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Wed, October 29th, 15:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Kagame calls for enhanced broadband planning processes by governments
Governments must enhance their National Broadband planning process to enable ICTs and broadband to catalyse socio-economic development, according to an Open Letter from the Broadband Commission for Digital Development to delegates attending the ITU’s 2014Plenipotentiary Conference. → Read more
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Wed, October 29th, 14:00 · Paul Adepoju
Nigeria wins ITU Gender Empowerment Award
Nigeria has received an award from the International Telecommunications Union ITU and UN Women for initiating policies and programs empowering women and girls via ICT. → Read more
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Wed, October 29th, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju
Feature: Online football betting on the rise in Nigeria
Few years ago, Nigerians only watched football matches of the English Premier League, UEFA Champions League, Spanish La Liga and Italian Serie A. The only times they saw online betting were on the jerseys of some football teams. And for those that still wanted to bet, they had to fill long pages of paper to play what is known as 'pool'. → Read more
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Wed, October 29th, 11:00 · Paul Adepoju
Q&A: Adekunle Jinadu, Founder & CEO, Gingerbox.com.ng
Jinadu is the CEO and founder of Gingerbox.com.ng. In this interview, he spoke to HumanIPO on why they decided to shut down Jaramall which was one of the popular ecommerce platforms in Nigeria offering over 700 products, to focus solely on delivering fruits and nuts to offices. → Read more
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Tue, October 28th, 18:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Kenyan startup Echo Mobile partners IBM, Airtel to fight Ebola outbreak
IBM Research Africa, Airtel and Kenya's Echo Mobile have launched a citizen engagement and analytics system in Sierra Leone that enables communities affected by Ebola to communicate their issues and concerns directly to the government; a donation of IBM Connections technology in Nigeria to strengthen the Lagos State government’s preparedness for future disease outbreaks; and a global platform for sharing Ebola-related open data. → Read more
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Tue, October 28th, 17:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Liquid Telecom announces UGX 2 billion investment in pan-Ugandan internet infrastructure
IP provider Liquid Telecom today announced UGX 2 bn of investment in its Ugandan subsidiary Infocom, to extend its pan African fibre cable infrastructure across Kampala’s Central Business District and to multiple rural towns across Uganda, including Mukono, Jinja, Masaka, and Mbarara. → Read more
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Tue, October 28th, 15:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Alcatel-Lucent, MTN to boost connectivity in Nigeria with ultra-broadband 100G fiber-optic data network
Alcatel-Lucent is opening up Africa’s most populous nation to the benefits of ultra-broadband connectivity by launching a superfast, 100 gigabit-per-second fiber-optic network with MTN Nigeria, a subsidiary of Dubai-based MTN Group and the leading service provider in Africa. → Read more
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Tue, October 28th, 14:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Airtel introduces free mobile access to Twitter
Bharti Airtel’s prepaid customers in Kenya will now be able to access Twitter on their mobile phones for free till 15th January 2015, enabling them to enjoy posting Tweets, keeping up with news and what’s happening across the world. → Read more
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Tue, October 28th, 13:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Cyberoam launches CR10iNG for small offices
Leading network security appliances provider Cyberoam, has launched CR10iNG, “the fastest & most affordable UTM (Unified Threat Management)” appliance for SOHO/ROBO markets that is expected to extend enterprise level network security to small and branch offices, making them future ready for security needs. → Read more
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Tue, October 28th, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju
Major Nigerian ecommerce platform launches fruits delivery service
Gingerbox.com.ng has been launched in Nigeria to deliver fruits and nuts to offices. GingerBox was formerly Jaramall an ecommerce platform that was offering over 700 products. → Read more
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Mon, October 27th, 14:00 · Paul Adepoju
Nigeria’s eTranzact PocketMoni bags AfricaCom, Lead Africa Awards nominations
eTranzact International's PocketMoni has been nominated for AfricaCom and Lead Africa Awards 2014. The nominations are in the Best Mobile Money Service category. → Read more
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Mon, October 27th, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju
Lawmakers approve 7-year jail term for cybercriminals
The Nigerian Senate has approved a seven-year jail term for individuals convicted of cyber crimes in the country with the passage of a bill for an act to provide for the prohibition, prevention, detection, response, investigation and prosecution of cybercrimes and for other related matters. → Read more
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Mon, October 27th, 11:00 · Paul Adepoju
Nigeria’s spectrum license bid winner set to roll out LTE services
The winner of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)'s 2.3GHz spectrum licence Bitflux Consortium has announced plans to roll out services in January. → Read more
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Mon, October 27th, 10:00 · Paul Adepoju
Mobofree to launch local presence in Lagos
Social marketplace Mobofree has announced plans to have local presence in Lagos, Nigeria. Out of the platform's 3 million users, 2.2 million are in Nigeria. → Read more
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Fri, October 24th, 15:00 · Susan Mwenesi
New National digital registry to help bridge information gap in Kenya’s financial sector
Kenya is set to launch a National Digital Registry Service that is expected to bridge the yawning information gap in the financial sector while addressing the issues of insecurity, corruption and illegal foreigners in the country as well. → Read more
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Fri, October 24th, 15:00 · Susan Mwenesi
MTN, SAP, Microsoft, Inmarsat and Merck sponsor AMPION Africa
Four leading global technology companies have come out in support for AMPION as its major sponsors to enable entrepreneurial talent in Africa develop innovative solutions on the continent by making best use of the power of mobile technology. → Read more
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Fri, October 24th, 14:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Kenya’s Nyeri county to host first civic Hack
Nyeri County will hold its first Hackathon on 31st October to Novermber 2nd 2014, an event that will among other things seek to get someone to build a Creative Software Solution for Nyeri County Government. → Read more
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Fri, October 24th, 13:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Houlin Zhao elected next ITU Secretary-General
ITU’s 19th Plenipotentiary Conference roundly endorsed Houlin Zhao of China as its next Secretary-General. Zhao will take office on 1 January 2015 for a term of four years, with the possibility of re-election for one additional four-year term. → Read more
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Fri, October 24th, 11:00 · Paul Adepoju
Guest Post: Mobile money – time for a reality check?
Vahid Monadjem is the co-founder and CEO of Nomanini, South Africa-based mobile Point of Sale service for facilitating cash transactions in emerging markets. In this guest post, he called for a closer look at the mobile money sector especially in Africa where it is extensively believed that mobile money is on a meteoric rise. But as far as Monadjem is concerned, mobile money has not yet arrived. → Read more
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Fri, October 24th, 10:00 · Paul Adepoju
Anyone anywhere can use Mara Mentor – Manager
Douglas Imaralu, online community manager for Nigeria at Mara Foundation has said the platform could be accessed by anyone anywhere. According to him, the Mara Mentor Project aims to enable, empower and inspire a generation of entrepreneurs. → Read more
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