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World Service,18 mins

24/05/2011

Digital Planet

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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 BBC's Click TV has been hanging out with various robots. He joins Gareth Mitchell in the studio to discuss the event’s theme of friendlier robots.

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