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Chipata Women Use Mobile Phones to Generate New Ideas and Boost Development
The Chipata District Women Association (DWA) received five new mobile phones, five solar panels and chargers worth over K5 million. The association will use the new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) equipment to improve its capacity to receive and send latest news on agriculture marketing and other development programmes to its members. OneWorld Africa (OWA) donated the ICT equipment to the association in collaboration with ZAIN Zambia, one of the country’s leading mobile phone companies. Chipata DWA will use the equipment to generate new ideas and to increase the positive impact of ICTs in rural areas.
Village phones open up Uganda’s hinterland
Farmers in the rural Kayunga District of Central Uganda understand that ICTs are key to vital information that helps them to plan their crop production and gain access to markets.
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  • The grey economy is the real one
    In an economy in which 8 out of 10 people are unemployed, the only job Sifiso Nyoni, 26, has ever had is as a currency trader, but she has no idea who she really works for. "Every foreign currency dealer on the street knows that the people who bring the money to us [and communicate the rates] are just small," she said. "But there are others - bigger people, who are controlling the black market." Despite numerous measures put in place by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to try and curb the parallel currency market, it continues to thrive, mainly because it offers much better prices than the official rate, and - so the rumour goes - because the cash-strapped government itself uses it. "The rates are attractive on the black market, so I will rather risk arrest than change at the banks, where the rates are ridiculously low," said Mercy Sibanda, who had just changed R100 (around US$10). Currently the US dollar is trading at Z$100,000 and the South African rand is worth Z$10,000. At independence in 1980, one Zimbabwean dollar fetched US$1.47. IRIN
 
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