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Digital Planet: 22/09/2009

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22/09/2009

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Rwanda and the digital future, VIST, EpiCollect software, Video adverts inside magazines

As Broadband Africa rolls out, Rwanda’s children are planning a future as computer programmers.  And moving images inside magazines as video adverts play when you open them up.

Kenya now has high speed internet access through two undersea fibre-optic cables. The digital divide has definitely been breached but Gareth Mitchell travels to Kenya to find out how to ensure that the whole population benefits.

There’s news of the new software, EpiCollect which will enable researchers working in the field to speedily send back reports via smart phones and to refine their future research before they need to return. 

Advertisers in the USA are leading the way in video adverts placed inside of magazines. Jon Stewart reports on the technology behind the latest edition of ‘Entertainment Weekly’ magazine that has a screen which starts playing video messages when the page is turned.

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