Daily Archives: 2006-11-21


Rays of hope More than 2 billion people live in rural areas of developing countries where access to communications is severely limited. Carolyn Heinze reveals how one US-based company is working to change all that by bringing residents of remote African villages online When you can’t take electricity for granted, […]

Rays of hope


Positive Flow The accepted wisdom is that the ‘brain drain’ harms African economic development. But, as Peter Griffiths argues, the financial gains could more than outweigh any short-term losses Few would ever have guessed that the so-called ‘brain drain’ (the emigration of trained and talented individuals to other nations) was […]

Positive Flow