5.5Million Cameroonians have telephone access
APA – Douala, (Cameroon) More than 5 million Cameroonians ;just over 40 percent of the population nation’s population have access to fixed or mobile telephone service, it as revealed Thursdays, by the Telecommunications Regulation Agency(ART).
These statistics are current for the period until December 31 2007 and are for the three telecom operators in Cameroon, including the public company Cameroon Telecommunications (CAMTEL) which holds two licenses for the exploitation of fixed-lie and mobile telephony.
In addition, the two multinationals operating only in the mobile telephone sector, which are, the Franco-British company ORANGE and the South-African multinational , Mobile Telephone Network (MTN).
The General Director of ART, Jean-Louis Beh Mengue, declared that “the upgrade to an eight-digit numbering systems six months ago offers new opportunities for the development of telecommunications in Cameroon”.
This new numbering, he explained, which has a capacity of 80 million lines, would be operational until 2030.
ART does the preclude the arrival of new operators on to the market, especially in the mobile telephone sector, plans to enforce a cleaning up of the market with sanctions meted out to un-registered VSAT operators.
The 2008 action plan gives a special place on the launching of the space segment, the effective sharing of infrastructure, as well as the lowering of telecommunications costs.
At this moment, one minute of communications costs around 180 francs CFA on average, or 200 FCFA during peak hours and 160 FCFA during off-peak hours.
The price for text messaging (SMS) on mobile phones remains unchanged at 60 francs CFA.
According to various sources, the numbers of mobile service subscribers stands at 5 millions against 400,000 for the number of landline subscribers.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Monday, December 17, 2007
American NGO takes Hi-Tech to Cameroon
New Information and Communication Technologies, ICTs, will soon be installed in some secondary schools in Bafia in the Southwest, Bamenda in the Northwest and Mbalmayo in the Centre Provinces of Cameroon.
The ITCs would include new methods of sight surveys, setting up of solar panels and void (intercommunication in local areas). Robert Marsh, Vice-President Engineering and Co-Founder, INVENEO, a US-based NGO, made this revelation to The Post.
FactCheck : http://www.inveneo. org/
"These projects are being sponsored by a US consortium; Advanced Micro Devices, AMD, in collaboration with African Partnership for Development, NEPAD. Cameroon is one of the 20 countries sharing in this initiative, which is also supported by the UN.
The various partners have put together a package of computer equipments, Internet access and training/educationa l materials on a variety of subjects, which will be installed in three different locations of Cameroon," Marsh explained.
According to Marsh, the digital divide between Africa and the West will close soonest. "It's already changing. There is the explosion of the availability of mobile phones. The growth rate of the mobile phones is highest in Africa. The market is exploding in every part of Africa. The people in Africa want better communication," he said.
He said considering continuity and maintenance, they are training five Cameroonian partners before embarking on the installations so that they can have the minimum expertise in all the areas required to carry out the work, especially in the remote areas.
The ITCs would include new methods of sight surveys, setting up of solar panels and void (intercommunication in local areas). Robert Marsh, Vice-President Engineering and Co-Founder, INVENEO, a US-based NGO, made this revelation to The Post.
FactCheck : http://www.inveneo. org/
"These projects are being sponsored by a US consortium; Advanced Micro Devices, AMD, in collaboration with African Partnership for Development, NEPAD. Cameroon is one of the 20 countries sharing in this initiative, which is also supported by the UN.
The various partners have put together a package of computer equipments, Internet access and training/educationa l materials on a variety of subjects, which will be installed in three different locations of Cameroon," Marsh explained.
According to Marsh, the digital divide between Africa and the West will close soonest. "It's already changing. There is the explosion of the availability of mobile phones. The growth rate of the mobile phones is highest in Africa. The market is exploding in every part of Africa. The people in Africa want better communication," he said.
He said considering continuity and maintenance, they are training five Cameroonian partners before embarking on the installations so that they can have the minimum expertise in all the areas required to carry out the work, especially in the remote areas.
Africa : Undersea Cable Buoys Continent’s Digital Prospects
Africa, the world’s least plugged-in continent, is moving closer to reliable telecommunications and affordable Internet access.
Construction of a 10,000-kilometre undersea fibre-optic cable connecting 21 East, Southern, and Central African countries to West Africa and Europe is to begin next month following the announcement Monday that the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and others have come up with 70.7 million dollars in financing for the project.
