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MIT Sloan Gears up for 2012 Africa Innovate Conference
MIT Sloan School of Management is gearing up to host the Africa Innovate 2012 Conference at the Institute’s famed Media Lab on its Cambridge campus with a spotlight on the role of emerging markets in Africa’s growth potential along with some of the continent’s newest initiatives in technology including the continent’s booming mobile, media and [...]
Africa’s Francophone Countries Launch Mobile Applications Hackathon
It’s no surprise to most Africans that Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria are leading the pack when it comes to developing Africa’s Information, Communication and Technology Sector. This is especially true in the mobile application sub-sector. What we haven’t seen much of in the English media are the African Francophone countries participation in this sector [...]
Femi Akinide has worked in a variety of high-level positions at well- known telecommunications and software firms in the world, including Gateway Communications, AT&T (Consultant), T-Mobile, and Microsoft. Throughout his telecommunications career, he has been a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for T—Mobile’s mobile data platforms and wireless portal. He switched careers after receiving his MBA [...]
Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa, today launched the Airtel brand and unveiled the new brand identity across its 16 African operations. With the unveiling of the new brand identity Airtel, becomes the master brand for all the group’s 19 operations in Asia and Africa [...]
Qualcomm Opens Office in West Africa
Qualcomm Incorporated today announced the opening of a Lagos office by QCOM Wireless Technologies Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary, to serve as the Company’s hub for West Africa business operations. The office will provide support to mobile operators and device manufacturers serving countries throughout the region, including Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Cameroon.Commenting on the [...]
Technological Convergence: A television in the palm of every African
About a year ago, Safaricom, the Kenyan mobile services company, DStv an African cable television provider and Nokia announced the launch of a new service to avail some DStv channels on specific Nokia handsets in Kenya. The announcement certainly did not elicit much excitement, initially. Then came the first Africa-hosted World Cup and suddenly one [...]
Why Are African Internet Access Prices Still High?
It’s been about 12 months since Africa was the only continent without submarine fiber telecommunication links to the rest of the world on all of its coasts. The east coast did not have any fiber links while the west coast had only one fiber link, the (in)famous SAT3 cable. There were a couple of fiber links in [...]
African Businesses Hope to see Boost from Internet Advances
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has decided to expand their offering of domain space name options. Currently, the primary endings for web addresses include “.com”, “.net”, “.org”, and “.biz”. The number of offerings will soon increase, however, affording customers the opportunity to choose from more than 20 different types of domain [...]
iHub Gives Kenya a Boost in Race for ‘Africa’s Silicon Alley’ Title
Ask any Africa Investment Professional which industries have the potential to accelerate Africa’s growth into middle class economies and you’ll hear Information Communications Technologies (ICT), across the board. The industry not only has a seemingly endless shelf life, but it has great potential to create middle class jobs, spur foreign investment, and improve the quality [...]
Google Africa Awards PR Contract to Africapractice
Africapractice will handle Google’s PR in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and South Africa. The assignment comes as Google attempts to deepen its product penetration into Africa, promote online access, and educate audiences about the internet. The Google Africa account will be managed locally by teams in the six countries, with strategic direction from South [...]
