Uganda is on the forefront of a new initiative in Africa from the Global Humanitarian Forum. The new program was launched at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction meeting in Geneva. This new project intends to deploy 5,000 automatic weather stations across Africa mounted on mobile phone masts. These weather stations will gather data [...]

Following Afrikaans, Swahili is the second African language to launch a Facebook page.  In the past five years Facebook use has been spreading all over Africa to become one of the most popular social networking sites on the continent. A group of Swahili scholars approached the California based Internet firm to get permission to launch [...]

South Africa based translate.org.za has created a Luganda version plugin for the Mozilla Firefox 3 web browser. This special addition to the Firefox 3 browser was developed in partnership with Makerere University and Rhodes University. Over 200 Makerere students participated in a “Translate@athon” working on translating different aspects of Firefox 3 into Luganda during the [...]