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2002-04-18
Exciting new developments around African control of Internet access for our continent. Take a look at this weeks edition of News Update for more details....
South Africa: OSS powers fastest growing websites
2008-05-08
With unique readers growing by 190 percent over the past year, Engineering News has been named by Nielson Online as South Africa’s fastest growing website. The publication’s sister sites, Mining Weekly and Polity, occupied the second and fourth place...
Africa: UN, HP partner to boost youth IT skills
2008-05-08
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and Hewlett-Packard (HP) have joined forces to help young unemployed people across Africa build their entrepreneurial and information technology (IT) skills....
Blogging for Transparency & Good Governance: on IFIs
2008-05-01
Blogs are playing an increasingly important role for improved governance. Blogs do not face the restraints of commercial print media. The blogosphere is a planet apart from traditional PR departments of public institutions, enabling citizens to sha...
Africa: Second Africa ICT Best Practice conference held
2008-05-01
This week, the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou hosted the second annual “Africa ICT Best Practice Forum” which serves as a practical way for Governments from across Africa to share their own experiences and demonstrate practical examples of succ...
Africa: Universities play catch-up with online content
2008-05-02
African universities are crucial to the future development of the Internet on the continent in two ways. Firstly, they contain one of the largest groups of existing and potential users: today’s student user is tomorrow’s future decision-maker. Second...
East Africa: Uganda extends fibre cable to Rwanda border
2008-05-02
Uganda Telecom has started work on a fiber-optic link from the western town of Mbarara in Uganda to the Rwanda border-crossing point at Katuna - essentially giving a major boost to the long-awaited regional fibre project. When completed in November t...
Global: Wireless Technology for Social Change
2008-05-02
Mobile technology is transforming the way advocacy, development and relief organizations accomplish their institutional missions. This is nothing new to readers of MobileActive. Our recent report Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO M...
Global: How can ICT make a difference in agricultural livelihoods?
2008-04-24
Information and communication technologies (ICT) play an important role in addressing these challenges and uplifting the livelihoods of the rural poor. This article explores the potential contribution of ICT to the livelihoods of small-scale farmers ...
Africa: Africa to benefit from IDRC outsourcing study
2008-04-24
Africa is set to benefit from a comparative study on the BPO (business process outsourcing) industry. Research for the study, commissioned by the International Development Research Council (IDRC), will begin next month with the aim of bridging the ga...
East Africa: Kampala puts off new proposed telecoms court
2008-04-25
Uganda has suspended the creation of a communications court pending the harmonisation of relevant laws. Minister for Information and Communication Technology Dr Ham Mulira said the establishment of the tribunal has been suspended because of differenc...
Africa: Measuring Africa's Internet connectivity
2008-04-18
ICTP Science Dissemination Unit has been monitoring and testing internet connectivity to 45 universities in Africa for the past 12 months. Using at tool called PingER Africa, they track real-time network performances in terms of response time (for a ...
Global: Where is the money for womens' rights work on ICT - Research report
2008-04-18
In collaboration with the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), Lucía Carrasco, Fernanda Hopenhaym and Cindy Clark focuses the findings from "Where is the money for women's right? Strategic Initiative" onto the field of information an...
Global: Loband: Free tool to speed up web access over slow connections
2008-04-09
Advert free and available for use by anyone with access to the net Loband simplifies websites into text-only pages (with clickable links so you can view important images) making them around five to ten times faster. By filtering out everything except...
East Africa: Ugandan, Kenyan organisations win in global competition
2008-04-11
Kenya's Centre for Training and Integrated Research for Development (CETRAD) and NETWAS Uganda are among the four winners in the inaugural nGomobile competition. The winning projects were selected from a pool of over seventy entries that came from Ke...
South Africa: Schools benefit from computer literacy training
2008-04-11
The Internet Service Providers' Association of South Africa (ISPA) has begun a series of computer literacy training courses in the five provinces of South Africa. According to ISPA the Free State, Limpopo, North West, KwaZulu Natal and Mpumalanga are...
Kenya: Licence fees prohibitive, say ICT service providers
2008-04-11
Ongoing changes in the licensing regime are holding back Kenya's potential to become a regional e-commerce hub, industry players said. Entrepreneurs say most of the changes are making it harder for them to compete and are tilting the market in favour...
Liberia: Web2.0 technology to help the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
2008-04-04
Created in collaboration with Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia, the interactive site is the first of its kind for a truth commission. Its creators hope it will play a key part in Liberia's reconciliation process, bringing video footage of the TRC's w...
E-governance in Africa: From theory to action
2008-04-04
This book presents the context, theory, and current thinking on the interaction between ICTs and local governance, particularly in Africa. It discusses the shift from “government” to “e-governance,” describes the role of local-level authorities, and ...
Africa: Radio engineers discuss crossborder action
2008-04-04
What is the world doing about this? A powerful radio in Zambia can disrupt transmission and frequency of other radios in neighboring Malawi or the vice versa. So is the case with other countries like Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique. In this line, Engine...
Tanzania: ICT for Health network launched
2008-04-04
A network which will focus on ICT for Health - known as Afya Mtandao (Swahili for Health Network) - was officially launched on January 31st 2008 in Mwanza, Tanzania. The network unites Tanzanian health workers and promotes the use of ICT in the healt...
Africa: Convergence – Getting to grips with the contours of the new media landscape
2008-03-28
Convergence has been creeping up on the telecoms and Internet sectors in Africa. Orange has been quietly promoting its Livebox product in a widening range of countries and Telkom will shortly launch IP-TV services through Telkom Media. Gateway Commun...
Southern Africa: Malawi to have booming ICT services in rural areas
2008-03-28
Malawi Information and Civic Education Minister Patricia Kaliati has said that the country will have a booming information and communication technology services after successfully piloting ICT telecentres in some districts of the country. To be regul...
Tanzania: Medical treatment by the Internet
2008-03-21
Hospitals in rural Tanzania have designed ways to communicate with doctors in referral hospitals using the Internet. The Bugando Referral Hospital in Mwanza has a telemedicine unit that connects Rubya and Kibondo hospitals. The remote hospitals are s...
South Africa : APC statement of support to national regulator against monopoly
2008-03-13
APC thanks the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (“the Authority”) for the opportunity to make comment on the oral presentations on the draft regulations prescribing a list of essential facilities and matters related thereto, pursu...
Uganda: National Data Backbone ready
2008-03-14
Is the Uganda government set to become an efficient deliverer of services to the 28 million Ugandans out there? At least this is what the nationals are supposed to believe if the benefits that accrue from the completion of the first phase of the Nati...
Zimbabwe: Government to promote solar energy for computers
2008-02-29
In the absence of a reliable supply of other energy sources, the Zimbawean Government has launched a programme to promote the use of solar energy as an alternative source of energy for computers in schools around the country, in conjunction with Muko...
West Africa: Software: free West Africa?
2008-02-29
So as to play a part in the information society, free software could drive the computerisation of West Africa. But although migration to free software may be a development alternative, it first has to transit via organising the world of developers an...
Africa: Course on Online Educational Resources
2008-02-21
Wikiversity is organising an online course “Composing free and open online educational resources”. Starting on March 3, 2008, the course is designed for teachers and teacher-students who do not have prior knowledge or skills related to free and open ...
Africa: Indian Ocean islands agree a scheme to connect themselves by fibre
2008-02-22
A meeting of the members of the Indian Ocean Commission in Addis Ababa last week decided to give the go-ahead to connect their island-members by fibre to each other and the rest of the world. The connecting cable would be available on non-discriminat...
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