Cape Town, South Africa: Africa’s journey to digital inclusion may be derailed unless many issues including network work infrastructure and government policy , taxation, locally relevant content among others were resolved, the Senior Director, Mobile for Development of GSMA, David Taverner has said.

While mobile industry contributes 5.4 percent to the African Gross Domestic Product, GDP, a new GSMA report released yesterday at the ongoing Mobile 360-Africa event holding in Cape Town, South Africa has projected that the number of unique mobile subscribers in Sub-Saharan Africa would pass the half billion mark in 2020 as mobile services become increasingly affordable and accessible to millions of currently unconnected citizens across the region.

Award-winning Nigerian mobile games company, Gamsole, has launched a new competition offering US$4,000 in prizes and career opportunities for five talented illustrators.
Founded by Abiola Olaniran, Nigeria’s highest paid Windows game developer, Gamsole creates games for the Windows phone platform, taking advantage of its fast growth and unsaturated gaming market.

In line with bridging the gender gap in ICT across Africa, Microsoft 4Afrika has launched the new EmployMentor program in Kenya, where over 150 female graduate students from 24 universities across Kenya are expected to benefit .

When Nigeria’s telecoms revolution took off after the licensing of GSM operators in 2001, it heralded positive developments for Nigerians as a people, and the economy in general. Communications among Nigerians and between Nigeria and the rest of the world, which was very difficult, became simplified almost overnight.