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Mmabatho - The North West provincial government is providing a forum for women to improve their skills in Information Communications Technologies (ICT), and discuss a wide range of issues in the sector.

Michael Appel

Pretoria – The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) will host a regional workshop, which aims to streamline east and southern African countries’ ratification of national laws and regulations, on broadband.

Remmy Nweke

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to unveil its new reforms for the Next Generation Network (NGN)

David Muwanga

Ugandans make use of the Internet more than postal services to communicate with family members and friends

Noel Kokou Tadégnon

A new center for commercial and agricultural information to enable Togolese farmers and traders to interact

Jonah Iboma

The Lagos State Government has imposed a ban on the erection of more telecom base stations in any part of the Lagos metropolis

Mao Nyikandzino

Since its launch last year in December SW Radio Africa has become an alternative source of news and information using the short message sending (SMS) system directly to mobile phones.

The Next Generation Networks (NGN) will transform the global means of communication.

Joyce Joan Wangui

Candidates for Kenya's presidential and parliamentary elections make use of ICTs to reach out to potential voters

Theodore Kouadio

The telecommunications sector of Cote` d'Ivoire has generated more than 2 Billion of Us dollars (1 000 billion F CFA) in the last five years. According to the chairman of the National Union of Telecommunications Companies (UNETEL), Mr Michel Loukou, the growth levels are promising.

HANA

Open Source Software strategy for South Africa to meet the country's ICT needs.

Remmy Nweke

Microsoft Corporation has welcomed the current debate on the proposed global standardization of the Ecma Office Open Extensible Markup Language (Open XML) as positive and good.has been enjoying positive momentum and widespread use, according to Microsoft Corporation.

Levi Kabwato

If Malawi is to speed up its integration into the global village, then it must develop more aggressive policies on Information and Communication Technology (ICT), an expert has said.

Gervais J. Henrie

The Seychelles' public sector ICT workforce will shrink considerably as a result of the current restructuring being undertaken by the government.

Remmy Nweke

Nine of Africa's Universal Service Access Fund (USF) agencies are preparing to form an association, to be known as the Communications Universal Service Forum (CUSF), in order to streamline their works and experiences.

Jonah Iboma

Telkom South Africa is to invest about $1 billion in the expansion of the network of Multi Links, its Nigerian subsidiary over the next five years. Telkom acquired Multi Links Nigeria, the National Unified Access operator, in March 2007 in a deal worth $280 million.

Remmy Nweke

African Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) may be spoiling for war with the global software giant, Microsoft Corporation, over its bid to have its DIS 29500 'Office Open Extensible Markup Language (OOXML)' endorsed by the International Standard Organisation (ISO).

Musa Saidykhan

The Senegalese government has invited tenders for a third mobile operator, in addition to the country's two mobile operators, Orange and Tigo.

The successful bidder will be given the rights to launch...

Mao Nyikandzino

Econet Wireless, the country's largest mobile telecommunications company, has announced that equipment for its expansion program to upgrade network capacity from 800 000 to 1.2 million customers will start arriving in Zimbabwe next month, and installation should take at least three months to complete.

Bai-Bai Sesay

With the coming of Mobile phones in Sierra Leone, the dictionary of most Sierra Leoneans has been widening to accommodate new words to match that era of new information and communication technologies.