Internet-enabled infrastructures have been integrated all over Africa. However, there has not been a sufficient amount of attention dedicated to cybersecurity. Even though there is a significant increase in wireless technology and the internet, cybersecurity is not always ready to tackle the upcoming threats. Malawi is one of the countries that battle low internet access […]
TNM Plc has partnered with Malawi government to provide free Wi-Fi in selected public places across the country over a three-year period. The initiative is being implemented by Public Private Partnership Commission (PPPC) under the Digital Project Malawi and will lead to the setting up of 30 Wi-Fi hotspots including schools, libraries, hospitals and markets […]
Second Lady Mary Chilima, wife to vice-president Saulos Chilima has been unveiled by Plan International Malawi as the ambassador against online harassment against girls and young women. Madam Chilima who has since said there need to sensitive, especially young men, about respectful, appropriate communication online. “I am on social media and I have also been […]
Endless 265 media has beefed up its studios by procuring new equipment in a bid to meet the growing demand of professional live streaming services in the Covid-19 era. This youthful media startup has announced that it has upgraded from photography to offering professional live streaming services across the country. “We noticed that most artists […]
Digital rights envelop human and legal rights that allow people access to digital media as well as electronic devices and telecommunications networks. In the context of digital technologies, this concept is also related to the protection and realization of the right to privacy and freedom of expression, among other existing rights. Several countries have laws […]
Internet users have slammed telecommunications provider, TNM for announcing that it has reduced data cost by 70 per cent when in fact internet charges remain exorbitantly high. The internet users say what TNM has reduced is what is called ‘pay as you go,’ a facility a user uses direct airtime and not data bundle which […]
Ministry of Education Science and Technology and TelecomNetworks Malawi (TNM plc) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide free internet to learners following closure of schools due to coronavirus (Covid-19) threat. The signing ceremony took place at the Sunbird Capital Hotel in the Capital Lilongwe on Tuesday April 21 2020. President Peter Mutharika, […]
Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) on Friday said it had made significant progress in raising awareness on cybercrimes despite a short period of Macra assuming the role of regulating online issues. Macra deputy director of Legal Consumer Affairs, Thokozani Chimbe made the revelation during the commemorations of this year’s Safer Internet Day (SID) which falls […]
The popular photo ageing app called FaceApp, currently trending in Malawi again, is coming under fire may be exposing its users to its Russian developers. The ‘FaceApp’ takes your picture and re-imagines you with an extra 50 years on the clock. But while the makeovers are funny and eerily correct, using the FaceApp means you might be […]
A Malawian shop-keeper is nursing his wounds in Dowa after his Asian employer roughed him up on Thursday for surfing on internet during working hours. It is said that the Asian shop owner, only identified as Imran, who runs his business at Mponela was not amused that his worker was surfing internet and checking Facebook […]
A team of officials for popular social media platform Facebook are in Lilongwe meeting stakeholders in communications including Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) on how to deal with fake accounts popularly known locally as Zigoba and fake news. The Facebook officials are soliciting views on how best to deal with the issue as well as identify […]
The days when people believed that pictures do not lie are long gone. We are now in the age of mass information manipulation, mass distribution and redistribution of information; new telecommunication technologies have made all this possible. Technology has significantly changed the way societies consume news and information. Unfortunately, misinformation has emerged as one of […]
The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) Corporate Communications Manager, Clara Mwafulirwa has warned that the authority would punish all abusers of the internet because doing so was contravening the cybercrime Act. Mwafulirwa was speakin in an Interview on the sidelines of the first ever commemoration of Safer Internet Day (2019) coupled with responsibility of looking […]
Twenty two years after the establishment of the country’s first Internet Service Provider (ISP), the country lags behind its regional neighbours in terms of the promotion and protection of digital rights mainly due to its legal and policy frameworks, which tend to treat the Internet as a luxury and therefore, a privilege of the few. […]
Minister of Information and Communications Technology, Nicholas Dausi has reaffirmed government’s commitment to connect the country’s rural areas with internet through constituency tele-centres. He made the remarks on Friday when he opened Mpemba tele-centre in Blantyre which is one of the 31 constituency centres to be commissioned this year. Dausi said unlike in the past, […]
As part of its quest to contribute towards the country’s economic growth through mobile telecoms and ICT, TNM Plc has announced the commissioning of an additional 200 new network sites which are replete with internet data capability. TNM’s Head of Radio Access Network (RAN) Jonathan Pinifolo said the additional sites roll out project has been […]
Malawi has created conditions necessary to facilitate its entry into the digital economy, Minister of Information and Communications Technology Nicholas Dausi has told an international forum. Making a presentation on Tuesday during the Innovation Africa Digital Summit 2018 taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the minister told the audience of information and communication technology (ICT) […]
In telecommunication, regulations are meant to correct market failures in order to protect and promote interests of consumers and citizens. In an ideal world, regulation is an ideal thing to have. But then ours is not an ideal world—it is a world full of opportunists and self-interested individuals. Governments and those who run its affairs […]