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Mineduc Trains School Heads in ICT
Over 700 secondary school directors (headmasters) will undergo training in Information Communication Technology (ICT), courtesy of the Ministry of Education.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 10:34

Rita Announces Intego ICT Award Nominees
Rwanda Information Technology Authority (RITA) announced nominees for the first Intego Information Communication Technology (ICT) awards at a press conference held yesterday at Telecom house.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Oct-2008 10:34

Kenya: Local Marketers Honoured
The credibility of the marketing function is at stake and only marketers can redeem their image and restore public faith in the profession, a respected marketer has said.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 20:57

Africa: Africa Blogging Roundup, 6th October 2008
My Haven by Matuba Mahlatjie:
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 16:42

Swakop's Feral Cats Get Website
SWAKOPMUND'S beleaguered feral cat population now has its "meow" on the World Wide Web, with the recent launch of the Cat Protection Society's website 'The Feral Cats of Swakopmund'.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 15:18

Africa: Stakeholders Kick Against Low Fibre Optic Link in Africa
Stakeholders in Information Communication Technology (ICT), sector have condemned the low number of fibre optic link within the African region, which according to them has reduced considerably broadband access in the region.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 15:00

Rwanda: Belgian Rally Ace to Invest $100 Million in Businesses
Jean Francois Desmare, a Belgian national, has invested (Frw55 million) in an insurance business and a call centre in Rwanda.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 13:51

Nigeria: 30 Years on, Fighting Spam Remains a Global Challenge
Despite new measures put in place by the internet service providers to fight the scourge of spam, thirty years on, the menace has grown into an underground industry that sends out billions of messages by the day, making up more than 80% of e-mail traffic
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 13:09

South Africa: Commission in New Bid to Fine Telkom
EFFORTS by the Competition Commission to fine Telkom R3,7bn for anti-competitive behaviour have been revived, with the commission winning the right to appeal against a court ruling that temporarily halted its campaign.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 12:23

Nigeria: Encouraging Inventions
Mrs. Grace Ekpwihre, Minister of State for Technology, recently pronounced one of the enduring truths we have evaded telling ourselves when she announced that doctorate degree holders have failed Nigeria.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 12:22

Tanzania: Postal Services 'Suffer Technology Gap'
Tanzania postal services can be improved more if modern means of communication are applied, Postmaster General Deos Mndeme has said.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 12:17

Nigeria: Nitel's Failed Marriages and the Reality of a New Suitor
The federal government is on the verge of selling NITEL again. In-fact it has concluded arrangements to give Nitel to a new core investor, come February 2009.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 11:42

Nigeria: MTN - Making Entrepreneurs Out of Youths
Since its seven years of existence, MTN Nigeria has proved that it is not only spawned for profit motive but to create and add values to the Nigeria's socio-economic life.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 11:42

Nigeria: N85bn Not Guarantee for Stable Power, Says Obidigbo
An industrialist, Dr. Chike Obidigbo, has said that Nigeria needs to find smarter ways of meeting its energy needs so as to also encourage manufacturers make better choices about energy consumption contending that "it may not be right to think that even with the proposed N85 billion recommended by the energy committee, the nation could guarantee steady supply of energy in the country.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 11:11

Nigeria: Meganet Pushes Mobile Recharge into Country Market
For Meganet Nigeria Limited, a Nigerian valued added services provision company, time or distance should not be a barrier to buying airtime and making important calls.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 11:11

Uganda: Eassy Cable to Be Online By 2010
CONSTRUCTION of the East African Submarine System (EASSy) cable has started and the system is to become operational by 2010, the International Telecommunications Union secretary general has said.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 09:53

South Africa: Govt Agrees to Big Sale of Mobile Phone Firm
SA's largest cellular operator, Vodacom, will soon be under British ownership, with the government agreeing that Telkom should divest from the business.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 09:14

