ITNewsAfrica’s top ten stories of the week
It has been a busy week across Africa’s ICT sector. Top news stories from across Africa this week. (Image source: news graphic via Shutterstock.com) There has been a plethora of interesting stories that have emerged More...
Uganda forms ICT Association of Uganda
Uganda has officially launched the ICT Association of Uganda (ICTAU), a sector lobby group which aims to bring together ICT professionals and policy makers to share ideas on how to further the country’s ICT goals More...
Rockefeller Foundation invests $100 million in Digital Jobs Africa
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a new Foundation initiative that will focus on Africa’s youth and employment, called Digital Jobs Africa. Strive Masiyiwa, Econet Wireless Founder (image source: file More...
GSMA opens office in Kenya
The GSMA today announced that it has opened a permanent office in Nairobi, Kenya. The office will be based in the heart of Nairobi’s Innovation Hub (iHub) for the technology community and will enable the GSMA More...
Tanzania: Telecommunication service providers must toe the line
The Tanzania Daily News quotes the country’s Minister of Communication, Science and Technology, Professor Makame Mbarawa as saying that telecommunication service providers who provide inadequate service to consumers, More...
Ericsson partners with Airtel to deploy Connect To Learn in Malawi
Communications provider Ericsson has joined forces with mobile operator Airtel to expand the Connect to Learn Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solution to two schools in the Malawi Millennium Village More...
Angola focused on ICT to renew, rebuild
Despite its troubled history, marked by a 27-year civil war, Angola (officially The Republic of Angola) is now more politically and economically stable and actively pursuing avenues to develop its society and More...
South Africa’s broadband could jeopardise economic growth
In its annual Global Information Technology Report 2013, the World Economic Forum warned that countries such as South Africa are at risk of damaging their economic growth if they fail to tend to the currently More...
Kenya’s authorities in UN partnership to push ICT
The Star reports on an announcement by the Ministry of Information and Communication to improve infrastructure across all counties nationally. Kenya's Ministry of Information and Communication has confirmed More...
Mobility, connectivity and the cloud – trends driving ICT
In the last few years, there have been several factors that have driven the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) market, creating shifts in the way businesses operate. These trends include the explosion More...