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By Matunda Nyanchama Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 19, 2006 Information Communication Technology (ICT) is both an enabler and an industry by itself. As an enabler, ICTs help create efficiency, speed and effectiveness to business processes. As an industry, it includes a range of both software and hardware products, and services that design, build and operate [...]

From: bmunson@itac.ca [mailto:bmunson@itac.ca] Sent: January 14, 2005 3:44 PM To: info@itac.ca Subject: business opportunity: new airport in Kenya upgrading IT and security/smart card systems ITAC Business Development Interest Group From: Wamahiu, Benjamin -NROBI -TD Sent: January 14, 2005 4:57 AM Subject: Kenya – Jomo Kenyatta International Airport A Canadian/Kenyan Team has been awarded the contract [...]

Bridging the digital divide requires broadband connectivity and wireless technologies at low cost, says Mark Beckford, General Manager, Intel, People’s Republic of China Mark Beckford, IntelExpanding IT infrastructure and reducing network costs would help African business efficiency and enable African governments. How can governments encourage business investment to expand Africa’s IT infrastructure? We believe that [...]

It is like waiting for a matatu. You wait for ages and none comes along. But just when you’re about to give up hope, three come  along at the same time, all trying to come to a screaming halt in front of you. Kenya now has three (or more) potential  international fibre projects that could [...]

Until last week, the government was still clinging on to its shares in Safaricom Ltd, literally sitting on a jewel even as Telkom was tottering towards insolvency By A CORRESPONDENT The EastAfrican It has emerged that the Kenya government only consented to selling 9 per cent of the shares in mobile telephone company Safaricom Ltd [...]

Nairobi, Kenya – Dr. Donald Keck, a former Vice President and Technology Director at Corning Incorporated, the world’s largest supplier of optical fibre, will be one of the plenary session key note speakers at the 2006 ICTe Africa conference in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1970, Dr. Robert Maurer, Dr. Donald Keck, and Dr. Peter Schultz designed [...]