Eutelsat Communications’ HOTBIRD video hotspot has been selected by Travel Africa Network for the broadcast of its first High Definition African travel channel, with 100% African content dedicated to promoting tourism and hospitality in Africa.
Read More »Researchers Harness Satellite Imagery And AI To Help Fight Poverty In Africa
Stanford University scholars Marshall Burke, David Lobell and Stefano Ermon have spent the past five years leading a team of researchers to home in on an efficient way to find and track impoverished zones across Africa.
Read More »GuarantCo And PIDG Technical Assistance Support Kacific In Covid-19 Response
GuarantCo, with funding from the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) Technical Assistance, is providing a US$500,000 grant to support Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific) efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by distributing satellite communication systems. These systems will allow free connections of up to 1,000 rural health posts and …
Read More »GSMA Opens Innovation Fund For Mobile Internet Adoption And Digital Inclusion And Calls For Applications
The Global System for Global Communications Association (GSMA) has opened applications for the Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption and Digital Inclusion.
Read More »Songhai Labs And SatSure AG Announce Strategic Partnership
Songhai Labs, a knowledge broker platform based in Cameroon, and SatSure, a satellite precision company headquartered in Switzerland and with offices in India, UK, and Australia, have announced a strategic partnership.
Read More »SatADSL And YahClick Unite Efforts To Steer Sub-Saharan Africa Across The Digital Divide
SatADSL – the Brussels-based provider of satellite services – has partnered with YahClick to enhance its connectivity offering across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Read More »Space Café WebTalk Recap: “33 minutes with Carla Sharpe”
This week's Space Café WebTalk took place on 14 April 2020, featuring Carla Sharpe, Business Manager at SKA South Africa, in conversation with Torsten Kriening, co-publisher of SpaceWatch.Global and COO of ThorGroup GmbH.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Opinion: The Importance Of Space Science And Technology In Africa
Space science and space exploration are generally undertaken for the benefit of humanity and thus are normally regarded as a public good provided at a cost to national governments.
Read More »Mauritanian Satellite Services Provider CSS And Forsway Join Forces To Boost West African Broadband Connectivity
CSS, a West African communications services provider with 20 years of experience supplying critical satellite and broadband services, together with Forsway, a leading provider of innovative solutions tapping satellite and existing terrestrial technologies to enable cost-efficient broadband, announced on 7 April 2020 the next phase of their cooperation in Mauritania to deliver affordable broadband in West Africa.
Read More »Konnect Africa To Connect Schools In The Democratic Republic Of Congo With High Speed Internet
Konnect Africa, a subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications, Schoolap and Flash Services announced on 23 March 2020 a Memorandum of Understanding to connect several thousand schools across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the Internet as part of the Schoolap project.
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