NAIROBI: The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has funded a rural ICT program that was aimed at impacting the local community with ICT skills for self- sustainability and economic progress in Arua secondary. Armando Angulibo, Training Coordinator commented on the exercise saying it was projected towards community empowering through the use of ICT. The training took [...]
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NAIROBI: In a bid to make its citizens more ICT versatile, the Rwanda’s Ministry of Disaster and Refugee Management have launched an ICT driven approach where they are giving sectors interned based cell phones to be used to communicate better upon the strike of a disaster. Darla Rudakubana, the ministry’s communications specialist commented that the [...]
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NAIROBI: The advancement of health care technology would better place Kenya by bridging the existing gap in health care services, the World Bank said. Khama Rogo, World Bank Lead Health Specialist commented stating that better technological advancements would reduce doctor and patient contact. “Technology has now made it possible for people to interact without seeing [...]
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NAIROBI: The Rwanda Revenue Authority will launch an Electronic Sales Device (ESD) to counter fraudulent transactions and tax evasion by individuals. The device is set to be launched in June and it will cost $300 and $600. Ben Kagarama, Commissioner General commented that people are undertaking practices such as falsifying invoices so as not to [...]
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KAMPALA: The United Nations envoy for children and armed conflict on Monday urged the Ugandan Government bring to justice a senior commander of the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), who was captured over the weekend, saying he is responsible for some of the most egregious abuses against children. Ugandan authorities announced on Saturday that the [...]
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ADDIS ABABBA: A United Nations humanitarian official today praised the Ethiopian Government for its innovative and effective efforts to build resilience and food self-sufficiency amid increasingly challenging climatic conditions. “Ethiopia has made quite incredible advances in mitigating the impact of drought,” said the Operations Director at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [...]
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NAIROBI: The undersea cables that are connecting African countries include the East Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy), The East African Marine Systems (TEAMS), SEACOM, Lower Indian Ocean Network (LION) and the West African Cable System (WACS) need to have harmonized policies that ensure equal access and also shared costs. Andrew Rugege, the Director of ITU [...]
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NAIROBI: Kenya has made significant progress in scientific innovations as to accelerate social economic development in the country. Prime Minister Raila Odinga commented that STI’s are the engine to a better Kenyan economy and will lead to the realization of the country’s Vision 2030. “Science,technology and innovations are the engine to propel Kenya`s economy.They will [...]
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NAIROBI: Bharti Airtel Kenya has now accused Safaricom of wanting to make more profits from the current mobile termination rates. Shivan Bhargava, MD of Airtel Kenya explained that Safaricom intends to use a higher termination rate as a revenue stream rather than a cost recovery tool. Safaricom argued that: “Artificially low termination rates do not [...]
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NAIROBI: Vodacom Tanzania has launched a new low cost offer “Wajanja” that has reduced charges associated with telephone calls, short messaging and Internet services. The service will be offering prepaid customers a tariff of TZS 0.4 per second for on-net calls from 10pm to 7am every day. The new offer will also see Vodacom prepaid [...]
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NAIROBI: Intel Corporation has partnered with Orange Uganda with the aim of making broadband and PC’s more affordable and to propel their reach to customers by bridging the broadening gap in Internet access and broadband connectivity. John Davies, Intel Vice-President for World Ahead Program said, “providing technology access and IT skills is a cornerstone for [...]
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NAIROBI: MCash Uganda and Housing Finance Bank (HFB) are in a joint venture that seeks to introduce a virtual Bank account scheme that enables customers to send money within Uganda. Paul Musoke, Deputy MD HFB said the account enables holders to have an e-wallet that can be accessed through the different HFB branches and M-Cash [...]
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NAIROBI: Since its launch of operations recently, Airtel Rwanda has seen its customer’s boom up the levels scale. With that at hand, Airtel Rwanda now aims to attract more customers through the promotion “Yaruguze 100% Bonus” Mercellin Paluku, Country Manager Airtel Rwanda announced this promotion to reward its existing customers as well as to attract [...]
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CAIRO: When the online community clicked, watched, liked and eagerly shared a 30-minute viral campaign that virtually endorsed US military intervention to capture Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony, a vigorous debate instigated over worrying credulity, imprudence and ‘slacktivism’ in today’s cyber-connected world. The largely Western-centric wrangle assumed the phenomenon follows a rather global homogenous trend, [...]
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NAIROBI: PesaPoint Limited with support from Safaricom Kenya has an initiative of an integrated system that will enable MPESA customers to directly interact with their bank accounts. Customers will now have a comfort ability zone of avoiding the bank hustles as they will now easily withdraw cash from their banks directly to their MPESA account. [...]
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NAIROBI: In a joint venture with Cellulant, Kenya Airways will now be the first airline in Africa to deliver a service called “KQ Mobile” which is a mobile based technology platform that will enable its customers to conveniently access information on flight status, timetable, cargo services, ticketing and query their Msafiri Miles status. The service [...]
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NAIROBI: Safaricom has moved to court demanding a repay of an estimated half a billion shillings from Airtel Kenya and an estimate of Ksh150M from Essar (Yu Mobile) fees related to terminal charges (the amount of money an operator pays rivals if its subscribers call another network) since October. The operators are also to pay [...]
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NAIROBI: In a move expected to improve services and accessibility, MapIT has acquired shares worth USD2.1 million in SatNav East Africa. Vincent Okema, CEO at SatNav East Africa commented that this move would further the firm’s expansion into East Africa markets by enhancing digital mapping and technical support. “MapIT will also provide us with all [...]
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NAIROBI: An initiative “Treasury Mobile Direct” by the World Bank and Kenya’s Central Bank will see that Kenyans will be able to buy bonds using their mobile handsets. The project follows the rise and adoption of mobile handsets here in Kenya. According to reports by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), there has been a [...]
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NAIROBI: Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) is now divergent on the idea of whether to cut mobile termination rates by 35 percent in July or not. Francis Wangusi, the acting director at CCK had previously stated that the termination rate would drop from the current Sh2.21 to Sh1.44 per minute in July. Bitange Ndemo, Information [...]
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