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Published on: Jan 26 2011 by Oluniyi Ajao - Comments Off on How MainOne is Driving Internet Access Competition in West Africa
Competition is good. It not only keeps prices down but also keeps innovation up. For close to a decade, SAT3 (a submarine cable system) was the lone player in the fibre internet connectivity marketplace for West Africa. Things...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has just released a $10,000,000 Annual Program Statement (APS) for Global Development Alliances (GDAs).
Through the 2011 GDA APS USAID is inviting prospective...
Published on: Jan 21 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Video: Michael Joseph on his decade as Safaricom CEO
Moses Kemibaro made an amazing video of Safaricom’s departing CEO, Michael Joseph, who spoke for about 2 hours at iHub on his wildly successful and “peculiar” decade at the helm of Safaricom, Kenya’s leading...
Published on: Jan 19 2011 by Linda Raftree - Comments Off on Using Technology Strategically for ICT Enabled Development
Plan released a new report called ICT Enabled Development: Using ICT strategically to support Plan’s work. The report is part of an on-going process by Plan Finland (kudos to Mika Valitalo for leading the process)...
In the excitement leading up to April’s presidential election in Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may have gotten a little carried away with its mandate to have a clean and fair elections....
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Nigerians are excited for the presidential election on April 9th. It is shaping up to be an interesting race, with the current president even announcing his candidacy...
Published on: Jan 14 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on The Status of Google Baraza Three Months Later
Last October, Google launched Baraza to make the Internet more locally relevant in Africa and bring more people online. Google says:
A large number of questions that are typed into Google’s search engine by users are...
Published on: Jan 12 2011 by Linda Raftree - Comments Off on ICT4D Twitter Chat on Friday: Distance Learning Options for ICT4D Practitioners
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A little more than a month ago, I wrote a post asking ‘Where is the ICT4D distance learning.’ Ernst Suur and I had been trying to figure that out since...
As you may have noticed, I’ve been compiling 2011 technology predictions on the ICTworks Network, looking for trends and ideas that would shape our industry this year. After reading those posts, talking with technologists,...
.ng is the country-code Top Level Domain (cc-TLD) for Nigeria. In plain English, it is Nigeria’s domain name system that identifies websites related to Nigeria. It is currently available for registration only in the following...
