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Digital Planet: 13/05/2008

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13/05/2008

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Connecting Burma
Last week we heard from Télécoms sans Frontières, the NGO who specialises in getting communications working again in disaster zones.  

Simon Genin, from TSF is in Bangkok waiting for his visa to Burma.  Digital Planet finds out if getting internet access up and running in this secretive regime is realistic and if he is allowed in, what he plans to do.


Telecom Africa
A major obstacle in delivering technology to developing countries is energy.  Quite simply mobiles and computers need power but how can you get electricity to remote areas?

At the International Telecommunication Union’s meeting in Cairo “Telecom Africa” leading mobile experts are looking for the best solution to this problem.

Digital Planet speaks to GSM Association who are trying to reduce the amount of power that mobile phone base stations use as well as finding novel ways of charging handsets.


African Digital Art
On Digital Planet we often report on how technology is being used for healthcare and education programmes in developing countries.

Now, thanks to open source software, the first African Digital Arts Festival is being staged in Senegal.  

“AfroPixel” has bought together leading European digital artists to teach their African counterparts about the latest technology they can use for their work.  Sasha Gankin was in Dakar and met some of the artists taking part.

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