This paper will look at how ICTs, in particular Internet technologies, can be used to contribute to change in Africa with a focus on developments in Zambia and Zimbabwe. The article will look at the role of Internet and wireless technologies to solve some of Africa's information and communication problems. A case study is cited that looks at building a gateway to Web based agricultural information in the COMESA (Common Market for East and Southern Africa) and SADC (Southern Africa Development Community) Sub-Regions.

For a historian interested in African medical and social history it is difficult to imagine a more interesting and exciting source material than authentic hospital documents and records. Sources such as these are not always available or readily accessible to researchers. Hospital records dating from the nineteenth century are quite rare in Africa, and the use of more modern and contemporary records, because of their intimacy, is often restricted by legislation. For these reasons the documentary material stored at hospitals has rarely been used as source material by social, medical and demographic historians. Nevertheless, one collection of hospital documents with relatively easy access for researchers is the C.M.S. Mengo Hospital Case Notes and Admission Registers located in the Sir Albert Cook Medical Library at Mulago, Kampala, Uganda.