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Mon, December 3rd, 14:46 · Paul Adepoju

Nigerian Senate recommends ICT local content development for economic growth

Ike Ekweremadu, the Nigerian Deputy Senate President, has advised the government to step up its efforts in developing local content in the nation’s flourishing telecoms sector. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 14:19 · Richard Cutcher

Broken toilet reporting device wins Cape Town’s Sanitation Hackathon

Sanitation experts, software developers, journalists and students were among 60 people trying to tackle Cape Town’s toilet problems at the city’s Sanitation Hackathon at the weekend, which was won by an SMS application for reporting broken toilets. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 13:48 · Gabriella Mulligan

Congo rebel group M23 leaves Facebook

The social media campaign of DRC rebel group M23 has been cut short, with their Facebook Group removed from the social networking site as the group retreats from Goma. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 13:46 · Elly Okutoyi

Eskimi hits 10 million members worldwide

Social networking site Eskimi has reached the 10 million users milestone, with Nigeria remaining the site’s largest subscriber base with over five million users. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 13:40 · Tefo Mohapi

Ushahidi being used to assist Kenya carpools

Ushahidi, a Kenyan non-profit organisation specialising in free and open source software, has aided the Kenyan carpool Twitter surge by creating a crowdmap to capture, categorise, geo locate and visualise as many tweets as possible. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 13:35 · Brandon Gregory

Shanduka’s MTN deal faces legal challenges in Nigeria

South African Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) group Shanduka has been warned by a legal expert they could face challenges in its agreement to buy a minority stake in MTN Nigeria. → 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, 13:13 · Paul Adepoju

Nigeria’s Pay TV To develop rich Nigerian and African contents

Nigeria’s newest pay TV service on the latest Digital Video Broadcast (DVB-T2) technology, GOtv, has expressed its desire to develop and broadcast original Nigerian and African content. → 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
Mon, December 3rd, 12:41 · Paul Adepoju

Nokia launches Lumia series in Accra, Ghana

Nokia has launched and introduced Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 smartphones in Ghana and is targeting the business community before Christmas. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 12:13 · Tefo Mohapi

University students win big with Vodacom’s Developer Program

Six university students from across South Africa have been awarded cash prizes by Vodacom for creating unique app ideas. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 11:48 · Paul Adepoju

Telecom Namibia acquires country’s second largest telecoms company

The Communication Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN), has finally approved Telecom Namibia’s acquisition of Powercom (Pty) Ltd, trading as Leo. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 11:26 · Tefo Mohapi

iROKOtv celebrates first anniversary and SA office is planned for 2013

iROKOtv, Africa’s biggest online platform for streaming movies, celebrated its first birthday on Saturday, and HumanIPO can reveal a South African office is in the pipeline. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 11:04 · Gabriella Mulligan

Vodacom’s GDSP to assist business efficiency

Vodacom officials say its new Global Data Services Platform (GDSP) will allow businesses to be more efficient, removing the need for extended global teams and providing for security against SIM fraud. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 11:03 · Kamau Mbote

Kenyan taxi drivers and car owners seize Twitter’s carpooling to make money

It all started as a way of helping stranded passengers get to work and back home as public service vehicles (PSV) switched off their engines in protest at “new and more punitive traffic laws”, but five days into the strike #carpoolke is now a way to make money for taxis as well as private vehicle owners. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 10:52 · Paul Adepoju

Digital migration by 2015 to be discussed by Nigerians this week

Nigeria’s readiness to complete the digital migration by 2015 will be debated at Digital Dialogue Nigeria 2012 in Lagos on Wednesday and Thursday. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 10:38 · Brandon Gregory

88mph and HumanIPO host third “Drink Tank”

Accelerator programme 88mph and HumanIPO hosted their Drink Tank in Cape Town on Friday, giving entrepreneurs, start-ups and anyone who loves tech the chance of informal networking while enjoying a drink. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 10:27 · Elly Okutoyi

Kenyans in Diaspora to vote online in 2017

Although Kenyans in Diaspora have been ruled out from voting in Kenya’s general elections in March next year due to “time and resource constraints,” they could cast their votes online in subsequent elections. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 10:25 · Tefo Mohapi

Google and Yahoo! domains in Romania taken down by Algerian hacker

An Algerian hacker going by the name MCA-RCB has taken credit for the defacement of both Google and Yahoo!’s Romanian websites. → Read more