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Africa Fair Mobile Index ( 2011 )

tape — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:49:24 +0000

The Fair Mobile Index aim is to communicate the real value of mobile voice services and to compare the differences in mobile voice services value across the African market.

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The Global Information Technology Report

tape — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:36:22 +0000

Find below the link to the Global Information Technology report by the World Economic Forum.

The Global Information Technology Report 2010-2011

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| Trends & Happenings Mid 2011|MTN Rwanda Mobile Banking x West Africa Data Centres x Geodemography x Starcomms x Yacouba Konaté

tape — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:36:17 +0000

-MTN Rwanda processes 5,000 mobile banking transactions per day. The service, “MTN Mobile Money” was officially launched in February 2010 ( source: NA )
- West Africa Data Centres which is a private consoritium of established international investors is opening its first datacentre in Accra in 2011. They will be the first commercial carrier-neutral co-location facililty serving the entire west african region.
They are seeking fulltime staff for hire immediately.
-The Nigerian LGA Geodemographic Classification System and profiler (NIGECS) . This geodemographic classification system is an attempt to simplify a large and complex body of information about people, where and how they live, work or recreate.
-Starcomms, the largest CDMA mobile operator in Nigeria has introduced a tablet PC called ‘myPad’.

-Yakouba Konaté (curator of the Dakar Biennial) at Primo Marella Gallery, is putting together “an important group show focused on contemporary art from Africa”. Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Soly Cissé (Senegal), Barthélémy Toguo (Cameroon), Moridja Kitenge Banza (Republic of Congo), Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo (D.R.C.), Jöel Andrianomearisoa (Madagascar), and Peter Eastmann, Cameron Platter, Stuart Bird, and Athi Patra Ruga of South Africa are included.

Nigerian GEodemographic Classification System (africaunchained.blogspot.com)
Growth and spending of African consumers (video) (annansi.com)
Repost:Banking Outlook Africa 2011 Conference (omegascorpi.com)
MUSEKE ONLINE AFRICA MUSIC AWARDS 2011 Call For Submissions (frimaur.com)
|Events|Africa Fashion Week New York 2011 (businessdelamode.com)

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Mobile Growth In Africa

tape — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:36:44 +0000

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[BUSINESS HEADLINES] Coca Cola,Nokia,Samsung,ForgetMeNot AfricaEcobank,

tape — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:00:12 +0000

Coca Cola to invests 62 million USD in Kenya-which will be channeled towards modernization of equipment and expanding existing capacity as well as increasing its presence in juice-,reinforces the US$ 12 billion investment commitment for the continent by the year 2020. Already, the beverage giant has pumped US$ 6 billion into the African economy over the last decade.(Nairobian Perspective )

Nokia, the global mobile phone maker and solutions provider, sees mobile internet and applications as next growth frontier for Sub-Saharan Africa that will help transform the continent’s socio-economic growth.New figures indicate that Africa is recovering strongly from the global recession with economic growth, a factor that may help drive penetration of mobile connectivity to 69 percent by 2014, compared to 49 percent in 2009.

Samsung will be focusing on Africa’s top 10 economies, which together generate 79 percent of the continents wealth and house almost 47 percent of the population.[Samsung ]

ForgetMeNot Africa introduces to teh African telecom market the first two-way SMS facebook service available on any basic mobile phone.The company ’s Message Optimiser technology converts Facebook action and Facebook chat messages into SMS format enabling millions of cellphone subscribers accross the continent to access Facebook.

Coca-Cola poised to pump USD 62 million into Kenya (siku-moja.blogspot.com)
Coca-Cola Invests $10 Million in Somaliland Bottling Plant (labo22.wordpress.com)

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4G Network,200 Billion Mobile Money Transfers,1 Trillion Stock Market Capitalization,Multimedia Libraries,Lower Cost of Building Materials,Bus Rapid Mass Transit

tape — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:25:11 +0000

Safaricom is set for the long-awaited technical trials of its fourth generation (4G) services [source ]

The total value of mobile money transfers in Africa will exceed US$200 billion in 2015.[ Source ]

Africa’s total stock market capitalization now exceeds $1 trillion [ Omegascorpi]

The Angolan Government will build from next October six multimedia libraries (computerized libraries and multimedia) in six provinces, in an initial investment estimated at USD 48 million. [ Source ]

A building materials and construction company, Kon-X Ltd., has introduced a new form of project finance to aid in reducing the high cost of building materials in Nigeria [ Source ]

The African Development Bank (ADB) has said it has received the Federal Capital Territory Administration’s request for a sum of $50 million to finance its proposed Bus Rapid Mass Transit (BRT). [ Source ]

