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Mobile marketing summits set for Com World Series

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:05:00 +0200

Informa Telecom & Media and the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) have announced their partnership on a series of mobile marketing summits, to be held in association with the flagship series of digital events in Africa & the Middle East, Com World Series.
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R886m invested in varsity ICT

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:25:00 +0200

The Higher Education and Training Department says R886 million has been invested in connecting South African universities and public research organisations to each other at a minimum speed of 10 gigabits per second.
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Malawi-Zimbabwe twinning programme launches 'Brain Trust'

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:26:00 +0200

The Malawi-Zimbabwe Executive Twinning Programme, an innovative new WAN-IFRA project that matches two newspaper groups in Malawi with two newspaper groups in Zimbabwe for a series of exchanges including newspaper study tours, job shadowing and collaboration on business projects, entered a new phase with the launch of the Twinning Programme Brain Trust in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Journos train to make news out of numbers

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:56:00 +0200

Around twenty journalists completed a daylong training course in Lilongwe, Malawi on Friday 11 November 2011, where they learnt skills to turn data and numbers into news stories. The training, funded by the Hewlett Foundation through the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), enables journalists to use research and data to find and strengthen stories.
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Bizcommunity launches new dedicated sectors, newsletters

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:45:00 +0200

Bizcommunity.com - South Africa's largest online B2B publisher - is set to grow even more with the introduction of 16 new content channels, with weekly newsletters, as from yesterday Tuesday, 20 September 2011.
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2011 DStv Eutelsat Star Awards announce winners

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:46:00 +0200

MultiChoice Africa and Eutelsat in collaboration with Mindset Learn saw the first edition of the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards draw to an end last week with Ugandan student, Mary Musimire coming out top in the Best Entry Award category.
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MTN still supports African journalism after 10 years

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:22:00 +0200

While maintaining its decade-long relationship with the Highway Africa Conference, which starts in Cape Town, South Africa today, Friday, 16 September 2011, MTN has reaffirmed its commitment to the advancement of journalism and the media in Africa.
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Join the communication revolution at IABC Africa Conference

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:03:00 +0200

This years annual IABC Africa Conference, taking place 12-14 October 2011 at The Carousel Casino and Entertainment World, north of Pretoria, South Africa, will explore how local and international communicators are incorporating social media and digital tools into their communication strategies and campaigns.
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A focus on African media this weekend

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:53:00 +0200

An unprecedented summit of African media conferences take place Friday 16 September to Monday 19 September 2011: Highway Africa, Pan African Conference on Access to Information, Digital Citizens' Indaba, the African Forum for Media Development, various editors' forum meetings, and workshops for African journalism educators.
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CNBC Africa partners with Namibian Broadcast Corporation

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:37:00 +0200

CNBC Africa and the Namibian Broadcast Corporation (NBC) have sealed a partnership that will see quality business news content from the channel being broadcast across Namibia from September 2011. The agreement will also see CNBC Africa featuring more Namibian content on the 24/7 network across Sub-Sahara Africa.
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