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24/05/2011

A report on the progress of eLearning in Africa; Could the community approach that gave us the Firefox browser help clean up oil spills?; Robot butlers envisaged at Future Tech Expo in Hungary

Click reports on a conference in Tanzania on the progress of eLearning in Africa. Shafika Isaacs, founding Executive Director of SchoolNet Africa, joined more than one thousand participants from across Africa converging on Dar es Salaam, discusses the present and hopes for the future.

Could the community approach that gave us the Firefox browser and OpenOffice help to clean up our oceans? An international team of volunteers has produced a prototype unmanned sailing boat designed to tow a boom for clearing up spilled oil and other debris from the surface of the sea. Laura Sheeter has been to meet one of those involved behind the scheme, Protei.

Robot butlers envisaged at the latest Future Tech Expo in Hungary.
It is where the European Commission shows off what it is spending its money on. Dan Simmons from 成人快手's Click TV has been hanging out with various robots. He joins Gareth Mitchell in the studio to discuss the event鈥檚 theme of friendlier robots.

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18 minutes

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Sun 29 May 2011 04:32GMT

Chapters

  • eLearning Africa

    Shafika Isaacs describes the progress of eLearning in Africa.

    Duration: 04:08

  • Laura Sheeter: Protei

    Laura Sheeter reports on an open source approach to cleaning up the oceans.

    Duration: 04:10

  • Dan Simmons: Future Tech

    Dan Simmons reports on the vision of Robot butlers in the future.

    Duration: 03:40

Broadcasts

  • Tue 24 May 2011 18:32GMT
  • Wed 25 May 2011 03:32GMT
  • Wed 25 May 2011 10:32GMT
  • Sat 28 May 2011 10:32GMT
  • Sun 29 May 2011 04:32GMT

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