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A recent article by the Chamber of Mines in the Daily Mail urges Zambians to end the obsession with mining and start diversifying away to Agriculture and Manufacturing. We readily agree, except - diversification is not cheap! It needs money! That money can only come from taxing mines properly! The reason we want high tax revenues is precisely to aid diversification. Without mineral tax revenues there will be no proper diversification programme. We have previously touched on this in a monthly essay - Five Questions on Diversification.
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by Rima Alcadi
On the 10th July, Ashley Good, Head of Failure and Learning at Engineers without Borders (EWB), led a 90-minute workshop to explore how failures can be used as a tool for learning, rather than hide them away out of fear and shame.
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Ghana Cities: Last weekend, in Accra, the Renaissance Group launched two new cities that they plan to be the represent the future of urbanization in Ghana. The cities will be mixed-use areas where residents will live work and play and are in the same vein as Tatu City that was launched in Kenya, but which has been embroiled in a shareholder court case that has affected the pace of the project.
The concept of new cities that Renaissance is planning in Ghana, Kenya (Tatu on 2500 acres for 70,000 people), Zambia (Roma park) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Kiswishi on 6900 acres in Lubumbashi to break ground in 2012) are based on some harsh realities;
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Web Gathering uses virtual space on the internet as meeting and conference venues. Presenters can deliver their speech live on video, run slideshow presentations, use interactive whiteboards, share their desktops and documents and take and answer questions from delegates through interactive feedback during their sessions. Delegates are able to access the conference from anywhere in [...]
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Things have been crazy and my poor neglected blog and blogging friends have suffered. What have I been doing???
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Established in the 18th century primarily as a fishing village, much of Makoko rests in structures constructed on stilts above the Lagos Lagoon. As Lagos' waterfront development bulldozers make their way towards... ... ...the fishing community on water to pave way for modern-seeming facades, the lawyer in the video above implores us to take a closer look at Makoko as people coming together
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By Albert Otieno and Rhoda Omenya Water is a vital part of citizen welfare, yet the government has faltered in providing adequate water delivery to its citizens. The media, civil society and academia triad has also failed in ensuring that citizen's rights as regards water are met. Media has refrained from voicing the dreadful state [...]
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Kenya is missing the point when it comes to technology. Kenyans sometimes forget that they are still in a third world country. But for tech developers and those in the tech industry, to forget this is unacceptable. Application developers in the country are getting carried away by mobile applications and losing sight of the big [...]
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