budgets hamper local open source developers
A lack of funds has local open source developers at a serious disadvantage in the education sector, which is slowly getting digitized as leading software companies target the African market.