Saturday, December 15, 2007
AfricanClimate@home
The mission of AfricanClimate@Home is to develop more accurate climate models of specific regions in Africa. This will serve as a basis for understanding how the climate will change in the future so that measures designed to alleviate the adverse effects of climate change can be implemented. World Community Grid's tremendous computing power will be used to understand and reduce the uncertainty with which climate processes are simulated over Africa.
See also Africa@home
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 12/15/2007 10:42:00 AM 0 comments
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Grid Computing & Brain Drain - UNESCO
Note this initiative does not appear to include Kenya.
"UNESCO and Hewlett-Packard have launched a joint project to help reduce brain drain in Africa by providing grid computing* technology to universities in Algeria, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Zimbabwe. I.S.G. Mudenge, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, took part in the launch of the “Piloting Solutions for Reversing Brain Drain into Brain Gain for Africa” project, at UNESCO Headquarters on 20 November. " - from UNESCO portal
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Posted by josh_u at 3/01/2007 10:03:00 AM 0 comments