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African Climate Change Conference
The WSC-SD is the official student partner for the upcoming 5th Humboldt | African Climate Change Conference to take place in Cape Town in January 2009. Registration is now open for this exciting event (http://www.humboldt5.uct.ac.za/), and the website also has further information on the conference.
Continue reading...African Climate Change Conference
Saturday, August 9, 2008
The WSC-SD is the official student partner for the upcoming 5th Humboldt | African Climate Change Conference to take place in Cape Town in January 2009. Registration is now open for this exciting event (http://www.humboldt5.uct.ac.za/), and the website also has further information on the conference. “Iphakade” is isiXhosa (a South African indigenous language) for “observe the [...]
Continue reading...Health and Sustainable Development in Africa: The Interdependence
Monday, February 21, 2005
by Medard Djatou (English translation follows) De tout temps, la recherche du bien être physique et social est une préoccupation permanente de lâ€TMHomme. Au fil du temps, le monde a connu des disparités au point où certaines régions du globe se sont retrouvées plus technologiquement avancées que dâ€TMautres. Pour réduire le fossé existant entre les pays « [...]
Continue reading...Africa and Sustainable Development: An Anthropological Perspective
Monday, July 12, 2004
by Medard Djatou Forty years after independence, African countries continue to show signs of breathlessness on socio-economic development, despite aid from Western countries, international NGOs, and international lending bodies. Faced with their countries’ underdevelopment, characterized by extreme poverty, the failure of the fight against certain diseases like malaria, poliomyelitis, and AIDS, African decision-makers had turned themselves [...]
Continue reading...Bridging the Digital Divide in Sierra Leone
Saturday, January 3, 2004
Helping More Young People in Sierra Leone Gain Access to Information Communication Technology by Morie Alpha Despite the fact that Information Technology is the hub of our modern world economy, access to it is yet severely strained in Africa. The infrastructure for the development of IT on continent is rudimentary, and the few existing infrastructure are only [...]
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Asides 
The next Student Summit for Sustainability (S3.Zurich) will be hosted in Zurich, Switzerland from 25 January - 1 February 2009. The deadlines for abstract submissions and funding applications have passed, but registration is still open for all students interested in attending. Please visit this page to learn more about this exciting summit!
Saturday, August 9, 2008
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