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Rwanda: Genocide Recordings to Be Preserved Online
Rwanda News Agency
18 July 2008
Kigali
A new project in the U.S. wants to collect all forms of recorded material on the 1994 Tutsi Genocide and keep it on the internet to preserve it from the 'danger of disappearing', its planners say.
A $1.2 million grant from the Bridgeway Foundation will help the University of Texas library system collect and preserve digital records of the Tutsi Genocide and other human rights conflicts around the world.
The university will use the money to add server space; create more powerful Web harvesting tools; and collect physical items including videotapes, DVDs and audio recordings, Mr. Fred Heath, vice provost for libraries at the University told The Texas Chronicle newspaper.
Information from and about activists in a totalitarian society are at especially
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Nepad-ICT All Set to Link African States
Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)
18 July 2008
Blantyre
The New Partnership for Africa's Development e-Africa commission has been mandated to oversee the structured development and implementation of the NEPAD ICT programme across the continent.
The commission aims to accelerate development of ICT broadband infrastructure and bridge the digital divide within Africa and between Africa and the rest of the world.
ICT infrastructure project manager Brian Cheesman says the ICT broadband infrastructure will ensure that all African countries are connected to one another by a broadband fibre-optic cable network that is in turn linked to the rest of the world.
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Tunisian Delegation Jets in to Formalise Ties
Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
17 July 2008
A delegation of Tunisian Agency for Technological Cooperation (ATCT) arrived Thursday in Luanda for a three-day visit to Angola, aimed at analysing with the local government officials, methods to formalise the bilateral cooperation, mainly on the technological sector.
The North African nation's ambassador to Angola, Ali Goutali, told ANGOP at Luanda's "4 de Fevereiro International Airport that the mission is a complement of the previous one carried out last September 2007, when a big ATCT delegation, headed by top officials, appraised and identified some areas for implementation of bilateral ties.
During the visit, the Tunisian delegation will meet with officials of various Angolan ministries, with whom they will explore the concrete cooperation opportunities, mainly in the technological sector.
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Army Computerizes Data Management
New Vision (Kampala)
16 July 2008
The UPDF has installed the integrated information management system at all the division and brigade headquarters to eradicate ghost soldiers on the payroll, reports Chris Ocowun.
"This is part of the ongoing exercise to ensure that there is no stone left unturned as regards the annihilation of ghost soldiers in our units," the 5th Division public relations officer, Capt. Deo Akiiki, said recently.
The system, he said, would network all UPDF divisions and units on a central data bank to get rid of ghost soldiers.
"This data bank comprises several interconnected computers which are closely monitored at the headquarters in Bombo. The information about personnel can now be accessed and managed through the internet at the division and brigade levels."
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Dawn of e-commerce looms as banks leap into mobile banking
July 15, 2008
In the last few years, customers of Standard Chartered have chafed at their bank’s inability to keep up with advances in information communication technology.
Despite the bank having modernized its processes in the late 1990s with the concept of a multinational computer network in Africa and outsourcing the processing of routine operations to regional hubs like Nairobi and Chennai, it has struggled to bring to its customers the conveniences of Internet and mobile banking, along with other big banks in Kenya.
But this is about to change as the bank rolls out an upgraded informational technology infrastructure that is likely to change the face of the financial services industry and force competitors to increase spending on business technology.
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IT Firm Celebrates With Change of Name
15 July 2008
Windhoek , Namibia
A local information and technology company has re-baptised itself with a new name in celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Logical Networks, an information technology service provider, has changed its name to Salt.
The company said the name change and new corporate identity arises from Logical Networks' re-alignment and sharpened focus on the services that enable customers' businesses.
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Schools Go Digital
The New Times (Kigali)
12 July 2008
Primary and secondary schools are to adopt a digitalised curriculum to enhance the memorability of learning materials.
This was revealed Thursday by the Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education, Théoneste Mutsindashyaka, at his offices in Kacyiru.
"Instead of re-inventing the wheel, we sent our advisor on ICT to India to bring us digitalised content of science subjects used in India since there is a sharp similarity with our curriculum. This will blend very well when incorporated with our one-child-one laptop plan," said Mutsindashyaka.
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A web camer
The New vision
17-July-2008
Uganda
WATCHING videos and live streaming of visual websites and programmes is becoming popular. It is now possible to have live communication with people all over the world courtesy of a small camera attached to your laptop or desktop computer.
Often placed in the middle of the computer monitor, the web camera looks like a small eye.
A web cam generates images that can be accessed by and displayed on the World Wide Web through a server. It is connected to a computer, either directly or wirelessly, and gathers a series of images for remote display elsewhere.
The digital images captured are transferred by the computer to a server and then displayed to the hosting page.
For less than sh100,000 and an Internet dial-up connection, you can set up your own camera on the Internet.
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Model Digital Village Launched in Nairobi's Korogocho Slums
The Nation (Nairobi)
19 July 2008
Nairobi
The first model digital village was launched on Friday at a Nairobi slum setting in motion an initiative to replicate the trend countrywide.
The project, launched at Altaawon community based youth organisation at Korogocho slums, is part of a larger Sh210 million project to enable e-learning in slum areas.
The project was initiated at a cost of Sh300,000 and aims among other things, at creating employment for the youth through making it a self-sustaining business.
"We want to speed up the development of these areas, leap frog the digital divide through provision of affordable and reliable internet connections to enable the entrenchment of an online culture," said Kenya Data Network chief operating officer, Mr David Owino.
ICT village.com was also involved in the project.
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Rwanda: RITA Introduces Instant Messaging
The New Times (Kigali)
19 July 2008
To ease communication and reduce telephone expenses, Rwanda Information Technology Authority (RITA) has introduced a local internet chat tool-IM Intego.
RITA Executive Director, Nkubito Bakuramutsa, said that IM Intego, Instant Messaging Intego, is already developed, but some phases are yet to be completed. Currently RITA offices use it and very soon the public will enjoy the service.
Bakuramutsa announced the development on Thursday at Telecom House, Kacyiru, during a press conference.
Bakuramutsa revealed that IM Intego will work just like IM Messenger.
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