By Gerald Businge on November 15, 2010
mobile phone rates Uganda, MTN 1 per second tariff, MTN Uganda, telecom price wars Uganda
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MTN Uganda has introduced a new offer calling and short message services offer that was yesterday rated to rattle the mobile telecommunications services market in Uganda, but current MTN customers interviewed are not happy with the new 1 shilling per second and 1 shilling per sms offer that was announced by MTN on Sunday. Despite […]
By Gerald Businge on November 15, 2010
competition in Uganda mobile telecommunications, Internet Data services Uganda, mobile telecom providers Uganda, MTN Uganda rates
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The Chief Executive Officer of MTN Uganda, Themba Khumalo has revealed that the telecommunication giants are planning to invest more in providing data services to both the high income and low income people in Uganda. Khumalo in an interview with ITnewsAfrica said they are looking at increasing their focus on data solutions to stimulate growth […]
By Gerald Businge on November 15, 2010
Africa internet presence, African Union Commission, Branding Africa online
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The Headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia was the venue of a two days Experts’ meeting on .Africa gTLD project. This project aims at branding the African continent on the cyberspace and providing African community with a continental mark on the Internet. The meeting was organized by the African […]
By Gerald Businge on November 11, 2010
lowest call rate in Uganda, MTN Uganda, Uganda call rates, Uganda telecom companies, Uganda telecom price wars
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MTN Uganda has today announced that is offering 2 Uganda shillings per second calling rate to its subscribers for calling other MTN customers. However, the 2 shillings per second tariff will apply to calls to five favourite numbers of any customer’s choosing and they must be MTN subscribers. MTN Chief Executive Officer Themba Khumalo says […]
By Gerald Businge on November 10, 2010
Makerere University Graduation, Makerere University Technological developments, Makerere university Transcripts
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Makerere University has announced that it has finalized plans for the next graduands to walk away with their transcripts on the day of graduation. The Public Relations Officer of the University, Rita Namisango says all people who will graduation will now be able to get their academic papers. This will remove one of the major […]
By Gerald Businge on November 1, 2010
Commonwealth ICT Ministers meeting, Commonwealth Telecom Development Fund (CTDF), Telecom development in commonwealth
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LONDON, November 1, 2010 – At least thirty ICT ministers and departmental heads from over twenty two Commonwealth nations participated in a meeting organised by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) at the recent ITU’s Plenipotentiary Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico, to adopt CTO’s Commonwealth Telecom Development Fund (CTDF) initiative. The Fund, jointly promoted by investment advisers […]
By Gerald Businge on October 26, 2010
Digital news Journalism funding, Google grant to Knight, Knight Foundation news challenge
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News Release Donation will support the foundation’s media innovation initiatives. MIAMI (OCT. 26, 2010) – Knight Foundation announced today that it has received a $2 million grant from Google Inc. to support the foundation’s media innovation work. “Journalism is fundamental to a functioning democracy, and we want to do our part to help fulfill the […]
By Gerald Businge on October 25, 2010
African parliaments and ICTs, Government to you project, ICTs use in parliament citizen relations, Online dialogue on poverty reduction and maternal health
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE Gov2u Anavryton 20, Maroussi 15124, Athens, Greece T: +30-210-6121340 Email: info@gov2u.org Athens October 25, 2010 We are welcoming you to the live platform of Africa4All (www.africa4all.net), where we hope to facilitate a genuine dialogue between citizens and parliamentarians within the African context. The Africa4All project aims to create a new relationship between Members […]
By Gerald Businge on October 5, 2010
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It is a pleasure to inform you that e-Gov World 2011 is scheduled to be held on January 20 -21, 2011 at Hotel The Grand , New Delhi, India. The conference summit is jointly organized by The Society for Promotion of e-Governance (SpeG) and Tetra Information Services. Started in 2004 as a flagship initiative of […]
By Gerald Businge on September 10, 2010
Makerere University Faculty of Computing and Information technology, Uganda Data Collection Software to power Vaccine Trials
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Makerere University Faculty of Computing & IT (FCIT) has developed data collection software that gathers, analyzes and stores data. OpenXData was developed as the first stage of the three stages of the Open Mobile Electronic Vaccine Trials (OMEVAC) project. This software, intended for data collecting institutions, is made largely for the vaccine trials data collection. […]