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Welcome to the homepage of the Acacia Phase II development initiative. The site was launched in conjunction with the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, August-September 2002.

The Acacia Initiative is an international programme to empower sub-Saharan communities with the ability to apply information and communication technologies (ICTs) to their social and economic development.

Putting computers into communities

See Photo Galleries of Acacia's people from the Cape to Maputo and Dakar, living and working wherever communities gain from the development of ICTs.

Get the African Internet Map

Bits per capita is a relatively new measure of Internet use. The IDRC's poster map, "Out of Africa", details the bits per capita and outgoing connections of African countries, showing the position in mid 2002. Contact Acacia to obtain the map.

From Grassroots to Cyberspace:

Southern African Acacia workshop at World Summit

With its vast spaces, lack of infrastructure, and impoverished rural and urban populations, Africa needs the Internet to develop. Acacia projects on the ground reveal the extent of progress towards an information-based economy. On 29 August, during the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), a one-day workshop brainstormed Acacia's ICT research projects in South Africa and Mozambique. The aim was to understand how research can contribute to effective networking and policy-making in this region.

On these pages you will find what they had to say - demonstrating the potential and the problems facing ICT fieldworkers in this region.

Highway Africa conference

The Acacia workshop was one of the sideshows to the WSSD. Another was the annual Highway Africa conference. See the Highway Africa page with a presentation on "Strategies for making technology affordable in Africa".