- By Wallace Mawire in Harare,Zimbabwe The International Conferences,Workshops and Exhibitions (ICWE) will present awards for outstanding images submitted to the eLearning Africa Photo competition 2011. The awards will be presented at the eLearning Africa 6th International Conference on ICT for Development,Education and Training to be held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on May 25 to 27. The photo contest focused on how ICTs are empowering people across Africa.Participants who included the public were asked to capture how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can nurture talent,skills and innovation across Africa. Participants were asked to submit photos that depict outs…

- By Wallace Mawire Techno-serve Inc., a private international development organization headquartered in Washington DC, USA has launched a new business plan competition supporting innovative ideas in agriculture called Agro Innovation Zimbabwe (AIZ). The organization has offices in eighteen countries in Africa,Latin America and Asia, according to AIZ Director, Ms Margaret Rose. She says that the organization seeks to help entrepreneurial men and women in the developing world build businesses that create income,opportunity and economic growth for their families,communities and countries. ln a bid to achieve its objectives, Techno-serve has held several national-level Business…

- BY WALLACE MAWIRE The United States Embassy and local media partners in Zimbabwe have hailed the contribution of newspaper vendors to press freedom, noting that they are on the sometimes dangerous frontlines of promoting press freedom by making information available to citizens. Various speakers, including Harare Mayor Muchadeyi Masunda, noted the many instances in recent years of vendors being targets of political violence or demonstrations, with some having their products taken from them or destroyed while others are chased or attacked for selling media products. "While I face strong and sometimes brutal verbal attacks in my line of work, I have not gone throug…