Digital divide is real
A 2017 report by UNICEF titled ‘The state of the world’s children’, notes that nearly 9 out of 10 of the young people (aged 15–24) not using the internet live in Africa or Asia and the Pacific.
Month: Feb 2019
Electricity might just be the thing slowing Africa’s advancement in ICT
Having higher tariffs in a continent where almost all countries rate amongst the poorest in the world and are still in developing stages, some, even worse, are still underdeveloped, Africa is probably not going to catch up yet if matters continue as is.
Friday fact #6: The first person and only woman to win the Nobel Prize. Twice!
Her achievements include the development of the theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium.
Child marriage: Will it ever end?
A 2018 report on child marriage in Africa by the Centre for Human Rights, in collaboration with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, […]
In some countries, education for all is not for all
In 2010, 61 million children were left behind in China by families who migrated elsewhere for work, and 23 million of those children were under the age of 5.
