Week’s Worth Knowing – Inaugural Post (0)
5/27/12 •
Welcome to ITACIRFA’s first edition of a new blog segment titled ‘Week’s Worth Knowing’. What we hope to achieve with these posts is to provide our readers with some of the top ICT articles and happenings impacting frontier and emerging markets over the past week; and more importantly, we try put them in context. Hope [...]
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A Case for a National Broadband Policy for Nigeria (0)
4/13/12 •
Main One Cable Company, a leading broadband provider in West Africa recently presented an insightful policy paper titled “Broadband Nigeria – the Next Frontier” at the Nigerian Communication’s Commission’s Stakeholder Consultative Forum held earlier in April. After getting through the first few paragraphs, it was obvious I was into something insightful, and by the time [...]
Spotlight: Co-Creation Hub Nigeria (0)
3/27/12 •
It’s an exciting time for new media and social startups in the US and if you are following some of the innovative companies and technology’s nurtured by organizations like Y Combinator, 500 Startups and NewME Accelerator, one can only conclude that the next disruptive technologies that would impact the world over the next generation will [...]
Nigeria: Promising Signs in ICT – Part I (0)
2/09/12 •
While there is data to suggest that countries in sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing healthy economic growth, and that the Internet and ICT are playing a major role in their advancement, it is also clear that the progress isn’t uniform across the board (even within the nations themselves. There are regions on the continent that have [...]
Why the Future of Money in Developing Nations is Mobile Payments (0)
1/23/12 •
Mobile payment technologies has certainly had its success in countries like Japan for many years now; its various forms however have failed to catch on in other parts of the developed world. The challenges facing the adoption of mobile payment technologies are primarily because of the dominance and easy access to broadband connectivity. Furthermore the [...]
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