What are terms in other countries that are equivalent to the American "Ivy League" for top tier education?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League

1. Brown
2. Columbia
3. Cornell
4. Dartmouth
5. Harvard
6. Penn
7. Princeton
8. Yale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C9_League#Members

1. Tsinghua University
2. Peking University
3. Zhejiang University
4. Nanjing University
5. Fudan University
6. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
7. Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU)
8. University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
9. Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_triangle_(universities)#Rankings

1. University of Cambridge
2. Imperial College London
3. King's College London[note 1]
4. London School of Economics [note 2]
5. University of Oxford
6. University College London

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Universities#Members

1. Tohoku University (東北大学)
2. Kyushu University (九州大学)
3. Hokkaido University (北海道大学)
4. Seoul National University (서울대학교)[2]
5. National Taiwan University (國立臺灣大學)[4]
6. Osaka University (大阪大学)
7. Nagoya University (名古屋大学)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U15_Group_of_Canadian_Research_Universities#Membership

1. University of Alberta
2. University of British Columbia
3. University of Calgary
4. Dalhousie University
5. Université Laval
6. University of Manitoba
7. McGill University
8. McMaster University
9. Université de Montréal
10. University of Ottawa
11. Queen's University
12. University of Saskatchewan
13. University of Toronto
14. University of Waterloo
15. University of Western Ontario

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Eight_(Australian_universities)

1. Australian National University
2. Monash University
3. University of Adelaide
4. University of Melbourne
5. University of New South Wales
6. University of Queensland
7. University of Sydney
8. University of Western Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandes_%C3%A9coles#Classification_as_Grandes_%C3%89coles

What Are 5 Books That Can Change Your Life?

http://time.com/3329687/5-books-change-life/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter

An interesting web service

It is interesting what you find every time you spend a few minutes on the internet.

I came across the "harambee" website and found it quite innovative to run a "mchango" campaign.

Paul Erdos- (Mathematics Savant) The man made of Maths

The world of fascinating people.

It's amazing what you can sometimes stray onto when browsing the Internet. The subject of savants always fascinates me and I was glad to stray into the world of Paul Erdos.

Watch the video here for yourself.

Hope you enjoy.

The London… and Nairobi, they will NEVER show you

Hi,

I had to share this. The London and Nairobi they never show you.......

I had never seen it or imagined it thus..

New technology LiFi to offer 100 times faster speed than WiFi

The race for connectivity is ever heating up.

There are now reports that a new technology, LiFi will replace WiFi in terms of speeds. It will use light instead of radio waves.

Lets watch this space but read more of the technology here.

The mobile money game is shaping up...

The shakeup of mobile money industry continues to shake up. As per the last report (APRIL-JUNE 2015) from Communications Authority, the market share (in terms of mobile money subscriptions) stood as follows amount the firms:

Firm	Subscriptions (Numbers)
Safaricom	21,338,328
Airtel	3,119,812
Orange	192,531
Finserve (Equitel)	873,643
Mobicash	1,714,170
Tanngaza	503,556
TOTAL	27,742,040

The recent announcement that Helios Investment Partners, the London-based private equity firm, once the single-largest shareholder in Equity Bank, had agreed to buy the entire 70 per cent holding of France Telecom in Telkom Kenya is a game changer.

Helios and Equity have a good working relationship and a partnership would be in the offing. Telkom Kenya has a large network which would extend the reach of Finserve services.

Let's sit and watch.