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Sub-Saharan Africa: a technological desert
1993
Communications of the ACM
In many sub-Saharan African countries, there exists a blind notion that if the more developed countries use the technology and tell us to do so as well, then we should. ...
This may well be the essence of the frustration over IT in sub-Saharan Africa. Whatever is done is criticized. ...
More generally, he points out that IT development in South Africa is extensive, and there is much willingness to cooperate with other sub-Saharan countries. ...
doi:10.1145/151220.151222
fatcat:73dy72ty55bk5kvugscmela2ai
Cyberspace across sub-Saharan Africa
2002
Communications of the ACM
O ver the past three decades much of the continent of Africa, and especially the sub-Saharan region, has been viewed as technological desert [8] . ...
Current Internet Status in Sub-Saharan Africa SSA may be a late starter on the Internet, but it is currently under-going a rapid transformation. ...
doi:10.1145/585597.585610
fatcat:ecefo7w3sbg6hfnoswqd27jzpu
Sub-Saharan Africa: an environmental history
2007
ChoiceReviews
GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, AND DEMOGRAPHY Gregory Maddox's Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History follows ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies Series dictum and synthesizes "the intertwined fates of ...
Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2006. Nature and Human Societies Series. ix + 355 pp. Photographs. Maps. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. ...
doi:10.5860/choice.44-3427
fatcat:k22zsua35bforgkl2a4lmqtbc4
Preface: Groundwater in Sub-Saharan Africa
2019
Hydrogeology Journal
Fig. 1 Map showing Sub-Saharan Africa ...
The dichotomy between governance solutions and technological solutions is explored by Olivier and Xu in their essay on Cape Town's (South Africa) drought and water-supply crisis of 2015-2017. ...
doi:10.1007/s10040-019-01977-2
fatcat:icizp63blbdh5lfzgvs2yllu6e
Questioning desertification in dryland sub-Saharan Africa
2002
Natural resources forum (Print)
Signs of desertification in Africa in the 1970s and 1980s were closely linked to rainfall fluctuations. ...
The 21st Century will see more droughts in sub-Saharan Africa, but neither desertification nor a downward poverty spiral are inevitable. ...
We examine briefly (below) some such indicators of longterm trends from national statistics from sub-Saharan Africa. ...
doi:10.1111/0165-0203.t01-1-00023
fatcat:s7ef4f5tdjdzhgqhzs6bxcehkm
Accelerating Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa
1987
Foreign Affairs
strategy virtually everywhere in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
The opposite has been the case in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
He has worked in eastern Africa since 1961, with a five-year break in the early 1970s when he was an agricultural economist with the Commonwealth Development Corporation in London. ...
doi:10.2307/20043364
fatcat:pklsj75vvbdbrmimjlv2yx6nwi
Meningococcal Meningitis in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review
2022
International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health
The scourge of Meningococcal Meningitis in the Sub-Saharan African nations is well known. ...
The review then focuses on the Meningitis Belt of Africa and elucidates on the introduction of MenAfriVac™ vaccine. ...
These stakeholders came on a common platform to develop a vaccine for low-income nations of Sub-Saharan Africa. ...
doi:10.9734/ijtdh/2022/v43i930610
fatcat:24j7uqgkqvbphm6g5ztclkmbmu
Teleoncology in sub-Saharan Africa: a literature review
2020
figshare.com
Purpose: Despite the emerging incidence of cancer, sub-Saharan African countries (SSAs) show the lowest cancersurvival among the low-middle income countries while the access to cancer care is still unbalanced ...
through two databases (PubMed and Google Scholar) and manual search.Results: Reported teleoncology projects were mainly related to cervical and breast cancers, and lymphoproliferativedisorders performed in a ...
