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Technology in Nigeria

Jason Lopez — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:24:42 +0000

Nigerians are optimistic that basic technologies like mobile telephony and the Internet can change their country and their lives. As knowledge becomes power in emerging countries, people are making these technologies their own. In Nigeria, local companies are offering IT services to the developing market. One has even launched a mapping services for drivers in Lagos. The photograph pictured is of the Nigerian wireless communications regulatory agency — equivalent to the FCC in the U.S. — and figures prominently in the country’s technological direction. PodTech’s Jason Lopez traveled to Abuja, Nigeria and filed this podcast.

Making Telemedicine Work in Nigeria

Jason Lopez — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:10:37 +0000

Nigeria is a country in need of fast solutions and perhaps the fastest solution is needed in healthcare. Conferencing technologies, which many in the developed world yawn at, are critical to making telemedicine work. But there’s more to deploying it than setting up cameras and laptops, otherwise companies like Intel–which is sponsoring such projects in the developing world–would have considered its mission complete years ago. There are other issues. PodTech’s Jason Lopez witnessed a project while shadowing Intel Chairman Craig Barrett on a tour of the National Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria.

Intel World Ahead: Education in Nigeria

Jason Lopez — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:38:11 +0000

Nigeria’s education system is one of the targets of the UN’s Millenium Development Goals. Some of those goals are to reduce infant mortality, combat AIDS, malaria & other diseases, and of course improve education worldwide. The millennium goal for education is to ensure, by 2015, that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling. In Nigeria only about 6 out of 10 kids attends primary school. In the poorest bracket many children who do go to school start late in terms of their ages and end up chronically behind. Intel’s push to bring low cost laptops to school children in Nigeria is an effort to help the country meet the millenium development goals. PodTech’s Jason Lopez was in Abuja, Nigeria for Intel covering Chairman Craig Barrett’s visit and filed this podcast.

Morocco’s Tech Challenge: Literacy

Jason Lopez — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:51:41 +0000

In a country marked by influences — Berber, Arab, Jewish, French, Spanish — Morocco faces the challenge of absorbing one more: information technology. Countries like India, China, Brazil and Nigeria have seen the astonishing impact that simple PCs can have on an economy - but the key to unlocking the potential of an information-driven workforce is always the same — education. Morocco wants to create its own Silicon Valley. Intel Chairman Craig Barrett visited the country to reaffirm the company’s commitment to helping Morocco shorten its road to literacy. PodTech’s Jason Lopez filed this podcast

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Basic Technologies Matter in Sub-Sahara Africa

Jason Lopez — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:46:14 +0000

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett, fresh from the Connect Africa Summit in Kigali, Rwanda, toured Nigeria’s National Hospital in the country’s capitol of Abuja, as well as a school in the Jabi district of the city. Barrett also serves as chairman of the UN’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID). PodTech’s Jason Lopez followed along and posted this audio podcast.

More about the Connect Africa effort.

Journey to Connect Africa: First Leg, Lagos

Jason Lopez — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:08:36 +0000

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett is traveling this week in Africa, as part of an ongoing effort by the United Nations, the International Telecommunication Union and private enterprise to improve Africa’s Information and Communication Technology, or ICT infrastructure. Barrett, who heads up the UN’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID), is accompanied by PodTech’s Jason Lopez, who files this podcast report from Lagos, Nigeria. The digital divide is at the heart of this week’s Connect Africa Summit, but from Lopez’s reporting so far, it’s not just a digital divide.

More about the Connect Africa effort

Intel’s Craig Barrett on the U.N. and Silicon Valley

Jason Lopez — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:01:55 +0000

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett says Silicon Valley IT companies are in the right place at the right time to help the United Nations address the world’s health, education, and economic problems. Barrett, who has been appointed the chairman of the U.N.’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development, says, “My job is to make sure that we don’t talk a lot, but we do a lot.” The Alliance will meet today at the the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to discuss the role of Silicon Valley in the U.N.’s information technology goals. PodTech’s Jason Lopez interviewed Intel’s chairman at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara. Intel made this video possible.