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61.	Microsoft Ambassador to Africa
	Monday, June 25, 2007  by Admin
	The Chairman for Africa at Microsoft, the driving force behind the initiative of flooding Africa with millions of reconditioned computers to improve access and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for economic and social development. The objective is to create a situation in which Africa can use technology to accelerate development, and in the process, in which Microsoft can help.
62.	Kilimanjaro Airport Now Goes Digital
	Tuesday, June 19, 2007  by Admin
	The Kilimanjaro International Airport is getting more 'cute'. KIA is in the process of becoming the first air terminal in the country to be installed with the state-of-the-art, Common Use Terminal Equipment system, which will reportedly be the ultimate upgrade to the aviation industry's best practice so far.
63.	Dar benefits from Microsoft job-creation venture
	Monday, June 4, 2007  by Admin
	Tanzania is one of the four African beneficiary countries of the newly established Microsoft Corp joint venture project that will generate and enhance sustainable employment opportunities for youths. Microsoft will partner with International Youth Foundation (IYF) to invest in job creating ventures in Kenya,Nigeria ,Senegal and Tanzania.
64.	Sweden to fund ICT training in teachers colleges
	Tuesday, May 29, 2007  by Admin
	Sweden, through its international development agency (SIDA) and Tanzania government have mobilised at least 4.5bn for meeting the cost of training courses in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in public-owned teachers` training colleges.
65.	IATA E-Ticketing Deadline Creeping Up Fast On Africa's Unprepared Airlines
	Friday, May 25, 2007  by Admin
	International airline body IATA has set a deadline of 31 December 2007 for African airlines to adopt e-ticketing. This is meant to include not only online ticket sales but airport kiosks printing boarding passes and access to flight data via your mobile phone.
66.	Give youth priority in use of ICT - Govt
	Wednesday, May 16, 2007  by Admin
	The government has said youth should be given first priority in using Information and Communication Technology, as a way of improving their skills to become self employed.
67.	The African e-Governance Forum 2007 theme was Utilising ICT for more Efficient, Effective and Inclusive Governance
	Tuesday, May 15, 2007  by Admin
	One of the presentations noted that E-governance was meaningless without good governance. E-governance had a wide range of applications and implications. It covered the use of ICT in linking up central government with provincial and local government structures and also required appropriate policies with implications for human development, intellectual and content development.
68.	Give youth priority in use of ICT - Govt
	Tuesday, May 15, 2007  by Admin
	The government has said youth should be given first priority in using Information and Communication Technology, as a way of improving their skills to become self employed. This was said by the Deputy Minister for Infrastructure Development, Dr Makongoro Mahanga, when opening a three-day exhibition on ICT known as "Connecting the Youth".
69.	Role play to share ICT lessons
	Tuesday, May 8, 2007  by Admin
	The project "District computerization Kinondoni" is to bring about good governance in the Kinondoni District (Dar es Salaam) by harnessing information for decision-making through the use of ICT's. The project has been in implementation for some time now and has been using the IICD system for Monitoring and Evaluation since 2003. This time around, a new approach was taken during the Focus Group.
70.	Technology in Government in Africa 2007 Awards
	Tuesday, May 8, 2007  by Admin
	The Technology in Government in Africa Awards, otherwise known as the TIGA Awards, aims to encourage the use of ICTs by African governments in fulfilling their public service delivery obligations. The award categories are public service delivery to communities, improved health services, improved educational services and public private partnership in economic and financial eServices delivery.
71.	World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
	Monday, May 7, 2007  by Admin
	17th May marks the anniversary of the signature of the first International Telegraph Convention and the creation of the International Telecommunication Union. World Telecommunication Day has been celebrated since 1969. Following the World Summit on the Information Society, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution A/RES/60/252 which identifies 17 May as World Information Society Day.
72.	Legal Frameworks for Information and Communication Technologies
	Monday, May 7, 2007  by Admin
	Legal Frameworks for Information and Communication Technologies Valletta, Malta, to take place from 21st May – 1st June 2007. The Commonwealth Network of Information Technology for Development (COMNET-IT), on behalf of the Government of Malta and in association with the Commonwealth Secretariat is organising this workshop. The workshop will treat the subject of Legal Frameworks for ICTs and is intended for senior and middle-management delegates from legal and policy as well as operational units.
73.	UNECA awards governments promoting ICT
	Friday, May 4, 2007  by Admin
	Nine African countries have won the first ever awards given for promoting the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by governments in fulfilling their public service delivery functions, the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has announced. The Technology in Government in Africa (TIGA) awards came about through collaboration between UNECA and the Canadian Policy Resource Centre in training African policymakers.
74.	Experts tap into ICTs to boost employment in Africa
	Thursday, May 3, 2007  by Admin
	Abdoulie Janneh, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), has said that African countries need to create the means to utilize their skilled workers and address the re-skilling of the existing workforce to meet new challenges in knowledge-based industries. She was opening the fifth session of the African Committee on Development Information (CODI-V). She also added that in today's global, information driven-society; economic success was increasingly based on the effective use of intangible assets such as knowledge, skills and innovative potential as key resources for competitive advantage.
75.	Taxation and the Growth of mobile in East Africa - In East Africa, Cutting Mobile Taxes Today Would Boost Government Revenues Tomorrow
	Tuesday, April 24, 2007  by Admin
	East Africans pay taxes of between 25% and 30% on mobile phone services, compared with an average of 17% across Africa. If the governments in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya were to cut mobile taxes today, a study found that their total tax receipts would actually rise in the medium to long term. The study reasons that a cut in mobile services taxes would lead to a reduction in tariffs, which would then boost usage of mobile services. Greater usage of mobile phones improves communication between businesses and their customers, fuelling economic development and lifting tax receipts from across the wider economy.
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