Full coverage: Africa

28.02.2006 That technological breakthrough and advancements would continue to impact positively on humanity and their activities is not in doubt, what one can not boast about is how prepared society is, due to the limitations of cultural, religious, social, political and economic circumstances, to imbibe such innovations.

28.02.2006 HARARE City Council has launched a $200 billion computerisation project to replace the current system that had become derelict and unreliable.

23.02.2006 World's GSM umbrella body, the GSM Association, and Intel are jointly providing laptop computer users with automatic access to HSDPA and other GSM-based technologies and the ability to connect and roam across global mobile networks.

23.02.2006 “As African governments begin to implement e-government and e-commerce initiatives, the new terrain will be a haven for malicious hackers, who want bragging rights for bringing these sites down,” cautioned Michael Bitz, a consultant who facilitated discussions among ECA staff at a workshop on the Economics of E-security, held from 6-8 February 2006.

22.02.2006 Seated in his office on the 10th Floor of Teleposta Tower, Nairobi, Dr Bitange Ndemo, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications, cuts the image of a confident CEO sitting on the crest of a blue-chip company.

21.02.2006 About 100 youths are to enjoy free computer training in the first batch of free computer training scheme of the Faruk Bamusa Education Foundation in Gombe State in Nigeria.

21.02.2006 Mungai recommends a more significant consideration of environmental issues in the regional and national poverty reduction and ICT discussions in Kenya. Specifically, he recommends addressing poverty reduction as proposed in the
MDGs and resolutions of the WSSD.

21.02.2006 South Africa (SA) has a history of strong commitment to sustainable development. It is a signatory to the major international agreements such as Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development, and has
entrenched the attendant themes and goals into its own policy frameworks.

21.02.2006 The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has identified 12 main intervention areas which include poverty eradication, trade liberalisation, infrastructure development, sustainable food security and HIV and AIDS, as well as cross-cutting issues such as gender, environment and information and communication technologies that will drive the region's integration and development agenda until 2015.

17.02.2006 L.J.C. Autrey, S. Ramasamy and K.F. Ng Kee Kwong describe the achievements in the process of introducing precision farming technologies in Mauritius, and the challenges ahead.

16.02.2006 Two European Projects are using Grid Computing Systems to discover new drugs for diseases like malaria and dengue. Grid computing, the major driving force for new approaches towards collaborative large-scale science, to discover new drugs and better understand the diseases.

16.02.2006 The government (Kenya) aims to make Kenya an ICT capital of Africa to support Kenya's objectives of job and wealth creation.

15.02.2006 As Information and Communications Technology, ICT, continues to revolutionarise human activity around the world, the International Telecommunications Union, ITU, has put together a workshop on Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) to bring a spotlight on what is now referred to as “Internet of Things”.

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13.02.2006 This publication provides an overview of SATELLIFE's experiences using hand-held computers for both information dissemination and data collection and reporting. The document draws heavily on experience with SATELLIFE's largest project, the Uganda Health Information Network (UHIN).

10.02.2006 Nigeria Investment Promotions Commission (NIPC) revealed that the investment friendly atmosphere prevalent in the country in the last five years have attracted well over $5 billion worth of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) into the country in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector.

07.02.2006 The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) will be amending licences as of 20 February to enable Internet service providers (classes A and B) to obtain international bandwidth. The Minister of Communications and Information Technology further said that the Information Technology and Development Agency (ITDA) has granted four licences for e-signatures which would help the local community in boosting e-commerce."

06.02.2006 A small radio station 120 miles from the Ghanaian capital is transformed into a community multimedia centre.

06.02.2006 This paper sets out to locate Mauritian SMEs in the present context of global competition and more particularly to identify the extent to which they have adopted ICTs as a tool to meet the challenges which they now face.

03.02.2006 Ethiopian Minister of Health Dr. Kebede Worku said that the government of Ethiopia is preparing a Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP) for the next five years in which health, gender and HIV/AIDS are given emphasis. He also advocated technology training for health staff as a long term solution for the poor planning, inappropriate procurement, and poor maintenance.