High speed Internet has been introduced in Egyptian universities, but many researchers are still unaware of how to best make use of it.

A scheme to improve rural Zambia's communication infrastructure is just one project on the Global Research Alliance's agenda.

A ranking of countries' abilities to monitor forest loss reveals that many are unable to fulfil the terms of REDD+ and need outside support.

Hearing and sight impaired mobile phone users could benefit from a texting application based on Morse code.

South African researchers have developed an open-source mobile phone application to assist with water quality monitoring.

By using mobile phones to track newborns and their mothers, Bangladesh is improving immunisation levels.

A fire has destroyed 35,000 laptops destined for Peru's One Laptop per Child programme, days after the release of a report on the country's scheme.

Two new initiatives are bringing the opportunity to kids who speak native languages to use Information and Communication Technologies.

The first online academic database for research from the Arab world is now open to subscribers.

Access to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia will be free from mobile phones for Orange customers in Africa and the Middle East.

Jordan will coordinate a network linking researchers in seven Arab countries.

UNESCO has launched a website that will collect information on the status of open access to scientific information across the world.

Installing solar-powered charging stations in African villages could bring in a steady income for rural entrepreneurs, says a report.

Peru's One Laptop Per Child scheme is suffering because its teachers lack training and schools lack the Internet, a minister has said.

Improving the capacity of developing countries to use data from remote sensing and other sources is the remit of a new UN expert committee.

A report calls for a poverty-focused approach to developing information and communication technologies.

Part of the money that Paraguay is demanding from Brazil for its energy will be invested in more laptops for children, said president Lugo.

An IADB report says that giving computers to schoolchildren will not improve teaching without teacher-training and educational software.

Mobile phones can come to the aid of fishermen along coasts increasingly prone to storms due to climate change, say experts.

A few, well-maintained volcano monitors are better than an ambitious, unsustainable scheme, say seismologists.