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Facebook-Backed Nonprofit Brings Free Internet To Zambia

Mat Honan | WIRED | July 31, 2014

...In an effort to help those left behind join the digital age, Internet.org—the Facebook-backed nonprofit organization—is releasing an app providing free internet data access to a handful of core services to people in Zambia.  The freely available services are mostly focused on health, employment and local information. It’s a great step—if just a step—to getting the rest of the world online...

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Firefox OS Ecosystem To Expand To Africa With Support From New Partners

Press Release | Mozilla | November 5, 2014

Mozilla, the mission-based organization dedicated to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web, is pleased to announce that Firefox OS will soon expand to Africa...

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IBM Launches Humanitarian Initiatives To Help Contain Ebola Outbreak In Africa

Press Release | IBM | October 27, 2014

IBM has launched several initiatives to help curb the spread of Ebola in West Africa. They include a citizen engagement and analytics system in Sierra Leone that enables communities affected by Ebola to communicate their issues and concerns directly to the government; a donation of IBM Connections technology in Nigeria to strengthen the Lagos State government's preparedness for future disease outbreaks; and a global platform for sharing Ebola-related open data.

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Mozilla Eyes Africa With Firefox OS

Regardt van der Berg | TechCentral | December 9, 2014

Mozilla, the organisation behind the Firefox Web browser, has revealed plans to expand its new Firefox OS smartphone operating system to Africa...

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Mozilla's Firefox OS Readies For Africa Launch

Jo Best | ZD Net | November 6, 2014

The Mozilla Foundation has signed deals with three new operators to bring Firefox OS to the continent...

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Nigeria: Maternal, Infant Mortality - Mobile Midwife, Dial-A-Doctor To The Rescue

Chioma Obinna | All Africa | September 30, 2014

As part of efforts to reduce infant and maternal mortality rates in Nigeria, communications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has unveiled innovative mobile health services dubbed Mobile Midwife and Dial-a-Doctor...

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