Stakeholders in the Ghanaian ICT industry gathered recently at the 5th annual Connecting Rural Communities 2010 conference in Accra, Ghana discussing among other things how best to explore potential solutions for bridging the digital divide in Africa.

An American researcher and fellow at the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society, Harvard University, Ethan Zuckerman has suggested to an assembly of ICT professionals and film makers in Lagos that digital watermarks written into their films and other digital media materials may be the final solution to kicking piracy out of the country.

Inspire soft limited; a leading email servicing company in the country will soon launch an indigenous email site called 9jamail.com Vangaurd cyberLIFE has learnt.

Frontliners in Uninterruptible Power Supply, (UPS) in the Computer Village Ikeja, Tripplesea Limited has assured its growing customers on one-year warranty package on any of its products including inverter batteries, Bluegate Online UPS which have continued to attract patronage from the Nigerian IT market.

Today’s world which figuratively is cruising on the information super high way is indeed a throw back from the past. The history of civilization is strewn in many epochs that have come to redefine modern existence.

While calling for global appeal for contributions to assist the flood affected victims in Pakistan, the ITU Secretary-General, Dr. Hamadoun Touré has issued a global appeal for contributions to assist the ITU’s emergency telecommunications team work with the Government of Pakistan towards rehabilitating the telecommunication infrastructure, which has been rendered inoperative in many parts of the country.

There appears to be dawn of a new era in the Nigerian ICT sector as the Information Technology (Industry) Association of Nigeria, ITAN in collaboration with the Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) have formed an alliance to share information for the overall benefit of the industry and the Nigerian society.

Preparations are already in top gear to hold this years Nigerian Network Operators Group(ngNOG) workshop scheduled to hold in the second week of October at the University of Port Harcourt, Abuja campus.

As part of its commitment to enable telecoms consumers communicate freely with friends, family members, and business partners and associates at pocket-friendly rates, Zain Nigeria, one of the mobile operators in the country has introduced free SMS (Short Message Service), lowered tariff for calls within and out of networks (off-Net and On-Net calls), free weekend calls and many other benefits for its customers.

As the nation prepares for the 2011 elections, there is need to rethink the process deliverables within the context of Data Security and Critical Software issues.

Going by the obvious imbalance in the economy of CDMA operators when compared to that of their GSM counterparts, experts in the ICT sector have predicted that mergers and acquisitions among the CDMA companies may become so inevitable in the near future.