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New Feature! Technology for the Up and Coming Generation
ATF Back Issues and Previous Feature Articles	History of ATF
Journal of the Ethiopian Society of Mechanical Engineers
Journal of the Ghana Institution of Engineers
ATF Feature Articles and Publications
ATF Guide: Basic Development and Decision Processes: Technical and Economic Analyses by Michael Tekletsion Berhan (also in .pdf form) Quick reference: Introductory PowerPoint slide show	How We Put Together our Own African ISP on a Shoestring by Mark Moore and Casey Smith
Amorphous Silicon PV Panels: Are They a Good Value for the Money? by Arne Jacobson, Richard Duke, and Daniel Kammen	Eradicating Malaria in Poor Nations: The Potential of Vector Control Measures and Vaccine Development by Sanjay Basu (also in .pdf form)
Commercialization of Renewable Energy Technologies in Ghana: Barriers and Opportunities by Mawuli Tse (also in .pdf form) (ATF Editor-in-Chief and, independently, President of Solar Light Company, Ltd., Ghana)	Engineering for Poverty Eradication in Cameroon by Ambe Njoh, Ph.D. (also in .pdf form)
New Mill Design Grinds More Grain for Less Money by Amy Smith (Instructor, MIT D-Lab)	Mathematical Models Can Make Farmers More Efficient by Maurice A. Vodounon
British Manufacturing Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Corporate Responses During Structural Adjustment by Muhonjia Khaminwa

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Agencies, NGOs, etc.	African Scientific & Technical Publications	Universities, Institutes, and Scientific & Technical Societies
African Union/Union Africaine	African Journals Online	African Network of Scientific and Technological Institutions/Réseau Africain des Institutions Scientifiques et Technologiques
UN Economic Commission for Africa/Commission Economique pour l'Afrique	New! AfriGadget	Assoc. of African Universities/Assoc. des Universités Africaines
UN Development Programme, Africa/Programme pour le Développement, Afrique	Science in Africa	African Scientific Societies and Assocs.
African Development Bank/Banque Africaine de Développement	Africa Science News Service	African Virtual University/ Université Virtuelle Africaine
ECOWAS/CEDEAO	African Journal of Physics	New! Coders4Africa
World Intellectual Property Org.		Nigerian Society of Engineers
Engineers Without Borders/Ingénieurs Sans Frontières	General African Publications and News	Cameroon Society of Engineers, USA
Book Aid International	allAfrica (news from many sources)	Ethiopian Sci. & Tech. Commission
African Ministerial Council on Science and Technology (NEPAD S&T)	Africa Newswire Network	Ethiopian Society of Chemical Engineers
Science with Africa (UNECA & AU)		Institution of Engineers Tanzania
Research-Africa.net	Analytical Tools and References	International Congress of Mechanical Engineering Societies - ICOMES
	Science, Math, and Engineering	ABTI-American University of Nigeria
Business and Travel References	Economic and Financial	MIT OpenCourseWare
AfricaPhoneBooks.com	TEK project: A search engine for the Third World	ParisTech OpenCourseWare ressources pedagogiques
Intl. travel entry requirements	European language translation
World currencies calculator	Additional European language translation
Afrotalk business networking	European and Asian language translation
CareerNation jobs in Africa	Medical References

Other African sites

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TransAfrica Forum	Africare	US-Africa.org
	USA/Africa Institute

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