Member of Intel E-Learning Series Alliance
Posted on 18. Mar, 2010 by CA in Latest News
Connect Africa has recently become a member of the Intel® Learning Series Alliance. We have become a distributor of the Intel-powered Classmate PC and are working within the alliance to develop and deliver 1:1 educational solutions to schools across South Africa and Zambia.
Connect Africa has recently become a member of the Intel® Learning Series Alliance. [...]
Connect Africa Service Network Locations
Posted on 18. Mar, 2010 by CA in Uncategorized
ZAMBIA TRIAL LOCATIONS:
NAME
GPS
COORDINATES
LOCATION
TYPE
OPERATOR
Mukokmena Village
S 15.01.331
E 26.52.190
Purpose built traditional hut
Bravo Tel / Iridium
T Belengu & Maureen
Nakanjori Village
S 15.09.291
E 26.45.207
School
Thuraya PCO
N Evans
Makunku Village
S 15.23.718
E 26.47.368
Clinic
Thuraya PCO
C Mumba
Nalusanga Gate
S 14.58.237
E 26.42.661
Kiosk / shop
Thuraya PCO
Doreen K
Chunga Camp
S 15.02.563
E 26.00.003
ZAWA Office
Thuraya PCO
Beatrice Njungu & Hilda
Tobacco Board of
Zambia (TBZ)
S 14.53.109
E 25.23.055
Beer hall
Thuraya PCO
S Situmbeko
SOUTH AFRICA TRIAL LOCATIONS:
Mogalakwena Municipality: Vodacom community phones [...]
Support from our Sponsors
Posted on 18. Mar, 2010 by CA in Uncategorized
Connect Africa is grateful to the following companies and organisations for their support and encouragement in getting Connect Africa to this very important stage:
Vodacom
(Cellular & Network Technology and equipment)
Vodacom is a leading African communications group providing mobile communications and related services to 39.6 million customers as at 31 March 2009. Its mobile network covers a [...]
Member of Intel E-Learning Series Alliance
Posted on 18. Mar, 2010 by CA in Uncategorized
Connect Africa has recently become a member of the Intel® Learning Series Alliance. We have become a distributor of the Intel-powered Classmate PC and are working within the alliance to develop and deliver 1:1 educational solutions to schools across South Africa and Zambia.
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Calling Zambia …
Posted on 18. Mar, 2010 by CA in Uncategorized
With the support of several stakeholders from both the public and private sectors Connect Africa deployed a three month rural communication service trial in Central Zambia’s Mumbwa district that ended in June 2009.
The objective of the project was to test the technology, management and logistics deployed and to determine user demand and commercial viability.
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About
Posted on 18. Mar, 2010 by CA in Latest News
Connect Africa is a non-profit social enterprise that leverages innovative technologies for socioeconomic development.
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Connecting rural populace through satellite phones
Posted on 15. May, 2009 by CA in Latest News
By NEBERT MULENGA
RURAL areas that have often been marginalised and cut off from the usage of state-of-the-art telecommunication facilities are now getting connected and opening up, thanks to a new project that uses satellite antennas to pick a signal.
The project, currently running on a pilot basis in Mumbwa and Kaoma districts, is being implemented by [...]
Speak up, you’re through
Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by CA in Latest News
On a hot Saturday afternoon, a group of people stand in a disorderly fashion in front of a pigeon-hole window with small pieces of paper in their hands.
Inside the window is a telephone booth and an operator who keeps dialling one number after the other and pushing the receiver through the window to the callers. [...]
Finalists in Social Entrepreneur Awards
Posted on 16. Sep, 2007 by CA in Archives
Social entrepreneurs are often referred to as change agents and this was highly evident at the Gordon Institute of Business Science’s (GIBS) Colloquium for Social Entrepreneurs Social Entrepreneurship Awards Dinner held in Johannesburg on the 13th September 2007.
Connect Africa is proud to have two loyal and enthusiastic staffers, Elias Mashilo and Melanie Malema, who were [...]
January Newsletter, 2007
Posted on 31. Jan, 2007 by CA in Archives
Hello there,
2007 Promises to be a special year for Connect Africa. After two and a half years of hard work the research is done, we partnered with great sponsors, we successfully completed over 8 months of field trials, we registered as an NPO in South Africa (no easy task), we secured seed funding and now, [...]