Chile has recently moved to make university education free to its students through a reform pushed by the reelected president Michelle Bachelet. In Chile tuition payments are 2 percent of the GDP, this push for free higher education now creates a vacancy of this 2 percent that the government is Read more…
The story begins with SEACOM, a cable operator using a series of submerged and terrestrial fiber optic cables to provide high speed internet access to Africa’s east and west coasts. Prior to its installation, many African countries such as Kenya lacked the infrastructure to support the speedy internet system it Read more…
In the town of Bangladesh, Kenya local residents have taken on the initiative of creating their own local currency. Bangladesh, not to be confused with the southeast Asian country, is slum located outside of the coastal city of Mombasa. The locals had worked with American Will Ruddick’s local development organization, Read more…
As of late 2013, De Beers the master of the diamond industry is finalizing its move from London to Gaborone the capital of Botswana. This move had been the culmination of constant negotiations between the diamond company and the African country that ended in a 10 year contract giving De Read more…
The Success of Africa has and is still seen with skepticism by many in the world. Old and recent events in the media have frequently portrayed a continent marred in disunity and strife. In actuality, the continent is a diamond in the rough that is slowly but surely shedding its abrasive Read more…