OA News: August 28 – September 6, 2013
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Over the past ten days, we’ve found 143 stories of how ICT is changing more than 30 African nations. Very diverse!
Algeria
Botswana
- BotswanaPost takes ICT quantum leap {Mmegi Online}
Cameroon
- Preparing Cameroon for the future {Internet Society}
Cape Verde
- Cape Verde has 90.5 pct mobile telephony penetration rate {Macauhub English}
Comoros
- Anonymous hacks Comoros Telecom over VoIP ban {Telecompaper}
Congo
- VMK annonce un nouveau téléphone mobile {AfriqueITNews.com}
Cote D’Ivoire
- Lancement du recensement des sites d’actualité {AfriqueITNews.com}
- Ambitious ICT plans for ‘convalescent’ Ivory Coast {BiztechAfrica}
DR Congo
- Après Vodacom, Airtel signe avec la SCPT pour la fibre optique {Ecofin}
- Congo’s cellular service answers the call {The Boston Globe}
East Africa
- Kenyan Universities Rank Highest in ICT Education in East Africa {AllAfrica.com}
Egypt
- Egypt’s artists and activists crowdfund to support projects {Ahram Online}
- Egypt Goes Quack Over #SpyDuck {Global Voices}
- Egypt launches 2013 Export IT programme {BiztechAfrica}
- Egyptian startup makes final of TNW Mobile Startup Rally {HumanIPO}
- Flat6Labs debuts a new model; will it set the tone for regional startup acceleration? {Wamda.com}
Ethiopia
- IBM develops plan to enhance Ethiopia’s trade and streamline governance {CIO East Africa}
- ITU, Facebook launch online safety project in Ethiopia {Telecompaper}
Gabon
- Gabon provides .GA domain names for free {The Sacramento Bee}
Ghana
- Internet Solutions Hooks Up Nigeria, Ghana to WACS {AllAfrica.com}
- Entrepreneurs Discuss Technology, Transparency {AllAfrica.com}
- Address By Hon. Minister For Communications, Dr. Edward Kofi Omane Boamah… {Business Ghana}
- Ghana To Host First e-Commerce Expo {Gov. of Ghana}
- Gov’t fights cyber crime {Ghanaweb}
- World Bank supports e-Ghana project to tune of $56m {HumanIPO}
- Online property trading in Ghana goes up {SpyGhana}
- Political leaders meet to discuss technology and transparency {SpyGhana}
Guinea
- MTN Guinea obtains 3G licence {TeleGeography}
Kenya
- Power Cuts Blamed On Laying of Fibre Cables {AllAfrica.com}
- A smartphone that’s a sight for sore eyes in Kenya {The Economic Times}
- Kenya: Are Bitcoins the Future of Mobile Money? {Think Africa Press}
- Cost-effective, VSAT-based 3G trialled in Kenya {BiztechAfrica}
- Recycling factory to help Kenya fight e-waste {BiztechAfrica}
- Three Kenyans among Africa’s 20 most influential women in tech {businessdailyafrica.com}
- E-commerce picks up in Kenya {Capital Business}
- Ericsson calls for “Open Access Model” ahead of Kenya’s LTE deployment {CIO East Africa}
- iHub announces Nairobi UX Month {HumanIPO}
- Social media to help Kenyan government monitor views and make informed policies {HumanIPO}
- Kenyan online firms register huge traffic, urges government policy on e-commerce {HumanIPO}
- School heads in Mombasa to strategise on Kenya’s laptop project {HumanIPO}
- Kenya’s first County ICT Summit kicks off {HumanIPO}
- Seacom Supports Innovation Centers In Kenya {SEACOM}
- MSN launches local portal in Kenya {Telecompaper}
- The entrepreneurs of Africa’s Silicon Savannah {The Globe and Mail}
Malawi
- Malawi switch to go live in December {BiztechAfrica}
Morocco
Namibia
- Namibia’s Wi-Fi Rollout Not Encouraging {AllAfrica.com}
- Print media in the digital age {New Era}
Nigeria
- Broadband – FG Moves to Streamline Pricing of Rights of Wa {AllAfrica.com}
- FG Initiates Internet Monitoring, Control Law {AllAfrica.com}
- Swedish Council Lauds Nigeria’s ICT Programme {AllAfrica.com}
- First Lady Convenes Online Youth Summit {AllAfrica.com}
- Minister – Abuja Silicon Valley Will Provide Tech Job {AllAfrica.com}
- Ekiti Commences Laying of Fibre Optic Cable {AllAfrica.com}
- Centre Trains 219 Children On ICT {AllAfrica.com}
- NCC, Telcos Warned Against Parallel Rollout of Infrastructure {AllAfrica.com}
- Daura – Vision 2020 Is a Mirage Without IC {AllAfrica.com}
- Alaofin – Nigerian e-Commerce Will Boost SME Growth By 100 Percen {AllAfrica.com}
- Growing Nigeria’s digital music distribution market valued at N16.2bn {BusinessDay}
- N478bn investment in fibre-optic cables crashes satellite internet cost {BusinessDay}
- Online retail becomes a reality in Africa’s biggest market – behind the scenes with Nigerian Internet startup Jumia {VC4Africa}
- Poll: Nigerian mobile money awareness low {BiztechAfrica}
- iROKO co-founder explains why he is investing in Nigeria’s internet space {How We Made It In Africa}
- Mobile optimised sites are imperative in Nigeria – Lanre Akinlagun {HumanIPO}
- Nigeria Internet Group makes case for zonal frequency allocation {HumanIPO}
- Experts urge Nigeria to focus on ICT solutions to boost e-learning, e-health {The Guardian Nigeria}
- Glo marks 10 years in Nigeria {BiztechAfrica}
Reunion
- Zeop extends 35Mbps FTTH speeds to new areas {TeleGeography}
Rwanda