"The project will transform the African telecommunication landscape and have a direct positive impact on business in East Africa," Lars Thunell, chief executive at the World Bank’s private sector arm, said Monday.
In much of the developing world, digital communications have enabled school and college students to study in virtual libraries and to visit counterparts in other countries. Businesses have harnessed the Internet to reach offshore customers and suppliers and to obtain management know-how and language training, among other things. Farmers in remote regions have been able to check market prices for seed, fertiliser, and their produce — giving them new power over fee-seeking intermediaries.
In Africa, however, the Internet reaches only four percent of the population and users pay the planet’s highest fees to connect at the slowest speeds — when the continent’s notoriously erratic electricity supply and satellite connections permit. The situation is worst in the countries to be served by the new cable.
The East Africa Submarine Cable System, or EASSy, is intended to change all this. Once completed, it is expected to provide digital access to 250 million people, or one in four Africans.
Consumers along Africa’s east coast typically pay 200-300 dollars a month for Internet access, the IFC said. EASSy will cut the cost by two-thirds at the outset and the number of subscribers will triple, it said.
"Because the project gives open access to service providers, prices will fall further as volume and competition increase," it added in a statement.
The cable will run along the floor of the western Indian Ocean and connect South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti and Sudan. At its southern end, it will join cables serving West Africa and Europe.
Thirteen adjoining countries will be linked to the system as additional networks are completed through a broader World Bank initiative. These countries are Botswana, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The IFC said it would provide 18.2 million dollars out of 70.7 million dollars in long-term loans sought by the EASSy consortium of companies. The rest would come from the African Development Bank, European Investment Bank, German development bank KfW, and French development bank AFD. The European Union also would provide some financing.
The international lenders are channeling their financing through the West Indian Ocean Cable Company Ltd., formed specifically for the project, the IFC said.
Most of the money for the 235-million-dollar project is to come from 25 private telecommunications operators that make up the 29-company EASSy consortium, the others being government entities. Of the private firms, 21 are African and these will be the cable’s main users, the IFC said.
French firm Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks is to lay the cable. Firms from Britain, India, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States also are taking part in the venture, according to business documents.
West Africa already enjoys relatively high-speed and low-cost connections to international telecommunications and the Internet through an existing undersea cable. Yet for the most part, according to government and industry sources, Internet usage rates have stalled in the single digits.
Power shortages are partly to blame. In September, the IFC and World Bank launched a separate effort to promote modern and affordable power using products not hostage to fossil fuels or the continent’s lamentable electricity grid.
Beyond infrastructure constraints, industry and development sources long have said that efforts to propagate information technology are stymied by low literacy rates and government curbs against citizens’ online access and activities.
Even those who make it to the information superhighway frequently find the Western Web sites beyond reach or almost impossible to navigate because these are rich in video and sound and cater mainly to users with not only broadband connections but also top-of-the-line processors in their computers.
source:http://www.cipaco.org/spip.php?article1522
Construction of a 10,000-kilometre undersea fibre-optic cable connecting 21 East, Southern, and Central African countries to West Africa and Europe is to begin next month following the announcement Monday that the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and others have come up with 70.7 million dollars in financing for the project.
"The project will transform the African telecommunication landscape and have a direct positive impact on business in East Africa," Lars Thunell, chief executive at the World Bank’s private sector arm, said Monday.
In much of the developing world, digital communications have enabled school and college students to study in virtual libraries and to visit counterparts in other countries. Businesses have harnessed the Internet to reach offshore customers and suppliers and to obtain management know-how and language training, among other things. Farmers in remote regions have been able to check market prices for seed, fertiliser, and their produce — giving them new power over fee-seeking intermediaries.
In Africa, however, the Internet reaches only four percent of the population and users pay the planet’s highest fees to connect at the slowest speeds — when the continent’s notoriously erratic electricity supply and satellite connections permit. The situation is worst in the countries to be served by the new cable.
The East Africa Submarine Cable System, or EASSy, is intended to change all this. Once completed, it is expected to provide digital access to 250 million people, or one in four Africans.
Consumers along Africa’s east coast typically pay 200-300 dollars a month for Internet access, the IFC said. EASSy will cut the cost by two-thirds at the outset and the number of subscribers will triple, it said.
