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By G. PASCAL ZACHARY
The New
York Times
ACCRA, Ghana, July 3 The Internet bubble has long since popped
in the United States, Europe and Asia. But in parts of Africa
the Internet is serving as a powerful force for change,
primarily by allowing companies and individuals to make
international telephone calls far less expensively than through
conventional channels.
Calls in and out of sub-Saharan Africa have long been among the
world's most costly, strangling business opportunities and
burdening ordinary people. Services have been tightly controlled
by government-owned telephone companies, many of which are rife
with corruption and incompetence. Governments also imposed high
tariffs on international calls, seeing it as a lucrative source
of revenue. Read More
Ghana
trumps mighty Microsoft
By Briony Hale
BBC News Online business reporter, Accra, Ghana
The tale of
Soft and Microsoft is the tale of David and Goliath.
UK-based Hermann Chinnery-Hesse was on holiday in his home country of
Ghana when he accepted a school friend's bet to try to make his fortune
in West Africa.
Starting with a battered old personal computer in his bedroom, Mr Hesse
developed Ghana's own software firm which, for the moment at least, is
holding Microsoft at bay. Read More
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Software
Piracy: Court Restrains Consulting Firm
This Day (Lagos)
February 20, 2003
Posted to the web February 20, 2003
Tayo Ajakaye
Lagos
The Federal High Court in Lagos has barred
Thoroughbreed Software Consulting from making copies, selling or
offering for sale or retaining for use, the computer programme source
code software belonging to Wadof Software Consulting, a leading
software development firm in the country. The software was alleged to
have been wrongfully copied from the plaintiff's system.
The court also restrained other defendants in the suits, including HNB
Trustees, a subsidiary of Habib Nigeria Bank Limited, or any other
organization, person or group of persons from using the software
illegally pending the determination of the motion on notice.
Read More
South
Africa considers open source
By Paul Festa
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
February 5, 2003, 3:50 PM PT
The recommended policy for Africa's wealthiest
nation expresses a preference for open-source applications when
proprietary alternatives don't offer a compelling advantage. Other
nations have taken more extreme positions, mandating the use of
open-source software unless no other practical alternatives exist. Read More
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Rising
With Keyboards
By Nicholas Thompson
Fellow
Newsweek International
August 5, 2002
Francis Quartey is building an army of young men and
women and preparing to storm Accra, the capital of Ghana. His uniform
may not be typical: he wears glasses and a suit. And his soldiers use
motherboards, not machetes. But his objective is nonetheless
revolutionary.Read More
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