Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The use of computer technology in Africa has been mainly focused on education, health, agriculture, and e-commerce. However, there are challenges to introducing computer technology in Africa, including limited infrastructure, lack of electricity, and high costs.
South Africa is currently building the Karoo Array Telescope as a pathfinder for the $20 billion Square Kilometer Array project. South Africa is a finalist, with Australia, to be the host of the SKA. Due to archeological findings it has been speculated that the kingdoms of Zimbabwe such as Great Zimbabwe and mapungubwe used astronomy.
[6] [7] In the context of teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa, the most notable OER project is TESSA, Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, which constitutes 13 African institutions and five international organizations working to equip teachers with practical activities for classrooms and language specific modules. [6] [7]
Revelo collected rankings from U.S. News and World Report to identify the top universities for computer science in Africa.
Once in Africa, through agreement with Microsoft, Windows operating system and Office is installed. When donated computers reach the end of their life or are found to be unserviceable, the local CFAS administering NGO collects them from the schools and they are shipped to a recycling plant in Johannesburg run by DESCO.
A technikon was a post-secondary institute of technology (polytech) in South Africa. It focused on career-oriented vocational training. It focused on career-oriented vocational training. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] There were 15 technikons in the 1990s, but they were merged or restructured as universities (especially universities of technology) in the early 2000s.
The first documented computer architecture was in the correspondence between Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, describing the analytical engine.While building the computer Z1 in 1936, Konrad Zuse described in two patent applications for his future projects that machine instructions could be stored in the same storage used for data, i.e., the stored-program concept.
An architecture school (also known as a school of architecture or college of architecture), is a professional school or institution specializing in architectural education. Africa [ edit ]