Open Source leader proposes to provide software to every school district in the United States if Microsoft provides computing hardware for the 14,000 poorest school districts.

Free access to over half a million unique references for African Studies. Read the article for full details of this powerful bibliographic database aggregation.

Israeli scientists have built a DNA computer so tiny that a trillion of them could fit in a test tube and perform a Billion operations per second with 99.8 percent accuracy.

A new book by the author/ designer of several online communities is reviewed on Slashdot. The review includes some pointers and is followed by a discussion.

This article discusses Mike Jensen's latest research into Internet growth and usage in Africa.

Thirty countries signed a controversial international treaty to combat online crime last week. Representatives of 26 Council of Europe member states, plus the U.S., Canada, Japan, and South Africa, put their signatures on the document at an international meeting in Budapest.

Community-owned wireless networks are gaining popularity—and could help bridge the digital divide.

Seeking to develop and widen the conceptual understanding of equity in health, Equinet identifies critical areas of work and policy issues and makes visible existing unfair and avoidable inequalities in health.

Buying and selling across the World Wide Web offers "unlimited" opportunities for developing countries, says a new United Nations report.

Kenyan media rights activists have condemned a bill they fear aims to muzzle the press before the country goes to the polls next year.

This web page lists many African radio stations which broadcast live over the Web.

Relief agencies such as the Red Cross are using the web to coordinate humanitarian aid. Elen Lewis on how alertnet could revolutionise the way aid workers deal with crises.

The International Press Institute has written to the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, asking him to repudiate his government's accusation that local and foreign journalists are colluding with terrorists.

THE Constitutional Court has been asked to decide upon the constitutionality of a clause of the Code of Conduct for Broadcasting Services which is alleged to have a "chilling effect" on the right to freedom of expression.

An Arabic-language satellite television station financed by the US and aimed at winning hearts and minds in the Muslim world could shortly become a reality. President George Bush has been told of Initiative 911, which would put half a billion dollars into a channel that would compete in the region with al-Jazeera and would be aimed specifically at younger Muslims who are seen as anti-American.

The US 'war on terrorism' is having serious effects on online liberty and freedom of expression.

Amidst much controversy, the first human embryo has finally been cloned. Read on for links to articles and interviews with the scientists and comments on the ethics involved.

On Tuesday 20 November, 22 journalists from the independent Sudanese newspaper Al-Watan were arrested for protesting about a ban on their publication of an article concerning corruption.

ZANU PF’s propaganda in the state media plumbed unprecedented depths during the coverage of the murder of Cain Nkala, the Bulawayo war veteran’s leader. The state media exposed their total disregard for the general standards and ethics of journalism to churn out inflammatory hate speech reminiscent of the hate radio before and during the genocide in Rwanda. ZANU PF officials and war veterans were quoted describing the opposition, as ‘terrorists’ or the ‘enemy’.

OneWorld, the leading online network for human rights and sustainable development, has announced a daily news syndication to the World News section of Yahoo News, one of the most popular news site on the Web.