If Bill Gates is excited about online education, you should be, too, suggests Anna Malczyk.

The DBE is aiming to utilise technology as a developmental tool for teacher education as well as integrating it into the school curriculum.

Yolande Peter, a finalist in the annual Microsoft Innovative Teachers Forum Awards in 2009, shares the details of her project.

The African ICT industry has been "quite sheltered" from the global economic downturn, consultancy Frost & Sullivan said on Tuesday.

Troubled by a difficult case, doctor Asfaw Atnafu decides to seek advice. He walks into a consulting room at Black Lion Hospital in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa and greets a doctor at the Care Hospital in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. Linked by a high-speed internet connection, the doctors study X-rays and laboratory results.