The year it was 2018. We tired to do our best to cover all the breathing bit of tech news around Africa and the world at large, but couldn’t exhaust it all. With thousands of the news we reported throughout the year, our editor picked out 12, one each month that we thought stood up…
The year it was 2018. We tired to do our best to cover all the breathing bit of tech news around Africa and the world at large, but couldn’t exhaust it all. With thousands of the news we reported throughout the year, our editor picked out 12, one each month that we thought stood up for us.
We thank you all for your continued support to reading our content, and we can do it this year as well.
Here are some of the stories that stood up in each month.
January: NITA-U addresses issues on the NBI – missing links project procurement process
The National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U) came out to clarify that the recent media reports that allude to impropriety in the Missing Links bidding process are false and unsubstantiated.
Whilst ill-fated, the originators of the false news around the National Backbone Infrastructure, Missing Links Project, noticeably intent on downplaying Uganda’s progress in achieving widespread connectivity and significantly lowered internet bandwidth costs to Ugandan individuals and organizations over the last ten years ( goo.gl/JFh63e).
Honorable mention: Facebook warned its users that it could offer no assurance that social media was on balance good for democracy ( goo.gl/TCr7zi).
February: SpaceX successfully launched its first test satellites
SpaceX successfully launched and deployed its first two test satellites for Starlink Broadband Project, the rocket company’s own constellation of thousands of communications satellites that aims to provide worldwide broadband internet access by 2024.
If the project is successful, people around the world would get internet that’s about 40 times as fast as current satellite internet providers, even in very remote and rural areas ( goo.gl/1c2kEp).
March: Facebook apologizes – Cambridge Analytica scandal
Facebook took out full-page ads in US and UK newspapers in recent days for CEO Mark Zuckerberg to issue an apology to its users following the company’s role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Facebook was also forced to issue a statement defending its data-collection practices, following reports that users trying to delete their accounts were caught unaware of the amount of data the social network had on them ( goo.