"Because the project gives open access to service providers, prices will fall further as volume and competition increase," it added in a statement.
The cable will run along the floor of the western Indian Ocean and connect South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti and Sudan. At its southern end, it will join cables serving West Africa and Europe.
Thirteen adjoining countries will be linked to the system as additional networks are completed through a broader World Bank initiative. These countries are Botswana, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The IFC said it would provide 18.2 million dollars out of 70.7 million dollars in long-term loans sought by the EASSy consortium of companies. The rest would come from the African Development Bank, European Investment Bank, German development bank KfW, and French development bank AFD. The European Union also would provide some financing.
The international lenders are channeling their financing through the West Indian Ocean Cable Company Ltd., formed specifically for the project, the IFC said.
Most of the money for the 235-million-dollar project is to come from 25 private telecommunications operators that make up the 29-company EASSy consortium, the others being government entities. Of the private firms, 21 are African and these will be the cable’s main users, the IFC said.
French firm Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks is to lay the cable. Firms from Britain, India, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States also are taking part in the venture, according to business documents.
West Africa already enjoys relatively high-speed and low-cost connections to international telecommunications and the Internet through an existing undersea cable. Yet for the most part, according to government and industry sources, Internet usage rates have stalled in the single digits.
Power shortages are partly to blame. In September, the IFC and World Bank launched a separate effort to promote modern and affordable power using products not hostage to fossil fuels or the continent’s lamentable electricity grid.
Beyond infrastructure constraints, industry and development sources long have said that efforts to propagate information technology are stymied by low literacy rates and government curbs against citizens’ online access and activities.
Even those who make it to the information superhighway frequently find the Western Web sites beyond reach or almost impossible to navigate because these are rich in video and sound and cater mainly to users with not only broadband connections but also top-of-the-line processors in their computers.
source:http://www.cipaco.org/spip.php?article1522
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Entrepreneurship: Coming Soon- One Stop Clearinghouse for Business Creation
Entrepreneurship: Coming Soon- One Stop Clearinghouse for Business Creation
It is set to see the light of day during the National Forum of Private Entrepreneurship and of SME/SMI which will be held December 6 and 7th, in Yaoundé.
It is an open secret; enterprise creation in Cameroon remains a hard slog both for nationals and for foreign investors. Without exaggerating, experts maintain that it would take almost 400 days for any entrepreneur to complete the administrative formalities required for the formal registration of a company. And among the causes of this administrative burden, an accusatory finger is quickly pointed at corruption, from actors in both the public and private sectors. The initiative for a national forum on entrepreneurship, with the backing of Pme-Impacts, a Cameroonian civil society organization, is born from this state of affairs. The forum is primarily geared towards putting in place a pilot one-stop clearinghouse for enterprise creation. The 10 day experience at the Palais des congrès in Yaoundé which takes place alongside this forum, would, according to its organizers, allow all the project backers to benefit from the administrative and financial facilities on a much shorter time frame. Given that one of the determining factor in enterprise creation remains the facilitation administrative procedures.
Even more , it would be an opportunity fro the president of Pme-Impacts, Christiane Mantey, “to inform project promoters about the existing modalities for enterprise creation, while trying to bring concrete solutions to the problems faced by entrepreneurs in the daily management of their activities”.
The National Forum on Entrepreneurship and for SME/SMI is hosted in collaboration with Projet Choc! (Changer d’Habitude, s’Opposer à la Corruption), upon recommendation of a mission from the members nations of the OECD(Organization Economic Cooperation and Development) to address corruption in Cameroon , in July 2006. It was championed by the prime Minister who by his involvement, according to organizers, his governmental team would be involved in the setting up of a true clearinghouse in 2008 through the intervention of the ministries of Justice, Finance, Labor and Social Security, of SMEs, and of the Social Economy and Crafts of the CNPS.
It is set to see the light of day during the National Forum of Private Entrepreneurship and of SME/SMI which will be held December 6 and 7th, in Yaoundé.
