Rwanda investing in transforming education through computers

Rwanda is investing in bringing computers into the country’s classrooms through the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization. The goal is to give half of the country’s 2.5 million school children access to a laptop within two years from now, reports TIME Magazine.

The pilot program in Rwanda finished earlier this year, and the country is [...]

We need to make the changes ourselves! Social enterprise is the solution!

Today we listened to and meet Peter Shrimpton during a breakfast meeting at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. Peter Shrimpton is one of South Africa’s leading social entrepreneurs. He is the founder and CEO of Heart and has developed several business models based on profitability by great social enterprise.
Peter told his the story of how [...]

Mobile phones and news journalism in Africa

Four in 10 people in Africa own a mobile phone – and the use of mobiles, particularly for news journalism, is in many ways ahead of the West, reports The Guardian.
Since internet penetration is still rather limited in many parts of Africa (although rapidly growing), mobile phones play an even more important role and is [...]

eCap Ghana at International Conference on African Culture and Development

MKFC Stockholm College Ghanian partner eCap Ghana will present their work about “ Through educating the community of the importance of healthy living and the benefit of education” at ICACD 2010.
The conference would be organized in Kumasi Ghana from 14th to 17th of November 2010.
The conference celebrate the golden Jubilee of more than seventeen African [...]

End world hunger now

There are more hungry people in the world than ever before, with a historic high of over one billion undernourished people. A majority are rural poor living in developing countries.
Lack of food is not the problem – poverty is. Natural disasters, gender inequality, conflict, lack of access to land for the world’s poor, economic crises, [...]