Africa`s lack of telecommunications infrastructure is the most important economic issue currently holding back the continent`s development, said Sean Moroney, group chairman of AITEC Africa, at yesterday`s opening of the ACT summit in Pretoria.

AITEC Africa

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Telecoms

Sept 7, 2000

Community of Africa Regulators launched

Telecommunications regulators from 12 African countries have launched a Community of African Regulators at the recent ACT 2000 Summit held at Sun City.

ACT 2000 wraps up

On day four of ACT 2000, delegates are still soaking up as much information as possible. Although several events didn`t go quite as planned, all the stakeholders are happy, and will return to ACT 2001.

Retail to e-tail in three years flat

ACT 2000 has provided an ideal opportunity to learn from others. Matthew White describes his small business` journey onto the Internet, passing out advice to small and medium enterprises along the way.

E-handel vir Afrika

Die eerste dag van die African Computing and Technology spitskonferensie (ACT 2000) het afgeskop met `n volle sitting en "E-commerce - Hype or Reality?" as besprekingspunt. Die direkteur-generaal van die Departement van Kommunikasie, Andile Ngcaba, het ook sy idees aan die sitting voorgel^e.

Basheera Khan