It is an open secret; enterprise creation in Cameroon remains a hard slog both for nationals and for foreign investors. Without exaggerating, experts maintain that it would take almost 400 days for any entrepreneur to complete the administrative formalities required for the formal registration of a company. And among the causes of this administrative burden, an accusatory finger is quickly pointed at corruption, from actors in both the public and private sectors. The initiative for a national forum on entrepreneurship, with the backing of Pme-Impacts, a Cameroonian civil society organization, is born from this state of affairs. The forum is primarily geared towards putting in place a pilot one-stop clearinghouse for enterprise creation. The 10 day experience at the Palais des congrès in Yaoundé which takes place alongside this forum, would, according to its organizers, allow all the project backers to benefit from the administrative and financial facilities on a much shorter time frame. Given that one of the determining factor in enterprise creation remains the facilitation administrative procedures.
Even more , it would be an opportunity fro the president of Pme-Impacts, Christiane Mantey, “to inform project promoters about the existing modalities for enterprise creation, while trying to bring concrete solutions to the problems faced by entrepreneurs in the daily management of their activities”.
The National Forum on Entrepreneurship and for SME/SMI is hosted in collaboration with Projet Choc! (Changer d’Habitude, s’Opposer à la Corruption), upon recommendation of a mission from the members nations of the OECD(Organization Economic Cooperation and Development) to address corruption in Cameroon , in July 2006. It was championed by the prime Minister who by his involvement, according to organizers, his governmental team would be involved in the setting up of a true clearinghouse in 2008 through the intervention of the ministries of Justice, Finance, Labor and Social Security, of SMEs, and of the Social Economy and Crafts of the CNPS.
Energy: USD$88.1Million to help boost growth
Jean David Bilé is all smiles. At the end of a long process of negotiations with various banking institutions operating across Cameroon , Aes-Sonel, the company in charge of production and distribution of electric energy which he runs has, in effect, pulled off a very important deal. It is a loan of about 39,3 milliards Fcfa (USD$88.1Milion) granted by a consortium of banks including Standard Chartered Bank (10 Billion Fcfa), Afriland First Bank (10 Billion Fcfa), Bicec (8 Billion Fcfa), Ecobank (6,3 Billion Fcfa) and Crédit Agricole Scb Cameroun (5 Billion Fcfa).
A convention to this effect was signed yesterday, Tuesday December 4 2007, at the Aes-Sonel headquarters in Douala . An accord which, according to the presentation by the General-Director of Aes-Sonel, would contribute to towards financing the thermal substations at Dibamba and at Kribi. The first, a heavy-fuel facility, would have a nominal capacity of 86 megawatts, for a cost of about 52 Billion Fcfa(USD$116.6Million).According to estimates, It should come into service around the months of January 2009.
As for the second, the gaz substation at Kribi, its capacity is estimated at roughly 150 megawatts. The project will be tied to the setting up of a transportation line 225 kilovolts drawn over 100 kilometers. The construction of the Kribi gaz substation requires a budget of 90 Billion Fcfa(USD$202Million), and should come online in January of 2010. The 39,3 Billion loan grated by the bank is, so to speak, a contribution towards the overall investment required of 145 Billion Fcfa expected by Aes-Sonel, and which would have to be realized by the Kribi Project Development Company (Kpdc), a subsidiary of Aes (56%) and the Cameroon government (44%). The construction of the Dibamba and Kribi substations, according to Aes-Sonel, “will allow us to supply Cameroon’s electric grid with supplementary capacity of 230 megawatts ; which would be an increase in the available power of about 25% before 2010”.
Investments
Through its various investments, Aes-Sonel is therefore pursuing an alternative which will cost its dearly: a diversification of its energy sources, in order to “free itself from influences in climate”. According to Jean David Bilé, “This project will allow us to bring some diversity to our production sources, through combustibles, while providing an opportunity for the development of Sanaga Sud , one of the major gaz fields Offshore from Cameroon . The project will also provide for additional capacity to support industrial expansion, including that of Alucam, to satisfy demand in the public sector, which grows by 6% each year, and which is expected to continue growing at the same rate over the coming years”.
