RECENTLY, the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda was held in New York with a high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly. The summit was also meant for governments to make their final assessment of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which global leaders agreed upon in the year 2000. It is evident that in the past 15 years, the ICT revolution has not only impacted on the MDGs but driven global development in an unprecedented way.

Big businesses are smart. That’s probably how they became big. Many of them have Chief Technology Officers who not only have many years of training and experience but are paid the big bucks to use technology as a gateway to economic success. It is no surprise then that many big businesses have mobile apps available to their customers. But as a small business owner, your budget might not even have room for an intern, how much more a CTO?

Rural telephony: Meanwhile, in a unique fashion, the operator revealed exclusively to Hi-Tech, that it has made an unprecedented investment towards rural inclusion, acquiring no fewer than five satellite companies which it intended to strategically deploy to complement other infrastructure that will carry services to the rural areas.the local satellites companies according to the operators would be deployed across the country to strengthen backbone network infrastructure.

The Chairperson of the African Union, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma during her meeting with Gong Xingyuan, Huawei’s Senior Vice Presidentn traded ideas with the Huawei technology on how best to build Africa’s ICT strategy, industry development, and talent nurturing.

Helping to bridge the digital divide gap in Africa, Eutelsat Communications yesterday unveiled the next step in its broadband strategy for Africa with new-generation Satellite that will increase reach and access.