[UgaBYTES] Re : It sounds fantastic !!!

Thu Jul 9 10:31:43 GMT 2009

Congratulations Paul, we shall support you in that good initiative. I'm so interested especially in one of its objectives which is information dissemination for development.

Cleophas

--- En date de : Lun 6.7.09, pbarera at yahoo.fr <pbarera at yahoo.fr> a écrit :

> De: pbarera at yahoo.fr <pbarera at yahoo.fr>
> Objet: [UgaBYTES] AFRICA KOWLEDGE NETWORK launched in Dar es salaam
> À: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
> Date: Lundi 6 Juillet 2009, 18h25
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The AFRICA KNOWEDGE NETWORK was
> launched on 3rd July in Dar es Salaam/Tanzania. The Africa
> Knowledge
> Network is being implemented by United Nations in its five
> regional commission
> including Africa.
> 
> The main goal of the project is to empower poor and
> disadvantaged communities through the transformation of
> existing ICT access
> points /Telecentre in selected countries around the world
> into knowledge hubs of global
> knowledge networks. It intends to increase the involvement
> and engagement of
> disadvantaged communities - with an emphasis on women - by
> encouraging and
> promoting the dissemination, in existing access points, of
> knowledge that
> pertains to key areas of sustainable development such as
> employment, education,
> gender and health.  Currently, at
> regional level the project involves Rwanda,
> Burundi, Tanzania,Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia with the plan
> of extending
> to other African countries in near future. 
> 
> As part of workshop agenda, participant agreed on knowledge
> network strategy, the process of knowledge generation,
> capturing, and dissemination through the regional knowledge
> portal and the
> action plans for the coming six months.
> 
> Finally, a steering committee composed of
> 3 members from 3 different countries were elected on the
> board: These are
> 
> ·       
> Paul BARERA, chairman  (RTN, Rwanda)
> 
> ·       
> Aggrey Omondi ,Member(KENTEL,Kenya)
> 
> ·       
> Janet Achora, Member(WOUGNET, Uganda)
> 
>  
> 
> Paul BARERA
> 
> --- En date de : Ven 26.6.09, Mwathi Francis <mfrancis at ugabytes.org>
> a écrit :
> 
> De: Mwathi Francis <mfrancis at ugabytes.org>
> Objet: [UgaBYTES] WEEKLY NEWS ROUND UP- AFRICA (WEEK 26)
> À: "ugabytes" <ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org>
> Date: Vendredi 26 Juin 2009, 9h29
> 
> Mobile Communications to Improve African Weather Monitoring
> Underway
> 
> 24th June 2009
> 
> 
> 
> The Global Humanitarian Forum and its President, former UN
> Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, together with Ericsson, the
> World
> Meteorological Organization (WMO), mobile
> telecommunications company Zain,
> and the Earth Institute at Columbia University, have
> announced a major
> initiative, dubbed "Weather Info for All", to radically
> improve Africa's
> weather monitoring network in the face of the growing
> impact of climate
> change. A recent Global Humanitarian Forum report estimated
> that climate
> change is responsible for some 300,000 deaths each year and
> over USD100
> billion worth of economic losses, mainly because of shocks
> to health and
> agricultural productivity. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for
> close to a
> quarter of these losses, and is the region at the most
> immediate risk of
> droughts and floods. Agricultural yields in some areas are
> expected to fall
> by 50 percent as early as 2020.
> 
> http://www.independentngonline.com/busi/itte/article03
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Quiet launch of undersea cable heralds arrival of digital
> revolution
> 
> 23rd June 2009
> 
> 
> 
> Save for the grandeur of the presidential entourage that
> graced the event,
> June 12 would probably have passed quietly just like any
> other ordinary
> Friday. Yet this was the day President Kibaki had flown to
> Mombasa to
> preside over the official launch of the fibre-optic
> undersea cable — a
> project whose completion is set to usher in a new era of
> faster and cheaper
> internet connectivity in the region.
> 
> In Mombasa, the President aptly described the project as
> another landmark
> leap in the country’s development history, comparing it
> only to the
> completion of the Kenya-Uganda railway line more than one
> century ago.  “This
> comparison is not far-fetched because while the economies
> of the last
> century were driven by railway connections, the economies
> of today are
> largely driven by the internet and other ICT links,” the
> President told a
> crowd in attendance to witness the launch of the East
> African Marine
> System’s (TEAMS) fibre optic project.
> 
> http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/614064/-/u9me6gz/-/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Techno hubs planned for Johannesburg townships
> 
> 23rd June 2009
> 
> 
> 
> As part of its ambitious broadband project, the City of
> Johannesburg plans
> to set up techno hubs where people can access the internet
> and boost their
> technology skills.  According to Vumani Mangali, the
> assistant director of
> Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Joburg's
> Economic Development
> Department, the project will be a vital tool to transport
> citizens to
> digital fluency. Besides transforming the way the city
> delivers its
> services, broadband will also offer beneficiary programmes
> to its residents,
> reports Joburg.org.  "These programmes linked to broadband
> are meant to
> empower citizens. They will provide access to ICT
> infrastructure, ICT
> skills, business advice and job advisory support for
> disadvantaged
> communities," he said.
> 
> http://www.buanews.gov.za/news/09/09062311251002
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Zambia: IT specialists in
> 
> 26th June 2009
> 
> 
> 
> THE International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has sent a
> team of experts
> to Zambia to help the country to formulate a National
> Disaster Management
> Plan.
> 
> Speaking at a media briefing in Lusaka yesterday
> Communications Authority of
> Zambia (CAZ) acting chief executive officer, Richard Mwanza
> said the team
> had been sent to Zambia on a needs assessment exercise. Mr
> Mwanza said
> Zambia planned to incorporate Information and
> Communications Technologies
> (ICTs) in disaster management.
> 
> http://www.times.co.zm/news/viewnews.cgi?category=6&id=1244787264
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ICT and Telecommunications Advantage to Cameroon's Economy
> 
> 25th June 2009
> 
> 
> 
> The adaptation of the country to ICT evolution has eased
> administration.
> 
> The evolution in the Information and Communication
> Technology (ICT) and
> Telecommunications has left no country indifferent. Their
> contributions to
> growth have been remarkable. Efforts are being made on
> daily basis by
> administrators of different sectors to ensure that their
> domains do not lag
> behind in this new-found communication chain. These efforts
> seem to be
> paying off given the level of awareness in both government
> offices and in
> the private sector. Already, recruited workers are either
> sent on training
> within their areas of work or they enroll in the so many
> ICT and
> telecommunications schools dotted around the country.
> 
> http://allafrica.com/stories/200906250323.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Zain, Western Union in cross-border money transfer deal
> 
> 23rd June 2009
> 
> 
> 
> Mobile operator Zain Group and Western Union announced that
> they will work
> together to deliver mobile money transfer services in
> countries in Africa
> and the Middle East through Zain's new Zap platform. The
> Zap service
> provides Zain customers access to a range of transactional
> services from
> their mobile phones. Customers can interact with select
> bank accounts,
> top-up or transfer airtime, and move money to businesses,
> friends and
> family. The service allows customers to pay bills such as
> electricity, and
> can even be used to settle grocery bills in the
> supermarket. Zap has been
> operational in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda for several
> months, making mobile
> banking services available to more than 100 million people
> in East Africa.
> 
> http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=677668
> 
> 
> 
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