Communications Africa: Covers all aspects relating to the telecommunications, broadcasting and information technology with regional relevance to both the public telecommunication authorities and private sector. Published bi-monthly by Alain/Charles Publishing Ltd, the journal is targets both French and English readers.

Business in Africa: Monthly magazine delivering up-to-date business information with regards to the African continent. Issues explored in the publication include development, technology, banking and investment, motoring, travel, tourism and much more. The magazine has established itself as the leading source of high-quality information and analysis of developments in the commercial centres of Africa. It provides business information in key areas where information supply fails to meet the increasingly specialized demand.

SA Computer Magazine: For more information contact: Webmaster: Mandy J Watson (webmaster@sacm.co.za) Advertising Sales: Lorraine Melliar (lorraine@sacm.co.za)
247,000 readers per issue (AMPS 2003b).

PC Magazine: PC Magazine is an articulate fact-filled journal for the dynamic and constantly changing PC market. Written for the astute and technically knowledgeable IT buyer who needs quality product information. The publication satisfies this demand every month, reaching a rich audience of brand specifiers hungry for IT oriented information across Africa.

C+TiA is the key information source on IT and communication strategies for Africa's corporate and government decision-makers - individuals involved in their organisations' business processes, from the MD to the Chief Accountant.

Balancing Act's News Update covers connectivity developments in Africa. It has subscribers in almost all African countries. It follows up on readers concerns by following up on the questions that readers raise. News Update was started by accident. Balancing Act's Russell Southwood circulated an account of a trip he made to Africa in January 2000 and he started to receive a steady stream of information about the internet elsewhere in Africa. Originally he just tidied it up and circulated it but as a former journalist he began to see an opening for a more developed publication.

ITWeb was founded in 1996 on little more than a credit card overdraft, after MD Jovan Regasek visited South Africa for a wedding and identified an opportunity in the local market. At the time, Regasek was the editor of Racunari, the leading computer magazine in the former Yugoslavia. After learning the subtleties of the South African technology sector during a stint at the now-defunct PC Report, he founded ITWeb, the country's first daily online IT publication.

The company has since grown to become the largest technology publication in South Africa, employing 12 journalists in a newsroom that delivers news to over 17,000 people daily. The primary news target area is South Africa, but an All Africa News section is expanding ITWeb's focus to cover English-speaking African countries south of the Sahara.

The African Telecommunications Union (ATU) in conjunction with Global Fairs TT Messe, a German based ICT events organizer firm, has partnered with various public and private sector groups in Africa to host a major info-communications and technology convention in Nairobi, Kenya. This 5 day event is to be known as ICTE AFRICA.

Expected to bring together about 9,000 key leaders in the information society across Africa and overseas, the forum will be used by ATU to prepare the ground prior to the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Summit in Tunis, later in 2005. The last phase of the WSIS Summit was held in Geneva, Switzerland under the auspices of the International Telecommunications Union.

ATU believes that ICT initiatives should lead to the building of bridges in society rather than widening further the divide between the haves and have-nots. "Effective implementation of ICT initiatives should help to resolve rather than aggravate the problems of humanity that relate to illiteracy, provision of information on AIDS or even marketing products and services from developing countries," says Akossi Akossi, the Union's secretary general.

Global Fairs which has experience spanning 20 years in organizing ICT oriented conferences and exhibitions in Europe notes that in recent years, the traditional concept of expos and conference have become somewhat hackneyed . To this effect, it has planned for a new kind of interactive forum that will pay great heed to stakeholders from the private sector and civil society. "We are conscious of Africa's challenges, hence the contribution to work with the continent to steer the ICT sector to new growth," says Jan Nintemann the Global Fairs Chief Executive.

ICTE AFRICA has partnered with Events and Conference Organizers (ECO), Kenya's leading exhibition and conference organizers to provide local marketing and exhibitor space is expected to fill to capacity. The African Internet Service Providers Association (AFRisPA) Siemens and URTNA are among the leading names supporting the event.

Over twenty media partners specializing in ICT and business coverage across Africa and the Middle East have already confirmed their participation. Three floors of the KICC and the parking area have been reserved for the mega ICT show , that has in addition incorporated environmental issues into the programme.

ICTE AFRICA will promote a strong agenda, focussed on assisting African business start-ups to grow and become effective market participants and to compete on the global stage. It will directly address the issues of growing capacity and affordability bottlenecks which are critical to future development and growth. This agenda flows directly from the African Information Society Initiative, launched by African governments in 1995, which aims to build an Africa wide information infrastructure and to make information available to all citizens by 2010.

As monopoly management of ICTs tumbles across the world, the launch of ICTE AFRICA brings an upbeat and dynamic opportunity to steer the African ICT sector towards new growth and the vision of an African Information Society. We believe that Africa's tele-density, currently standing at under 3 percent and amongst the lowest in the world, can be improved. ICTE AFRICA will directly address the issue of delivering ICTs to the huge section of the world's population with annual incomes of less than US$1340, the currently accepted minimum level of affordability for telephone ownership.