South Africa: Telecoms Woes
WHILE the global financial markets are in a frenzied state, SA's telecommunication industry is plodding along in the same torpid state as usual. How depressing.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Oct-2008 09:14

West Africa: What Hope As Telcos Look Beyond Nigerian Shores?
Telecom companies may have good reasons to expand their networks outside the shores of Nigeria, but the question is whether they have satisfactorily covered Nigeria with their services in such a standard that is acceptable to its over 53 million subscribers.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 18:06

Nigeria: Operators Join 22 Others to Source Alternate Power
MTN Nigeria and the Zain Group are among 25 GSM companies under the GSM Association now exploring renewable energy sources such as solar, wind or sustainable biofuels to power mobile networks. The project is targeted at powering 118,000 new and existing off-grid base stations in developing countries by 2012.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 18:05

Nigeria: Vodacom's CEO Retires, Says Country Was His Greatest Challenge
Alan Knott-Craig, the CEO of Vodacom South Africa has retired and has handed over to Pieter Uys, Chief Operating Officer of the mobile company. He disengaged fully on September 30, expressing his feelings that the Nigerian telecom market was his greatest challenge while in office. First Alan left into a Consultant's position but finally into full retirement.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 18:05

Kenya: Regulator Urges PCK to Adopt New Technology
Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK) has been put on notice to either adopt technology or risk being run out of the market by more innovative competitors.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 16:27

South Africa: Huge Group Benefits From Cutting Costs
The need for companies to cut their costs to survive in a tough economy had benefited the Huge Group with its ability to slash corporate phone bills, its interim results have shown.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 16:16

Kenya: Telkom Sold Within the Law, Says Minister
The Government is not involved in "mindless privatisation of strategic parastatals."
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 11:59

Kenya: Kibaki Tells Military to Embrace Technology
President Kibaki has challenged the armed forces to embrace information communication technology to tackle new security challenges.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 11:59

Kenya: Orange Mobile Introduces Sh1 Tariff
Orange Mobile, the cellphone service provider, has sweetened the mobile phone pricing war by introducing a one shilling per minute tariff within its network, the lowest ever in Kenya's telecommunication history.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 11:56

Country Overtakes South Africa As Largest African Telecoms Market
Nigeria has overtaken South Africa to become the Middle East and African region's largest market in the first quarter.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 11:27

Rwanda: Nurturing the Cheetah Generation - How this Country is Using Technology to Unlock Its Children's Potential
In 2020, a child who is now two will be 14 years old. She will be in high school already acquiring knowledge and skills that I do not have currently-the curriculum will have changed, new things to learn will be introduced and some old ones made irrelevant. It is the growth of knowledge.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 11:15

Botswana: The Second Coming of Lippe
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Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 09:59

South Africa: MTN, Cell C in Cheap Phones Dispute
A MULTI MILLION-rand dispute over the roll-out of cheap pay phones could see thousands of poor communities lose the ability to make cut-price calls to preserve the profits of MTN, the industry regulator has heard.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 09:58

Africa: New Technology Sweeps Continent
African farmers of the 21st century can decide what crops to plant by checking prices at local markets using their cell phones. Physicians can help nurses in rural clinics diagnose patients by ?telemedicine.? In Nigeria, new subscribers are signing up with mobile phone services at a rate of almost one every second. In Kenya, they can transfer money, get exam results and even find dates using their phones.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 09:52

Africa: Bandwidth - The Petrol of the New, Global Economy
Until recently the experience of the Internet in Africa has been like having to eat a three-course meal by sucking it through a straw: time-consuming, unreliable and expensive, writes Russell Southwood of Balancing Act in this expert guide to what "bandwidth" is, how it is being spread and what it can do for developing countries.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2008 09:43

Africa: Guide to Technologies
Technologies that may have an impact on lowering prices and widening access in developing countries:
Source : AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2008 15:19

