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Tue, December 10th, 17:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Egypt, Nigeria, SA among most popular Facebook “check-in” sites
Facebook statistics on activity on the social media site in 2013 has revealed Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa featured among the most popular “check in” sites, while Nelson Mandela was among the top 10 most talked about topics of the year. → Read more
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Tue, December 10th, 14:00 · Richard Cutcher
Nigeria willing to learn from A4AI findings – ministry
Nigeria’s Ministry of Communication Technology has expressed its willingness to work with and learn from the Alliance For Affordable Internet (A4AI) as it tries to build a national broadband network which will eventually serve the whole country. → Read more
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Tue, December 10th, 13:00 · Nick Sato
Kenyan government launches bandwidth service for universities
The Kenyan government through the ICT Authority and the Kenya Education Network Trust (KENET) has officially launched the KENET Network, a US$22.5 million basic internet bandwidth service that connects member institutions at competitive and sustainable prices. → Read more
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Tue, December 10th, 11:30 · Richard Cutcher
Infrastructure, not competition, vital to drive broadband affordability – A4AI
Infrastructure development, public private partnerships (PPP) and driving demand are among the key necessities to make broadband affordable in developing countries, according to Joshua Goldstein of the Alliance For Affordable Internet (A4AI). → Read more
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Tue, December 10th, 10:30 · Nick Sato
Mobile money use in Kenya double that of commercial banks
More than twice the amount of Kenyans use mobile money services than commercial banks, according to a new study. → Read more
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Tue, December 10th, 08:30 · Tom Jackson
Swazi language and culture app to launch in February
An app providing a comprehensive guide to the language and culture of Swaziland is to launch in February 2014, aimed at aid workers and tourists in the kingdom. → 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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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Sun, December 8th, 12:00 · Richard Cutcher
FEATURE: The week in startups 08/12/2013
One of Africa’s biggest startup accelerators drew to a close this week when eight ventures based out of 88mph’s Nairobi programme pitched to local and international investors on Thursday evening. → Read more
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Sat, December 7th, 12:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
SA game STASIS beats Kickstarter target
South African-developed game STASIS soared through its Kickstarter goal this week, with its developers saying such crowdfunding platforms have “evened out the playing field” for game developers in South Africa and beyond. → Read more
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Fri, December 6th, 19:00 · Nick Sato
Startups pitch for investment at Nairobi Demo Day
Startups pitched to local and foreign investors at the 88mph Nairobi Demo Day event yesterday (Thursday), with some making a commitment to invest. → Read more
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Fri, December 6th, 18:00 · Tom Jackson
Egyptian designs crisis management system
Nano Technologies, a Qatari firm founded and run by Egyptian Ahmed Fawzi, has developed a crisis management system named Al Dalilah, which uses satellite information and other technologies to organise first responders and rescue teams in a crisis situation. → Read more
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