DD
MM
YYYY

CATEGORIES

PAGES

DD
MM
YYYY

spot_img

CATEGORIES

PAGES

Home Blog Page 7914

Futures of Technology in Africa – Africa Is Growing The Seed of Change

By
Tekedia Editors
-
0

We received a copy of this book from the author. It is a great work.

 

Sub Saharan Africa is undergoing a period of rapid technological change. The mobile phone is the first infrastructure, that affordably and reliably reaches all corners of the continent. Data and money transfer networks piggy-back on this development. But fundamental changes also take place in other technology intensive sectors, including energy, transport infrastructure and agriculture. These changes will fundamentally affect the activities of all societal players, including businesses, governments, academics and NGOs. Technology will be an enabler for more efficient markets, for spreading and collecting information, for trading, and for accountability. However, not all changes will be positive. The same technology is likely to have disruptive effects as well and ICT will be put to very bad use.

 

Table of contents

Chapter 1:

21st Century Africa
Chapter 2:

African futures studies

(by Geci Karuri-Sebina)
Chapter 3:

Exploring technology futures
Chapter 4:

Africa will be flat

(with contributions from Ben White and Gertjan van Stam)
Chapter 5:

Energizing Africa

(with contributions from Birthe Paul and Janneke Brouwers)
Chapter 6:

The road less paved
Chapter 7:

Seeds of change
Chapter 8:

Too many futures

(with contributions from Wambura Kimunyu, Njoroge Matathia,
Tonee Ndungu and Sheila Ochugboju)
Chapter 9:

Technology in context

(with Sheila Ochugboju)
Chapter 10:

Learning from Africa
Chapter 11:

A guide for the future
Bonus chapter:

A Kenyan Science Fiction story – The Last Infirmity Of Noble Minds

(by Wambura Kimunyu)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can download this book and watch the video here.

 

Author: Jasper Grosskurth

Mobile and Social Media Security Threats Grow – Facebook and Android Under Attacks. What Nigeria Must Do

By
Tekedia Editors
-
2


AVG Technologies, a global provider of internet and mobile security has released its  “AVG Community Powered Threat Report – Q1 2011,” providing insight and background on the trends and developments in the world of online threats. In this report, Android malware is growing rapidly and the one on Facebook is also rising.

 

This trend is in line with previous patterns where threats correlate with penetration of  operating systems. As Microsoft Windows was penetrating. so were the threats on that platform. Now Android is becoming hugely popular, the same pattern is expected. The report notes that:


“These campaigns are well planned and well funded; therefore, they demand not only for very effective counter technical measures but also for the need to raise awareness among the average user.”

The trend in Q1-2011 is revealed to be an explosive increase in the overall number of global attacks. Within this, the most notable developments were a major increase in malicious campaigns which exploited the viral nature of Facebook users, which have increased threefold in the last 12 months.

 

The United States is still the dominant source of spam with English as the main language used in spam messages. However, with a Brazilian ISP as the most used internet provider and Portuguese as the second language, Brazil is a clear runner up.

 

With smartphones becoming more like computers, the first quarter saw a notable increase in risk for smartphone users and the Android platform in particular; AVG blocked an average of 100,000 spam and phishing text messages per day.

 

The open source nature of the OS as well as the open-garden approach in allowing users to install software on the mobile device opens the door for hackers to write malicious code. This is why Android users should install additional security solutions such as AVG Mobilation for Android which is helping prevent users from downloading over 10,000 infected applications a day.

 

The reality is that if these security threats are not addressed, it could stifle innovation especially in the mobile financial business. Nigeria should watch this pattern and begin to create a process to prevent the breakdown that happened in the web in the nation. The activities of 417 and ‘Yahoo boys’ made Internet to be seen as not a decent place for commerce. It continues to undermine thrust in people’s acceptability of the medium for business. Mobile cannot be the same and NCC must step forward and manage this.

 

Nigeria Ranks 65th in Malicious Internet Activity Worldwide

By
Tekedia Editors
-
0

 

Symantec Corp has just announced the findings of its Internet Security Threat Report, Volume 16, showing a massive threat volume of more than 286 million new threats last year. The report was also accompanied by several new megatrends in the threat landscape. In the report, Nigeria ranked 65th out of 233 countries monitored by the company’s global intelligence network. You can read the whole document in the Vanguard.

What is eBay Waiting Before Buying This Kenyan Startup

By
Tekedia Editors
-
0

Maduqa is a very sleek Kenya marketplace where buyers and sellers come together. We like the simplicity, the ergonomics and the level of integration the site provides. It looks decent and a platform for commerce.

 

If this company is well funded, it could be a possible platform for eBay to scale into Kenya. It is perhaps the best  among all the Kenyan companies in this sector.

 

Africa’s e-commerce is still at infancy because the web is just starting. The next phase will be building structures that will enable trust which will ideally help people to make buying decisions online without fear. This is going to become a very difficult challenge. The old history of Internet in Nigeria was that of fraud and 419. How can you change that? Not going to be easy. Most people do not just have that confidence to do business online.

 

But as people begin to see value and savings in cost, the web is going to boom with opportunities. What Maduqa offers is ideally a platform that can help people stay at home and order items and then receive them via posts. This a Kenyan site  – there are many like that in Nigeria.

 

 

Nigerian Developers – Work In Teams and Build Great Products. The Era of Lone Developers Is Gone

By
Tekedia Editors
-
1

Gentlemen, now is the time to pass that ‘I built it alone’ mentality. It will not work and that will hurt the nation to compete. Tekedia challenges all the folks and developers to come together and work in teams. You may think someone will steal your idea – do not worry, he might have tried what you wanted to do a year ago and found it worthless. By not working in teams, Nigeria will not make great products and we will not compete with other parts of Africa effectively. So working in teams is what we need to do.

 

When you work in teams, you come up with better ideas and challenge one another. Even funding comes easier when folks work in teams. Let us keep that tradition and remember that it is better for 10 people to share a glory than one person to share none.

 

Let all these duplication of services in Lagos stop. Let guys come together and find ways to partner. Also, as much as possible, try to incorporate your business. It makes all the differences when those funding partners come.

 

 

 

 

 

1...7,9137,9147,915...7,963Page 7,914 of 7,963

© Tekedia. All rights reserved.

Term & Privacy

© Tekedia. All rights reserved.

Term & Privacy