Denial of visa to UK and US to many meritorious Indians and perhaps sometimes to Africans is no more a news. But an innovative group of young people from Nigeria cheered this trend, voicing, ‘keep the visas, give us broadband
The Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) has launched a new interactive Electronic Map of Dubai on its hugely-popular website.
Microsoft Bangladesh Country Manager Feroz Mahmud said that Information technology (IT) was the best means of power to eliminate poverty, while speaking as the chief guest at a function on ‘Partners in Learning’ programme jointly organised by Northern University Bangladesh (NUB) and Microsoft Bangladesh Limited on the NUB Rajshahi campus.
UNICEF has trained about 480 teachers on different subjects in six areas of Jigawa state in Northern Nigeria, as part of its Girl’s Education program.
The Dubai eGovernment is all set to achieve its goal to provide 90 per cent of all government services on-line and 50 per cent of government transactions to be conducted through the various innovative channels by the end of 2007, according to a top official from the department.
Information and Communication Technology ministers from Eastern and Southern African countries have signed a policy and regulatory protocol for Nepad broadband ICT infrastructure network.
The three-day Government Technology (GT) summit, organised by the World Development Forum in association with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and The League of Arab States, opens on September 3 at the JW Marriott Hotel in Dubai, to focus on cohesive and practical strategies for the expansion of regional e-Governance.
Ghana and the World Bank have signed two separate agreements for a grant of 55 million U.S. dollars towards the implementation of the e-Ghana Project and the Education for All-Fast Track Initiative (EFA-FTI).
The Zambian government, for the first time, has included Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as part of its development strategy with particular emphasis on developing access and backbone telecommunication infrastructure such as fibre optic networks (cable), in order to connect to the Eastern and Southern African Submarine Cable System (EASSy).
The World Bank Group has approved 40 million dollars loan to support the Government of Ghana to implement selected components of its Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Accelerated Development Policy.
