[kictanet] Fw: Quality of VoIP in Africa - Tracing IP packets from the USA into Africa

[Matunda Nyanchama]

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   December 8, 2013    
 
Quality of VoIP in Africa - Tracing IP packets from the USA into Africa
Africans, whether living in Africa or in the Diaspora, have explored many Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to beat the high cost of communicating with their loved ones. Viber, Skype, Vonage, MagicJack and Rebtel, are some of the services that are commonly used. Rebtel is a more recent and not well known service offering voice calls for as low as 4c a minute from the USA to Africa. Read more...
 
South Africa ICT Industry Honors Mandela
The ICT industry has expressed its condolences on the death of former president Nelson Mandela, as South Africans - and the world at large - mourn the loss of an icon of justice, peace and democracy; and celebrate his life. Read more...
 
Developing Countries Face Challenges in Cloud Computing
Information Economy Report 2013 finds that infrastructure investment and law reforms are needed to harvest cloud's data efficiency and flexibility. There is nothing nebulous about the "cloud", especially as it applies to developing countries, a new UNCTAD report says. Read more...
 
The Need for Ethical Hackers and Whistle-Blowers in Africa
Edward Snowden, Chelsea (Bradley) Manning, Baba Jukwa (Zimbabwe) and Julian Assange have all attained legendary status amongst citizens' rights advocates. They have exposed the extent that modern government has, under the aegis of security and intelligence gathering, encroached into all of our lives. This blanket surveillance of the citizenry, on a previously unimaginable scale, is the current manifestation of Orwell's 1984 Big Brother. Read more...
 
MACRA Commissions Television White Spaces Pilot Project
The Minister of Information and Civic Education, Brown Mpinganjira has called on information and communications technology (ICT) players in the country to join hands with government in ensuring that the rural masses have access to internet services.Read more...
 
Dimension Data's Andile Ngcaba Named to Global Internet Governance Panel
Andile Ngcaba, founder of Convergence Partners, and Executive Chairman of Dimension Data Middle East and Africa, has been named to an international panel on the Future of Global Internet Cooperation, to address the issue of Internet governance. The panel will meet for the first time in December in London, and its report, which will include principles for global Internet cooperation, a proposed framework for such cooperation, stakeholder relations, and a roadmap for future Internet governance, is expected to be released for comment in early 2014. Read more...    
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2013 Africa-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT
The '2013 Africa-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT' is taking place on December 2-3, 2013 at the African Union Conference Centre (AUCC) and Office Complex in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
 
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