Engineer Paul Isaac Musasizi is tipped to appear in the top 50 people chosen from around the world for their unique and excellence in innovative ideas, by Bloomberg, the renowned business media. But Musasizi, the Chief Executive Officer of Kiira Motor Corporation, says this achievement is for Uganda’s motor vehicle industry. While naming him on the special list dubbed “Ones…
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“Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps!” (Brian Halligan) As I have told you before, #Innovation is the heartbeat of our business. Every day I take time to study technologies that could help us offer new and better products for our customers and communities. Liquid Telecom Kenya plays a central role in our research into new technologies. Many…
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Pan-African entrepreneurship and innovation non-profit organization; the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) yesterday announced winners of its 6th edition of the AWIEF Awards during its annual conference that was held online from December 2 to 3, 2020. The AWIEF Awards recognized, honored and celebrated Women Entrepreneurs and Business Owners in Africa and across industry sectors, for their economic…
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The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, through the Expanding Social Protection (ESP) Programme has delivered a total of 135 motorcycles to enhance implementation of the Social Assistance Grant for Empowerment (SAGE) a Grant to older persons across the country. This delivered of the motorcycles which shall be distributed to 135 districts was held at Kololo Independence Grounds on…
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Farmers in Kiboga District have come out to appreciate Sasakawa Africa Association Uganda (SAA- Uganda) for the E-extension on-line program that has boosted their production levels during the COVID-19 Lockdown period. In August 2020, Sasakawa a nongovernmental organisation launched COVID 19 interventions to support extension service providers across the country in an effort to reach Farmers and increase production during…
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Dubai World Trade Centre is preparing to open the landmark 40th edition of GITEX Technology Week, the only major in-person technology event to go live in 2020, hosted from 6th-10th December. Visitor safety is DWTC’s number one priority, and GITEX will be hosted in full compliance with Dubai Government regulations as well as the guidelines of the Dubai Health Authority…
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Zain announces the launch of its new eSports brand in line with the launch of the largest seasons of regional esports competition, organized by “EA Sports” in the Middle Eastern markets for the game “EA Sports FIFA 21” It is considered a unique competition, first of its kind in the region as it will be organized in an official partnership…
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CommVault’s Johan Scheepers on the upcoming “South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act” and the misconception of it just being an IT problem. Since its implementation in 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has become a global standard in protecting end users from the unlawful use or dissemination of their personal information. South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act…
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MTN announced that it has completed a comprehensive review of the Group strategy with a focus on accelerating growth, deleveraging the holding company debt and unlocking value. The revised strategy will be presented in more detail following the release of MTN’s 2020 full-year results in March 2021. To support the Group’s strategy execution, MTN Group announced the appointment of a…
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stc announced another milestone in its 5G commercial network development, demonstrating new radio (NR) time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD) carrier aggregation (CA) using Ericsson Spectrum Sharing (ESS) in FDD band and on a single MediaTek Dimensity 5G chipset. The company established the 5G Non-standalone (NSA) data call by aggregating 20MHz on FDD spectrum (shared with LTE…
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