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Last Wednesday, October 25, Pascal Nyamulinda, Director General of the National Agency for the Identification of Persons (ANIP), officially launched anip.bj, the agency’s official mobile application.
The application aims to facilitate the acquisition of administrative documents, help users check the authenticity of those documents, and submit claims and complaints. For the time being, it is only available for Android devices.
On Wednesday, October 25, the Guinean Ministry of Technical Education, Vocational Training and Employment announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese technology firm Huawei. The aim is to build smart classrooms at the Kindia Vocational Center and Camara Laye in Conakry.
On Wednesday, October 18, Benin’s Ministry of Digital Affairs and Digitizationannounced the 2023 edition of itsyearlyevent SENUM (Digital Week) wouldbeheldfromNovember 6 to 10 at the Congress Center of Cotonou. This year, the eventwillbeheldaround the theme “Emerging technologies to accelerate the digital transformation of States.”
The Mauritian government recently announced that new mobile identification measures would become enforceable on October 31, 2023.
According to authorities, from the aforementioned date, all current cell phone subscribers will have to re-register their SIM or Esim cards. The main aim is to ensure that every SIM card in use is registered in the name of the individual using it, thereby strengthening subscriber protection against identity theft, various forms of fraud, and malicious practices.
On the sidelines of the Regional Cybersecurity Week Abu Dhabi, October 8 to 13, Chad's Minister of Telecommunications and Digital Economy, Mahamat Allahou Taher, and the head of the UAE government's Cybersecurity Council, Mohamed Hamad Al Kuwaiti, signed a memorandum of understanding.
Under the terms of the agreement, the two countries will collaborate in the fields of cybersecurity, the fight against cybercrime, and international cooperation in cyber matters, among other things.
In Ethiopia, the National Identification Program Office, the Refugees and Returnees Service (RRS), and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) signed a memorandum of understanding last Friday, October 6.
The agreement aims to provide a national digital ID to some 90,000 refugees and returnees in the country over the next three years. The aim is to enable access to government services and benefits for the refugees and returnees.
On Monday, October 2, Tanzanian authorities inaugurated the Center for Competence in Digital Education (C-CoDE), the fruit of collaboration between Morocco's Mohamed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) and Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
The center, hosted by the Nelson Mandela African Science and Technology Institution (NM-AIST), was built thanks to an endowment of over $100,000 from the United States. Among other things, the center will support the digital transformation of training and education practices in Tanzania and the East African Community (EAC).
Ham Serunjogi (photo), co-founder of Nigerian unicorn Chipper Cash, was appointed on Tuesday, September 26 to the U.S. Council for African Diaspora Engagement. He will serve in the twelve-member council along with 11 other African Americans, until 2025.
E-health platform "Expertise", which promotes digital health in Africa, and its partners recently issued a call for applications for the creation of a Committee of Experts in Digital Health for Africa (CEiSNA). The initiative aims to bring together digital health stakeholders to develop innovative strategies and solutions for the future of digital health in Africa.
Individuals, start-ups, companies, universities, and healthcare institutions involved in this sector are invited to submit applications, by November 9, 2023, at 23:59 GMT. To apply, they simply need to fill out this form.
Last September 13, Guinea's Water and Electricity Regulatory Authority (AREE) launched an AfDB-funded electronic management project in Conakry. The project, funded to the tune of $401,300, will modernize electricity regulation, improve decision-making thanks to real-time data, and encourage private-sector involvement through transparent information.
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The decree-law no. 2023-17 of March 11, 2023, governing cybersecurity in Tunisia and setting out the missions and operating structures of the National Cybersecurity Agency (ANCS), came into force on Monday, September 11.
Placed under the authority of the Ministry of Communication Technologies, the new agency will be responsible, among other things, for supervising the security of the information and communication systems of public and private companies in the national cyberspace.
The 7th edition of the Internet Governance Forum-Chad (IGF -Chad) will be held on Saturday, September 16 in N'djamena under the theme "Quality of service (QoS) of mobile networks in Chad and the consumer experience: measurement and improvement".
As in previous years, participants will discuss issues and opportunities linked to the responsible and secure use of the Internet in the country.
Last Wednesday, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and the Government of Lesotho launched a GIS (Geospatial Information System) platform to improve evidence-based decision-making on national concerns and overall governance.
The $1.1 million initiative was undertaken as part of efforts to strengthen government capacity on a wide range of issues, including territorial planning, early warning, food and nutrition security monitoring, vulnerability assessment, and analysis.
The 2nd edition of the B2B Digital Day, organized to let companies discover the latest digital trends and technologies in Côte d'Ivoire, will be held in Abidjan next June 22.
The event, organized by marketing and business development consultancy agency Yadec Consulting, builds on the objectives of the first edition, which was to encourage actors of the Ivorian markets to adopt digital technologies to transform and grow their businesses.
The theme chosen for the B2B Digital Day 2023 is: "Business Digitalization: Practices and Tools."