Ghana’s quest for effective and sustainable connectivity solutions for its rural community may have started yielding the expected results when stakeholders including including the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), Ghana’s Ministry of Communications, the National Communications Authority (NCA), the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), among others gathered in Sunyani in the Brong-Ahafo region recently to discuss how best to expand ICT communication in under-served regions of the country.

In a surprising new wave, the popular refurbished phones commonly known as China phones notable for it’s ‘No Name’ feature and sometimes small Chinese inscriptions on weak metallic casings bearing a thousand and one key buttons – its perfect giveaway, has now metamorphosed.

Bharti Airtel, a leading telecom services provider that recently acquired zain’s Africa operations, has announced that it would invest USD 10 million in Seychelles.

It provides an efficient means of using human and institutional capabilities in an increasingly umpolar world. Information technology is one of the key determinants of competitiveness and growth of nations. Nations are becoming more competitive on the basis of their knowledge of information technology rather than on the basis of their natural endowments or low labour costs.

Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Dr. Eugene Juwah on Monday in Abuja cut the tape to signal commencement of commercial services for provision of wireless broadband services in as part of the provision of services in six states of the country by Gateway Business.

A conference to brainstorm on the current challenges relating to infrastructure, security and government policies slowing down the benefits accruable from a virile ICT growth for 2011 is to hold in Nigeria.

An American researcher and assistant professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and Interactive Computing, Atlanta Georgia, Michael Best, recently, exclusively told Vanguard CyberLIFE that the major reason for the bottlenecks experienced at every internet exchange point online, especially between local and foreign based ISPs is because both ISP classes “do not trust each other”.

Zinox Chairman Mr Leo-Stan Ekeh, has flaunted the capacity enhancement his company has consistently carried out in the last three years as a confidence to deliver on good time, the INEC e-equipment needed for the electronic registration and voting in the 2011 general elections if he was awarded the contract.

CLOUD computing presents a viable option for IT organizations seeking to reduce the complexity within their IT environments, either by means of converged systems that arrive pre_integrated and ready to use or systems that are offsite entirely. In both scenarios, the pursuit of cloud computing options will drive new spending on server hardware.

WIRELESS backhaul Providers, VDT Communications Limited pennultimate week, declared that it was going to channel its corporate competence to achieving Zero down time in Internet Protocol IP, Communication in corporate organisations.

Managing Director and Chief Executive of Galaxy Backbone, Engr. Gerald Ilukwe has called for a holistic and total overhaul of the Nigeria’s ICT policy on education to help the country achieve its Vision 20 2020 objectives.

Since the industrial revolution, the manufacturin sector has been seen as a major source of economic growth in any nation. The drive to develop the manufacturing sector stems from the immense benefits that the sector cenfers on the economy .

Minister of Transport, Alhaji Yusuf Suleman has commended the Management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, for the successful completion and putting to use the Nigerian Maritime Resource Development Center (NMRDC), located in Kirikiri area of Lagos.

Nigerian government’s local content Act 2010 is said to rank among four other countries which regulations paved way for competition; transparency of process and supports for market growth in the sector.

Stanbic IBTC was reported to have expressed support for any legislation that would enforce the human rights and dignity of all Nigerians irrespective of their gender, but observed that there are various factors that could influence an individual’s decision to engage in illegal and immoral acts which could include but not limited to prostitution at the work place.