Some positive statistics on the academic side of ICT4D research:

- Between 1999 and 2008, annual output of academic publications on ICTs and developing countries recorded in the main publications database grew by nearly 2000% (a 39% annual average increase).

- And annual output in a set of ICT4D specialist journals (not recorded in the database) grew by 450% from 1998 to 2009.

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Vincent Kouwenhoven and Brian Hirman from the Netherlands have recently launched eVentures Africa Fund (eVA Fund): an investment fund for digital media and e-business companies in Africa. eVA Fund will first focus on investments in the sub-Saharan African countries.

Kouw… Continue

Our team is in Nigeria now, as we are a bridge for technology businesses between Nigeria and South Africa. I will invite you to LinkedIn and our update site, so you can see what we are up to. Maybe there would be opportunity for my company to research opportunity for you in West Africa. Below was an update which I did 2 days ago.

Things are going really well in Abuja, Nigeria. Really beyond our expectations and what we could have ever imagined.

From arriving, we have been welcomed with open ar… Continue

Today Africa Business Communities launch the Africa India Business Network, a networking community open to professionals involved or interested in the Africa - India Business.

Klick here to visit the Africa India-Business Network

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Founder Africa ICT Network

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Dear Colleagues,

We would love for you to join our discussion on the Rural Internet Kiosks on the Changemaker's Website!

http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/node/66997

Hello Everyone, Wishing you & your family a very Happy New Year 2010. May God bless you & your family with peace, prosperity, happiness and good health.

Hi

I just want to take this opportunity of wishing you all a fantastic New Year, and thanking you for all your
incredible support with everything thus far. 2010 is going to be a biggie. Right now, I am depleted of resources, and need to fill my cup, so will be taking off till next Thursday, 7 Jan 2010. My itinery for Nigeria has been altered due to visa problems, so will be leaving on approx. 20 Jan 09.

The reason why I am depleted, is due to my own fault, hence I have been giving this some ve… Continue

This is a question intended to generate Responses and/or Comments from ICT Network members and/or service consumers.

Where are the Current and Further prospects for ICT Network Expertise?

Originally posted at www.afribiz.info.

The results of the African Country Infrastructure Diagnostic (ACID) study was released by the World Bank today. It provides detailed data and analysis of the ICT, Power, Transport, Air Transport, Ports, Railways, Roads, Irrigation, Water Resources, Water Supply and Sanitation infrastructure sectors in 30 African countries. This research serves as a baseline for future infrastructure development in Afric… Continue

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

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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