Articles by Dan Sudi

Wed, October 17th, 09:29 · Dan Sudi

SA online content challenge to print media, study says

Newspaper readership is on the rise in South Africa but online content is set to seriously challenge traditional media, reveals a recent South African report by professional services group PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) → Read more
Wed, October 17th, 08:06 · Dan Sudi

South Africa’s Kulula.com bags international social media award

South Africa’s leading airline service provider Kulula Airlines has scooped position two in the third annual SimpliFlying awards held in Amsterdam for its innovative use of social media in providing customer service.. → Read more
Tue, October 16th, 14:00 · Dan Sudi

Nigeria‘s extra ICT funding to boost job creation

Nigeria’s ICT sector is to receive extra funding in a strategy aimed at creating more jobs and developing the economy in Africa most populated nation. → Read more
Tue, October 16th, 09:59 · Dan Sudi

Kenya’s taxing authority to use M-Pesa for prompt service delivery

Kenyans planning to renew their driving license will no longer be required to queue for long hours at the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA after officials from the country’s tax collector confirmed that plans are underway to partner with mobile service providers in the country to offer a mobile money payment platform. → Read more
Tue, October 16th, 08:12 · Dan Sudi

Kenyans express views on Africa’s “first” presidential debate

Media agencies in Kenya last week announced plans to host three live presidential debates ahead of the general elections set for March 4, next year. → Read more
Mon, October 15th, 14:10 · Dan Sudi

OPINION: Kenyan government ought to crack whip on unregistered SIM card vendors

Kenya’s government, through its communications regulatory body the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), needs to come up with rules and regulations that bar SIM card vendors from selling non-registered cards, in addition to formulating stiffer penalties for lawbreakers. → Read more
Mon, October 15th, 11:59 · Dan Sudi

Kaspersky Lab African operation gets new head of operations

Global antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab has appointed Riaan Badenhorst as its head of operations, taking charge of the company’s operations in close to 40 African countries for the next three years. → Read more
Mon, October 15th, 08:36 · Dan Sudi

Vodacom Tanzania partners with World Food Programme through M-Pesa to boost pregnancy care

Telecom service provider Vodacom Tanzania has partnered with the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) in a health initiative aimed at supporting mother-child nutrition education courtesy of mobile money transfer service M-Pes → Read more
Thu, October 11th, 12:10 · Dan Sudi

Nokia introduces portable solar charger in Kenya and Nigeria

Mobile phone-maker Nokia has rolled out portable solar chargers across the Kenyan and Nigerian telecommunication markets to boost electricity supply in off-grid regions. → Read more
Thu, October 11th, 10:21 · Dan Sudi

Huawei poses security threat, African presence tremendous

Telecommunication services leaders Huawei and ZTE cannot be trusted and should be barred from operating in the United States as they pose security risks, according to a report released by the U.S. House of Representatives' Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence reveals. → Read more
Wed, October 10th, 15:32 · Dan Sudi

LifeLine uses Mxit’s chat service to mark Mental Health Awareness month

South Africa’s LifeLine Johannesburg, a humanitarian organisation focused on counselling, has partnered with Africa’s fastest growing social networking site Mxit to offer mobile chat platform for counselling services during October’s Mental Health Awareness (MHA) month. → Read more
Wed, October 10th, 08:15 · Dan Sudi

KU’s innovation hub will produce job creators, not seekers

Kenyatta University (KU) through its business incubation hub, the Chandaria Business Innovation and Incubation Centre (CBIIC), seeks to change students’ perception from that of being job seekers to job creators, a college official said yesterday. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 09:27 · Dan Sudi

Kenya supports ICT penetration in education system, declares government official

Kenya’s government is supporting the development of ICT infrastructure and training in the education system, says the Ministry of Information and Communications permanent secretary Dr. Bitange Ndemo. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 06:58 · Dan Sudi

Ghana’s tablet set to boost e-learning

Ghana’s leading tech-focused high-learning institution the Ghana Technology University College (GTUC) has partnered with a UK-based firm to introduce a tablet aimed at improving e-teaching and e-learning in Ghana and across the region. → Read more
Sat, October 6th, 06:19 · Dan Sudi

Switched off handset users express their frustrations via HumanIPO

Nearly a week after Kenya’s disconnection of close to 1.4 million counterfeit handsets, affected phone users have spoken with HumanIpo expressing their frustrations. → Read more
Fri, October 5th, 07:47 · Dan Sudi

Rwanda, Tanzania to follow Kenya and ‘switch off fake phones’

Kenya last week paralysed close to 1.4 million counterfeit mobile handsets in a move aimed at beefing up security, an initiative that has motivated neighbours Rwanda and Tanzania to take similar action. → Read more
Thu, October 4th, 12:54 · Dan Sudi

Kenyan doctors on walkout vent anger through social media

Doctors in Kenya have turned to social media platforms to depict the current state of healthcare in the country, terming it as “poor that has left poor people suffering.” → Read more
Thu, October 4th, 09:56 · Dan Sudi

Kenya’s government urges youth to venture into e-commerce

The youth in Kenya should focus on e-commerce as it offers plenty of entrepreneurship opportunities, Kenya’s permanent secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communications Dr. Bitange Ndemo said yesterday. → Read more
Tue, October 2nd, 12:05 · Dan Sudi

South Africa’s Integr8 to offer JHI hitch-free connectivity solutions

South Africa’s top ICT solutions firms Intergr8 group and JHI Properties have partnered towards a venture that would see the latter supplied with a wide range of business solutions via corporate virtual private network (VPN) to boost its online commerce operations. → Read more
Mon, October 1st, 15:43 · Dan Sudi

3G coverage poor in Kenya, study shows

The 3rd Generation mobile telecommunications technology, also 3G, lacks in most parts of Kenya thus posing a challenge for effective 4G rollout as planned by the country’s mobile network operators, a study shows → Read more