IT Management

A year after a group of venture capitalists partnered to form Venture Capital for Africa (VC4Africa), their move to back a lab in Somaliland comes as a sign that tech entrepreneur funding in Africa is moving beyond traditional hubs like Johannesburg, Nairobi, Lagos and Accra.  read more »

"A city is made of man-made systems" says Tony Mwai, General Manager IBM who describes a city as a system of systems where each of them has its own information needs.  read more »

Microsoft allegedly paid a female executive more than £1 million to buy her silence after she was passed over for promotion to become the software giant's UK managing director, according to the Daily Telegraph.  read more »

In July 2005, a series of suicide bomb attacks in London's transit system killed 56 people and threw the city into a state of confusion. The U.S.-based CEO of a multinational financial company with offices in London posed what to him seemed a simple and essential question: "Are all our people OK?"  read more »

Does the IT department in the workplace need rules, or is its role relegated to the basement as portrayed in the UK sitcom, "The IT Crowd"?  read more »

The newly published Global Innovation Index 2011 report ranks 125 countries/economies across the world in terms of their innovation capabilities and results. The Report highlights those countries that achieve more innovation outputs surmounting weaknesses from the input side -- the efficient innovators -- and those that lag behind in fulfilling their innovation potential. Innovation performances are analyzed in reference to the income and regional groups.  read more »

CIOs would hire more foreign IT workers if they could more easily compare qualifications  read more »

The April edition of CIO East Africa publication has featured results from our first State of the CIO survey in the region. The objective was to understand the CIO; their business role, where they stand as individuals including their annual remuneration, how they see the future and their corporate spend as a percentage of revenues.  read more »

The European Commission has been accused of favoritism in handing out its IT contracts as it looks set to move to Microsoft Windows 7 without holding a public tender.  read more »

On the 21 of February 2011, a team of consultants from the IBM's Corporate Service Corps programme arrived in Nairobi for a one-month project in Nyeri. They worked alongside the Kenya ICT Board, the Kenya e-Government initiative, the Ministry of Information and Communication and the Postal Corporation of Kenya on a number of initiatives to help meet key ICT objectives laid out in the Vision 2030 plan.  read more »