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The European Parliament looks set to reject an agreement struck by E.U. national governments with the U.S. last month that would allow the banking data of European citizens to be scrutinized by American border authorities.  read more »

For the past five years, Africa Network Information Center resisted taking on assignments outside its scope. As one of the few functioning Internet-related organizations on the continent, AfriNIC now realizes that nothing much is getting done and has decided to widen its scope, but still stay grounded in its original mission.  read more »

An audit of Uganda's US$106 million national fiber backbone and e-government infrastructure project, which was contracted to Huawei Technologies of China, has brought to the fore inadequate supervision by the relevant government ministry and pricing anomalies on the part of the contractor.  read more »

At the ongoing African Union summit on ICT, Microsoft has signed an agreement with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa under which it will provide software, technical support and software development.  read more »

If the U.S. Federal Communications Commission adopts broad new net neutrality regulations, the agency's authority to do so will be challenged in court, predicted Robert McDowell, a member of the commission.  read more »

An upsurge in African cybercrime targeting the financial sector threatens to derail the rollout of Internet banking and electronic commerce services and has forced the Nigerian government to raise an alarm over the vulnerability of the country's ICT infrastructure.  read more »

The World Bank hailed its public-private partnerships in Africa at a forum this week, terming them key to removing regional connectivity challenges for land-locked countries.  read more »

The International Telecommunication Union has extended the digital broadcast migration deadline for 34 countries because of challenges involving the technology, standards, licensing and investment in the necessary infrastructure and the need for people to replace their televisions.  read more »

In a move that will delight users of telecommunications services in Uganda, the industry regulator is set to introduce a "name and shame" approach to monitoring the sector that will be aimed at getting providers to not only offer higher service quality but also to treat their customers better.  read more »

The open source community has criticised the lack of firm action in the government's ICT strategy document  read more »