Globacom Nigeria, the country’s second national carrier is set to take competition in bandwidth services to a new level as it plans to offer cheaper prices to internet service providers in Nigeria.
A new program from HP is equipping African health workers with cell phones so that information about outbreaks can be collected and analyzed as fast as possible.
An inaugural summit on the use of mobile communications to support healthcare opens in Cape Town on Monday.
This emerging field is often called “mHealth” and the four-day summit is organized by the mHealth Alliance, founded by the United Nations Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation. It is sponsored by the cellphone industry body serving the world’s more than five billion mobile subscribers, the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GMSA).
SAP Africa has launched the revolutionary SAP In-Memory Appliance, and the new 4.0 releases of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Information Management (EIM) software for the first time in Africa. The launch comes in response to the huge volumes of data companies today have to access, analyse and base their business decisions on. These new solutions bring speed, allow more people access to data and make BI and EIM easier to use while ensuring a trusted quality of business intelligence information.
Corruption has become an endemic and systemic problem in a lot of countries around the world. But no where is this more prevalent than in Africa. Governments that have come and gone have al promised to tackle corruption head on and drive it out of the land but there are very few success stories.
In four middle schools in the Fatick region of Senegal, nylon fabric bound to interlocking pieces of plastic piping is stirring a small revolution in educational philosophy.
Google’s presence and support in Africa has increased significantly over the last year with services such as G-Africa and Google Trader. Now they are at it again with an exciting competition for the African region. In this piece below from ITNewsAfrica, Google outlines its plan for the Android Developer Challenge.
South African construction firm, Group Five, may construct a 5 billion rand solar plant to supply power utility, Eskom, with first power seen in two years, a company official said on Tuesday.
There are some 700 million people in Africa without access to electricity. As the continent modernizes, those people will need power. But could African power be a perfect place for leapfrog technology–when a developing society goes straight to the most modern technology without going through the iterations seen in the developed world?