PanAfrica: African Copyright Tech Day Observed

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African Leaders Back Tech Tax to Help
Poor Nations

African Leaders Back Tech Tax to Help
Poor Nations 03/14/2005 05:59 PM
Reuters UK Mar 14 2005 9:20PM GMT

Crime spurs South African inventors to
find high-tech solutions

Crime spurs South African inventors to
find high-tech solutions 12/29/2004 06:29 PM
South African inventors are devising ingenious ways of staying ahead of criminals, including a "smart gun" that snaps digital pictures of the intended target and a computer that sends out an alert if stolen.

Jamboweb.com Launches Giving African Web
Users Unprecedented Access To African
Businesses, News, And Events

Jamboweb.com Launches Giving African Web
Users Unprecedented Access To African
Businesses, News, And Events 04/03/2005 05:54 AM
TreeLife Soltutions LLC has launched a website targeted toward Africans and friends of Africa called Jamboweb.com, that will for the first time bring comprehensive access to African focused articles, events, and business and organization ‘yellow-page’ listings into one central online location. [PRWEB Apr 3, 2005]

Tech titans challenge copyright law

Tech titans challenge copyright law 06/22/2004 07:48 AM
ZDNet Jun 22 2004 12:08PM GMT

Copyright Bill to Kill Tech?

Copyright Bill to Kill Tech? 07/22/2004 06:17 AM
A Senate committee will hear testimony on the controversial 'Induce' copyright bill Thursday. Critics say the bill is the biggest threat to innovation in 20 years, letting Hollywood dictate what consumer electronics companies can do. By Katie Dean.

Tech heavies support challenge to
copyright law

Tech heavies support challenge to
copyright law 06/21/2004 09:58 PM
Intel, Sun and others in new group throw weight behind bill that would make it legal to crack protection schemes.

Tech cos face off with Hollywood on
copyright laws

Tech cos face off with Hollywood on
copyright laws 03/27/2005 01:13 PM
Sify Mar 27 2005 2:35PM GMT

Tech groups fight copyright infringement
bill

Tech groups fight copyright infringement
bill 07/22/2004 08:21 PM
WASHINGTON - A U.S. Senate bill that would allow copyright holders to sue creators of products that "induce" copyright violations would discourage technology companies from offering new media players or other recording products, representatives of four technology groups said Thursday.

Wired News: Copyright Bill to Kill Tech?

Wired News: Copyright Bill to Kill Tech? 07/23/2004 03:07 AM
hold technology companies liable for any product they make that encourages people to steal copyright materials .. Wired News: Copyright Bill to Kill Tech? .. bill will effectively kill innovation

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The attackage, observed

The attackage, observed 06/18/2004 04:48 AM

Wes Felter said he was glad I "did the right thing." I've known Wes since 1995, nine years, I think he was 15 then. Yesterday, talking with Steve Gillmor, he asked me about Steve Kirks. I told him Steve is super-smart, young, ambitious, a learning sponge, tough, but fair. As I described him, I said he's like the people I like to work with. I said "like Brent Simmons," knowing that Gillmor knows Brent. I was also thinking of Wes Felter, who I used to work with. Anyway, Wes should have known I would do the right thing. I asked him, in an email, when have you known me to cut a corner? And I said next time, and there will be a next time, it would be nice if the people who know me, would say publicly that I am honest and hard-working, and to give me a chance. The reason so many of these people say ever-more-damning things about my integrity, is that no challenges them. Every time it's like starting from zero, I have to prove that I'm not the cretin they cast me as. Next time, would the Internet have a memory please, and would the people who know me, who even would like to think of themselves as my friends, say something, publicly, so people know.

I don't care about the people who attack, I know they're trying to get me to care, but I've been through this so many times, I can see how they're working. They don't even try to tell the truth anymore, probably because they know no one will check up on them, and if they act like they know me well, lots of people will assume they do. Mark Pilgrim showed me how this works, by talking about decisions I made, as if he were there, when they happened years before he was involved. Sam Ruby is starting to do the same thing (or at least not objecting when other people assume he's not the newbie that he is). Other people don't tell you why they have personal reasons to be bitter, and why people, if they knew, would take what they say with a grain of salt, and maybe even be appalled at how they're being used. What really gets to me is how people who say they're my friend, stand by, and say nothing. When that happens, we cross off friendship as an option. Friends stand beside friends, even if it causes a bit of conflict. I've learned that friendship is a very rare thing, or maybe other people don't consider the importance of the glass ball, but I thought I should say that it's this standing-alone-thing that is most hurtful, to me. And I think it's why they choose me to attack, by the way. After years of service, actually decades, I feel I have earned the benefit of the doubt. And I didn't get it.

