African ICT Journos

2006-09-09T05:10:00.000-07:00

Africa's first Blogging Indaba hits Highway Africa
By Colin Daniels

AFRICA'S first blogging conference is underway, dropping zone in Grahamstown between 14-15 September just after the Highway Africa Conference. The first of its kind on the African continent this conference promises to attract bloggers, citizen journalists, media practitioners and members of civil society from all over Africa. Read more here or contact Colin Daniels

2006-08-22T09:16:00.000-07:00

Why Africa leads the traffic to BBC News' WAP site
By David Ajao

GLOBAL news leader the British Broadcasting Corporation, last week announced that traffic to its WAP site from Africa, and especially Nigeria, is the highest. "WAP is the one platform where African countries continue to appear in the top five in our statistics," said BBC developer Gareth Owen. This is not unsurprising at all but also comes as an eye-opener into the potential of the mobile internet in Africa. Read more here.

2006-08-21T02:55:00.000-07:00

DoC endorses another five year contract for ICANN

By Remmy Nweke

UNITED STATES (US) Department of Commerce (DoC), has endorses another five year contract for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to continue to perform its functions as stipulated in the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) function. ICANN is a non-profit organization responsible for managing the Internet's systems of unique identifiers, including the systems of domain names and numeric addresses that are used to reach computers on the Internet. Read more of this from Remmy Nweke's blog ITREALMS Online. For more contact him here.

2006-06-22T06:54:00.000-07:00

EASSy preparations underway

By Musoke-Kezio David

TECHNOLOGY: AS some of you might already be aware, the EASSy protocol will be signed by Ministers responsible for ICTs and / or telecoms in Kigali on 28-29th August 2006. While most of the twenty three countries (all being supporters of the open access model ) have been very active in deliberations to fast-track this all-important project, a few haven't been so active. There are workshops in different sub-saharan countries being organized by CIPESA herein which are very good. Rwanda has just had a pretty successful "National Dialogue" on EASSy, which brought together various stakeholders. The countries identified include Zambia, Malawi, Burundi and Botswana. If you have any information and details on the outcome of these dialogues please contact me here.