Ms Laura Chite CEO CIO East Africa presenting at the summit Digital Transformation is one of the major task organizations need to consider. However, it is among the issues that are not clear to many organizations. At the seventh annual summit of CIO100 East Africa Symposium ...
Africa has experienced a rampant rise of inventions and startups that have gone a long way from the minds of inventors to disrupting the Sub Saharan ecosystem solving very many problems that have been a setback to the growth of the continent for ages. From the rise of ...
Safaricom home fibre currently has 95,000 homes connected to its fibre infrastructure but in a move to increase its reach and market share before its competition, the firm is targeting satellite towns and suburbs as its new catchment areas. The firm has announced that its first phase of the expansion ...
Growth of the digital economy which can be defined as the various economic and social activities powered by ICT including banking, buying and selling and accessing education and entertainment activities via the internet through connected devices in Africa at large has tremendously increased giving a positive outlook of the continent. ...
In Nigeria currently, there are 86,219,965 Nigerians connected to the internet which is roughly 46.1% according to internetlivestats. Many of these internet users reside in the city. Despite this penetration, you can argue that many of them including corporate organizations spend so much on data to connect to the internet. ...
Fake articles exist on the side-line of news, the borders of fact. Driving out shocking, garbage with a goal of going viral and earning some serious ad-money. This is a huge challenge, as there is excess of fake news on the internet. On suggests there are dozens of major fake news ...
Smart societies have their merits and demerits which are essential for a country’s growth. In Nairobi, CCTV cameras were installed in every major road connecting the city with other areas. Besides cameras, gamers have erected entertainment stalls that use high speed internet and high-tech systems. But these platforms do not ...
Experts have discovered a new malicious app on the Google Play store: “Guide for Pokémon Go”,capable of seizing root access rights on Android smartphones and using that to install/uninstall apps and display unsolicited ads. The app has been downloaded more than 500,000 times, with at least 6,000 successful infections. The ...
Contractors and their clients can now interact much easier following the launch of an online portal (www.contractors.co.ke) that will create a database for the various types of service providers in Kenya as well as tenders and other contract opportunities. The portal which runs by the tag line “Be Known, Be ...
Internet access can offer life-changing opportunities, information, and experiences, but 1.6 billion people today live in remote locations with no access to mobile broadband networks. Facebook is building new technologies to help address this challenge. The firm today announced it successfully had a first test flight of Aquila - the high-altitude, ...
Kenya Power, through its subsidiary Kenya Power International owns and operates more than 4,000km in length of fibre optic cable network in Kenya, which it leases to the major telecom players in the country. Today, the firm announced a partnership with Safaricom to connect more Kenyans to broadband Internet via ...
David Venn, Managing Director of Spectranet, has said that consumers in Nigeria are increasingly embracing the Internet as the next revolution in gaining access to information and entertainment. According to him, most people use the internet to deepen social relationships; as an alternative to traditional means of communication and or ...
The 5th edition of Mobile West Africa, which is scheduled to take place between 21 and 23 April in Lagos, Nigeria has garnered industry-wide support with credible sponsors such as MTN Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria, Etisalat Nigeria, Eskimi, VConnect, Gidi Mobile, Opera Software, MoboFree, Uber, MyMusic, Basebone, Mozilla, Jovago, Wiko Mobile ...
Having internet access in the whole country is what South Africa is looking at; with this inmind the country launched a Wi-Fi Forum of South Africa (Wi-Fi Forum SA) in Joburg. The association aims to represent the views of all stakeholders in the industry and serve as a platform for ...
The Botswana Innovation Hub has partnered with Microsoft, the Botswana-UPennPartnership (BUP), Global Broadband Solutions, Vista Life Sciences, BoFiNet, Adaptrum and USAID-NetHope to start a new TV white space (TVWS) pilot project. The project, dubbed Kgolagano, is set to provide internet connectivity and telemedicine services to local hospitals and clinics, which ...
