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World Service,28 mins

25/05/2010

Digital Planet

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Fifty years on from many African countries independence, the IT world in Africa celebrates the growth of home-grown software. From the Idlelo conference in Accra, Ghana, Dorothy Gordon talks about how Africans are doing it for themselves. Skype now offers the possibility for one-to-one training for music lovers. Nivedita Pathak eaves drops in on a lesson given by Aparna Panshikar. And the consummate blogger and broadcaster, Ewan Spence reports on the rise of social networking at the Eurovision Song Contest.

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