Pay Television Company StarTimes Media has announced plans to roll out of exclusive productions that continue to feature on the subscriber platforms online application StarTimes ON and the local content self-produced channel, Rembo TV.
Speaking during this year’s virtual ICT week organized by Communication Authority of Kenya, StarTimes Kenya Content Director Mr. Myke Mugo noted the company is increasingly involved in the on-going conversation on Kenyan content making waves on the new digital spaces and how best to monetize the content on new platforms including over the top technology in the country and beyond.
“Kenya is progressively producing great content buoyed by technically astute and talented producers. Great opportunity thereby lies in identifying a unifying thread that will make our Kenyan content immediately recognizable and curves a niche market for itself in the face of competition from more established Nigerian, Mexican, Tanzanian, Chinese and American content that
Op-Ed: Why We Should Never Give up on Universal Broadband Connectivity
Access to broadband is critical for mitigating the effects of the pandemic and boosting economic recovery in the post-covid era.
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In Sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 800-million people are not connected to the mobile internet. (PHOTO: Humphrey Mpairwe)
Over the past year or so, digital transformation accelerated at an unprecedented rate in societies around the world. Whether we were working, learning, or staying in touch with friends and family, being online became more critical than ever. Even as vast numbers of people were adapting to their new realities, however, it became increasingly apparent that equally large numbers of people were shut out from being able to do so.
Botswana’s digital technology advancement out in front
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The commemoration serves to cause Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) stakeholders to pause and evaluate how the use of ICTs continue to impact lives as individuals, society and the entire nation. Stakeholders respond to trends in technological convergence.
Technological convergence refers to integrating two or more independent technologies to form a new outcome, or new functionalities. Smartphones are relevant examples of technological convergence.
Segokgo says government through his Ministry is committed to position Botswana as a globally competitive, knowledge and information society where lasting improvement in social, economic and cultural development is achieved through effective use of ICTs.
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World Telecoms & Information Day: 9mobile drives digital transformation pace with strategic investments
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As the world, yesterday marked 2021 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day with the theme:
Accelerating Digital Transformation in Challenging Times, Telecommunication Service provider, 9mobile has said it will drive Nigeria’s pace of digital transformation through strategic investment in digital infrastructure.
The company noted that in order to speed up Nigeria’s economic development and recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic; there is a need to accelerate the country’s digital transformation.
This, it says, can be achieved with the deployment of digital infrastructure across the country.
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