Opinion, Networking, Broadband, Regulation, Policy, Asia-Pacific: ITU's Telecom Asia 2008 Forum aims to focus on the needs of the 'new generation of intensely networked users'. While this may appeal to policy makers in rich Asian nations, issues of greatest interest to less developed nations seem to be absent from the agenda...

Analysis, Mobile, Finance, Kenya: The Safaricom Initial Public Offering (IPO), which closed on April 23, is likely to have been over-subscribed by 200 per cent according to leading stock brokers in Nairobi. The level of interest in what was always going to be the largest IPO to date in East Africa has exceeded all forecasts...

Viewpoint, Digital Divide, Emerging Markets, Global: NOVATECH, the ICT Africa Market Place opened in Addis Ababa almost exactly as MWC closed its doors in Barcelona. It has taken Developing Telecoms' reporter a whole month longer to return from Ethiopia and file a report but it is of no less importance in understanding the path of future ICT development in emerging markets. The Addis event may be less well attended than Barcelona and lack the glitzy exhibition stands and product innovations. But here too you find some of the most important issues being addressed...