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Technology is the next front on which banks will lay focus to win over a vast majority of Kenyans who still don't have accounts.

National Directorate of Employment in Gombe State is currently training 30 youths in Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) through the African Union (AU) e-Commission and the Federal Government are to chart a new course by formulating an enabling policy and regulatory framework for the development of ICT broadband infrastructure in the African continent.

Mobile operator Tigo Rwanda has announced a new promotional package for its customers, slashing call tariffs by 88.9 percent from Rwf90 to Rwf10 per minute.

RDB IT Deputy CEO, Patrick Nyirishema, last week, said that the government will do all it can to improve the ICT Private sector in the country in order to meet the 2020 vision.

Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT), an international project that focuses on empowering youth entrepreneurs with information and tools to start their new businesses, launched its activities in the country on Monday.

The Angolan minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Maria Cândida Teixeira, will receive on Wednesday, here, her Portuguese counterpart, José Mariano Gago, with whom she analyse cooperation between both countries.

THE .za Domain Name Authority (.zaDNA) is lobbying the communications minister to amend the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act to create a formal, regulated structure for the internet domain name industry.

TECHNOLOGY group EOH is targeting acquisitions locally and in the rest of the southern Africa region to further grow its operations.

Apparently getting seriously tired of a convergence that exists only in the lips of government, of all the agencies in the communications sector of the Nigerian economy, Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Engr Yomi Bolarinwa wants a quick streamlining of the roles of the Nigerian Communications Commission , NCC and that of NBC, with a view to conforming with the new convergence framework.

Kofi Anan, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations, defined the information society as that through which "human capacity is expanded, built up, nourished and liberated, by giving people access to the tools and technologies they need, with the education and training to use them effectively."

Nigeria's first national telecommunications carrier, NITEL is synonymous with stalemate. From the first attempt at selling the national carrier when it became obvious that continuing allowing government to manage the success of the institution would mean extension of the rape of its economy, there has never been a sweet story.

information reaching Cyberlife has indicated a series of silent battles going on between some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country and a group of super-brilliant Nigerians who are hard at work hacking into the different servers of these Internet Providers obtaining their IP addresses, proxy codes, numbers and addresses and selling same to interested buyers.

AS the Executive Vice Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Engr. Ernest Ndukwe, prepares to bow out of office in April, after a two-term tenure, there is need for stocktaking, especially as the telecommunications sector in Nigeria and Africa will also be celebrating ten years of rapid development.

The ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA) today voiced it's concern over too many South Africans registering .COM domains as opposed to .CO.ZA domains.

TELECOM firm, MTN, has rewarded its dealers. Stanley Henning, the general manager, said the gesture was aimed at recognising the 'tireless efforts' of its business partners in promoting MTN, which has sustained it at the peak of the telecom sector.

INFORMATION Technology (IT) expenditure in SA will surge by 10% to 11,6bn this year, helped by increased demand in services and hardware products, according to global research firm International Data Corporation (IDC).

THE e-GHANA project is on course at providing over 6000 jobs and has targeted 50% women participation in these jobs before the project ends by 2011, officials of the project have disclosed at a day's workshop with the media in Accra last week.

Chairman of Vitafoam Nigeria Plc, Chief Samuel Bolarinde, has disclosed that the company is planning to expand its operations across ECOWAS countries.

Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), yesterday debunked THISDAY report of Saturday March 13, 2010 that the seven-member ad-hoc committee established by the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) to investigate "allegations that bribes were offered to officials of the BPE to influence the outcome of the bid process."