According to the United Nations, the sub-Saharan African countries (SSAs), located south of the Sahara desert [4] , encompass 33 of the 48 poorest countries in the world [5] , and show the lowest cancer ...
doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.13348451.v1
fatcat:4atfbrjpvvasxeqnxilbky2yku
Snapshots of Mathematics in Sub-Saharan Africa
2018
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
After school
Snapshots of Mathematics in Sub-Saharan Africa
Edited by Allyn Jackson and Carol Shubin Mathematics is on the rise in Sub-Saharan Africa, where a critical mass of researchers and educators ...
This article provides snapshots of experiences of several mathematicians who have done research and teaching in Sub-Saharan Africa. ...
doi:10.1090/noti1704
fatcat:nsjksnibmncj3hf7mhwqb6domy
Toward sustainable intensification of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
2020
Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
Proper interpretation of these cases may provide lessons for a more widespread eco-intensification of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
Nevertheless, recent success stories in agro-pastoral systems as well as urban vegetable and animal production and associated value systems in West Africa, and in intensive mixed-cropping systems of the ...
Concepts of sustainable agricultural intensification in sub-Saharan Africa We claim that throughout sub-Saharan Africa indigenous theoretical concepts of sustainable agricultural intensification are either ...
doi:10.15302/j-fase-2020341
fatcat:brh2s7tl4vbcxllaxqz26gv5li
Methodological approach
[chapter]
2016
Achieving Teaching Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Most of Africa, parts of Asia and South America have become deserts and people cannot live there anymore. ...
The school has criminal sub-cultures and Aaron, the oldest son, has started to drink alcohol at school, smoke, and is taking soft drugs. The parents are concerned about him. ...
Technological developments are highly relevant to the work of both mothers. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-658-14683-2_4
fatcat:rzr5e2bd5vfgre75fffu3bxshm
High-Resolution Prediction of Acute Malnutrition Prevalence Across Sub-Saharan Africa
2020
Zenodo
I then trained a random forest regressor on these features to predict acute malnutrition prevalence at a 5km resolution across sub-Saharan Africa. ...
Here I develop software to predict acute malnutrition prevalence at a high resolution across sub-Saharan Africa. First I assembled a training dataset for machine learning of malnutrition prevalence. ...
The data was split into a training set of 80% and a testing set of 20%. To avoid overfitting by spatial correlation, the testing data was removed in boxes across sub-Saharan Africa. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.3598018
fatcat:e7cxxcpwfjaidetfevpxiwllzy
Did They or Didn't They Invent It? Iron in Sub-Saharan Africa
2005
History in Africa
To sum up the available evidence, iron technology across much of sub-Saharan Africa has an African origin dating to before 1000 BCE. ...
Judging from a number of recent publications, the long-running debate over the origins of iron smelting in sub-Saharan Africa has been resolved... in favor of those advocating independent invention. ...
in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
doi:10.1353/hia.2005.0003
fatcat:v23zkcg4hbbinoomwwp4awhx3a
Prerequisite for Sustainable Agricultural Development in the Sub-Saharan Africa
2011
African Research Review
Despite significant economic progress recorded in some countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in the last decade or so, a substantial proportion of the people in Africa still live in acute poverty and suffer ...
As the agricultural sector dominates the economics of most Sub-Saharan African countries, it will be pertinent to improve the rate of agricultural growth and rural development that will in turn give a ...
in Sub-Saharan Africa countries. ...
doi:10.4314/afrrev.v5i4.69256
fatcat:244a6axpyncgzdnel3j6ew4rb4
Impact of migration on fertility in sub‐Saharan Africa
1994
Biodemography and Social Biology
of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. ...
During the thousands of years of Bantu migration, a variety of crops, livestock, agricultural technologies (especially iron farming tools) spread in sub-Saharan Africa, greatly promoting the development ...
During the thousands of years of Bantu migration, crops, livestock, agricultural technologies and so on also spread in sub-Saharan Africa, thus promoting the increase of local farming area, the improvement ...
doi:10.1080/19485565.1994.9988857
fatcat:obxbzelqbrclniupj2ac2ji6ju
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