Tunis Based 'Francophone Digital Campus' Plans to Launch Four Distance Masters
The Tunis Francophone Distance Campus is planning to launch its own Distance training programs. Inaugurated in 2002, it has so far provided courses designed by European universities.The Campus Director, Mr Mejdi Ayari , has recently announced that the first Masters course will be operational in 2008-2009. Entitled "E-Services International", it has been designed by the November 7 University, at Carthage.
Source : AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2008 13:31

First Digital Summer University to Be Organized in Tunis
The first digital summer university will be organized in Tunis from August 25 to 27,2008, with the support of the World Digital Solidarity Fund. The news was announced following a meeting in Tunis on Friday between Mr El Hadj Gley, the Minister of Communication technologies and Mr Alain Madelin, the President of the World Digital Solidarity Fund.
Source : AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2008 13:31

Ranked 35th in the World And Firstst in Africa By WEF's '2007-2008 Global Technology Report'
Tunisia's positive international rankings have just been comforted with the latest ranking by the latest 2007-2008, World Economic Forum "Global Technology Report" which ranks the country 35th globally with an overall score of 4,33 and the 1st in Africa insofar as networked readiness in concerned.
Source : AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2008 13:31

President Ben Ali Focuses On the Activities of the Higher Communication Council
As he received on Friday Mr Abdelbaki Hermassi, the president of the Higher Communication Council, President Ben Ali took cognizance of the progress of the activities program of the Council.
Source : AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2008 13:31

Tunisia: Significant Increase of Number of Cell Phone And Internet Users
Figures recently released by the ministry of communication technologies, reveal a significant growth of cell phone and internet users in Tunisia.
Source : AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2008 13:19

Tunisia: ICT Help Disabled in Social Integration
A workshop organized jointly between the World Bank and the Ministry of Social Affairs, Solidarity, and Tunisians Abroad took place in Tunis on September 10, 2008. The workshop focused on the role played in ICT in promoting social integration among the Tunisian disabled.
Source : AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2008 12:33

Tunisia: Country Has Nine Million GSM Subscribers, And 1.7 Million Internet Users
Recent figures released by the Ministry of communication technologies, show a 22, 6% increase in the number of GSM subscribers in the country, to reach a record 9 million subscribers.
Source : AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2008 12:33

Tunisia: Increasing Number of Citizens Shop Online
A recently released survey conducted between May and July 2008 by the Arab Advisors Group www.arabadvisors.com , shows that internet users in Tunisia spent an estimated 132,7 million dollars during the past 12 months in e-commerce transactions.
Source : AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2008 12:33

Nigeria: ICT Summit - Ligali Joins Commonwealth Telecom Industry Leaders
Chief Executive Officer of leading telecoms, Zain Nigeria, Mr. Bayo Ligali, will join leading lights from the Commonwealth Telecom Industry at a Summit in Abuja this week, to chart a new direction for the sector.
Source : AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2008 11:30

Nigeria: BT Telconsult Partners MTN On Enterprise Solutions Market
BT Telconsult has announced a new consulting agreement with MTN Nigeria Communications Limited under which BT consultants will partner with the leading African mobile operator to design and deliver enterprise services and solutions across Nigeria.
Source : AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2008 11:30

Nigeria: Daar Communications Launches Daarsat
DAAR Commu nications Plc, owner of African Independent Television (AIT) and RayPower FM, yesterday, added another feather to its cap as it commissioned and unveiled its direct-to-home digital satellite multi-channel television platform, referred to as DAARSat, at its corporate headquarters, in Abuja.
Source : AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2008 11:21

West Africa: Ecowas Close to GSM Roaming Agreement
ECOWAS member states are close to adopting a regulation that would facilitate mobile roaming in the region and reduce call charges.
Source : AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2008 11:08

Nigeria: Senate Committee Explains N4.5 Billion Fine On GSM Service Providers
The Senate Committee Chairman on Communication, Senator Sylvester Anyanwu has said that the N4.5b sanction placed on GSM service providers in the country is to encourage them improve on their services.
Source : AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2008 10:31