The mission of BiD Network is to contribute to sustainable economic growth by stimulating entrepreneurship in emerging markets. BiD Network supports entrepreneurs in writing their business plans by offering them coaching and other business tools. The best entrepreneurs gain access to investors in our ne… Continue

Why purchase additional computers for your school, hotel, office, cyber cafe, hospital, homes, library, etc when you can simply multiply them using Hypercom Pc Station solution. Our solution is a thin client which make is possible for you to simply share one CPU with as many users as you desire depending on system configuration and resources. To get started now, simply call our sales hotline on: 08033836341 or Email: josh@denila.biz

HyperCom Multi-Station Appliance is a complete hardware and so… Continue

China’s engagement with Africa today is less motivated by the ideological considerations of the 60s and 70s but based on a commercial agenda that aims to sustain rapid industrialisation and economic growth rates. China’s “socialist market economy” is driven by marketoriented State-Owned Enterprises and its interests in Africa are geared towards energy resources and minerals to feed its industrialisation programme. Chinese investments in and trade with Africa have increased significantly over the… Continue

About the Procurement Gateway - Civic Society, NGO and SME's Buying Group

Some feedback:

We started this project 3 months ago, because we ourselves as a civic organisation faced various challenges reaching a wide net of potential suppliers for the Adopt-a-Pothole program … we just didn’t have enough information about you as a “supplier”; neither did we have any relevant information on other potential suppliers for the project.

We started by following the “traditional” procurement process, and… Continue

INTRODUCING THE PAN AFRICAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS MUSEUM

Dear Sirs and Mesdames,

We the African Council for Arts & Culture (ACFAC) are a registered Panafrican cultural development organisation based in Germany.

To help commemorate the development of telecommunications in Africa, we are promoting the PAN AFRICAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS MUSEUM (PATM). This museum will showcase the development of wireless communication in Africa from the talking drum to the latest device.

There shall also be perman… Continue

Photo courtesy of Ken Banks, kiwanja.net

What inspired you to found Kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS?

Ken: I’ve been interested in conservation and development for a long time, and had been trying to work out how to apply my IT skills to many of the th… Continue

African economy is gearing up to reach the economic growth in all fronts and has shown lot of promise with the opening of new sectors for better opportunities in terms of Employment generation and market stabilisation both in domestic and international level. Opening of each state to the technological growth as seen in the west has become a need of the hour as growth could be catapult for the desired results to catch up with rest of the world.

Africa’s focus on Technology as a part of its agend… Continue

Photo By: Ken Banks, www.kiwanja.net

Mobile phones are quickly becoming the hottest topic in development. Everyday, waves of new innovations are rolled out to connect 'bottom of the pyramid' (BOP) entrepreneurs to… Continue

Aaron Ewedafe wakes up every morning at least one hour before the sun rises. Donning his satchel full of client records and repayment schedules, he hails the nearest okada driver and races into the surrounding countryside to begin a long day of loan group meetings. The trip from headquarters in Oshogbo to the village of Ojudo and back can take all day. Aaron rarely makes it home before nightfall. Altogether, Aaron spends 112 hours and 5,000 naira a week to manage 350 microloan recipients. His pr… Continue

Listen and watch on Youtube. Douglas Kimani, Dhidha Timona, Belinda Waweru, Cynthia Ndwiga discuss the need for Kenya phone numbers on DIDX for ex-pats, students, families and businesspeople from Kenya all over the world in Swahili at ITEXPO West 2008.

Are you participating in ITEXPO West 2009? Meet Douglas and many of our friends, partners, buyers and suppliers on the… Continue

It’s a very difficult time- a new ICT company with little experience entering a new market ‘’ with HOPE ‘’, I will say. Even though, the global recession and change of government is reflecting on Ghana’s economy. Yet still, The ICT sector should be booming in the near future as predicted.
For many years, some of us have no idea about the internet and emails until we were out of school. I can’t imagine some still do not have access to information and tools. The economy seems to be affected heavil… Continue

The Sustainer is a unique solution to produce fuel and electricity in remote rural areas, for example in the African countryside where only 5 to 20 percent of the population have electricity. In many of these situations, access to energy would facilitate development, higher… Continue

Isatong is excited to announce that it has been appointed by Printronix as distributor of
TallyGenicom printing products in West Africa. Printronix acquired TallyGenicom U.S. assets
including the intellectual property, inventory, and equipment necessary to offer TallyGenicom’s
line-matrix and laser printer series. Following this acquisition, Printronix has appointed Isatong
as distributor of TallyGenicom Printers in West Africa. Isatong is able to provide resellers and
customers with all range o… Continue

Working in the Security industry i know the importance of been safe and what to avoid to be safe but i have had my fair share of unexpected moments that i myself would never dream of it happening to me. We all sometimes forget the rules of staying safe and in a split second you are the target of been a victim. It can be both emotionally disturbing and physically draining when something happens and you wonder "why me", " what did i do to deserve this" and especially when it takes place in your ho… Continue

I have a friend who is the Chief Information Officer of a Government Department here in South Africa. The other day, he said: “The problem with our Government Ministers and Director Generals, is that they are buzz-word-compliant. They use all the latest buzzwords without having a clue as to what the implications of their words are”.

A survey of a number of recent news articles reveals this to probably be true of most of Africa, and who knows, possibly true of many other Governments in the world… Continue

At our last CIO Breakfast Forum for 2008 in November we presented and discussed Agile Practice. We specifically looked at the use of the Scrum project management methodology and a practical implementation in an enterprise. There was a lively discussion and unfortunately we went over our usual time limit. This looks like a topic that may evolve into other conversations.

A Certified Scrum Master (CSM) discussed and presented Scrum and highlighted some of the differences between the agile project… Continue

As part of the CIO Forum program for 2009, we are extending our focus towards establishing an independent applied research centre to facilitate projects that bridge the gap between academia and commercial enterprises. We intend working closely with the four universities in the Western Cape and all faculties and departments where the academic program is relevant to Information Technology and Communication (ICT).

We believe there is a need for a research centre that can help address and promote t… Continue

As part of the CIO Forum program for 2009, we are extending our focus towards establishing an independent applied research centre to facilitate projects that bridge the gap between academia and commercial enterprises. We intend working closely with the four universities in the Western Cape and all faculties and departments where the academic program is relevant to Information Technology and Communication (ICT).

We believe there is a need for a research centre that can help address and promote t… Continue

There's nothing like a new job to test and expand your leadership skills, but such opportunities don't come around that often. So look for ways to grow as a leader in your current job:
Reshape your current job to find new challenges within it. Rethink your approach to a current responsibility, trade tasks with a colleague, or take on a role that is needed but currently left undone.
Take on temporary assignments that offer fresh challenges. Seek out projects, task forces, and events that you can… Continue

1. Don't be afraid to ask for what you want. Successful negotiators are assertive and challenge everything – they know that everything is negotiable. I call this negotiation consciousness. It was Number One on my previous list and it stays at the helm in 2009. Negotiation consciousness is what makes the difference between negotiators and everybody else on the planet.

Being assertive means asking for what you want and refusing to take NO for an answer. Practice expressing your feelings without a… Continue