ICT for education solutions: in Africa, by Africans, for the global economy

Africa is experiencing a technological surge and it is having a dramatic effect on education throughout the Continent. Tech hubs are blossoming, new mobile devices and apps are being designed and produced in Africa, by Africans, and Africa’s eLearning market is now the fastest-growing in the world. With self-paced eLearning revenues forecast to double to [...]

$100M Project…Free Internet for Sierra Leone

President of Affinity Telecom Worldwide, Anthony Melhem, has revealed that Sierra Leone will soon benefit from free internet facility that will be serving the capital city Freetown, and the provincial cities of Bo, Kenema. and Makeni. The country, he said, will benefit from the facility through Affinity Telecom Worldwide which  will be launched in Freetown [...]

‘Ernest’s Prosperity’ with Tamba’s Innovative Computing

In January, 2012, in a typically Sierra Leonean Satan-stamping-Jesus-lifting speaking-in-tongues fiery interdenominational Christian service at the Miatta Conference Center in Freetown,  to end the week long Presidential-declared  Fasting and Prayer Week, the theme of the key sermon from the handsome three-piece-clad intense–brow Archbishop Archibald Cole of the Evangelical Fellowship of Sierra Leone was… Generational Mentality! [...]

12 Watts Solar Power Computer now available in Sierra Leone

Thin Client Benefits, Fat Client Performance The new T1 is everything you want in a thin client: small, fanless, solid state, affordable, and power consumption below 12 Watts. But with a Dual Core 1.9GHz CPU, 4GB RAM and high-speed SSDs, it’s fast enough to run as a standalone PC. Reliability of No Moving Parts We [...]

World Vision provides solar lamps for school children in Kono

In a bid to promote child education World Vision Sierra Leone has commenced the distribution of solar lamps to primary and secondary school children in Kono District where electricity for the ordinary people has not been available for years.  (Photo: Secondary School children in Kono display Solar Lamps provided by World Vision Taiwan to promote [...]

CCB Computerizes Saint Joseph

The Congregation of Christian Brothers, (CCB) donated a pool of computers to the Saint Joseph Secondary School in Blama, Small Bo chiefdom, Kenema. The organization also gave the school a brand new giant diesel generator and an assortment of Home Economic gadgets, among them a gas cooker. Addressing pupils and staff of the school during [...]

Keeping the Diaspora close to events back home: The New Media and November 17

In the 21st century, the social media has been a very effective means of communicating much more speedily and effectively, allowing for updates to be posted as soon as something happens. Notably, people use social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter to promote the causes they stand for but also to disseminate information which [...]

WARCIP Updates on ACE Fibre Optic Project

The West African Regional Communications Infrastructure (WARCIP), Sierra Leone’s Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) Submarine Fibre Optic Cable ongoing project, called a press conference on Friday September 28th, at the landing site Lumley Beach-Road to update the media on the development of the project. Speaking at the conference, project coordinator, Mr. Julius Kamara said the [...]

Airtel continues support to adopted schools

Leading mobile company in the country, Airtel, has never ceased its support to schools they adopted. In continuity of their welcomed gesture, Airtel has imported both text books and exercise books from Ghana for REC Tombo in Tombo village, and Provincial Islamic Primary School in Kenema, the two adopted schools respectively. Airtel has also gone [...]

UK based organization boosts Magburaka school

Magburaka, July  6 (SLENA): Children Learning  Services in the United Kingdom has donated a consignment of ten computers and accessories to the National Commercial Secondary School (NCSS), Magburaka, northern Sierra Leone. Briefing SLENA, the principal of the school, Henry Khalilan Conteh said, the items were presented to the school through the Member of Parliament, Mohamed [...]

Kanga schools now have Internet access

At a meeting on April 14 in Sydney, Australia, Kanga Schools announced the distribution of further resources to benefit schools in Sierra Leone.  Internet subscriptions and modems were made available in March to six schools to enable the teachers and students to access information on the Internet.  It is hoped this is just a beginning [...]

President Koroma takes ICT seriously – Tarawalie tells Kigali Conference

The Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, Sheka Tarawalie, has told the International Telecommunications Union’s Annual Regional Development Forum for Africa held in Kigali, Rwanda, that “later this year, Sierra Leone will join and enjoy the benefits of the fibre optic experience as most modern nations are doing today.”  (L to R) Minister of State [...]

Orange to offer customers free online access to Wikipedia

In what is being promoted as the first partnership of its kind, millions of mobile phone owners in Africa and the Middle East will soon have free access to Wikipedia, an online encyclopaedia. Wikipedia is available for free on the internet, but to access it, mobile phone users have to be enrolled in a data [...]

Femi Mansaray boosts education in Fadugu

In response to the felt needs of students in the Kasonkoh section, Fadugu Chiefdom, in the Koinadugu District, Akmed Femi Mansaray donated two desk top computers and KVA Generators to the Fadugu Agricultural Secondary School and the Kasonkoh Islamic Secondary School respectively at the Kasonkoh Court Barray, Fadugu on March 15, this year. According to [...]

Kailahun District now has a computer school – ICT is the future

Kailahun District is proudly joining the ICT caravan with its new computer school by the name of the Kailahun School of Technology & Computer Studies.  This school provides FREE internet and computer classes for all students in the Kailahun District.  Our aim is to ensure students quickly master their learning problems through ICT. We are [...]

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