April 29, 2005

Internet Link Will Give 3 African Universities Access to MIT Labs

By WACHIRA KIGOTHO

Students and researchers at three African universities will soon be able to perform sophisticated science and engineering experiments using Internet links to laboratory equipment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The collaboration with Makerere University, in Uganda; the University of Dar-es-Salaam, in Tanzania; and Obafemi Awolowo University, in Nigeria, is part of a larger project (http://icampus.mit.edu/ilabs). Students and researchers at MIT and universities in Britain,