Internet blackout a wake-up call
Zimbabwe is an information and communication technology (ICT) driven economy and the internet has become the backbone of the country.
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Zimbabwe is an information and communication technology (ICT) driven economy and the internet has become the backbone of the country.
Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi- Zimbabwe information and communication technology (ICT) sector should learn from what the Indian ICT sector has done and follow suite. In India the information and communication technology (ICT) is the most thriving sector.
By Walter Mzembi I am prompted to speak to Africa — notwithstanding my global vision for tourism which has already been distributed to you. For the past year, I have literally traversed the world, sharing and building that vision with input from member States. Since 2016, I have also attended all statutory Regional Commission meetings […]
“Muzukuru ndigadzirirewo ka Website yangu my business is not doing well so am sure with a website I will prosper”, I said how much are you prepared to pay me for my work, there goes the reply “unoti zvauri ku London worasa tsika, kubhadharisa ini sekuru vako, chingogadzira website chete.”
A forensic assessment of the funds allocated to ICTs in the 2015 national budget manifest straces of cluelessness and a total dearth of appreciation of the positive role Information and Communication Technologies can play in transforming the fortunes of our beautiful Zimbabwe.
Today Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating the world telecommunications and information society day. The occasion is celebrated each year to mark the anniversary of the signature of the 1st international Telegraph convention in 1865.
My math teacher in High School, Mr B. N. Ncube (may his soul rest in peace), once told us an anecdote that I still find to be as funny and enlightening as I found it then. So the story goes that a farmer was tilling his land with his tractor when suddenly it broke down.
FOR the past decade or so information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been widely used as crucial platforms and tools to bring about social change around the world, particularly in Africa, the Arab world and Eastern Europe.
Although they say desperate times call for desperate measures surely for most Zimbabweans desperate as they are they can be made to be more desperate as they will lose out if they are not careful about the use of the Internet.
Zimbabwe’s Minister of Information Communication Technology (ICT) Nelson Chamisa has defended a controversial decision to give a laptop to the notorious leader of the war veterans association Joseph Chinotimba under the much lauded e–government computer programme.