Experts bank on mobile technology to fight disease

Tanzania is yet to benefit from mobile phone technology in the fight against malaria. Handsets, which were previously used for only calling and sending short text messages, are now used in improving the quality of life socially and economically.

>Agricultural scientists and other experts from across Africa are meeting in Nairobi today to discuss the threat posed by a maize disease to food security on the continent.

>An international team of scientists will conduct lectures, seminars, case studies and hands-on sessions during a symposium to be held at the Morogoro-based Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) from today.

In Tanzania, using mobile technology to reunite families
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KIGOMA, United Republic of Tanzania, 5 August 2015 – Louis Cubahiro, 17, recently arrived in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania, after he fled the volatile situation in Burundi. “There was chaos,” he says. Read complete article. © Unicef - Wednesday ...

UNICEF Tanzania’s Representative a.i., Paul Edwards and Freddie Manento, CEO of Push Mobile, sign a partnership to send life-saving information on cholera by SMS to over 10 million Tanzanian mobile users. (Credits: UNICEF Tanzania/2015/Bisin).

Today, Tanzania’s Government, UNICEF and Push Mobile, a mobile communication company providing SMS aggregation services across all the available mobile networks in Tanzania, have signed a partnership to reach over 10 million Tanzanian mobile users...

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With smartphone penetration ramping up across Africa, the continent’s businesses have an opportunity to use mobile technology to become more efficient, productive, and responsive in the way they do business.

According to the Ericsson Mobility Report for 2015 (http://www.apo.af/uwS8Ft), there were more than 910 million mobile subscriptions in Africa by the first quarter of 2015. A growing number of these mobile users are now walking around with powerful smart devices that give them access to...

The news story that two teachers in Ngorongoro District have been caught writing national Form Four exams for their pupils is disturbing but not surprising.  Why, modern-day Tanzania is experiencing what educationist Ronald Dore (1976) cynically described as diploma disease.

Push Mobile Managing Director, Freddie Manento (L) exchange documents contract with Apalya Technologies International Business, Rishabh Gunjal, Apalya to provide best-in-class mobile video solutions across East and Central Africa. 
Dar es Salaam. Tanzania’s leading interactive mobile communications technology provider, Push Mobile has partnered with Apalya Technologies, South Asia’s leading technology platform provider to enhance mobile video and live TV streaming experience in Tanzania and...