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New interim board for GAMTEL

The Secretary of State for Communications, Information and Information Technology, Mrs Fatim Badjie-Janneh, yesterday, presided over the inauguration of a new interim board of directors of the Gambia Telecommunication Company (GAMTEL), at a ceremony held at DoSCIIT building. The nine-member Board comprises of Katim Touray, former managing director of Gamtel as chairman and Mr Mustapha Njie (TAF), as vice chairman of the new board. Other members of the new board include Foday Ceesay, acting...

MOZAMBIQUE: "We keep going round until everyone knows a cyclone is coming"

CHIGUIDELE Friday, October 17, 2008 (IRIN) - Mozambique is struck by devastating floods and cyclones almost every year, but investments in preparedness, early warning and communication at community level are saving lives. With the start of "cyclone season" only a month away, Arlinda Cunah, 34, who lives in the village of Chilembende, runs through the emergency drill with community volunteers. "When there are cyclones I listen to the radio and wait for news. First I listen alone, and if there...

South Africa’s second satellite is a go

South Africa's satellite, Sumbandilasat, will take to the skies on theback of a Russian rocket launched from Kazakhstan on 25th of March nextyear. The small 80kg satellite, built at a cost of R25 million, will be thesecond satellite South Africa has sent into space.Nhlanhla Nyide, Chief Director of Communication at the Department ofScience and Technology, said that the satellite would offer theDepartment of Agriculture as well as the Department ofMinerals and Energy, the opportunity to study...

EGYPT: Risking death for new life in Italy

CAIRO Sunday, September 07, 2008 (IRIN) - Italy has long been a popular destination among young men in Nile Valley villages. Relatives save up money for each other and a transnational information and communication network facilitates the movement of migrants across the Mediterranean. Because about 95 percent of Egypt’s 74 million people live along the Nile Valley and in the Nile Delta on about 4 percent of the country’s land, the pressure to emigrate is significant. Soliman al-Alfy, editor of...

NFPG Communication Strategy Kicks Off

A three day national validation workshop on the study forthe communication strategies for the National Farmers Platform, The Gambia(NFPG) opened on Monday at the Jenoi Agricultural farmers Training centre inLower River Region (LRR). In his welcoming remarks, Deputy Governor LRR, Momodou KatimTouray, said the importance of the forum cannot be overemphasised because itavails the participants the opportunity to critically look at key issuescontained in the study conducted for the communication...

Journalists urged to be more committed

Madam Hannah Forster, executive Director of African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights studies has urged journalists and Civil service organisations to be extra committed with their work and to distance themselves from giving information that might incure public anger. Madam Forster had also commended the journalists for their pragmatic stands in disseminating factual information to the general public. Madam Forster made these remarks last Friday, at the end of three day sensitisation...

The cybercafé industry: Still booming?

About a decade ago, a very few Gambians knew of or used the internet. Then Gambians woke up to the reality of the information superhighway and a new industry was born. With the dawn of the 21st century, the budding industry began to grow with cybercafés sprouting all across the place, especially in the Greater Banjul Area. With more and more people logging onto the internet, internet cafes were seen as good business. Some of the cafes grew from very small centres of less than five computers to...

Gambia confirms cordial relationship with Spain

Following recent reports about the alleged deportation of some Gambian nationals from Spain, The Gambia government, through the Department of State for Communication, has issued a press release, apparently aimed at clarifying their position in the case. The release categorically affirmed the country’s commitment to the cordial relationship between the two friendly countries, apparently rebuffing distorted reports from the bad press about the real situation. Below we reproduce the full text of...

The Need for Effective Communication

It is atonce amusing and annoying to see the Lord Mayor of the KanifingMunicipality, Yankuba Colley, claiming that hisinfamous remark of sending erring butchers to the State Central Prisons at MileTwo was “understood out of context”. That is the standard reaction when publicofficials slip on banana skin. To his credit, he did not say he was quoted outof context. In hisrebuttal, the public relations and human resources manager of the KanifingMunicipal Council (KMC) Pa Kalifa Sanyang, is quoted...

The why of progress, Western, Asian, and African styles

During the second Africa Technology Policy Studies (ATPS) network annual general meeting (AGM) in Banjul in 2000, participants and invited guests had the chance to listen to two social scientists talk.  One was an American and the other a Japanese.  I would like to report what they said.  The American talked about Gambian society, which he admitted was new to him, while the Japanese was explained his own society.  The American gave his views about Gambian society and explained some of the...