Social entrepreneurs win with Orange

Orange has launched the third Orange African Social Venture Prize, aimed at promoting social innovations in support of developments that use ICT.  Orange, which is present in 18 African countries and boasts over 70-million customers, is seeking to become a major...

Mobility, connectivity and cloud drive ICT

In the last few years, there have been several factors that have driven the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) market, creating shifts in the way businesses operate, says Eckart Zollner, business development manager at Jasco ICT Solutions.  These trends...

No bridging the digital divide

Despite efforts in the past decade to improve information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure in developing economies, there remains a new digital divide in how countries harness ICT to deliver competitiveness and well-being. This is according to the...

Sweden commits to African ICT

Business Sweden, Ericsson and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs have announced a strategic partnership for a two-year ICT venture in sub-Saharan Africa. The programme aims to share knowledge and increase collaboration and trade between key countries and Sweden,...

Vodacom empowers youth with skills training

Vodacom empowers youth with ICT skills training In a bid to help tackle skills development and job creation within the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, Vodacom has embarked on a drive to help empower unemployed youth with ICT skills training. ...