The African Development Bank has given out funds to construct a regional biomedical center of excellence and to train teachers. The loan agreements were signed yesterday...
High speed Internet broadband services based on 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology will be in place by August, Jean Philbert Nsengimana, the Minister for Youth and...
Following on from last month’s 50th anniversary of the mainframe, IBM has unveiled two new client-facing centers for developing applications and systems for the technology in South...
Africa has the world’s highest mobile broadband growth rates, according to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). On Monday, the ITU announced that mobile-broadband growth in Africa...
The fight against cybercrime in Kenya is being taken up at government level following the country’s introduction of a policy and legal framework dubbed the ‘cyber...
In February last year, Rwandan techpreneur Akaliza Keza Gara was chosen from a list of nominees to represent her region (East Africa) at the Microsoft 4Afrika...
Carlo Lekea, a nattily dressed 22-year-old resident of Kinshasa, has just created the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) first mobile phone application. The app is a...
International humanitarian organisation Rockefeller Foundation has announced a $3.8 million grant to facilitate completion of a mini ICT park to be located in central Accra, Ghana....
Stanbic Bank Botswana, a subsidiary of South African headquartered Standard Bank Group, has launched sales application tablet technology, through Apple’s iOS software platform, to help sign...
In the last decade, the use of technology has contributed enormously to growth story of sub-Saharan Africa’s economies. Technology has opened Africa to new vistas and...
Over 2,715 schools across Nairobi County are set to benefit from free internet connectivity following a move by Wananchi Group, Kenya Education Network (KENET) and the...
Andile Ngcaba – Founder and Chairman Convergence Partners Convergence Partners a South African-based investment group, founded and headed by serial entrepreneur Andile Ngcaba, has launched a...
The project once completed is hoped to turn Jamaica into the ICT hub of the Caribbean. (JIS) – Jamaica is in the process of rolling out...
The Antigua & Barbuda Investment Authority (ABIA) recently hosted Kirk Laughlin, founder/editorial director of Nearshore Americas, who visited the island-nation last week to gain insight on...
By Emmanuel Musaazi According to the World Bank Group’s 2012 – 2015 strategy for the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, new developments in telecommunications, in...
The Caribbean information communication and technology (ICT) road show opened in Bridgetown, Barbados on Monday with regional countries being called upon to develop their own blueprint...
Ethiopia will soon launch an information and communication technology (ICT) park, becoming the second East African nation, after Kenya, to do so. The ambitious project, known...
When thinking of African economies the time has come to think of tech innovation. Africa is making great technological strides, not only keeping up with the...
The government of Antigua and Barbuda has indicated that it will introduce new competitors to the telecommunications market if the country’s four established telecommunications companies (telcos)...
Government plans to double the number of jobs for Jamaicans in the information and communications technology sector.
For the second time in a month, a senior Grenada government official has appealed to the region to “fully embrace” Information Communication Technology (ICT) as a...