The loan convention signed yesterday comes within the context of a visit to Aes-Sonel, between December 3rd and 7th ,2007, of a sixty-member delegation of international lenders, who represented many financial institutions. The goal of this visit, as some information published several days ago reveals, is to evaluate the construction projects at the Dibamba and Kribi substations. This delegation of lenders were scheduled to meet with several members of government this Wednesday in Yaoundé; as well as with officials from the Electricity Regulation Agency (Arsel), the National Hydrocarbons Company(SNH) , from Perenco and from Alucam. At the end of these exchanges, the group of lenders could, in turn, disburse an envelope of 290 millions dollars (approximately 128,6 Billion Fcfa) to Aes-Sonel. The goal, in the end, being to “Urgently resolve the risk of an energy deficit and to contribute towards beating back the specter of power outages …"
A convention to this effect was signed yesterday, Tuesday December 4 2007, at the Aes-Sonel headquarters in Douala . An accord which, according to the presentation by the General-Director of Aes-Sonel, would contribute to towards financing the thermal substations at Dibamba and at Kribi. The first, a heavy-fuel facility, would have a nominal capacity of 86 megawatts, for a cost of about 52 Billion Fcfa(USD$116.6Million).According to estimates, It should come into service around the months of January 2009.
As for the second, the gaz substation at Kribi, its capacity is estimated at roughly 150 megawatts. The project will be tied to the setting up of a transportation line 225 kilovolts drawn over 100 kilometers. The construction of the Kribi gaz substation requires a budget of 90 Billion Fcfa(USD$202Million), and should come online in January of 2010. The 39,3 Billion loan grated by the bank is, so to speak, a contribution towards the overall investment required of 145 Billion Fcfa expected by Aes-Sonel, and which would have to be realized by the Kribi Project Development Company (Kpdc), a subsidiary of Aes (56%) and the Cameroon government (44%). The construction of the Dibamba and Kribi substations, according to Aes-Sonel, “will allow us to supply Cameroon’s electric grid with supplementary capacity of 230 megawatts ; which would be an increase in the available power of about 25% before 2010”.
Investments
Through its various investments, Aes-Sonel is therefore pursuing an alternative which will cost its dearly: a diversification of its energy sources, in order to “free itself from influences in climate”. According to Jean David Bilé, “This project will allow us to bring some diversity to our production sources, through combustibles, while providing an opportunity for the development of Sanaga Sud , one of the major gaz fields Offshore from Cameroon . The project will also provide for additional capacity to support industrial expansion, including that of Alucam, to satisfy demand in the public sector, which grows by 6% each year, and which is expected to continue growing at the same rate over the coming years”.
The loan convention signed yesterday comes within the context of a visit to Aes-Sonel, between December 3rd and 7th ,2007, of a sixty-member delegation of international lenders, who represented many financial institutions. The goal of this visit, as some information published several days ago reveals, is to evaluate the construction projects at the Dibamba and Kribi substations. This delegation of lenders were scheduled to meet with several members of government this Wednesday in Yaoundé; as well as with officials from the Electricity Regulation Agency (Arsel), the National Hydrocarbons Company(SNH) , from Perenco and from Alucam. At the end of these exchanges, the group of lenders could, in turn, disburse an envelope of 290 millions dollars (approximately 128,6 Billion Fcfa) to Aes-Sonel. The goal, in the end, being to “Urgently resolve the risk of an energy deficit and to contribute towards beating back the specter of power outages …"
Innovation-Cameroon’ s First Scientific Festival
The very first festival of Science and Technology opened yesterday in Yaoundé. The initiative of a Cameroonian Organization is supported French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Science and its applications contribute to the socio-economic development of countries and towards the protection of their environment. Scientific technical know-how has to leave the laboratories and transmitted in greater numbers." François Ndoum Samnick, president of the Organisation for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Culture (Copcst), during the press conference which he gave last Thursday, in Yaoundé, at a prelude to the holding, between December 4 to 10, at the Chamber of Agriculture, of the very first Yaoundé Science and Technology Festival (Festy). Organized with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Institute for Research and Development (IRD), the Yaoundé Science and Technology Festival (Festy) has a goal of encouraging scientific and technical debates based on the bland facts and actions from daily life.
The official opening ceremony took place yesterday, midday, in the absence of Cameroonian authorities. The French party that supported the festival was present through the representative of the French Foreign Affairs Ministry, the French Ambassador’s representative and the resident representative of IRD in Cameroon. She highlighted the need for the emergence of a Scientific Culture in a developing country like Cameroon. As for the representative from the French Foreign Affairs Ministry, the festival hosted by Organization for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Culture, is an event which has been held for many years in France, under the banner of “Fête de la science”. Other African countries, like Togo and Senegal, already host a science festival. And the goal of these events, she explains, allows them to raise the issues relating to scientific development, to multiply the linkages between scientists and the public.
