Games can help people to see disaster risks and effects with their own eyes, helping them to engage with complex science, a conference hears.

Latin American governments are contesting plans by US firms Amazon and Patagonia to take charge of new geographic Internet domains.

Kenya is replacing an unwieldy drug-reporting process with an online system that allows healthcare workers to track safety in real time.

IR Mapper, a free online mapping website, will enable users to follow global insecticide resistance in malaria-causing mosquitoes.

Health services can use new technology to save lives, but only if local people and governments back the switch, an event has heard.

DVD players and discs could soon be used as affordable diagnostics for diseases such as HIV, say researchers.

The switch to digital TV is freeing up frequencies that could be used to provide cheap wireless broadband services to remote areas.

New research aims to help African policymakers understand the constraints on women entrepreneurs to unlock their economic potential.

A game and two other mobile apps that help citizens tackle local sanitation problems have won a World Bank-funded technology competition.

A new online data platform hopes to improve governance in twenty African countries and provide open access to official statistics.

Wireless communications are an affordable option that can help Africa's scientists, farmers and health workers, a workshop hears.

A how-to video published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments explains how to turn a mobile phone into a diagnostic device.

Mobile phone health projects could drastically cut deaths from HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and pregnancy-related conditions, says report.

The cost and time of analysing drug resistance in HIV positive people could be radically reduced by a tool being tested in South Africa.

A report examines why early warning systems are good at predicting crises but bad at triggering preventive action.

A device that turns video into pixelated images could help the blind and those with poor eyesight to navigate and find objects, says a study.

Trials of a mobile phone microscope to detect intestinal worms in children show strong results and could make testing much more accessible.

New computer language based on Arabic characters is designed to encourage more Arab speakers to enter the software writing sector.

Mobile-phone towers could help fill the gaps in African rainfall data and provide the power needed to keep vaccines refrigerated.