| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.12.2024 | Telkom urges Icasa to scrap call termination fees completely | Telkom has urged communications regulator Icasa to consider scrapping call termination fees – the regulated amounts operators charge one another to carry calls between their networks – the next time they are up for review.
Icasa this week g... |
| 21.11.2024 | Africa: Making Artificial Intelligence Safe in Africa | Stakeholders call for balanced AI regulations to harness its potential for societal good
In Africa, as in other parts of the world, the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is boundless. Its capacity to simulate human thought and commu... |
| 30.09.2024 | United Nations publishes Global Digital Compact | The United Nations building in New York, centre
The United Nations last week adopted a Global Digital Compact (GDC). The 193 member states of the UN General Assembly, which includes South Africa, agreed to the compact, which is aimed at cre... |
| 07.03.2024 | Africa: Artificial Intelligence and Africa | Experts say supportive policies and robust infrastructure key for tech opportunities
Africa needs supportive policies and robust infrastructure to tap the limitless opportunities of Artificial intelligence to leapfrog its development, exper... |
| 09.12.2021 | AI Carries A Huge Upside. But Potential Harms Need To Be Managed | The increasing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in public decision making is raising critical issues around fairness and human rights. Getty Images |
| 09.12.2021 | AI Carries A Huge Upside. But Potential Harms Need To Be Managed | The increasing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in public decision making is raising critical issues around fairness and human rights. Getty Images
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have the potential to contri... |
| 19.02.2021 | BTC black market, 85.9m broadband subscribers in Nigeria, MultiChoice vs Netflix | Share this article:
Good day,
Yinka Awosanya here. Today we are discussing
Bitcoin black market trading in Nigeria
Does Nigeria have 85.9 million broadband subscriptions?
Multichoice to take on Netflix in Africa The black market price of bi... |
| 30.12.2020 | What A Solar-Powered, Portable Library Looks Like | How can students benefit from online resources when internet access isn’t available or affordable to them? And how can they gain digital literacy when the electricity supply is unreliable? For one education project, the answer is solar-powe... |
| 23.06.2020 | The cost of Internet data in Nigeria is increasing, but it’s not really obvious | Share this article:
A few years ago, the price of Internet data in Nigeria was relatively high, but the removal of a data price floor by the country’s telecom regulator changed everything. Fueled by stiff competition between telcos, Nigeria... |
| 29.04.2020 | How South Africa Can Address Digital Inequalities in e-learning | wp_booster error:
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| 02.04.2020 | Nigeria wants to achieve 90% 4G/5G coverage by 2025 | Share this article:
A few weeks ago, Nigeria’s ministry of communications and the digital economy launched a new national broadband plan for 2020 to 2025 — a renewal effort to improve on the process started with the previous plan of 2013 to... |
| 05.03.2020 | Digital equality: South Africa still has a long way to go | Digital inequality remains firmly in place in South Africa. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images) |
| 05.03.2020 | Digital equality: South Africa still has a long way to go | Digital inequality remains firmly in place in South Africa. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)
by Alison Gillwald
In the South African President’s State of the Nation Address earlier this month Cyril Ramaphosa highlighted the fac... |
| 20.11.2019 | Africa’s Mobile Access Won’t Fix the Digital Divide. Fixed-Line is Needed Too | wp_booster error:
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| 06.10.2019 | SA Must Harness Tech in a Way That Helps Fix its Problems | wp_booster error:
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| 29.08.2019 | Cloud Computing Could be Key to Speeding up Africa’s Development | wp_booster error:
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| 21.08.2019 | SA is Caught in the Global Hype of the Fourth Industrial Revolution | There’s nothing inherent in Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies that will result in economic growth. Shutterstock |
| 21.08.2019 | SA is Caught in the Global Hype of the Fourth Industrial Revolution | There’s nothing inherent in Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies that will result in economic growth. Shutterstock
by Alison Gillwald
South Africa is caught up in the global hype of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). This is distr... |
| 28.05.2019 | How digital taxes are hurting connectivity rates across Africa | Share this article:
Several countries in Africa have recently introduced taxes on fundamental parts of the internet. Often considered a means of generating revenue streams during economic hardships, the taxes have ultimately limited connect... |
| 17.01.2019 | “NCC is sending a wrong signal about the Nigerian telecom industry” — Gbenga Sesan, industry expert | Share this article:
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in December 2018 claimed that the nation has achieved and surpassed the 2018 30% broadband penetration target, set in 2013, by 0.9%.
According to the NCC, the number of broadb... |
| 27.02.2018 | Nigeria’s ICT roadmaps and a litany of broken promises | Share this article:
Data from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Nigeria’s unemployment and underemployment rate rose to 40% in Q3 2017 from 37.2% the previous quarter.
Recurrent retrenchments by companies keeps shooting this numb... |
| 01.02.2017 | Is e-voting in Nigeria the way to go? | Share this article:
It is no longer news that Nigerians have a huge distrust in the country’s electoral process. The former Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega in a statement before the 2015 genera... |
| 25.10.2016 | Does mobile data devour a quarter of South Africans’ income? | - |
| 02.06.2016 | Internet freedom: why access is becoming a human right | - |
| 11.11.2015 | 3 ways investors can navigate Africa’s mobile markets | As investment opportunities go, Africa’s mobile market is about to have its day in the sun.Two-thirds of the sub-Saharan population own mobile devices, and 86 percent of Kenyan households use mobile financial products. The number of smartph... |
| 11.11.2015 | 3 ways investors can navigate Africa’s mobile markets | As investment opportunities go, Africa’s mobile market is about to have its day in the sun.Two-thirds of the sub-Saharan population own mobile devices, and 86 percent of Kenyan households use mobile financial products. The number of smartph... |
| 16.09.2015 | Free internet may not come free in Africa | - |
| 01.07.2015 | Censorship of online content: paternalism versus parental guidance | Over the last century, as mass media expanded across the world and entered into most homes, many countries have used laws and regulation to limit children’s exposure to, for example, violence or sex.
South Africa has a set of media regulati... |
| 06.03.2015 | Nigeria Ranks Second on the Internet Affordability Index Among Developing Economies | The human race has undoubtedly enjoyed the benefits of using the internet. From health, education, sports, business, defense, etc, it has solved one human problem or the other. Nigeria, especially, has witnessed an increasing number of peop... |
