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Triple Helix Discovery Engine
6. Technology Transfer (T2), NonDilutive Funding: Strategy Development
* T2ToolBox
Triple Helix: Reports, Publications & Metrics
Triple Helix: Regional Innovation Clusters (RIC)s
Intermediaries: Triple Helix Regional Innovation Clusters (RIC)s
Triple Helix: Global Regional Innovation Clusters (RICs)
*Triple Helix Cluster & Developments: Africa
Facts, Figures & Trends: Africa
2011: Internet challenges (2011)
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Facts, Figures & Trends: Africa
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Glo 1, Main One, and the EASSy project in East Africa
High graphical content: videos and social networking - are unworkable on dial-up offered in many African Internet cafés.
Interfaces in a number of African languages
Obsolete systems, irregular electricity and a lack of local content
Only 4 per cent of Africans have access to the Internet (2011). Expensive at around $250-300 a month (2011)
Uneven degrees of literacy.
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The way out is to develop and aggressively implement a blueprint on creating a digital army with know-how on building information infrastructures and content.