Weekly News Roundup - Africa

Created By: Esther on 30-Jul-2007 12:00 AM

Regional Federation Has No Choice But to Embrace ICT  How else can the East African Community, now joined by Rwanda and Burundi, truly integrate to achieve a common market by 2010, if not by seizing the opportunities that come with the digital revolution? In a recent report by The EastAfrican, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, while on a less travelled road to Kenya and Tanzania, ostensibly to drum up support for regional integration, expressed frustration at the pace of progress.


Securing Fibre-Optic Technology
The highly anticipated arrival of submarine fibre-optic infrastructure through The East African Marine Cable System brings with it a whole new breed of expectations, ventures and experiences. The infrastructure's global scope is expected to have an impact virtually on all businesspeople, professionals, consumers, entrepreneurs, investors and the Government itself.

Uganda: Students Debate Use of ICT for CHOGME
The I-Network-sponsored debates between schools have gone to a higher level of engagement in intellectual argument between students of different schools around Kampala. The students debate on how youth in Uganda can benefit from the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM) due in November.



Uganda's biggest university in Sh900m Internet Debt
UGANDA telecom has disconnected internet services at Makerere University over a sh900m debt. The university is indebted to three internet service providers. An internal communication stated that due to unpaid debts, MTN and AVU, were transmitting a poor quality bandwidth that had led to the slow or lack of internet access at the university.

Rwandan Government Seals Fate of Terracom Communications
After months of uncertainty and blame game, the Rwandan cabinet has decided to buy-back its telecommunications company from controversial youthful American Tech entrepreneur Greg Wyler, RNA reports.Essentially the highest political decision making body, cabinet in its weekly meeting chaired by President Paul Kagame instructed the Finance Ministry to sign a new agreement with TERRACOM Communications.

Angolian Youths Benefit From Information Technology
Two hundred twenty four youths will start attending on Monday, in Luanda, the "Cyber Mobile School" project that aims at teaching and training youngsters on computer courses, to facilitate their insertion into the employment market.Uganda's biggest university in Sh900m Internet DebtUGANDA telecom has disconnected internet services at Makerere University over a sh900m debt.


Cyberspace Casts Light On the Lives of Death Row Inmates
"Can governments solve urgent social or political problems by executing a few or even hundreds of their prisoners?" asks Benjamin Mawaya, sweltering on death row in Zambia's Mukobeko high security prison in Kabwe, 150 kilometres from the capital of Lusaka.

E Cape, Cisco Use ICTs to Improve Service Delivery
Internet networking company Cisco has partnered with the Eastern Cape Government to promote the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) to improve service delivery and economic growth.

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