BudgIT, a a start-up that provides Nigerian citizens with access to public budgets, has launched CivicHive in a bid to create an intersection between the citizens and the government. The new initiative is expected to close assessed gap in access and dissemination of information and make citizens much more active in governance. ...
The Government of Malawi has set up an air corridor to test potential humanitarian use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones being the first country to dedicated a corridor to drones as well as the first in Africa and one of the first globally with a focus ...
The latest entrant into the digital migration debate is the ICT Association of Kenya which is now calling for a logical, systematic and methodical execution of the process in place of the haphazardness that hopelessly destroys a media ecosystem that has taken ages to evolve. In a statement, ICTAK Secretary ...
Image:9jalegal.com.ng Just in its infanty stages though but Nigeriaelctions2015.com, is a visual listening open data platform aimed at visualizing information – facts, ideas, topics, issues, statistics, queries on the forthcoming 2015 Nigeria general elections. The platform says it aims to to do so data available in ...
The United Nations E-Government Development Index (EGDI) quantifies the level of ICT usage (on a scale of 0 to 1) by governments in 193 countries when providing public services. Led by Tunisia, Africa’s top 6 countries on the EGDI (in descending order) include Mauritius, Egypt, Seychelles, Morocco and South Africa ...
Press Release: The National Transport & Safety Authority (NTSA) and ICT Authority (ICTA) signed a 4 year contract on 22nd September 2014, which will help improve efficiency in the monitoring and reduction of traffic violations in the road transport sector. The project is set to kick off on 29th September ...
Design by kt2graphicdesign Press Release: The ICT Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Fred Matiang’I launched the National Optic Fibre Backbone Infrastructure Phase 11(NOFBI Phase 11) on 22nd September 2014 in Embu County. The implementation of the project will ease communication across counties as well as improve government service ...
Kenya is on a mission to rid its government agencies of ghost workers and yesterday the country’s president Uhuru Kenyatta was the first civil servant to take part in an exercise that will have all government employees register have their details captured digitally. Known as the Capacity Assessment and Rationalization ...
The Nigerian government and mobile operators need to come together to stem the unacceptable levels of service quality that continue to plague the industry a study by global research and advisory services firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has revealed. as it weighs up the Nigeria Communication Commission's latest strategy for ...
Arewa24TV, a 24-hour satellite TV channel set in Boko Haram-infested northern Nigeria aims to help end terrorism in the region by countering the religious extremism of such radical cults. Backed by the US State Department to close to $ 6million, Arewa24 has not yet began broadcasts but was started last ...
The struggling laptop project in Kenya has now received additionally funding of Ksh. 17bn from the Kenyan budget whose fiscal year is from June 2014-June2015. The money will also cater for building capacity of teachers and rolling out computer laboratory for class 4 to class 8 in all schools throughout ...
Kenyans elect Members of Parliament to represent thier issues in parliament and have high hopes in them and part with high amounts in salaries to them frm public coffers but a new report on parliamentary debate over the March – December 2013 period is frustating. The report from Mzalendo.com shows ...
In the recent past, Open Government Initiative was launched in Nigeria to provide a platform where citizens could connect and discuss with their government representatives. BudgIT, then established its online medium that has redefined participatory governance in Nigeria by displaying budgets from different arms of the Government in simple Infographics ...
The Kenya government today said it had released over Kshs. 5 billion to 290 constituencies countrywide for Uwezo Fund as appropriated by Parliament in the Financial Year 2013/14. The government said of the Ksh 6 billion, Kshs.180,000,000 - or three per cent of the total amount was retained as administration ...
UNESCO’s Education For All Global Monitoring Report (2013/14) measures governmental financial commitment to education by assessing governments’ budgetary expenditure allocations towards education. Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) expenditure on education, at 18.7% of total government expenditure, is the highest globally. This highlights SSA’s strong commitment to improving education standards and quality. Read ...
Ericsson showcased voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology at the four-day Transform Africa conference held in Kigali, Rwanda this week. The firm said VoLTE will help consumers use telecom grade voice, video calling and other new richer communication services on LTE smartphones. The new generation LTE networks boast superior data transfer ...
Kenya's National Taxpayers Association Monday launched a data portal aimed at collecting satellite information about counties for better resource allocation. The portal developed by LocateIT Ltd and funded by Pact will map and track all natural resources available in counties and their priority needs. It will also capture county's different ...
Image:nation.co.ke Former SA president Nelson Mandela said that the internet and education are the two great equalizers in life, leveling the playing field for people, companies and countries worldwide. Those words must have inspired Kenya's president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta when he promised Kenyans one solar-powered laptop per ...
telecomafrica.blogspot.com Naguib Sawiris' Luxembourg-based Weather Investments is suing the Algerian seeking $5 billion in damages to Djezzy, an Algerian mobile phone unit run by Weather Investments. Sawiris said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal,"The Algerian government committed to a number of protections, including a promise ...
