President Dilma Rousseff has determined actions at International level, including a multisectoral meeting 

The Brazilian government will promote the country until the end of the first half of 2014, an international conference to discuss global governance of the internet. For event ministerial-level officials are being invited from all countries, and representatives of business and civil entities linked to the theme. The announcement about the beginning of the preparation of the meeting was held this morning at the Ministry of Science and Technology, the holder Marco Antonio Raupp, accompanied by the ministers Paul Bernardo (Communications) and Luiz Alberto Figueiredo (Foreign).

The idea is to discuss Plateau resolutions that may be incorporated by the United Nations (UN), focusing on combating cyber crime and violation of rights of citizens, businesses and governments in the global network of computers. "President Dilma Rousseff determined actions at international level, including a multi-sectoral meeting to seek the protection of the rights on the Internet," said Chancellor Figueiredo.Recent episodes involving espionage of the U.S. government against President Dilma Rousseff, the Minister of Mines and Energy, Edison Lobao, and Petrobras, repeated in other parts of the world such as Germany and France, gave impetus to the country's decision to continue propose global regulation on the internet. The U.S. government was invited to attend the meeting, which should take place between April and May. Read more news in Politics "We will not be quixotic to propose the end of the spy network, which is part of the routine monitoring of national defense and control crimes such as drug trafficking and terrorism. But we can not accept that one country (USA) feel free to invade any citizen automatically.'s something that started with the argument to counter terrorist actions, but eventually advancing without rules and control and turned something for yourself, "said Bernardo. According to the minister, read e-mails from the head of the German government, Angela Merkel or President Dilma, or Petrobras "has nothing to do with terrorism." It is, he adds, is an abuse that states "industrial espionage" and other interests for commercial advantage. He admitted that the design of a Civil Framework Internet under discussion in the House, can serve as inspiration for a global regulatory network. As the processing of the text, Bernardo said that "the ball is with the deputies and then with the senators. government can negotiate the terms, but is keen to defend net neutrality and data storage in data centers in the country. "A giant of the internet can not refuse to provide data to court claiming they are filed in another country, much less because it depends on the will of its engineers to create an algorithm for this. This has more pertinence, turned mockery, "he protested.

27 OCTOBER 2013

SMALL and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have been asked to partner with ICT solutions firms to improve management in their entities.

Speaking to reporters in Dar es Salaam, Bluekey Software Solutions Managing Director Mala Bhatt, said SMEs could improve their operations by partnering with specialised firms.

She was unveiling Bluekey SAP Business One Cloud solution which has been tailor-made to satisfy multitudes of specific requirements that need to be met to ensure any company gains advantage by understanding markets better.

She said the solution is configured to improve business management processes by combining the cutting-edge in-memory computing technology of SAP HANA with the comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for smaller businesses.

She said it would enable companies to work effectively with software and hardware provided as services designed to transform and streamline a company's work procedures.

Hosting software solutions in the cloud eliminates the need for upfront investments as the organisation only needs to pay a monthly fee for the services actually used. "Technology will help businesses create a better competitive advantage over other competitors.

The fact that a person is able to have real time information on markets, allows a person the ability to make faster better informed decisions," she expounded.

For instance, if we are talking about a distribution company, you could get 20 per cent or more of our operational costs...which at the end of the day gives any company a better competitive advantage over others," said Kevin O'Brien, the chairman of Bluekey Group.

"Currently, businesses face challenges like growing their revenue streams, maximising return on investment while at the same time improving efficiency and leaving room for diversification," Bluekey director Mr Francis Njiraini, said on his part.

This is exactly what a SAP Business One cloud solution offers... that is businesses get to understand their market through real time on demand analysis. It lets businesses focus on gross profit per customer and helps to introduce new products," expounded Francis.

Our targets are usually companies with a turnover of 300,000 USD per year... with emphasis on oil and gas, wholesale, retail, distribution, production, agribusiness, footwear just to name a few," said Mr Francis.

"We are constantly innovating and refreshing our products and services and make it known to the industry specialists; it's essential if we are to retain the trust of our customers and deliver incremental value," she added.

Companies in Tanzania have for a long time been waiting for an IT company to provide them with total solution of products ...our role here is to give an end to solution for our clients.

Speaking on the future growth of the company in Tanzania in the next two years, she said that they were looking at doubling in growth in terms of capacity by 2014/2015 and growing their client base to more comfortable margins was their main focus as they continued to roll out tailor- made solutions for companies operating in Tanzania.

BY MUSA NDOW, 25 OCTOBER 2013

It doesn't matter which one of the four networks you are subscribing to, anyone who is an active user of a mobile phone of recent, must have already experienced strange unknown international calls raining on their cell phones, the source of which one finds difficult to figure out.

It has become a daily occurrence for months now, making many a user receiving such strange calls that are normally answered without any response from the caller and hanging off automatically, but also the fact that such calls cause great inconvenience to the subscriber population. Given its unabating trend, the common question it raises in some quarters is whether the country's mobile network system has been hacked by some unscrupulous individuals at the detriment of the national economy since it affects all the four networks, according to our investigations. It raised the question too as to why such is allowed to persist for months without being addressed. In fact the situation is entrenched in the communication system that one sometimes even takes a genuine call for a fake one, thus missing a significant contact. This is the order of the day and even at midnight or in the wee hours of the morning, one is bound to experience such a bizarre experience.

In its quest to ascertain the inconvenience it has been plunging the subscriber population into, the Daily Observer gauged the reaction of some stakeholders to this rather alarming and bizarre situation. "I receive fake international calls so many times. I have received at least five calls on my phone today," Sainey Sonko, a Qcell subscribed told the Daily Observer.

Another customer, Dam Jobe, a businessman, also confirmed the calls he has been receiving for a while now. "The numbers that usually appears are international and when I return the call I will not get any response," he said. "We are getting calls on our cell phones and nobody talks when you receive it," an Africell subscriber added.

Operators 'aware'

Operators were contacted for their take on this scam. A customer care officer at Qcell who asked not to be named, confirmed that they are aware of the fake international calls, but was quick to add that they are working hard to establish the sources of the calls. However, the officer suggested for people to ignore such calls when they show on their cell phones or receive without any response.

A staff at the Comium Customer Care office that also preferred to remain anonymous also confirmed the calls as "fake" taking root on their network. Like her Qcell counterpart, she also said they are working hard to trace the source so that they can fix it as soon as possible. For the public relations officer of Gamcel, Abdoulie Bass, most of the people involved in this scam who could be any nationality are living within the country. He even noted that sometimes these scammers would send SMS to subscribers requesting for their bank account details. "It has happened to me several times," he said, recalling a similar thing that recently occurred to one of their senior drivers. "If you check on the seven series of the last number that calls you, you will realise that they are Gambian numbers. So we are working to trace out these callers," he assured. Admitting that to trace the callers will not be an easy task owing to the fact that they don't have a tracking system, Bass advised that if the calls cannot be ignored completely, then it is wise to receive it and leave it on. "And these calls could only be detected when we have the tracking system but as at now that is our problem and none of these GSM operators has that," the Gamcel PRO added. Economic loss

When asked whether the scam is not causing them any economic loss, Bass said it is not affecting them economically as it is not costing them any money. "They are just doing that to achieve their criminal objective. Like I said earlier, if this is done by foreigners, then they must be doing it with our own people because criminals don't just come to your compound and operate like that," he asserted.