News
- Chat Control Proposal Advances Despite Rising Opposition in Europe 30/08/2025
- Advanced AI Is Reshaping the Cybercriminal Landscape at Alarming Speed 29/08/2025
- FTC to Big Tech: Don’t Trade American Privacy for Foreign Demands 26/08/2025
- The Edgemoor Research Institute and TWNIC Launch Project Jake to Advance DNS Security and Data Transparency 25/08/2025
- China Temporarily Cuts Itself Off from the Global Internet 25/08/2025
Africa ICT Updates
- South Africa: Are We Sacrificing Real Progress for Digital Distraction in the Attention Economy? 29/08/2025[Daily Maverick] At Daily Maverick's The Gathering, a panel on AI, crypto and capital unpacked how the attention economy is shaping value, inequality and the future itself.
- Uganda: Samsung Watu Partnership Delivers Smartphones to 500,000 Ugandans 29/08/2025[Nile Post] While Uganda's population is about 50 million, only around 18.2 million smartphones are in use, leaving more than half the country without access to the opportunities mobile technology provides.
- Gambia: Senegal to Generate 60b CFA From E-Visa Fees 29/08/2025[The Point] The country's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko confirmed that visitors from outside the African continent would now be required to pay their visa application fees online in advance.
- Uganda: Circuits Debuts in Uganda With $15m Investment, 80-Title Library 29/08/2025[Leadership] Circuits, Africa's fast-growing digital entertainment platform, will officially launch in Uganda on September 1, 2025, with a lineup of more than 80 films and series, alongside up to $15 million investment aimed at boosting the country's creative sector.
- Nigeria: Expert - Digitisation Key to Africa's Sustainable Facilities Management 29/08/2025[This Day] Co-founder and Executive Director of Sysserve, the company behind Instanta, a physical asset and operations management platform, Mr. Owoeye Johnson, has called on companies to fully embrace intelligent platforms enabling sustainable facility management.