SwiftRiver Beta Released from Ushahidi on Vimeo. They were already famous with Ushahidi, but now they did even more with SwiftRiver. As stated on the official website swiftly.org “SwiftRiver is an open source intelligence gathering platform which powers a number of different applications”. SwiftRiver lets users… Manage realtime data streams (e.g. RSS, SMS, Twitter, Email) Identify relationships between content (e.g. ...

Cote d’Ivoire’s first independent tower company “SWAP Technologies and Telecomms Limited” (SWAP) has gone live with its built-to-suit telecoms co-location cell sites, the first cell sites built for co-location went on air in Cote d’Ivoire in August 2010. SWAP commenced telecoms services operations in Abidjan in 2009 with the objectives of providing infrastructural support services ...

The assistant executive secretary of SADC, the Angolan João Caholo, expressed this Thursday here that the Southern African region should acquire competitive advantages over other African and world regions in terms of Telecommunication and Information and Communication Technologies. João Caholo stressed this desire whilst speaking during the opening ceremony of the SADC meeting of the ...

The stars are shining on South Africa’s top radio astronomers, who have produced the first-ever images of a distant galaxy using state-of-the-art new antennae set up in the Karoo. The “first light” images from the MeerKAT radio telescope project – which reads faint radiowave signals from outer space – is a major victory for local ...

Mobile operator Cell C’s CEO Lars Reichelt on Wednesday emphasised that mobile operators needed predictability in terms of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) and interconnect fees, but said the operator remained committed to South Africa and its customers. He noted that the company, which was investing ZAR 5 billion in new network ...

Tunisia has been ranked, for the third year in a row, by the Davos World Report on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs, 2008-2009), first on the Maghreb and African levels, and 38th on the world scale, out a total of 134 countries. With a 4.34-score, Tunisia has kept its regional standing, given ...

Image via Wikipedia “How will IE9 browser look?”. This is the headline of a feature published today by ‘ITNewsAfrica.com – IT news, Telecom news and Mobile news from an African perspective’. The new Microsoft’s browser Internet Explorer 9 should support “HTML5, DOM and CSS3 standards” according to the African technology website. “So far, the IE9 ...

Youth in Ukunda are now able to access information faster following the installation of the first solar powered rural internet kiosk. The project is the result of a new project initiated by the youth enterprise fund. ...

A24 Media, the first online delivery site for African content, has taken the next step in its evolution with increased interactivity between the users and organization becoming a reality. The company has made a successful venture into the mobile arena, launched a text-driven news site and is making forays into in-flight entertainment as part of ...

For sub-Saharan Africa, building a knowledge economy “is no longer an option, it is a necessity”, World Bank Institute economic adviser Shahid Yusuf said last week at a University of the Witwatersrand symposium on research and training for sustainable development in Africa. The region could no longer rely on its resources alone to promote economic ...

An interactive workshop organized jointly by the OECD and the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) will look at the current trends affecting the sourcing of ICT services in light of the economic crisis on 14 November 2009 at the Maritim Jolie Ville Golf & Resort Hotel, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.  The event is being held ...

Solar water disinfection (SODIS) has been around for quite some time now and with approx. over 340.000 users in Africa alone, this low budget water disinfection “technology” is a smart approach. In areas where piped drinking water just isn’t available or of questionable quality, solar water disinfection is a cheap and effective method for decentralized water ...

The speech made in July by US president Barack Obama in Accra, Ghana, stressed that Africa must take charge of its own destiny. During the latest TED Global conference held in Oxford (UK) from 21 to 24 of July, the fantasy and the skills of Africans people came out. Wikio Wikio ...

The annual conference of African blogger will be held tomorrow in Nairobi, Kenya. The event will last until the 16th of August. According to the news published on Globavoices.org, “Kelele is an annual African bloggers’ conference which will be held for the first time in August 13th – 16th 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya”. “According to event organisers ...

We copy and paste a message received on Facebook about the W.Tec camp to be held in August this year in Lagos, Nigeria. This year is their second edition. W.TEC is now accepting nominations for the 2nd edition of its Girls Technology Camp. Targeted at Nigerian secondary school girls, the 1-week residential camp will take place in Lagos ...

Mobile phones text messages in Kenya are quite a good tool for the country’s democracy, one of the strongest in Africa. The Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation reports on its website, recalling “a global press freedom group”. As reported on the Daily Nation website, “the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) highlights the Kenyan media’s reliance on ...

The Norwegian council for Afrika published yesterday a web page of some of the most well known African bloggers. Su www.afrika.no/blog sarà possibile avere un panorama degli ultimi post dall’Africa. These are the African bloggers listed by the Norwegian council for Afrika: Wikio Wikio ...

A few days ago a news appeared on the Italian foreign office website, www.esteri.it. It might be an important one for the future of African countries. “E-governance for development” – is written in a press release – “is the new Italian initiative to promote and strengthen, among the activities of the Italian presidency of the G8, ...

Tomorrow Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, will host the “Cybersecurity in Africa” conference. It will be the first time that such event takes place in the Continent. The meeting, which will be hosted by the President hotel right in the centre of Ivory Coast, West Africa, is organised by the Ivory Coast government and the International organisation of francophony.  As ...

Lilongwe (Malawi) is hosting the Open Access 2008 conference. It will last until the 14th of November. It is a very important event because it stresses the importance of access to new technologies as this is supposed to bring social and economical growth. Wikio Wikio ...

The new Ushahidi, a Swahili word for ‘testimony’, is online. The video you can watch below is a great testimony of how Africa is changing. This ‘change’ is leaded by new technologies that mix mobile phones and the internet. As said on the video, more than this the group behind Ushahidi is the demonstration that a ...

The MobileActive08 started yesterday in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference theme this year is “Unlocking the Potential of Mobile Technology for Social Impact”.  MobileActive08 is hosted by Southern African NGO Network and MobileActive.org and it will last until the 15 of October at the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg. Wikio Wikio ...

“Today Africans are not well represented on the web. But I think this will change with time”, Philip Emeagwali said at the end of the conference on Africa’s development held last week, Friday the 3rd of October in Taormina, Italy. Below, you can watch the video interview to Africanews.it How do you think ICT, internet and ...

Here you can watch Batrcamp Africa live on the web. Video clips at Ustream Wikio Wikio ...

“By connecting children, I think we’ll change the world”, Matt Keller, managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa for “One laptop per child” (OLPC), said during the conference on Africa’s development in Taormina (Italy) last Friday the 3rd of October. Reached by Africanews.it, Keller said that “the major difficulties we have are in funding. We ...

The FOSS4G conference opened yesterday in Cape Town, South Africa, by the title “Open Source Geospatial: An Option for Developing Nations”. Developing nations are very interested in this topic. Proving that open source software is a truly affordable solutions could lead to the development of a competitive geospatial industry for countries which could not afford it ...

The African Union and Microsoft will work together for the development of all Africans through ICT tools. The announcement has been made during the “ITU Telecom Africa 2008″ conference held in Cairo, Egypt. According to a press release of the Commision of the African Union, Microsoft and the AU will cooperate to promote and develop ICT ...