- Mentors Trained, Receive Laptops, Projectors, Modems {AllAfrica.com}
- Building a Software Company in Rwanda – 3 Years Late {TextIt Blog}
- ICT4Ag conference to be held in Rwanda {HumanIPO}
Senegal
- Tigo Senegal reports improved network {TeleGeography}
Sierra Leone
South Africa
- New ‘Bandwidth Barn’ to Connect Townships to the World {AllAfrica.com}
- The mass market engages with mobile {The Media Online}
- Microsoft to spark local tech start-ups, partners with SA’s JobsFund {ventureburn}
- Data services offer hope for mobile firms {BDlive}
- Internet gurus gather for Big Tent {BDlive}
- Carrim’s big-tent challenge {BDlive}
- SA requested information, says Facebook {BDlive}
- Intriguing battle of the taxi apps in South Africa {HumanIPO}
- Telkom Mobile operating largest Wi-Fi network in South Africa {HumanIPO}
- Ellies joins web world with satellite broadband service {IOL.co.za}
- MTN crowns the best South African apps {IT News Africa}
- South Africa: “We need to ensure better quality broadband” {IT News Africa}
- Mobile network burden continues to grow {ITWeb}
- SA Africa’s social media map leader {ITWeb}
- Broadband must change how we live {ITWeb}
- SA needs a strong regulator {ITWeb}
- Neotel awards ICT labs in schools competition {Telecompaper}
- South Africa sees national broadband policy ready in Nov {Telecompaper}
Swaziland
Tanzania
- ICT Incubation Hubs Target Graduates {AllAfrica.com}
- Ministry Seeks Sh246 Billion to Boost Communication in Villages {AllAfrica.com}
- Reflections from the Innovation Summit {TANZICT}
Togo
- Etisalat launches mobile phone-based commerce service in Togo {Telecom Tiger}
Tunisia
Uganda
- MTN Internet Expo goes to Mbale {PC Tech Magazine}
- Meet the young entrepreneurs turning Kampala, Uganda into a tech hub {Wired UK}
West Africa
- Technology is Gold: WACIP Artisans Take the Next Step to Autonomy with the Internet {Aid to Artisans}
- A telecom operator in West Africa {ICT Update}
Zambia
- Mobile Phones Usher in Citizen Journalism {AllAfrica.com}
- Huawei allegedly installs hacking devices on ISPs in Zambia {HumanIPO}
- Huawei distances itself from Zambian Watchdog accusations {HumanIPO}
- Editorial » E-learning in our schools {The Post}
Zimbabwe
- Insurance Firms Urged to Invest in ICTs {AllAfrica.com}
- Zimpapers sets the trend {The Herald}
- Mobile phones empower rural Zimbabwe {Radio Netherlands Worldwide}
- E-tourism: How can Zim benefit? {The Zimbabwe Independent}
General Africa
- Broadband growth projected to drive PC penetration by 21.5% in 2014 {BusinessDay}
- Africa’s father of the internet:’ Pioneer bringing continent online {CNN.com}
- 3G Is Cost-effective, Will Bridge Africa’s Technology Gap —Dadson {Leadership Newspaper NG}
- Vint Cerf: an open, unregulated internet is vital to our future {memeburn}
- What does Microsoft acquiring Nokia mean for the African Mobile Market? {NetworkedBlogs}
- Top 40 startups selected for DEMO Africa 2013 {VC4Africa}
- Africans need to build the continent up says founder of Africa’s Netflix Jason Njoku {ventureburn}
- eHealth: WHO Africa Region highlights promise of eHealth {Afriquejet.com}
- Technology’s unfulfilled promise holds back Africa {BDlive}
- 24.com hosts first sub-Sahara media hackathon {Bizcommunity}
- The future of digital in Africa is limitless {Bizcommunity}
- Africa to get shorter path to CDNs {BiztechAfrica}
- Bharti Airtel Africa Data Growth to Quicken on Smartphones {Bloomberg}
- African operators see improved government efforts at interconnection {CFOworld}
- GATE Global Impact Works to bring Internet to Developing Countries {Crowdfund Insider}
- Growing Demand for Bandwidth Spurs Growth in Submarine Optical Fiber Cables Market {Digital Journal}
- Telecommunications Industry Could Change the World This September {Huff Post}
- African government requests ignored by Facebook {HumanIPO}
- Intel in $20,000 DEMO Africa sponsorship deal {HumanIPO}
- LTE the key to mobile broadband in Africa {HumanIPO}
- Digital divide in Africa getting wider – Suraj Ramlall {HumanIPO}
- 4G for the “have” not the “have nots” – Kwele {HumanIPO}
- ICT great enabler for females in developing countries {HumanIPO}
- 88mph accelerator invests over $500k in 8 new startups {HumanIPO}
- Google to add more African languages to Google Translate {IT News Africa}
- Africa’s dream of all-inclusive, high-speed broadband {IT News Africa}
- Broadband benefit depends on balanced ecosystem {IT News Africa}
- The new frontier for: Mobile {IT News Africa}
- African nations face longer wait for commercial LTE rollout {ITworld}
- Mobile phone subscription base in Nigeria, South Africa, others hits 781m in Q2 {The Guardian Nigeria}
- Tech in Africa Series: Africa’s Entrepreneurial Strides {The Silicon Cape Initiative}
- African 3G subscriptions to hit 210 mln by end-2015 {Telecompaper}
- MEA tablet market surpasses portable PC market in Q2 {Telecompaper}
- African Countries To Lead World Mobile Money Market {Ventures Africa}
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