The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has announced the opening of registration for its annual conference and awards. This year is the 9th edition of the AWIEF event, and it will be held at the Kigali Convention Centre (KCC), Kigali, Rwanda, on November 9 – 10, 2023. AWIEF has become Africa’s leading entrepreneurship,…
An audit of the databases of the country’s telcos by the industry regulator Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has revealed that the mobile network operators (MNOs) are not conforming with the SIM card registration regulations. The audit, whose findings were released recently, revealed that even though all the MNOs – that is Safaricom, Telkom, Airtel and…
EatOut, a food ordering platform, has partnered with Truecaller to make sign-ups and phone number verifications easier for new users in their app. The integration aims to further bolster EatOut’s customer identity verification process which in turn helps minimizing risks of less verified users and maximizing trust in the EatOut platform. EatOut is the go-to source for foodies…
The Ethiopian government, through the Ministry of Communication & Information Technology (MCIT), has embarked on the process of registering new mobile phones getting into the country. The device registeration, which began mid this month, is being conducted by the country’s telecom monopoly operator, Ethio Telecom, and is meant to prevent the entry of smuggled devices…
Media registration is open to all journalists who wish to cover ITU’s Second Global Forum on Emergency Telecommunications (GET-2016). Organized by ITU, the UN specialized agency for ICTs, the event is hosted by the Government of Kuwait and brings together delegates from all over the world, ranging from government ministers to ICT regulators, national disaster…