Mobile media rights strategy for 2010
Johannesburg: Soccerex and FIFA have assembled a panel of industry leaders to highlight the importance of mobile marketing and broadcasting ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

KENYA

Internet innovator to address young Kenyan entrepreneurs
Nairobi: Pete Ward, the co-CEO and founder of wayn.com (Where Are You Now?), a social networking site for travelers, will be addressing over 200 of Kenya's budding entrepreneurs in a Coca-Cola-sponsored session in mid-October.


Microsoft, USAID boost management of Uganda's education system
[Walter Wafula] In a bid to build capacity in the management of students and teachers information, the Microsoft Corporation and the United States Agency for International Development signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to implement an Education Management Information System (EMIS), with the government of Uganda through its Ministry of Education and Sports.

AFRICA

ICT boost for African NGOs
Johannesburg: A new set of online tools is now available to non-governmental organisations across sub-Saharan Africa which are designed specifically to help them use technology more efficiently and to co-ordinate their resources in finding solutions to common challenges.

Zimbabwe: Media laws could be relaxed
Harare: The leadership of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is claiming that state-controlled media are still using negative reporting, in contravention of a power-sharing deal signed by the country's main political parties on 15 September, 2008.

AFRICA

First Global Mobile Film Festival
The GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry, and Mofilm, a pioneer of short films for mobile and online distribution, on Monday, 29 September 2008, announced the first Global Mobile Film Festival at the Mobile World Congress in 2009, with an official 'call for films' to international filmmakers.


Zain announces 60% cut in mobile phone charges in Kenya
Kenya's second mobile phone operator, Zain has announced a drastic reduction in phone call charges to its customers calling to all networks with its newly unveiled call charges guidelines, which allow clients to call at 60% less.

Alliance Media wins Namibia International Airport advertising tender - Alliance Media
Alliance Media has been awarded the tender to once again exclusively control the indoor and outdoor advertising at Windhoek's Hosea Kutako International Airport.

AFRICA

Nominees announced for African Banker Awards 2008
The shortlisted companies and individuals for the African Banker Awards 2008 have been announced. The ceremony, organised in partnership with BusinessinAfrica Events, will recognise and reward across 17 award categories the individuals, companies and institutions which have excelled in Africa's banking and financial sector over the last year.


US threatens fresh round of sanctions
The political impasse between ZANU-PF and the two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) formations could trigger stiffer action against Harare as it emerged this week that the United States is mulling a new round of sanctions to ratchet pressure on President Robert Mugabe to compromise on the issue.

Global economic crisis to be felt by developing countries
[Proffesor Ndawonde] Sun City: The current global economic environment is cause for concern for all of us, according to North West Premier Edna Molewa, who says South Africans are in for a tough time.

Zimbabwe: Food crisis spells disaster
Johannesburg: Zimbabwe is facing a "disastrous" food crisis if a new power-sharing government is not formed quickly, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and prime minister-designate, Morgan Tsvangirai, has said.

Multichoice elevates education in Malawi
[Gregory Gondwe] Multichoice Malawi is set to establish 500 education resource centres in government secondary schools over the next five years. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with the Malawi government through the ministry of education to implement the project.