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Links from the Afrik-IT list

The following is a selection of links that appeared on the AFRIK-IT mailing list over an extended period some years ago. AFRIK_IT is a mailing list oncerned with Africa and Information Technology

Apologies for any broken or irrelevant links below (I haven't accessed all of them but they have been slightly filtered and some have been updated). See also the disclaimer at the bottom.

http://www.untpdc.org/untpdc/incubator/africa/biblio.html New information and Communication Technology in Africa: A Bibliography of On-line References by the United Nations Trade Point Development Center

http://africa.cis.co.za/ M-Web South African Site (used to be called Worldnet Africa) backed(?) by compuserve.


One World by BBC


http://demiurge.wn.apc.org:80/africa/ Connectivity Data for Africa's Information Infrastructure


http://h-net.msu.edu/~africa/ H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences On-line) discussion list dealing with the culture and history of the continent of Africa.


http://harare.iafrica.com/ Zimbabwe's pioneering Internet Service provider, providing country wide services since 1994.


http://hydra.carleton.ca/start.html Ottawa Packet Radio Club


http://hyperg.iist.unu.edu/ (dud?)


http://imul.com/ Infomail Uganda Limited


http://library.wustl.edu/~listmgr/devel-l Devel-L Development listserv discussion list


http://naic.arc.nasa.gov/nsi/survey/survey.html Survey of International Internet Connectivity


http://neal.ctstateu.edu/history/africa_update/africa_update.html (dud?)


http://nsn.net/ NSN Network Services Satellite Internet Service Provider


http://s1.cxwms.ac.uk/Academic/AGPU/devcount/homepage.html Medical Informatics in Developing Countries - Homepage


http://www.compufix.demon.co.uk/camweb/ "The Home Page of the Republic of Cameroon"


http://snipe.ukc.ac.uk/international/ Graduate School of International Relations - University of Kent


http://webfoot.csom.umn.edu/isworld/facdir/home.html The ISWorld Net Faculty Directory - the directory of Information Systems Faculty and Researchers from around the globe.


http://www.ips.org/ Inter Press Service. Alternative news agency with a presence in Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America and Europe -- with material published in 18 languages. Today's News can be found here. This site may also be useful. As might this.


http://www.africaonline.com/AfricaOnline/ Africa On-Line


Carol Y McGee


Cliff Missen


http://www.aztec.co.za/users/sapaweb/ SAPA Web South African Public Administration


http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/afr/kenya-l.html Human Rights in Kenya Part of a larger Human Rights Site


http://www.bvx.ca/ict/ ICT Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable Development


http://www.cgiar.org/ivdn/ivdnfaq.htm Some Frequently Asked Questions About the CGIAR's Integrated Voice and Data Network


http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/~nemo/ESS/directory/ Ethiopian Internet White Pages


http://www.gem.co.za/ELA/ken.html The Ken Saro Wiwa Campaign


http://www.gn.apc.org/interaid/ Net Schools NGO working towards access to the internet for children around the world and using it to break down cultural barriers.


http://www.he.tdl.com/~africaol/ (dud?)


http://www.healthnet.org/ SatelLife SatelLife is an international not-for-profit organization employing satellite, telephone and radio networking technology to serve the health communication and information needs of countries in the developing world.


Starsoul's Home Page Not my type of site. Nontheless anyone who links to Zimbabwean Stone Sculptures deserves notice. (Also Africa-American Links, Cameroon Links, and some odd words about light, peace and such stuff.)


http://www.idrc.ca/books/focus/ IDRC Books "A leading publisher of international development literature since 1971"


http://www.idsc.gov.eg/aii/ Information & Communication Technology in Africa


http://www.ina.fr/Music/index.en.html Afro-Carribean Music


http://www.info.usaid.gov/alnk/ USAID's Africa Link


http://www.inlist.com/ (dud?)


http://www.sysmod.com/trinet.htm The Trinet Project. A Third World Communications project administered by the Informatics Development Institute


http://www.mg.co.za/mg/ South African Electronic Mail and Guardian


http://www.jmk.su.se/review/ Review. The Rhodes University Journalism Review, South Africa


http://www.web.co.za/ A south African Web Server. Lists Clients.


http://www.mids.org/ Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc. (MIDS) - examines the composition, content, and users of the Internet and other networks in the Matrix of all computers worldwide that exchange electronic mail. They present that information textually, graphically, and in geographic maps.


http://www.nigeria.com/ or here Nigeria Commercial site.


http://www.nsrc.org/AFRICA/africa.html Africa "Regional Reports and Other Interesting Information" provided by the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC): "a non-profit, pro bono effort, has been involved for several years with the deployment and integration of appropriate networking technology in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Oceania."


http://www.panix.com/ "Panix, the oldest Public Access Internet system in New York City, is dedicated to providing stable and reliable Internet, mail, netnews..."


http://www.pipex.sz/ UUNET Internet Africa in Swaziland


http://www.ru.ac.za/networks.html Information on Southern African Networking - 1994/02/11


http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/WWW_Links.html Africa Web Links: an Annotated Resource List
(A supplement to the UPenn Site)

http://w3.acdi-cida.gc.ca/virtual.nsf Virtual Library on International Development


http://www.telkom.co.za/ Telkom SA Ltd South African telecommunications company


http://www.thejournal.com/past/jan/51bux.html Networks and CD-ROMs Aid Research, Development and Education in Zimbabwe


http://www.uiowa.edu/~intlinet/ International Internetworks


Jason M. Githeko is doing his PhD on "Implementing a technological innovation: An electronic bulleting board system for Small Business Centers in Kenya." He co-wrote this: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/coe/projects/johnson.html The Process of Implementing Technological Innovations in a Developing Country


http://www.undp.org/sdnp/aif/policy.html Africa Internet Forum (AIF) Policy Working Group


http://www.unza.zm/ The University of Zambia


http://www.vita.org/comm/comm.html VITA (Volunteers in Technical Assistance) Communications Service


http://www.wfi.fr/formavision/ Formavision "(for the) 21st century manager, trainer, educator, teacher or student..."


http://www.cgiar.org/ (CGIAR) Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research


http://www.zamnet.zm/ Zambian National WWW Server Links to Zambian Newspapers: The Post in Zambia, the Weekly Mail.