Infrastructure News

Water monitoring `easier` with free mobile phone app

03/04/2012

Environmental Expert.com - March 30, 2012

The Water Quality Reporter (WQR) application was developed by the iCOMMS team at the civil engineering department at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, under the leadership of...

Category: Water

Ile Maurice: Début des travaux de construction du barrage de Bagatelle

03/04/2012

La construction du barrage de Bagatelle, sur la rivière Terre Rouge, vient de débuter sur l'Ile Maurice.

Le Premier ministre, Navin Ramgoolam, a procédé le 29 mars dernier à la pose de la...

Categories: Water, Energy

World Bank offers funding boost to Kenyan ICT infrastructure

03/04/2012

The World Bank has offered financial assistance to the Kenyan government as it seeks to become the global hub for mobile phone applications, Business Daily Africa has reported.

Indeed, the Bank has provided Sh4.5 billion ($55...

Category: ICT

Africa's premium TV for less

02/04/2012

The Africa Report - March 30, 2012

In a previous column, I commented on the rapid changes in direct satellite-to-home TV reception across Africa, thanks to the launch of a number of packages, most of them free of charge. A wind...

Category: ICT

African Mobile phones get surprisingly smarter

02/04/2012

The Africa Report - March 29, 2012

Imagine you are in Yokadouma, a rural community in eastern Cameroon with little electricity and inaccessible roads. You have an old, inexpensive mobile phone with which you can only make and...

Category: ICT

Construction: Build a bigger and better tomorrow

02/04/2012

The Africa Report - March 19, 2012

Strong economic growth brings more business for construction companies, but the top firms are facing capacity problems and uncertain regulatory prospects Africa's construction materials...

Category: General

Mobile firms bleed billions to fraud and bill errors

02/04/2012

BBC News - March 29, 2012

Mobile phone firms are losing $58bn (£36bn) a year worldwide to billing errors and fraud, a report says.

Juniper Research found operators were "leaking" revenue because the complexity of...

Category: ICT

Cameroun: La BM finance le barrage de Lom Pangar à hauteur de 134 millions USD

02/04/2012

La Banque mondiale vient d'octroyer un financement de plus de 134 millions de dollars au Cameroun afin de participer au financement de la construction du barrage de Lom Pangar.

Ce projet, dont le coût total est...

Category: Energy

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