Africa’s wealth and consumerism draws big brands (annansi.com)
ACA-Africa Capital Alliance (omegascorpi.com)

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Facebook Places XAccessKenya Retail Experience X GNigeria 2011

tape — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:22:09 +0000

Facebook Places comes to Kenya. [Source; unknown ]
South Africa bid for 12.5 million hectares radio astronomy reserve [source ]
AccessKenya launched their first ever retail shop in Nairobi. The shop is designed to give existing and prospective customers a brand experience .This comes about through demonstrations of broadband products and services from AccessKenya as well as technology products such as WIFI routers,etc.. [source ]

Google has announced their $1,25 million grant to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.[source :unknown]

G Nigeria 2011 [source ]

Facebook Places Expands Globally (allfacebook.com)

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Africa Highlights-Increase Significant Role Of Mobile Technology,Burkina’s Opera Village,3 Million Years Of Kenyan History,Oumou Sangaré,G-Uganda,South Sudan Cities

tape — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:04:08 +0000

-The penetration rate of mobile service had risen to 49.7 per 100 inhabitants in Kenya. The recent tariff reductions by Kenyan mobile operators will certainly perk up these figures. Mobile technology is destined a significant role in detecting, mapping and responding to epidemics as happened in a recent polio outbreak in Kenya recently. [Source]

-Opera village near Ouagadougou worth 2 million Euros will be built by architect extraordinaire Francis Kere. [ Source]

-3 million years of Kenyan history to be distributed online and accessed from mobile phones.[Source ]

-The music and ideas of Oumou Sangaré [Source ]

-650 Engineers, Designers, Web Developers, Entrepreneurs and Students learned how Google hope to spur Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa and even closer to home Uganda.[Source]

-Zain announced a partnership with IBM to roll out a $1.5 billion infrastructure to be based in Kenya which would support among many other things a Music(think iTunes) and App store (Thin Ovi). [source]

–Ciment institute to be established in Nigeria.[Source]

-Sudan has unveiled plans to redesign a number of its cities into the shape of animals. The southern capital of Juba – reportedly one of the fastest growing cities in the world, is to be relocated and restructured into the shape of a rhinoceros. [Source]

Zain Shakes Kenyan Mobilephone Market With New Rates ! (siku-moja.blogspot.com)

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Virtual City -Innovation Lives Here

tape — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:23:07 +0000

Nairobi,Kenya-
Virtual City has decided to address systemic issues along the Supply Chain for distributors and retailers of Fast Moving Consumer Goods in emerging markets. The Mobile Distributor Solution is designed to contribute to improved efficiencies and value to all the stakeholders in the value chain and result in increased number of transactions, accurate records, improved Inventory management & reporting from the field and effective management decision making.

Their solution can be opening up increased product sales coupled with additional benefits of mobile payment capabilities, transaction fees revenue, loyalty programs benefits, and more all facilitated by inexpensve and affordable mobile phones

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Nokia’s New CEO Stephen Elop Says “Developers, Developers, Developers!” (readwriteweb.com)
Virtual City FREE hits the AppStore; Full version coming soon (intomobile.com)

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Africa Highlights-Africa Media Rights Watch,The World Cup Of Filmaking,IBM Africa,Zain’s Free SMS,Technology Based Future,Global Investors Eye Africa Land

tape — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:46:19 +0000

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-A number of leading broadcasters and content suppliers involved in sub-Saharan Africa have come together to form Africa Media Rights Watch. [ Source ]

-The World Cup of filmmaking’the first Cinemasports international filmmaking competition to be held in Africa will take place on 18 September in Tshwane, South Africa. Harnessing a synergy between digital video, Internet, and mobile technology, Cinemasports is at the forefront of the changing media landscape. [Source ]

-IBM has announced the opening of a full subsidiary office in Accra, Ghana. The new office will enable IBM to deliver high-value solutions and services to meet the growing needs of clients in Ghana. [Source ]

-Nigeria mobile operator, Zain has introduced free SMS (Short Message Service), lowered tariff for calls made to numbers within (On-Net calls) and out of the networks (off-Net calls), and loads of other benefits designed to give its customers more value.[Source]

-Kenya prepares the way for a technology-based future. [Source ]

-Apple’s iPad could go on sale in SA within a matter of weeks [Source ]

-Global investors’ interest in acquiring vast swathes of land for commercial agriculture in Africa intensifies [Source]

IBM Opens Corporate Subsidiary in Accra, Ghana (fastcompany.com)
Payments Industry Looks to Africa (pindebit.blogspot.com)
HSBC Seeks A Foothold In Africa (forbes.com)

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