Articles by Robin Okuthe

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Fri, December 7th, 06:16 · Robin Okuthe

Hackers disrupt UN meeting in Dubai

The World Conference on International Telecommunications (Wcit) meeting currently taking place in Dubai, UAE to discuss the future of Internet governance has been disrupted by a suspected hacking attack. → Read more
Thu, December 6th, 13:55 · Robin Okuthe

Orange telecoms firm officially launches operations in DRC

French-owned integrated telecommunications services provider Telecom-Orange has today officially launched its operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) under the Orange brand, giving a new dynamism to its operations initially marketed under the Congo Chine Telecom (CCT) brand in the country. → Read more
Wed, December 5th, 11:20 · Robin Okuthe

Tanzania adopts mobile-based initiative to ease maternal mortality

A multimedia campaign dubbed ‘Wazazi Nipendeni’ - Swahili for ‘Parents Love Me’ - has been launched in Tanzania to encourage expectant women and their spouses to participate in programs targeted at ensuring healthy pregnancy and safe delivery. → Read more
Tue, December 4th, 14:19 · Robin Okuthe

Interactive websites targeted to engage Diaspora Africans in developing Africa

The International Office of Migration, the world’s largest immigration agency, has today, in partnership with the Ghanaian government, launched a website called Ghanaiandiaspora.com, dedicated to connecting the nearly 3 million Ghanians living in the Diaspora with the country’s development. → Read more
Tue, December 4th, 12:05 · Robin Okuthe

Poor public awareness blamed for Uganda’s slow digital TV migration

Uganda’s local pay television operators have expressed disappointment over the manner in which public awareness on digital migration, spearheaded by the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), is being conducted. → Read more
Tue, December 4th, 08:54 · Robin Okuthe

SMS text messaging helps HIV patients reduce viral load

Mobile-based communication between HIV patients and doctors can help reinforce observance to drug treatment and reduce the viral load, a new study by WelTel Kenya, a non-profit non-governmental mHealth organization, reveals. → Read more
Tue, December 4th, 07:00 · Robin Okuthe

ITU’s Internet regulation treaty talks start in Dubai

International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a UN agency charged with overseeing global telecommunications regulations, is making efforts to calm fears that the Internet could be trashed by the ongoing World Conference on International Telecommunications (Wcit), a conference it is hosting in Dubai, UAE. → Read more
Tue, December 4th, 05:46 · Robin Okuthe

Yahoo to scrap out Yahoo! Messenger, its public-chat rooms feature

Search engine giant Yahoo! has said it will remove the public chat rooms feature of its messaging tool Yahoo! Messenger on Dec 14, and replace it, along with other features to be scrapped, with new features. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 13:27 · Robin Okuthe

LC2 Media granted broadcast rights for ORANGE AFCON 2013

The broadcasting rights of pan-African football tournament ORANGE AFCON South Africa 2013 have been granted to LC2 Media – AFNEX (African Network and News Exchange) - in exclusivity for television and Radio broadcasting “via Terrestrial TV and satellite, by free TV”. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 13:20 · Robin Okuthe

New site for publishing ‘censored’ content is launched

Global journalism campaigning organisation Reporters sans Frontières (Reporters without Borders) last week unveiled a website under the brand name ‘We Fight Censorship,’ intended to publish content that has been banned, censored or which had been a cause for retribution against the author. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 13:05 · Robin Okuthe

Sub-Saharan countries experience largest rise in global connectedness

Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Mozambique, Ghana, Togo, Zambia and Guinea, saw the largest rise in connectedness between 2010 and 2011, according to the second edition of the DHL Global Connectedness Index (GCI) released today. → Read more
Fri, November 30th, 12:17 · Robin Okuthe

Harnessing the benefits of ad targeting for political gains

Online advertising has become an authoritative auxiliary to TV commercials. Although the lion’s share of political advertising finances are spent on such adverts, with each subsequent election cycle a larger portion is spent online. → Read more
Fri, November 30th, 11:18 · Robin Okuthe

Is the ATM’s death due to mobile money?

The African financial system has undergone a period of substantial change, the impact of which continues to transform the way financial services are delivered. A number of alternative channels, such as mobile money and point-of-sale services, seem to threaten the popularity of the ATM. → Read more
Thu, November 29th, 11:43 · Robin Okuthe

The Curious Case of Nyagaka Anyona Ouko, Conclusion – Part IV

Safaricom’s rejoinder to this HumanIPO series seems to rebuff Ouko’s claims to be the originator of M-Pesa mobile money transfer platform. → Read more
Wed, November 28th, 13:43 · Robin Okuthe

How to have your tweet regularly retweeted

For Twitter users, having a tweet retweeted several times seems a mark of accomplishment, like having your advice passed along by word-of-mouth bringing a sense of pride. Yet how can this feat be accomplished? How can tweets on the latest news spread like a virus on the Net? → Read more
Tue, November 27th, 12:04 · Robin Okuthe

Mobile technology fast-tracking Africa’s health landscape

Innovative approaches of doing businesses often prompted by ‘novel technologies’ have upended the roles of private and public sector in development as they offer a new design of healthcare opportunities in developing countries. → Read more
Tue, November 27th, 07:01 · Robin Okuthe

OPINION: ITU’s December meeting will threaten Internet freedom, promote censorship

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a UN agency responsible for international information and communication technologies regulations, is scheduled to meet in Dubai, UAE from December 3 to 14 to revise the International Telecommunications Regulations treaty for the first time since 1988. → Read more
Mon, November 26th, 07:18 · Robin Okuthe

16-year-old Sierra Leonian kid’s phenomenal inventions amaze MIT experts

Kevin Doe, 16, from the African nation of Sierra Leone, has become the youngest techie ever invited to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) “Visiting Practitioner’s Program” after he created batteries and a generator out of waste materials picked from dustbins. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 14:14 · Robin Okuthe

Mozilla’s crash-prone Firefox 64-bit development stopped

Mozilla has asked developers to stop nightly builds of Firefox versions optimised to operate on 64-bit versions of Windows, as they crash regularly. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 11:55 · Robin Okuthe

Ethiopia seeks partnership with Safaricom to use M-Pesa

Ethiopia’s government has made advances to Kenyan telecom firm Safaricom seeking assistance on ways it can shape up its mobile money and telephony market. → Read more