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 Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Communications, on Wednesday called for effective partnership between consumers and service providers in the communications industry to address challenges facing the sector and facilitate its development.
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Ashoka, the global network of leading social entrepreneurs, announced today that it has been awarded a one-year grant by GE Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the GE Corporation, to identify and map solutions aimed at improving maternal and infant health around the world.
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South Asia’s largest ICT event 18th Convergence India 2010 Expo currently being held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from 23-25 March continued its technology showcase focusing on wireless technologies and applications serving India’s 1 billion plus population.
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Tunisia has adopted a new industrial strategy which sets medium-term objectives to be achieved by 2016.
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On Friday March 26, 2010, the first international conference for the Arab web industry ended with the triumphant closing notes of founder Omar Christidis. Over 600 attendees, 25,000 virtual attendees and 40 top-notch speakers from across the MENA, Europe, and Silicon Valley all came together to make this event a resounding success.
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The use of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) in Dominican schools will be expanded with the implementation of a new project, ‘Digital Classroom Live Portal’.
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Since 2001, Investment into the African telecommunications sector has hit $18bn, however Africa has missed many opportunities to deploy cable infrastructure to the same extent as its competitive continents such as the Middle East and Asia.
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After the first Microfinance and New Technology summit in New Delhi, PlaNet Finance organized the second Microfinance and New Technology Summit in Marrakech, Morocco on March 11th and 12th, 2010.
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Ministers, heads of ICT implementation agencies, ICT regulators and operating company executives are meeting at an African e-Governance Forum in Maputo, Mozambique from 23rd- 25th March to discuss the latest trends and benchmarks for using ICTs to improve governance in Africa.
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The Government is working towards turning Zambia into an information and communications technology (ICT) hub in the region, Communication and Transport Minister Geoffrey Lungwangwa has said.
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The World Bank in partnership with mobile handset maker Nokia is set to fund the establishment of mobile applications laboratories in Africa in a move to boost innovation in the field.
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Laban Rutagumirwa charges his mobile phone with a car battery because his dirt-floor home deep in the remote, banana-covered hills of western Uganda does not have electricity. When the battery dies, Mr. Rutagumirwa, a 50-year-old farmer, walks just over four miles to charge it so he can maintain his position as communication hub and banana-disease tracker for his rural neighbors.
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In a December 2009 Global Voices article titled “ICT4D: Past mistakes, future wisdom,” [1] Aparna Ray points out that many technology for development projects have “started with a bang and later died with a whimper.” According to a recent article [2] in the Financial Times, such is the fate of a multimillion dollar World Bank plan to supply Juba, the capital of Southern Sudan, with computers and I ... Read More
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IBM is teaming with researchers in academic institutions in Japan and India to explore an open, common user interface for mobile devices that will make them easier for aged or illiterate people around the world to use.
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Sergei Kambalov, executive coordinator of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID) of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) said late Friday that he was impressed with the work of Engineer Manar Al-Hashash of Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, and expressed hope that thanks to people like her, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be achieved by ... Read More
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