Microsoft 4Africa Initiative, WP8 4Afrika inakuja

Kang · 2013-02-06T14:00:54+00:00

By 2016, the Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative intends to: - help place tens of millions of smart devices in the hands of African youth, - bring 1 million African small and medium enterprises (SMEs) online, and - help 200 000 Africans develop skills for entrepreneurship and employability. This will include up-skilling 100,000 members of the existing workforce, as well as training 100,000 recent graduates, 75 percent of whom we intend to help place in jobs. Microsoft and Huawei today introduced the Huawei 4Afrika phone, a full-functionality Windows Phone 8 preloaded with select applications designed for Africa, by Africans. The Huawei 4Afrika phone, which is the first in what will be a series of 4Afrika smart devices, will be targeted toward university students, developers and first-time smart phone users to ensure they have affordable access to best-in-class technology... We are also partnering with the Kenyan Ministry of Information and Communications and Kenyan Internet Service Provider Indigo Telecom Ltd. to deliver low-cost, high-speed wireless broadband across Kenya. Using solar-powered base stations together with TV white spaces, a technology partially developed by Microsoft Research, this project will deliver high-speed Internet access to areas currently lacking even basic electricity. We aim to implement similar pilots in East and Southern Africa in the coming months to further explore the commercial feasibility of white space technologies. Habari kamili Prioritising Africa

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Start date Feb 6, 2013

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