Sunday, September 5, 2010

title pic Bearing witness to disasters in an electronic world

Posted by Search for "web hosting solutions" on August 22, 2010

The simple text message has been harnessed to create a powerful tool that can save lives, writes Josh Halliday.

title pic Ushahidi: giving citizens the power to put news on the map

Posted by Search for "web hosting solutions" on August 16, 2010

It’s a crowdsourcing tool that lets any mobile phone user help map humanitarian crises a ‘ and it’s getting even simpler Ushahidi map of Port-au-Prince, Haiti Tapping away furiously at her well-worn keyboard, close to tears, Ory Okolloh feared Kenya was on the brink of civil war.

title pic Telkom to hike tariffs for Zim calls

Posted by Search for "web hosting solutions" on July 2, 2010

SOUTH Africa’s Johannesburg Securities Exchange-listed tele-communications group Telkom has targeted a hike in tariffs for calls to Zimbabwe, a move meant to boost international interconnection revenues and mitigate losses.

title pic Indit Technology Distribution Launches Small Business Procurement Service.

Posted by Search for "web hosting solutions" on June 8, 2010

South African based IndIT Technology Distribution has launched a procurement service aimed at making it easier for small businesses throughout Southern Africa to secure their IT needs in a single order and delivery.

title pic Ghana becomes the third in Africa to register Internet Domain names

Posted by Search for "web hosting solutions" on May 27, 2010

Accra, May 27, GNA – Ghana Dot Com Limited, a descendant of Network Computer Systems, has become the third company in Africa to be accredited Registrar of Internet domain names in the generic Top Level Domain names registries.

title pic Entrepreneur Brings the Internet, Health and Hope to The Gambia

Posted by Search for "web hosting solutions" on April 5, 2010

A youth who grew up in The Gambia, a sliver of a country in West Africa, left home at age 16, a few months after his mother died, to study in Great Britain, and came back six years later with a degree in electrical engineering and a dream to enable his young compatriots to acquire higher education without having to leave home.

title pic FCC to Send National Broadband Plan to Congress

Posted by Search for "web hosting solutions" on March 15, 2010

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