Communication / ICT in Botswana
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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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BOTSWANA, 2013/06/01
A massive Data and Communications Technology Cyber City is part of the grand projects that the Botswana Innovation Hub (BIH) is to put in place at its national-of-the-art new centre. With the construction of the Botswana Innovation Hub underway, a cyber city was one of the prime projects the hub will quickly undertake.
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BOTSWANA, 2013/05/07
Botswana is one of Africa’s wealthiest nations with a thriving economy mainly based on diamond mining and tourism which recovered quickly from a recession during the world financial crisis (GFC). Regulatory reform has turned the country into one of the majority liberalised telecommunications markets in the region, inclunding a service-neutral licensing regime which takes into account the increasing convergence of technologies and services.
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BOTSWANA, 2012/08/18
Botswana’s Internet Service Providers’ Association says BTC’s wholesale bandwidth price slash won’t result in consumer tariffs being cut by half.
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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.”
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BOTSWANA, 2012/02/07