Ahead of the International Women’s day which is on 8th March, Nigeria has taken the initiative to honor and celebrate the strides by Women in their various fields of life. In this case, the country is celebrating African women in IT. 1. Omobola Johnson Dr. Omobola Johnson is a ...
Airtel Kenya has connected Koinange Primary School in Nakuru County to the internet for free being part of Airtel’s initiative through the Internet for Schools program that seeks to provide data connectivity to schools across the country in an effort to support Kenya’s education system. Access to information on the ...
Airtel Kenya CEO Adil El Youssefi and BAKE chairman Kennedy Kachwanya officially opening the voting phase of this year’s BAKE Kenyan Blog Awards. Airtel Kenya has will be sponsoring this year's BAKE Kenyan Blog Awards which will take place in May 2nd, this year. The awards ...
CEC Liquid Telecom has launched its Fibre To The Home (FTTH) service in Zambia promising up to 100Mbps broadband speeds to homes and businesses with unlimited data packages. The FTTH is expected to enable businesses to use cloud-based services such as Microsoft 365, Dropbox and online backups; as well as ...
Orange has launched an “early stage” investment program branded Orange Digital Ventures to identify and fund start-ups during their initial development in markets it operates including in Europe and Africa. Orange Digital Ventures will focus on financing start-ups working on the new and next transformations of the telecoms and digital ...
Local internet is very significant if the internet ecosystem in emerging countries is to develop a report by the Internet Society has revealed. Additionally, the development of locally relevant Internet content that is attractive to users has been shown to have a positive impact on Internet adoption. “ As the ...
R Mr. Henry Okoede, Snr. Manager, Business Development, Marketing & Strategy; Mr. Bayo Adekanmbi, Chief Marketing Officer and Ms. Funmi Onajide, General Manager, Corporate Affairs, all from MTN Nigeria at the launch of the MTN 2015 betterme app held at the Westown Hotel, Lagos. In a ...
Smartphone adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is growing at such a fast pace such that, by 2020, it is projected that there will be 525 million smartphones in SSA (55% of all mobile connections) - an increase of over 700% from 72 million in 2013. In order to capitalize on ...
IMG: wonderfulengineering.com Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, addressing attendees at the opening ceremony of ICANN’s 51st public meeting in Los Angeles, declared unwavering support for the United States government’s decision to transfer stewardship of the IANA functions to the global multistakeholder community and not to any one ...
Namibia's MyDigitalBridge Foundation in partnership with Microsoft and Adaptrum, with support from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and Millennium Challenge Account (MCA)-Namibia, has successfully trialed the Namibian TV White Spaces (TVWS) pilot project in a move to provide a blueprint of broadband internet connectivity countrywide. Dubbed ‘Citizen Connect’, the pilot ...
A leading provider of communication services, Vonage Holdings Corp. has today announced the grant of two patents by the Trademark Office and the United States Patent, of which, could impact organisations and even regions that mainly rely on VoIP. The two new patents now add up to the 49 US Patents the communication ...
As more people get online, there is need for more products and services to follow suit to meet people's needs online. The days of brick and mortar stores are also being put on the line. Wivela Holdings, a firm we shall tell you more about says its set to launch ...
The world’s largest social network Facebook will soon launch a new feature called “Save” that allows Web, Android and i-OS users to mark the stuff they would like to view later. According to Facebook, if a user finds something important on his timeline, he can tap on the top-right corner ...
McKinsey’s iGDP measures the internet’s contribution to an economy as a percentage of GDP. In 2012, Africa’s iGDP was estimated to be more than US$18 billion (1.1% of Africa’s GDP) and estimated to increase by 1567% to US$300 billion (10% of Africa’s GDP) by 2025. This assumes that the internet’s ...
Ericsson has achieved speeds of 5 Gbps in live, over-the-air demonstrations of the company’s pre-standard 5G network technology despite 5G implementation in commercial mobile networks being expected in 2020. According to the Ericsson Mobility Report (June, 2014), 85 percent of North American mobile subscriptions will be LTE by 2019. This ...
