Journalist Bruno Ben Moubamba is creating excitement in Gabon's upcoming Presidential election. He is running as an independant and is making innovative use of social media tools to engage with voters during his campaign and document the corruption he encounters along the way.

On the Pakistani island of Kharochhan, a man named Shah Kamal is working with the Pakistani Charity Action for Humanitarian Development to provide electricy to isolated homes using wind turbines.

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Kigali announces fast speed mobile wireless Internet. Using a technology called WiBro, a wireless broadband solution developed by South Korean telecoms, users will be able to access the Internet uninterrupted from any part of the city. The project is expected to cost $8 million.

The Global Development Commons congratulates Pascal Katana, a Fourth Year Student at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Nairobi, Kenya on his two new inventions which will enhance food security and renewable energy usage.

The sign of success in foreign assistance is that “We are partners in building capacity for transformational change,” President Obama said in a recent speech in Ghana.

“Africa’s future is up to Africans,” he said.

The Commons is excited to see that USAID partner Western Union has announced it will be certifying mobile platform vendors to provide money transfer services- traditionally only available at Western Union outlets- through mobile phones.

Paul Collier's new online forum at the Boston Review; "Development in Dangerous Places", follows his work in his two books - War, Guns, and Votes, and The Bottom Billion - and promotes the security interests of developing nations.

Yesterday Grameen Foundation announced the launch of a suite of mobile phone applications developed with Google and MTN Uganda (MTN) that deliver services and information that were previously unavailable to Uganda’s poor and disadvantaged communities.

Check out the apps here!