Weekly News Roundup- Africa January 08

Country: Uganda
Created By: Esther on 8-Jan-2008 1:05 AM

Namibia: Harnessing Knowledge Through Technology
A pre-requisite for economic growth in a globalising world is how nations can harness knowledge through the use of technologies. Knowledge today has become an independent commodity driving social, economic and political transformation.

Kenya: Minister Who Embraced ICT Loses House Seat
Even as the nation's attention remains fixed on resolving the political impasse that has become of last week's general election, the outcome of the parliamentary contest has produced some upsets with implications on government operations.

Nigeria: The Shape And Character of Telecoms in 2008
In this report, Efem Nkanga looks at the events that will shapen the nation's Information Communications Technology sector in 2008
The year 2007 was a mixed bag of the good and not so good for the nation's information communications technology sector. It was a year that hit Nigerians in the face with issues of quality service that almost made nonsense of the gains recorded in the preceding years and caused stakeholders in the sector to sit up and look for ways out of the sobering effect of dwindling service issues characterised by dropped calls, call interference, and undelivered SMS, among others.

Angola: Retrospect - IT Sector Evolved in 2007
Angola recorded in 2007 a great growth in the sector of information and communication technologies, in which digital facility is accessible to all citizens and the access to Internet is no longer a problem. Available data indicate that about 3 million citizens are connected to Internet and are cell phone users.


Uganda: Google to Find Kabaka's Land
As the dispute between President Museveni's government and the Kingdom of Buganda over land heats up, the latter has hired leading Internet search company Google to "search and map" all the kingdom's land in Buganda. The move follows claims by Uganda government officials that Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi does not know his kingdom, implying that his land claims might be kiwani (fake). The Buganda Kingdom, for its part, accuses the Museveni government of attempting to steal its land.

Uganda: New Craze for Blogging
IN the Ibo saying popularised by Chinua Achebe's Thing's Fall Apart, when men learnt to shoot without missing, Eneke the bird learnt to fly without perching. Following the controversial swearing in of President Mwai Kibaki and violence in neighbouring Kenya, there has been a media ban on live broadcasts.

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