Gateway Communications raises $100m to expand telecommunications market in Africa
ICT firm Gateway Communications has stated that it had raised $100m through a bond issue that would allow it to make further inroads into Africa
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Cable & Wireless gets the 75 million contract of Police National Network
The Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO) awarded the Framework Arrangement for the new Police National Network (PNN3) to Cable & Wireless in following tender process.
Libyan government to distribute laptops to school children
Libyan government has made a deal worth $250 million deal with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive laptop computers to its population of 1.2 million school going children, as a part of the programme one
Telecommunications should spearhead development: Namibian minister
Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Namibia, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah urged the strong need to bridge the digital gap between different sections of the country’s population
First solar powered information community centre in South Pacific by VIA
Chip maker VIA Technologies has announced the first ever solar-powered cyber community centre in the South Pacific.
Internet users in India reach 37mln in September
Internet users in India have reached 37 million this September – up from 33 million in March 2006. During the same period, the number of
World Bank grants US$10m for ICT project in Rwanda
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved US$10 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to the Government of Rwanda to install modern systems. The bank said that the assistance was aimed at improving the country’s operations and service delivery systems especially in rural areas, with a particular focus on the use of technology for growth and development.
80 speakers and 1,500 unique visitors were there at Connect 2006
Connect 2006, an Information Technology and Communications event jointly organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Tamil Nadu Government, with the theme of ‘creating a knowledge-driven ecosystem’ saw a total of over 80 speakers addressing various issues and challenges faced by the IT industry in Tamil Nadu, and an attendance of over 1,500 unique visitors.
South Africa must become information-based society: says Mbeki
Speaking at the two-day meeting with the Presidential International Advisory Council on Information Society and Development (PIAC) in Mpumalanga, President Thabo Mbeki said that South Africa had to become an advanced information-based society in which Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools were the drivers of economic and societal development.
