Technology and Digital Media in Africa
East Africa’s enterprises and innovators have a unique opportunity on their doorsteps to learn new techniques in web content development at the East African Local Content Innovation Summit to be held in Nairobi over 7-8 August. The Summit is being hosted by Ignite Consulting and AITEC Africa in response to the urgent need for development of locally relevant content that is responsive to the interests and needs within the region about to link to the world via undersea fibre cables that will deliver much faster and cheaper Internet connections. For more information on this event, go here.
In today’s edition of the Business Daily Newspaper, in a story by Zachary Ochieng’, Bitange Ndemo who is the Permanent Secretary at Kenya’s Information and Communications Ministry says that Kenya is not ready for the high speed data cables that will become operational in June 2009.
PS Ndemo points out that the main issue is that as much as Kenya will have world-class ICT infrastructure for data and voice, Kenya does not have enough local content or e-services that will take advantage of the much improved infrastructure. He also says that local ICT investors are likely to be sidelined as Internet companies step in to fill the void, especially where video content is concerned. The full story can be read here >
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