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South Africa pushes for ICT outsourcing
News A delegation from the country, including deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, addressed industry members at the South African embassy in London on Monday, with Ms Mlambo-Ngcuka insisting that information and communications technology (ICT) was...
[December 11, 2006, 15:45]
The way forward: Mobile health in Kenya
Blog I think this sort of technology is the way forward for most African countries. The future for African countries is in technology. I was a participant in the pilot PDA project using EpiSurveyor--an open-source software for mobile devices--to support...
[September 10, 2008, 8:04]
Google brings hosted apps to Africa
News Google has announced a series of partnerships with African public-sector organisations, which will see the institutions given training and support into how to use the search giant's hosted applications.
[March 22, 2007, 12:01]
MobileMoney:Africa's 11 - Interviews Barry Coetzee of Iveri Payments
Blog We are only focused on providing customer centric solutions to African financial institutions. MMA: African Financial Institutions are still attached to the old norm of 'p2p personal Banking'.How is Iveri changing the pattern.
[May 14, 2009, 14:03]
NICE Systems Case Study: Eskom Holdings Ltd.
White Papers Eskom Holdings Ltd.of South Africa is one of the world's leading power producers, supplying virtually all of the energy to its home country and half of the power across the African continent. Until recently, managing Eskom's contact center...
[July 12, 2006, 0:00]
SA unions threaten £1.7bn Vodafone deal
Blog A £1.7bn deal between Vodafone and the South African telecoms incumbent Telkom is at risk of collapse following last-minute legal action from the country's communications regulator and trade unions. Vodafone and the state-controlled Telkom, who are...
[May 17, 2009, 14:49]
South African Bank Approves Customer Loans in Minutes With New Processing System
White Papers Nedbank, one of the four largest South African commercial banks, is a major player in the micro and personal loans sector, with a focus on the country's financially underserved and low-income communities.
[September 5, 2007, 1:00]
Microsoft 'lends security expertise' to Nigeria
News Microsoft is to work with the Nigerian government to help tackle the problem of 419 email scams and other cybercrime originating from the African country. Millions of people all over the world can only link the country and her nationals to the...
[October 14, 2005, 17:50]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
News Africa, Gerald Ilukwe, the general manager of Microsoft Nigeria, said that cost is not important, even though he admitted that the average annual salary in the West African country is only $160 (£91).
[October 17, 2005, 16:30]
India ditches 'potentially harmful' $100 laptop plan
News The African country placed an order for one million of the Linux laptops, although the devices won't go into production until orders for at least five million have been received. The Indian government rejected proposals by the country's Planning...
[July 27, 2006, 16:30]
South Africa embraces open source
News In the case of many open-source solutions, it may still be a case that the original development was not done specifically with the South African environment in mind, but in this paradigm we are in a position to take action.further by adapting...
[February 5, 2003, 10:10]
Blind man faces prosecution for listening to child porn
News A blind South African man may be the first person in the world to be prosecuted for accessing child pornography on the Internet without looking at it. Legal experts are scouring the statute books to determine where South African law stands on...
[June 25, 2001, 18:24]
Banking the Unbanked African: The Disconnections
Blog The Banks are engaged in Grand prix like race to breast the tape into many African countries. These are same Banks with aggressive African roll outs, exporting same disconnections. For the unbanked African, with few options for formal financial...
[June 15, 2009, 15:39]
Lack of reporting hits cybercrime fight
News he said, referring to the well-known email scam carried out from West African -- mainly Nigerian -- states, which he estimates to be worth £50m a year. If you get West African scam letters or discover paedophile activity, you can report it to your...
[April 25, 2002, 16:47]
Is Microsoft losing ground to Linux?
News Open-source software gave Microsoft a one-two punch this week, with the European Union and an African nonprofit educational organisation showing preference for Linux systems. Adding insult to injury, SchoolNet Namibia, an organisation providing...
[November 4, 2002, 12:11]
Open source: Developing markets and anti-Americanism
News African languages — English — according to the Microsoft Web site. For example, the South African government has funded a project to translate OpenOffice.org into the 11 official languages of South Africa.
[November 14, 2005, 11:00]
Afghanistan tech training programme produces first graduates
News Twenty-six women from 16 English-speaking African countries recently graduated from another Cisco Academy at the IT Centre for Africa (ITCA) in Ethiopia, a partnership between Cisco, the UN and the Economic Commission for Africa.
[April 16, 2003, 12:17]
Two ways to bring PCs to emerging nations
News In the West African nation of Mali, a former local Geekcorps intern named Moussa Kita has formed his own IT firm, called Zirsun. Every country I visit, bar none, even the small ones, asks if they can build the XO in their country.
[February 28, 2007, 15:25]
Rwanda: On the leading edge of the mHealth frontier
Blog It's a country that now strives to be the tech hub for Africa, an "African Singapore," as its President Paul Kagame likes to say. 'Country looking and moving forward, not back' by Claire Thwaites Kigali, Rwanda -- With limited knowledge of the...
[May 13, 2009, 18:01]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback And those "racist" African Americans as you call them built this country with the scars on their backs while your ass-shitting ancestors sat on their fat lazy and exceptionally nasty pimpled asses. After all, it's people like you (and not white...
[October 16, 2006, 4:19]
