ICASA is not discussing the possibility of an out-of-court settlement in the dispute over the implementation deadline for new data regulations.
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Customers to pay a new government tax on social media accounts before they can access them.
Amnesty International called on Uganda to scrap the tax, saying it robbed “many people of their right to freedom of expression, with a chilling effect on other human rights”.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni unashamedly defended the country’s new social media tax, saying Ugandans were using such platforms for “lying”, and squandering the nation’s hard currency on fees to foreign-owned telecoms firms.
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Besides bringing live Fifa 2018 World Cup matches, this newly launched Kwesé-iflix mobile app presents a flexible digital entertainment platform that is set to deliver top entertainment programmes to millions of Zimbabweans via the mobile phone, anywhere and at any time.
The Digital Africa initiative launched by the President on behalf of the country’s development agency Agence Française de Développement (AFD) aims to provide a platform to promote African entrepreneurs, through encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing, providing an online database of resources, hosting events, and facilitating access to funding.
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The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) has announced the semifinalists of Pitch…
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The African Development Bank (AfDB) in collaboration with The Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook has launched…
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe takes charge in the use of clean energy, putting the entire H/Office complex in Msasa, Harare on solar power.
The parliament of Uganda passed a tax on social media use, with a bill the President Yoweri Museveni defended by saying such platforms promote “gossiping.”
As of July 1, users of internet messaging services including Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and Viber must pay 200 shilling, or about $0.05 per day
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The newly launched Kwesé-iflix mobile app presents a flexible digital entertainment platform that is set to deliver top entertainment programmes to millions of Zimbabweans via the mobile phone, anywhere and at any time.
Nigerian mobile platform Upnepa Nigeria which notifies users whenever electricity is restored or distorted at…
The Kenya Film and Classification Board (KFCB) empowered by a new law has announced that…