Every year, more than 500 ICT professionals, students, lecturers and enthusiasts from all over the world gather at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa to showcase and discuss ICT innovations, developments and policies that relate to Internet governance and media for democracy.

The event is called Highway Africa and it has been running for the last eleven years. (more…)

Do you have half a million US dollars to spare? Well, if you do, you could be the proud owner of the domain Zimbabwe.com which goes on auction tomorrow (28 August 2008). While you’re at it you, may as well buy Zimbabwe.net, Zimbabwe.org or perhaps Zimbabwe.us Which are also on sale.

You may wonder, who on earth is selling these domains? How do they come to own them in the first place? (more…)

Find below the exciting programme for the eTourism Southern Africa Conference to be held in Johannesburg next month. (more…)

Online gurus from some of the biggest names in etourism and Internet marketing are lined up to present at the first ever etourism conference in Southern Africa which will be held in Johannesburg in September.

Google, Microsoft, WAYN, Expedia, Nightsbridge and Eye For Travel are some of the global Internet giants that will make presentations at the conference that is aimed to help businesses in Southern Africa gear up for the 2010 World Cup and the boom in tourism that is expected in the region leading up to, during and after the event. (more…)

The technology is supposed to be very simple. Someone somewhere in the world sends you some money via their closest Western Union office and in ten minutes time you can collect it from your local Western Union office.

That’s what Namatai Hamandishe was told by her husband who recently moved to the United Kingdom to look for work, as many Zimbabweans have done. So when he informed her after two months that he had sent her some Pounds from his first salary she got very excited and made plans to travel to the nearest Western Union office- 20km away in Harare. She and her five month old baby got onto a bus from the town of Chitungwiza very early one morning to go and collect the money. (more…)

Oscar Manduku

Zimbabwean entrepreneur, Oscar Manduku has written a book aimed at helping companies make the best use of the Internet. Here’s an exerpt.

Effective Communication for Sales
In these times of challenging economic conditions, businesses are being forced to find alternative means of communicating with stakeholders, especially customers. On the other hand, the subjects of Internet and websites are no longer painful ones as they were a few years ago. The distance between the consumer and the company is now being made shorter through websites, as more businesses in Zimbabwe are launching their businesses, products, and services on the “.CO.ZW” cyber landscape. (more…)

Find out how this web development innovation is changing the way websites are being built.

Here’s a parallel. Willowvale Mazda Motor industries in Harare does not build cars from scratch. They simply receive kits from the manufacturers and put the parts together to build a vehicle. Imagine being able to do that with a website- each time you build one, you don’t build it from scratch but simply take the parts you need out of a “box” and put them together.

Left: Wearing the same cap- Joomla is fast becoming a standard for Zimbabwean web developers

That’s what a content management system (CMS) can do for you and Zimbabwean web developers have fallen in love with one CMS in particular. It has a peculiar name, whose origins are African- Joomla!- with the exclamation mark. (more…)

NewZimbabwe.com has won two awards for Best Website and Best News Service at the inaugural ZimAwards held in Coventry over the weekend.

Left: NewZimbabwe.com editor Mduduzi Mathuthu

New Zimbabwe Media Group CEO Jeff Madzingo was on hand to receive the awards.
“This is for our readers who make it so worthwhile to expend effort trying to deliver the Zimbabwean story to every household around the world,” Madzingo said. (more…)