Even with the Basel Convention prohibiting International waste transfer, the dumping of e-waste into the Nigerian market and the rest of the African sub-region has continued to grow in geometric progression attracting both national and international regulatory authorities.

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.