Communication / ICT in Mauritius
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BOTSWANA, 2017/06/15
The number of mobile phone subscribers in the world has reached five billion, according to the research arm of the world mobile industry organization, GSMA. But sub-Sahara Africa is the least penetrated with 436 million incomparable subscribers, the organization says in a press release copied to ghanabusinessnews.com.
The GSMA defines a ‘incomparable mobile subscriber’ as an individual person that can account for multiple ‘mobile connections’, that is SIM cards.
According to GSMA Intelligence, the world’s five billion incomparable mobile subscribers today account for approximately 7.7 billion mobile connections – excluding mobile-to-mobile (M2M).
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BOTSWANA, 2016/11/03
Africa is home to some of the world’s greatest digital innovations. From medical applications to inventions aimed at enabling the continent’s educational system, the continent is not just experiencing a digital revolution, but it’s as well solidifying its place as world leader in science and technology.
The number of young people creating life-changing digital applications in Africa continues to grow. In Mozambique, counselors are using Short Message Services to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS, while in Nigeria a Do It Yourself generator that can produce six hours of power just from a liter of urine was invented by a group of 15-year-old girls. And in Zimbabwe, a 24-year-old engineering student has managed approaching up with a machine that turns plastic into diesel.
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CAMEROON, 2016/10/04
A merger between South African company PayGate and the East African Direct Pay Online Group will create a pan-African online payment processor that will provide local business owners with a single point of contact to accept online payments in 24 African nations – from Cameroon to Mauritius.
This vision to build a pan-African payment processor will be supported by a significant investment in DPO of additional than R100m by Apis Partners , which is focused on financial services in the increase markets of Africa and Asia.
PayGate was founded in 1999 and has additional than 15 years of experience in providing payment processing and merchant services throughout Southern Africa. The company enables quick, fasten online payments through a wide variety of payment solutions in South Africa and beyond, and supports a large array of digital payment methods.
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BOTSWANA, 2016/08/13
Africa is the second-largest continent, after Asia, in size and population; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by the Indian Ocean.
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BOTSWANA, 2016/02/08
"Mean spirited", "inhumane" and desecrating the spirit of the Refugee Convention are some of the milder criticisms levelled at Denmark's harsh new asylum laws, passed last week.
Part new measures is a decision to strip new arrivals of any cash and valuables worth additional than 10,000 kroner (US$1,450), purportedly to pay for their upkeep. Switzerland and some southern German states have introduced similar policies.
It's a move that reflects the fragmenting world of European migration policy, lacking in solidarity, empathy and basic human decency. But what of the financial implications for asylum seekers?
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MAURITIUS, 2013/12/06
A three-day ICT/BPO international conference opened Wednesday in Balaclava, northern Mauritius, with 250 international participants, inclunding IT Ministers of Namibia, Swaziland and Uganda inclunding high-level government officials from Malawi and Angola, in attendance.
The conference is organized by the Mauritian Data and Communication Technology Ministry in collaboration with the Board of Investment and Extensia Ltd.
Opening the conference, the Mauritian ICT Minister, Tassarajen Pillay Chedumbrum, said that Mauritius intends to position itself as a real ICT hub in the region.
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BOTSWANA, 2012/07/30
As people the world over go online, the majority of users' primary means of Internet access will be their mobile phones. This is according to the new “Traffic and Market Statement” by Ericsson, which looks at the mobile landscape for the next five years.
Ericsson's chief of strategic marketing and intelligence, Patrick Cerwall, says: “The Internet is going mobile. Mobile PC and tablet subscriptions will, by 2017, be on the same level as fixed broadband subscriptions.”
