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AFRICAN CAPACITY BUILDING FOUNDATION
THE AFRICAN CAPACITY BUILDING FOUNDATION: RISING TO THE CHALLENGE OF CAPACITY THROUGH A
UNIQUE AND INNOVATIVE FRAMEWORK
Copyright © 2011 WASD
W. Paatii Ofosu-Amaah
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MD Net
A Mobile Doctors Network
MDNet is a low-cost, high-impact healthcare initiative built to improve the way healthcare professionals interact in African countries. MDNet creates free mobile phone networks amongst physicians within countries in Africa. It aids in transfer of medical knowledge and emergency response, improving healthcare and ultimately saving lives.
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MedAfrica
A Mobile App for medical assistance.
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Africa Aid
Africa Aid provides programs for feeding children, empowering communities through micro-finances and through a doctors network.
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CDRD Project in Somalia
CDRD Project in Somalia
Helping Somalis Help Themselves
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An Alternate Education method (Primary School)
An article from KurzweilAI.net
Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch … powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day.
Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android,” Negroponte said. “Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.” ….
With 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling, the One Laptop Per Child organization is trying something new in two remote Ethiopian villages — simply dropping off tablet computers with preloaded programs and seeing what happens.
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