Africa Online Holdings Ltd. and Barclays Africa have opened their first Internet cafe as part of an initiative designed to advance electronic commerce across the continent.
London-based African IT Exhibitions and Conferences (AITEC) Corp. is hosting an African electronic-commerce forum in March of next year that is expected to lead to a green paper on the continent's e-commerce development.
After months of technical, infrastructure and logistic preparations, South African mobile telephony giant MTN, which took over Cameroon Telecom Mobile (CamTel Mobile), has launched operations in Douala.