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E-payment: The journey so far 27th November 2009 Eleven months after the Federal government introduced the electronic payment system in all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies, Nigerians are yet to feel its advantage over the manual payment s...
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UgaBYTES Initiatives
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Study visit: Press released by CTA

Please find attached the above mentioned document for possible distribution and / or publication on other sites.

By Koda Traore the Programme Coordinator ICTs at The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)

091126_Press_release_final.pdfContinue

Posted on November 30, 2009 at 4:07am —

Francis Mwathi

WEEKLY NEWS ROUND UP-AFRICA

E-payment: The journey so far
27th November 2009
Eleven months after the Federal government introduced the electronic payment system in all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies, Nigerians are yet to feel its advantage over the manual payment system it sought to replace. It has been tales of delay payments and people are asking questions. Government said it is aware of the limitations of the system and has promise to seek lasting solution to it. This prompted the government to i… Continue

Posted on November 27, 2009 at 7:55am —

Francis Mwathi

WEEKLY NEWS ROUND UP-AFRICA

Growing Use of Cellphones for Family Planning
19th November 2009
The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information. "The number of mobile subscribers is increasing at a dramatic rate with the number of global cellphone subscribers in 2006 being estimated at 2.5 billion of an estimated global population of 6.6 billion," says David Cantor, a senior technical manager of ICF… Continue

Posted on November 20, 2009 at 8:00am —

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International Mobile Money Transfer Services to Exceed $65bn by 2014



With mobile penetration reaching 100 per cent in many developed markets, the mobile phone will soon be in virtually everyone's pocket. Payments and banking are currently major areas of growth in the mobile world and these are set to become even more specialized than they are at the moment.
According to a… Continue

Posted on November 16, 2009 at 9:11am —

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WEEKLY NEWS ROUND UP-AFRICA

Cellphone operators need to get savvy to thrive in Africa
11th November 2009
African cellular network operators need to sharpen up their acts to make a profit in countries where already poor consumers are trying to cut back their spending even further. Operators must begin sharing infrastructure to cut costs, lobby governments for relief from arbitrary taxes, argue against politically imposed rate cuts and offer locally developed data content to keep consumers interested. That list of cru… Continue

Posted on November 13, 2009 at 8:14am —

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At 1:39am on November 23, 2009, Dennis Mutwiri said…
Thank you Francis.
At 4:04am on November 11, 2009, Mohammad Kamrul Islam Bhuiyan said…
Thank you for congratulating me.
At 4:47am on October 28, 2009, Damas Ogwe said…
Thanks a lot Francis. I am fully on board
At 7:46am on October 16, 2009, Robert Ooko said…
Hi,thanks for your invitation and contribution.I truly feel at home in the community.
At 11:31am on October 3, 2009, Shafeen Charania said…
Thanks Francis - I will be sure to check out the references.
At 2:16pm on September 22, 2009, Diana Jean Muir said…
I am beginning to set up a website for the Africa Virtual School (for which we provide free online courses) and would like you to invite you to participate by setting up a page for your own country. If this is something you're interested in, please feel free to contact me at admin@plc.edu.

http://www.africa-virtual-school.com/

Thanks!
Diana
At 8:09am on September 19, 2009, Martin-Mary Falana said…
Are you online now so that we can chat?
At 8:08am on September 19, 2009, Martin-Mary Falana said…
Dear Francis, got your message late. I went to the rural community to carry out a research on OVC. Just returned and found that the contest has closed. But when I read the message well in the link you provided, I saw that I can still contest as the deadline has been postponed till 30th September. I am happy. Thank you very much. What is your phone number, i need to speak with you directly any moment from now.
At 1:56am on September 9, 2009, Martin-Mary Falana said…
Dear Francis, I just went through your pictures and discovered we can do alot of things together especially in the area of ICT for the rural, marginalised and excluded communities we work in Nigeria.
At 10:21am on September 3, 2009, Frank Bedoya said…
Thanks Mr Mwathi for your information and collaboration. I hope this will be a wonderful time of learning from each other.
 
 

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