The grid maps out 11,000 HIV support centres across South Africa
7th December 2009
Vodacom's the Grid, South Africa's first location-based mobile social network available to everyone who has a WAP-enabled cell phone, has mapped out close to 11,000 HIV-related support services covering prevention, treatment and support across South Africa. By utilizing the Grid's location-aware technology, South Africans are not only able to see on their cell phones which HIV support service is closest to…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on December 11, 2009 at 1:57pm —
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Alain Berranger started a discussion about sustainability of telecentre.org on November 18, he started by praising the online consultation calling it ‘democratic, inclusive and effective’. He added that tc.org cares about its audience and respect its stakeholders. He called for transparency about the sustainability parameters of TCF, including financial sustainability during the online consultation. He invited members to review the IDRC/IISD document on IDRC's experience with…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on December 8, 2009 at 7:21am —
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FROM CELLULAR-NEWS : More than 30,000 people in 175 Amazon villages will get access to e-health and e-education services through mobile broadband. Ericsson and mobile network operator, Vivo are part of a group that will bring mobile broadband connectivity to the Amazonian state of Pará in Brazil.
Among other applications, the project will implement the mobile survey tool that will be used to monitor environmental impacts, diagnose patie…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on December 8, 2009 at 1:43am —
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Please find attached the above mentioned document for possible distribution and / or publication on other sites.
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Koda Traore the Programme Coordinator ICTs at The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
091126_Press_release_final.pdf…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on November 30, 2009 at 4:07am —
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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 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…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on November 27, 2009 at 7:55am —
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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…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on November 20, 2009 at 8:00am —
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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…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on November 16, 2009 at 9:11am —
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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…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on November 13, 2009 at 8:14am —
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Fibre optic cable carriers are incurring millions of shillings lately as additional cost for security and monitoring off their lines as cases of vandalism are worryingly on a rise in East Africa.
Industry insiders say cable vandalism is fast emerging as avenues of unnecessary expenses and if this continues, operators may even be forced to to pass on the additional costs to the consumers. Companies now have to incur expenses in hiring guards to man the cables with some even being forced to intro…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on November 12, 2009 at 3:31am —
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KASHWESHA Community Resource Centre is a civil society organization committed to promoting the rights of the slum dwellers in a low cost residential area in Nairobi, Kenya. It begun in the year 2001 as a community based organization that focused on the well being of its members through capacity building, by ensuring that its members who mainly consisted of the slum dwellers got the available resources and support. The telecentre serves community members from the adjacent Korogocho slums, KCC slu…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on November 10, 2009 at 1:15am —
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Mobile subscription rate fastest in Africa
27th October 2009
Since 2003, mobile phone subscription has grown faster in Africa than in any other region of the world, a new Information Economy Report has revealed. Dubbed, "Trends and Outlook in Turbulent Times," and released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the report, indicates that there are now more than 10 times as many mobile subscriptions as fixed lines in Africa and more tha…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on October 30, 2009 at 9:47am —
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“Information economy report 2009” presented in Tunisia
22nd October 2009
As in New York, Manchester, Helsinki and Bangkok, the International Press Center in Tunis held this morning, a press conference on “Information Economy Report 2009” issued every year by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Mr. Haj Klai, Minister of communication technologies explained that Tunisa will witness, during the next five years, a radical and essential shift in terms of informatio…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on October 23, 2009 at 8:00am —
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The Uganda Wildlife Authority launched a scheme to allow gorilla lovers short of time or money to visit the endangered apes to become virtual friends with them on the net. The "Friend a Gorilla" project was launched last month in Kampala and costs just one dollar a year for enthusiasts. The money generated is intended to help with mountain gorilla conservation. The use of technology has been employed to not only attract online users to visit the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in south-west Uganda bu…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on October 22, 2009 at 4:46am —
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Agra goes cyber with online auctions in Namibia
13th October 2009
The Agra Cooperative has started a new Internet service by offering livestock auctions online where bidders can buy animals at the click of a mouse – a first for Namibia. The Agra e-Auction service was launched last week and will save buyers and sellers time and money, not having to drive to and from auctions. Another advantage is that animals will not experience the stress of being transported to and from auctions. “It als…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on October 16, 2009 at 7:53am —
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ICT is transforming Africa says President Kagame
8th October 2009
Despite being a ‘late-comer’ in embracing the use of Information Communication Technology, Africa has embraced ICT tools that have put the continent on the right development path.
“Being late-comers in embracing, and indeed starting from a low base in creating information and communication technology sectors, ICT is nonetheless fundamentally transforming our nations and continent,” Kagame told the International Telecommunic…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on October 8, 2009 at 8:25am —
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The Radio Quiz Competition is a radio programme which runs on Nakaseke FM. It runs live every Sunday over the community radio (102.9 FM).The radio station is part of Nakaseke Telecentre and because of its relative suitability for rural conditions in relation to other technologies, it has become a significant communication tool for the community covering an estimated radius of 25km. In a rural area with hardly any public telephones or newspapers, announcements are one of the most important forms…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on October 7, 2009 at 5:00am —
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Starcomms lifts telecentre operators in Nigeria with solar chargers
30th September 2009
Fourth largest telecommunications network, Starcomms Plc, has lifted telecentre operators with solar chargers. The solar battery charger is a portable device that is easy to use and environment friendly, competing effectively with regular source of power. This, the operator said results into the solar devices which could be exposed to daylight. Through clear medium, the solar power battery charger conv…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on October 2, 2009 at 7:00am —
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Digital technology and the Internet are changing the face of news gathering. Today, cell phone cameras and other devices are capturing local events long before news crews can arrive: often, personal media on major stories hits the Internet before mainstream media can begin coverage.
This sharing of community news and information content either as text / blogs, digital storytelling, images, audio file, podcasting or video is known as Citizen Journalism. Feedback and discussion on issues raised i…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on September 30, 2009 at 5:03am —
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Information: a compass for overall development
18th September 2009
One common reference to the times we are in is Age of Information. It suffices to mention that information plays a leading role in the development of a nation, and acts as primary vanguard in the nation building process. With time, the process of data collection, communication and dissemination has been steadily improving. Scientific and technological advancements registered have made the process of communication reach its…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on September 25, 2009 at 6:30am —
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African nations pledge to bridge the digital divide
14th September 2009
Countries from across the African continent will join together in national pavilions to address the overarching theme of bridging the digital divide at ITU Telecom World 2009 (Geneva, 5-9 October). Pavilions representing Burundi, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and the Africa Lusophone countries will unite a broad range of organisations from the non-profit, private and R&D sectors wi…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on September 18, 2009 at 7:18am —
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