I'm a big, strong, intelligent, self-reliant male. Our culture acts as if such people never need help. "Be a man," they say. Enough of that bullshit. Inside every strong self-reliant male is a scared kid, who doesn't think he's going to get out of this alive. The attackers are dispropotionately women. Do you think maybe they're using me to get even for how someone treated them? A father, a brother, an uncle, an ex? Does our culture let them be abusers, assuming the man is always wrong, guilty until proven innocent? I've been in this big strong body for a long time, and I gotta tell you, it's a rare thing when people consider your feelings in how they deal with you. I think some people take advantage of that too.

PanAfrica: EMEA PC Sales Up 17%

PanAfrica: EMEA PC Sales Up 17% 02/16/2004 05:30 PM
AllAfrica.com Feb 16 2004 8:41PM GMT

Octopuses Observed Avoiding Predators
(AP)

Octopuses Observed Avoiding Predators
(AP) 03/24/2005 07:51 PM
AP - Octopuses, known for using camouflage to avoid predators, have been observed apparently trying to sneak away by walking on two arms while pretending to be a bunch of algae. Two kinds of octopus were seen to use different ways of walking along the sea floor, researchers were reporting in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

PanAfrica: Continent's Expanding
Internet Role

PanAfrica: Continent's Expanding
Internet Role 09/18/2004 04:51 PM
AllAfrica.com Sep 18 2004 6:46PM GMT

PanAfrica: NEPAD Unveils Computer
Literacy Plan for Continent

PanAfrica: NEPAD Unveils Computer
Literacy Plan for Continent 11/05/2003 01:23 PM
AllAfrica.com Nov 5 2003 11:35AM ET

PanAfrica [document]: Internet
Governance: Defend Free Flow of
Information

PanAfrica [document]: Internet
Governance: Defend Free Flow of
Information 05/10/2004 11:39 AM
AllAfrica.com May 10 2004 3:49PM GMT

Canadian Copyright Board allows
downloads, copyright levies

Canadian Copyright Board allows
downloads, copyright levies 12/14/2003 12:27 PM

The Copyright Board of Canada issued a ruling on " private copying ", largely via peer-to-peer computing, with several components. First, downloading is acceptable, but uploading is not (presumably to target hyperpirates). Second, new mechanisms for levies were described, freezing current ones, allowing new charges.

the Copyright Board said uploading or distributing copyrighted works online appeared to be prohibited under current Canadian law. However, the country's copyright law does allow making a copy for personal use and does not address the source of that copy or whether the original has to be an authorized or noninfringing version, the board said.

"The latest tsunami bulletin says "there
has been no major tsunami observed near
the epicenter""

"The latest tsunami bulletin says "there
has been no major tsunami observed near
the epicenter"" 03/31/2005 11:53 PM

The latest tsunami bulletin says "there
has been no major tsunami observed near
the epicenter"

The latest tsunami bulletin says "there
has been no major tsunami observed near
the epicenter" 03/29/2005 04:27 AM
updated .. Tsunami .. alert

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African babershop signs

African babershop signs 04/16/2005 09:52 AM
Cory Doctorow: Wonderful galleries of hand-painted barber signs from Africa, sorted by nation. Link (Thanks, Wagner!)

ICANN gets African flavour

ICANN gets African flavour 07/27/2004 12:33 PM
SABC Jul 27 2004 5:21PM GMT

Software First for African Languages

Software First for African Languages 09/05/2004 07:59 AM
Software First for African Languages
http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=6835&do=gpage

Two years of computer programming will culminate with the launch of the first word processing software to run in Zulu, Sepedi and Afrikaans. Its developers claim that this is the first word processor to be released in African languages, beating a project by Microsoft SA to convert its own software into native languages.

Information on African Journals

Information on African Journals 07/07/2004 09:32 PM
African Journals Online has information about journals available from all over Africa, as well as information on the contents of those journals. It's available at http://www.ajol.info/ . The front page...

African-American == Black?

African-American == Black? 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
African-American == Black? Several high-school students at a predominantly white (well, predominantly NOT black) Nebraska high school were disciplined for a campaign to get 16-year-old student Trevor Richards awarded the school's annual "Distinguished African-American Student" award. Richards is from South Africa, now lives in America (not sure if he's a citizen, the CNN story isn't clear), but here's the catch: he's white.

