Over 60 senior executives and professionals from the IT industry gathered at the latest “Innovation Dinner” hosted by ITNewsAfrica.com, held on the 27th of October in Johannesburg with the Theme: “Our connected future”. The event was supported by global IT giants HP and Ericsson, and featured presentations and discussions around broadband connectivity in Africa. Abby [...]
MOBILE phone service provider, Zain Kenya, and the government have begun talks with the aim of determining whether there should be a fresh review of tariffs which have spawned a price war. Local media reports quoted Zain Kenya managing director, Rene Meza, as saying that the mobile telephony firm had opened face-to-face talks with the [...]
The Egyptian Prime Minister yesterday appointed Eng. Yasser ElKady as the new CEO of the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA). ElKady will be reporting directly to the Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology. In September 2009, ElKady was appointed as the First Deputy to the Minister of Investment in Egypt. To support his role [...]
The Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director of Zain Nigeria, Rajan Swaroop has described the company’s recent partnership with world class companies in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) as a move that will create more job opportunities for Nigerian youths. Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company, which acquired Zain Africa (including Zain Nigeria) four months ago, announced [...]
MTN Nigeria says it plans to invest about US$40 million (about R276 million) to connect 350 Nigerian rural communities with telephony services. Head of MTN Nigeria — one of the leading GSM operators in Nigeria — Ahmed Farrouk said the initiative would enable MTN to extend telephone services to more than 40 million Nigerians who [...]
CIOs need to do more to ensure that IT plays a role in business transformation in an environment where 70 per cent of CEOs believe that business change and entrepreneurialism will increase in the next five years, according to Gartner. “When organisations have to navigate a business transformation, the IT organisation is usually in the [...]
More than a third (37%) of emerging small and medium enterprise (SME) businesses in South Africa have no Internet connectivity whatsoever. This startling statistic has emerged as part of the SME Survey 2010, sponsored by the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA). This is in sharp contrast to the 17% of established SMEs that have no [...]
THE Motorola Solutions business of Motorola, Inc, has highlighted the importance of advanced communication systems to the success of East Africa companies with the launch of its road show in Kenya, which runs from October 26-27. The event will see Motorola deliver the first ever live demonstration of its Dimetra IP Micro system on the [...]
With the implementation and go-live of its new R25 million Avid Airspeed server for digital ingest and playout, Mauritius Broadcast Corporation (MBC) has completed Phase II of its digitisation strategy -achieving a completely tapeless environment from acquisition to transmission. MBC’s 10-year journey to reach this objective has been strongly supported by the expertise and integration [...]
John Hernandez, Cisco General Manager and Vice President, Customer Collaboration business unit, recently hosted a discussion on the role of social media in customer care. ITNewsAfrica.com was there to report on future trends in customer care and Cisco’s strategy for the coming years. ITNewsAfrica.com: What is Cisco’s approach to collaboration? John Hernandez: There is a [...]
One of the important developments in the new King III Report released earlier this year is the fact that it has finally taken into consideration the role of Information Technology from a governance perspective. Its pervasiveness and strategic importance has created the need for IT to be governed like any other corporate asset, as well [...]