For the promoters of Festy, the scientific culture remains largely undefined in the global outlook of Cameroon. This situation persists because of certain parameters: the poor communication between the areas of research and the broader public because of the hermetic language used by scientists, the very weak attention which the medias grants to scientists; within the lycées and collèges, the youth shy away from scientific fields of study. In hoes of improving the linkages and mediators between the public and the scientists, on one hand, between scientists and decision-makers, on the other, the festival which last until Friday, will have the benefit of bringing together on the same location both scientists and the broader public to talk about science and technology as factors in socio-economic development.
Many exchanges are planned under this platform according to an agenda established by the organizers. Specialists from different domains will present exposés, documentaries, reports and even fictions. But, already, on the stands of the exposition yesterday, researchers exposed some accomplishments, ranging from the transformation of some agro-food products, to various technological demonstrations. Papayas, dried Ndolé, etc. Other stands are hosted by environmental organizations. Today, a exposé by the Ministry of Secondary Education is expected on the theme: “Technical Education for Sustainable Development" . Also planned is a video presentation by Anafor on the theme: "Reforestation of Cameroon Woodlands, the urgency for action".
"Science and its applications contribute to the socio-economic development of countries and towards the protection of their environment. Scientific technical know-how has to leave the laboratories and transmitted in greater numbers." François Ndoum Samnick, president of the Organisation for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Culture (Copcst), during the press conference which he gave last Thursday, in Yaoundé, at a prelude to the holding, between December 4 to 10, at the Chamber of Agriculture, of the very first Yaoundé Science and Technology Festival (Festy). Organized with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Institute for Research and Development (IRD), the Yaoundé Science and Technology Festival (Festy) has a goal of encouraging scientific and technical debates based on the bland facts and actions from daily life.
The official opening ceremony took place yesterday, midday, in the absence of Cameroonian authorities. The French party that supported the festival was present through the representative of the French Foreign Affairs Ministry, the French Ambassador’s representative and the resident representative of IRD in Cameroon. She highlighted the need for the emergence of a Scientific Culture in a developing country like Cameroon. As for the representative from the French Foreign Affairs Ministry, the festival hosted by Organization for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Culture, is an event which has been held for many years in France, under the banner of “Fête de la science”. Other African countries, like Togo and Senegal, already host a science festival. And the goal of these events, she explains, allows them to raise the issues relating to scientific development, to multiply the linkages between scientists and the public.
For the promoters of Festy, the scientific culture remains largely undefined in the global outlook of Cameroon. This situation persists because of certain parameters: the poor communication between the areas of research and the broader public because of the hermetic language used by scientists, the very weak attention which the medias grants to scientists; within the lycées and collèges, the youth shy away from scientific fields of study. In hoes of improving the linkages and mediators between the public and the scientists, on one hand, between scientists and decision-makers, on the other, the festival which last until Friday, will have the benefit of bringing together on the same location both scientists and the broader public to talk about science and technology as factors in socio-economic development.
Many exchanges are planned under this platform according to an agenda established by the organizers. Specialists from different domains will present exposés, documentaries, reports and even fictions. But, already, on the stands of the exposition yesterday, researchers exposed some accomplishments, ranging from the transformation of some agro-food products, to various technological demonstrations. Papayas, dried Ndolé, etc. Other stands are hosted by environmental organizations. Today, a exposé by the Ministry of Secondary Education is expected on the theme: “Technical Education for Sustainable Development" . Also planned is a video presentation by Anafor on the theme: "Reforestation of Cameroon Woodlands, the urgency for action".
Friday, November 30, 2007
StratoComm lands $45M contract
StratoComm Corp., an Albany, N.Y., developer of telecommunications products, has landed a contract worth $45 million for equipment and services in Cameroon.
StratoComm is selling its equipment and services to Airseal International Cameroon, an Internet service provider. Airseal made the purchase as part of its plan to expand its coverage area and improve its quality and reliability.
"StratoComm's innovative technology represents the answer to solving the cruel infrastructure problems plaguing developing countries, thereby enabling them to bridge the daunting 'digital divide,'" said William Tallah, Airseal's director general.
Roger Shearer, StratoComm's CEO, said the contract "validates StratoComm's market development strategy."
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