Capacity building, critical to Africa’s energy future
By Stephen Bolu Contrary to the new normal where technology leads business reformations, growth conversations in Africa’s business landscape, particularly in Nigeria energy sector, often begin with capital. Investment, infrastructure, and asset acquisition are frequently treated as the clearest indicators of progress. While important, they do not tell the full story of what is required […]
African leaders bid to improve governance through ICT
At the end of the 5th annual e-governance African forum held last week in Yaoundé, Cameroon, African leaders from both public and private sector stakeholders have resoled to intensify all efforts to improve governance and service delivery through the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs).
How emerging markets drive world telecoms growth
ICT development has been astonishing in every region of the world over the past five years but recent developments have proven that the developing world and emerging markets actually drive the telecom successes in the entire world at the moment.
ATCON seeks govt succour for post-election violence victims
Following the post election violence that enveloped some states in the Northern Nigeria last week, in which ICT and communication centres were destroyed by hoodlums, the Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria, ATCON has called on the federal government to come to the aid of the foundation.
Sony execs apologize for network security breach
Sony executives bowed in apology Sunday for a security breach in the company’s PlayStation Network that compromised the personal data of some 77 million accounts on the online service.
Online revelry trails Bin Laden’s death
The number of terse text message “tweets” at Twitter topped 4,000 per second while US President Barack Obama announced that the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks was killed in Pakistan in a surgical strike by a US military team.
Worldwide mobile phone market up by 20% in Q1
The worldwide mobile phone market grew approximately 20 percent closing at 19.8 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2011, according to report released by the International Data Corporate, IDC.
Road sweeper, student win big in Airtel feel free bonanza
A street sweeper with the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Mrs. Bimbola Aduke Adesanya, has become millionaire courtesy of the on_going Airtel Feel Free Promo.
Where is ICT4D now?
As a nation, we have never been short of blueprints which were expected to be used to transform the country from the primitive economy it is into a world-class, development-led, performing economy. With regret, one recalls the National Development Plans of the military years from Gowon till the demise of the Second Republic.
eLearning Africa focuses youths, sectoral training
The 6th edition of eLearning Africa International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, will be focusing on unlocking the potentials of young Africans, the innovative use of Open Educational Resources, OERs and training for teaching, healthcare, farming and banking professionals in Africa.
Sound IP policies can help curb software piracy, says Microsoft’s Onyeje
While vowing to charge more people to court over intellectual property, Microsoft has said that unless sound Intellectual Property, ( IP) policies were put in place to help reduce software piracy and counterfeiting which threaten legitimate businesses and expose consumers to the risks that come from using non_genuine software, the fight against piracy may be far fetched.
