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Mon, December 9th, 19:00 · Richard Cutcher
Google, Facebook and co set up surveillance lobby group
Leading technology and internet companies have established the Reform Government Surveillance lobby group, in a bid to curb snooping by the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) on their data servers and customers. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 18:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
Webmapping facilitates Kenyan rural service provision – startup
Webmapping is essential for the effective provision of government services across rural Kenya, as it facilitates the planning of service delivery, according to Kenyan startup Upande. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 18:00 · Tom Jackson
Cape Town startup sees space in ticketing market
Cape Town startup Micket believes its mobile ticketing solution is not in competition with more established services such as Computicket, but can rather benefit such companies. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 17:30 · Nick Sato
Kenyan court orders submissions over digital migration case
Kenya’s High Court has ordered the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), the attorney general and all interested parties to file their submissions as soon as possible as to why they are opposed to the constitution of a three-judge bench that is set to hear a petition against them by media companies. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 17:00 · Richard Cutcher
Egypt inaugurates cybersecurity team
The Egyptian Computer Emergency Response Team (EG-CERT) has been launched in a bid to enhance cybersecurity in the country. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 16:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
SA digital TV signal to be switched on by April
Digital television signal will be switched on in South Africa by April 1, 2014, although a date for analogue signal switch-off has not yet been determined, according to the latest gazetted amendments to the Broadcasting Digital Migration Policy. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 16:00 · Nick Sato
Kenya in partnership with South Korea to improve ICT sector
The Kenyan and South Korean governments have announced a partnership to develop an e-government masterplan in Kenya, looking to develop ICT to stimulate socio-economic development in the country. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 15:30 · Richard Cutcher
African election social media monitoring to get upgrade
The developers behind the Social Media Tracking Centre (SMTC), first used during West African elections in 2011, are currently working on the next version to overhaul both its front and backend interface. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 15:00 · Tom Jackson
Members to play key role in achieving national broadband targets – WAPA
South Africa’s Wireless Access Providers’ Association (WAPA) has said its members are “uniquely positioned” to aid the successful rollout of the country’s new broadband policy. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 14:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
Africa leads developing world on internet affordability – A4AI
Africa leads the developing world in terms of internet affordability, with Morocco top of the table and Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda also ranking in the top five developing countries, according to a new report by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI). → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 14:00 · Selipha Kihagi
Samsung to stream Kenya@50 events live
Samsung, through its advertising partner Alliance Media, has entered into a new partnership with the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) to enable live streaming of the Kenya@50 celebrations set to kick off on Wednesday. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 13:30 · Tom Jackson
Tanzanian enterprise leveraging entertainment for e-learning
Tanzanian social enterprise Ubongo will next month launch Ubongo Kids, an interactive cartoon which allows children to participate via SMS, on national television, while launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for further rollouts. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 13:00 · Nick Sato
Barclays Bank of Kenya launches money transfer service
Barclays Bank of Kenya has unveiled a new cardless money transfer service that allows customers to send and receive money at any Barclays ATM. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 12:30 · Tom Jackson
SA broadband policy gazetted by Carrim
South Africa’s minister of communications Yunus Carrim has gazetted the country’s new broadband policy, seeking to provide a long-term strategy to provide connectivity to 100 per cent of South Africans by 2020. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 12:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Airtel Zambia customers to purchase flights through mobile money
Airtel Zambia customers can now purchase Proflight Zambia flight tickets using the “Airtel Money” service, saving time and money and enabling local customers to have the same purchasing power as international ones. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 11:30 · Nick Sato
GOtv, K24 in partnership to provide free decoders
Kenyan pay-TV company GOtv and K24 have launched a digital migration partnership that will mean K24 viewers are rewarded with decoders daily in a bid to cushion its viewers ahead of the analogue switch-off . → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 11:00 · Tom Jackson
Moody’s confirms SANRAL rating
Credit ratings agency Moody’s has confirmed the South African National Roads Agency Limited’s (SANRAL) credit rating after the implementation of the controversial e-tolling system. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 10:30 · Richard Cutcher
New enterprise mobility solutions launched for Africa
NETCB has launched mobile enterprise solutions targeted at the African market to enhance device management, ensure device management, security and device file sharing. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 10:00 · Nick Sato
Airtel bags Africa operator of the year 2013
Bharti Airtel, a telecommunications service provider with operations in over 20 countries across South Asia and Africa, has won this year’s Africa operator of the year awards at CommsMEA Awards gala dinner, held in Dubai. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 09:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Israeli firm awarded Zimbabwe e-passport tender as “reward” – report
Israeli security company Nikuv has been awarded a new tender for the production of e-passports in Zimbabwe, amidst allegations the tender was granted as a “reward” for the company’s role in purportedly manipulating the July general elections. → Read more
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