Microsoft to provide ICTs to 45 million Africans by 2010
Microsoft Africa chairman, Dr. Cheik Diarra, has vowed to empower as many as 45 million people on the continent with ICTs by 2010. He said it is his wish is to leave a legacy of having provided technology to the most remote areas of the continent.
The Microsoft chief said that his organisation made a pledge in 2006 that by 2010, 250 billion people across the world will benefit from Microsoft's initiative of availing technology to these people. Of these, 45 million should be on the Africa continent.
