Sarudzayi Zindoga

A Namibian NGO producing comic strips to promote use of information and communications technology has won an award in the community-engagement category at the just-ended World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia. The NGO, Schoolnet Namibia, exhibited at the WSIS its comic-strip project.

The President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, on Wednesday attacked the United States at the opening of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia, for monopolising the governance of the internet. Mugabe said the summit is supposed to engender confidence in internet users outside Europe and North America.