Developing countries in the Global South, which have already introduced innovative technology such as mobile banking, need to drive the development of "eHealth" – the harnessing of Internet-enabled technologies to improve public healthcare, says Karl Brown, associate director of applied technology of the Rockefeller Foundation. He was interviewed by AllAfrica's Boakai Fofana, at a ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has advised telecommunication service providers to consider Co-location Infrastructure Project (CIP) which will allow sharing of infrastructure to make the services more efficient.

THE Rwanda government is seeking a third national telecom operator after the duopoly period for the current operators expired in June.

THE telecommunications sector is becoming a new gold rush where large white-owned companies pocket the wealth and leave nothing for the masses, says the chairman of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa).

The Co-location Infrastructure Project (CIP), for telecommunications and other information and communication technology (ICT) services, proposed by major stakeholders in the nation's telecommunications sector, would gulp a hopping N3 billion.

Angola's Public Television (TPA) will inaugurate this Thursday, in Lisbon (Portugal), its international channel, under a governmental strategy for the social communication, meant to expand its broadcasting programme abroad, ANGOP has learnt.

New Horizons, the world's No.1 ICT Training Institution and the two time winner (2006/2007) for the best ICT Training Institution in West Africa has organised an infotainment night for the youths.

Telecommunications giant, Globacom Nigeria Limited has boosted the Lagos State Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) with N1.5million financial support towards hosting its forthcoming seminar on league billed to hold next Tuesday at the new SWAN Secretariat, National Stadium, Lagos.

Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Education, Honourable Farouk Lawan, has laid the blame on Nigeria's backwardness in the area of science and technology on the apparent poor funding and lukewarm attitude demonstrated by successive governments towards technical education in the country.

There is rising tension at Usmanti ward, in Jere Local Government Area in Maiduguri metropolis of Borno State as the youths threatened to shut down an MTN mast in the area if their calls are ignored by the telecom giants to respect one of their corporate responsibilities of constructing a 200 meters access road leading to the mast.

President of Global Network for Cybersolutions, Dr Chris Nwaje, has said that the engine room of future information societies lies in the information infrastructure.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has dismissed the appeal filed by the Lagos State government against the telecommunications firm under the auspices of the Association of Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria (ALTON).

Beta Computers has launched the Computer For All initiative,(CANi) at the Kogi State University, which is expected to put over 1000 PCs into hands of academic and non academic staff

This should be the best of times for Nigeria , economy-wise. Oil receipts have been at a consistent upswing in the past few years. The banks are bigger and thriving. But the reality is that poverty is still staring millions of people in the face. A government official in June announced that 70 percent of Nigerians live below poverty line. That did not come as a shock to many Nigerians who daily ...

FRESH concern is being raised about the potential dangers of cellphone usage - especially as SA begins to roll out higher-power broadband technologies.

A robust educational on-line solution through a one-stop portal has made its debut with the introduction of Acada, from the stable of Fleet Technologies Limited, a pioneer ICT company.

In furtherance of efforts by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to train its men and officers in world best practices and position them to confront the rising security challenges in the country, the Force has organized a computer training programme for the Jos Police Command, Plateau State.

AllAfrica's Boakai Fofana, based in Monrovia, is one of a few media professionals brought to Bellagio, Italy by the Rockefeller Foundation to attend an invitation-only international conference on harnessing Internet-enabled technologies to radically improve public healthcare. AllAfrica - where pioneering technologies have made our work possible - was an early advocate of exploiting web-based ...

From Bellagio, Italy, AllAfrica's Boakai Fofana blogs on a Rockefeller Foundation conference on how to use information technology to improve access to health care.

International call rates in Africa may drop by as much as 80 per cent in a few months, going by a gateway and submarine cable operators' pledges.

According to the Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire (CWIQ) survey undertaken from 5 April to 10 May 2007 but released recently by Statistics Sierra Leone, which co-ordinates the national statistical system, 1.1% of Sierra Leoneans have personal computers.

Tunisia's positive international rankings have just been comforted with the latest ranking by the latest 2007-2008, World Economic Forum "Global Technology Report" which ranks the country 35 th globally with an overall score of 4,33 and the first in Africa insofar as networked readiness in concerned.

The government of Rwanda has kept its promise to spearhead local content generation by launching an online instant messaging service known as Intego.

Angola participates this Wednesday in Geneva, Switzerland, in the 24th Universal Postal Union (UPU) Congress, in which a new Administration Council is to be elected.

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Africa 's global bank, has donated five security vehicles and other communication gadgets worth several millions of naira to the Imo State Government, in an effort geared towards safeguarding the lives and property of the residents and corporate investments in the state.