By Olusegun Abolaji Ogundeji , IDG News Service\Freetown Bureau 5 Sep, 2008
The Sierra Leonean media has fallen behind in the use of IT, said Tonya Musa, a media consultant and lecturer at Fourah Bay College, in an interview after a training program for journalists last week. read more »
By Edris Kisambira, IDG News Service\Kampala Bureau 27 Aug, 2008
Close the Gap, an international nonprofit aimed at reducing the digital divide, has undertaken preliminary inquiries into the possibility of operating in Uganda. read more »
By Brenda Zulu, IDG News Service\Lusaka Bureau 26 Aug, 2008
The Zambia Association for Research and Development (ZARD) is aiming to help women's organizations by training them in the use of Web 2.0 technologies. read more »
By Edris Kisambira, IDG News Service\Kampala Bureau 26 Aug, 2008
Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) is set to engage an independent consultant to advise it on the IT investments necessary to better serve Uganda. read more »
By Olusegun Abolaji Ogundeji , IDG News Service\Freetown Bureau 22 Aug, 2008
The Nigerian government yesterday donated a multipurpose skills training center to the Waterloo area of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with one of three blocks earmarked for ICT training. read more »
By Emily Aggrey, IDG News Service\Ghana bureau 22 Aug, 2008
Patrons and service providers of the E-Zwich electronic transaction card -- introduced in June and July by the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement System (GHIPSS), a subsidiary of the Bank of Ghana -- have hailed the new product for making business transactions easier. read more »
Research firm Gartner projects that worldwide IT spending growth will slow down to 6% in 2009, though the firm says this will represent fairly robust growth in a generally poor economic environment. read more »
By Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service\Taipei Bureau 15 Aug, 2008
IT managers around the U.S. are falling in love with SSDs (solid state drives) in enterprise servers because they solve two major headaches: they run so fast they can replace multiple HDDs (hard disk drives) and they help reduce the electric bill. read more »
The new pastime for governments at different levels in Nigeria is the development of ICT resource centers. It is a pastime that state governments and local councils love to indulge and one that the federal government is not shy to get involved in. read more »
