Bas Vlugt's Blog (5)

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

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

Hi fellow club members, Now it is possible to become a partner of the Africa ICT Network! Place a link to the Africa ICT Network on your website, send it to bas@basvlugt.nl and we will link back to your website. Best regards, Seb Vlugt CEO Africa Business Communities Continue

The construction of SEACOM’s 15,000 km fibre optic undersea cable, linking southern and east Africa, Europe and south Asia, is on schedule and set to go live as planned in June 2009. Some 10,000 km of cable has been manufactured to date at locations in the USA and Japan and Tyco Communications, the project contractors, will begin shipping terrestrial equipment this month with the cable expected to be loaded on the first ship in September 2008. Laying of shore end cables for each landing station… Continue

By George Kellar in Johannesburg. IT process automation (ITPA) has stepped into the spotlight as a hot commodity among IT professionals worldwide. With IT process automation, IT can deliver better services in support of business, allowing for increased business agility and service delivery. IT accomplishes these goals by delivering services to business faster and with fewer errors. The reasons for automating IT processes within the data centre and across the IT ecosystem are numerous - i… Continue