The Making of an African Petrostate

The Making of an African Petrostate 02/18/2004 07:55 AM
Chad, among the poorest countries in the world, is now Africa's newest petrostate.

S African parties end campaigns

S African parties end campaigns 04/12/2004 11:18 AM
Special voting begins for some 93,000 people who are unable to get to polling stations on Wednesday.

African Journals Online

African Journals Online 07/16/2004 07:07 AM
African Journals Online
http://www.ajol.info/

African Journals Online is a portal for "African-­published journals in agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and social sciences." Abstracts are provided for the journals, and many also contain links to sites with fulltext articles. Reprints can be ordered for those articles that are not available in fulltext online. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

African Hats and Hair

African Hats and Hair 10/30/2003 01:42 PM
Hats Off! A Salute to African Headwear. 'Many African cultures throughout the continent have long considered the head the center of one's being--a source of individual and collective identity, power, intelligence and ability. Adorning the head as part of everyday attire or as a statement, therefore, is especially significant. '
Related :- African Loxo: photos of hairstyles from the Fifties (in French); mathematical patterns in African American hairstyles.

African talks on three conflicts

African talks on three conflicts 07/28/2004 10:08 PM
The UN secretary general and 11 African heads of state are due at talks to try to end three African conflicts.

Al-Qaeda 'seeks African foothold'

Al-Qaeda 'seeks African foothold' 05/11/2004 10:47 AM
The US trains forces in north Africa amid fears terrorists ousted from Afghanistan will seek to establish new bases.

Celtel predicts African boom (FT.com)

Celtel predicts African boom (FT.com) 09/06/2004 12:36 PM
FT.com - Celtel, a pan-African mobile phone operator with a strong presence in sub-Saharan Africa, has reported a near 50 per cent rise in revenues as it benefits from rising mobile phone penetration across the region.

African Flagship 3G Network For Tunisia

African Flagship 3G Network For Tunisia 06/29/2004 04:24 AM
3G Jun 29 2004 8:06AM GMT

Scale of African slavery revealed

Scale of African slavery revealed 04/23/2004 02:47 AM
Human trafficking is a problem in almost all African countries, says a report by the UN Children's Fund.

Sea surges reach E African coast

Sea surges reach E African coast 12/26/2004 12:50 PM
The surges produced by the earthquake off Indonesia hit east Africa and the islands off its coast.

Tiscali flogs South African ISP

Tiscali flogs South African ISP 08/23/2004 06:18 AM
Concentrating on Europe

Mercenaries 'fuel W African wars'

Mercenaries 'fuel W African wars' 04/12/2005 11:31 PM
Young veterans of West Africa's wars are being recruited to fight in new conflicts in the region, a report says.

South African MPs re-elect Mbeki

South African MPs re-elect Mbeki 04/23/2004 03:03 PM
In a unanimous vote, MPs in Cape Town elect Thabo Mbeki as president for a second five-year term.

AFFORD - Database of African
Organizations

AFFORD - Database of African
Organizations 09/04/2004 06:23 AM
AFFORD - Database of African Organizations
http://www.afford- uk.org/resources/database/

AFFORD maintains an online Database of UK based African civil society organizations engaged in development activities both in the UK and in Africa. We are also building the contents of the Database to include agencies and organisations whose work is of relevance to UK-based African organisations (for example donors, organisations in Africa, Pan-African institutions). The Database is one stage in a strategic effort to document and assist increased partnerships and linkages between African organisations in the diaspora and civil society organisations in Africa.

African Online Digital Library

African Online Digital Library 06/28/2004 05:18 AM
African Online Digital Library
http://www.africandl.org/

MATRIX, working in cooperation with the African Studies Center at MSU, and in partnership with premiere research institutions in Africa, is pioneering the African Online Digital Library. The goal of this fully accessible online digital repository is to adopt the emerging best practices of the American digital library community and apply them in an African context. AODL benefits a wide variety of scholars, students, and institutions by producing multilingual, multimedia materials for both scholarly research and public viewing audiences. AODL serves scholars and students conducting research and teaching about West and South Africa as well as teachers and students of African languages in both the United States and Africa. It also provides a valuable model for creating and distributing a diverse array of materials in a region with very limited electronic connectivity. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

South African Genealogy Helper

South African Genealogy Helper 11/01/2003 04:14 PM

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