the Research community of Southern Africa

Study names Zimbabwe as software piracy culprit

Mon, 18 May 2009 13:01:00 +0200

A recent study by the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has detailed the state of global software piracy, and has named Zimbabwe as one of seven countries with the highest rates of illegal software usage.
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Zim: Internet survives fall in media demand

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:18:00 +0200

The internet survived a slump in patronage or visibility that affected all the other media in Zimbabwe from Q4 2007 to Q4 2008, the Zimbabwe All Media Products and Services (ZAMPS) survey has revealed.
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SA, Finland partner to support biosciences initiatives in SADC

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:30:00 +0200

PRETORIA: South Africa and Finland have signed a co-operation agreement to support biosciences projects in the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
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Study says red tape driving import costs up

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:45:00 +0200

Import procedures in Zimbabwe consume much more time and are much more costly than what the country's exporters incur to fulfil the same procedures in other countries, new trade statistics have revealed.
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Are you an email addict?

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:41:00 +0200

According to AOL Mail's fourth annual Email Addiction Survey, 46% of email users said they're hooked on email (up from just 15% last year) and 51% check their email four or more times a day. One in five said they check their email more than 10 times a day and some even, for crying out loud, check their emails while in church. Granted, the survey is an American one, but are African's so different? Are you an email addict?
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Changing Lives: Making research real

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:12:00 +0200

Journalists love 'human interest' stories - because audiences love them. But finding the human interest stories in long-term research programmes is often rather tricky.
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Press harassment hinders Niger's development, watchdogs warn

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:32:00 +0200

Press freedom groups agree that an increase in arrests, intimidation and harassment of journalists in Niger is impeding development in one of the poorest countries in the world.
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Synovate and c.i.a in the NOW

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:30:00 +0200

The Consumer Insight Agency (c.i.a.) has teamed-up with Synovate, one of the world's largest market research companies, to quantify its unique study of South African society – the NOW project.
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Data breaches more expensive every year

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:10:00 +0200

When an organization loses a customer's, employee's or citizen's personal information, the fallout burns everyone involved.
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Zimbabwe can't calculate inflation

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:48:00 +0200

Zimbabwe is so short on consumer goods, the government can't even calculate inflation, the chief statistician said on Tuesday.
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