In its 2012 Global Mobile Market Update, international wireless data and computing solution strategy firm Always On Real-Time Acess (Aorta) reported Japan continued to be the leader in mobile data with an average of 60% of total average revenue coming from data, followed by Australia and the US which registered average data revenues of close to 42% at the end of 2011, while non-messaging data accounted for 53% of the global mobile data revenues owing to the tremendous growth in use of smartphones.
"In terms of the ICT document, we are in the process of concluding it. The draft document is being circulated to various Government departments," he said.
The discovery of writing skills made it possible for man to remember disease and how to manage it.
Results of that 2 000-year-old discovery are the institutions of knowledge we see today that now form the pillar of present-day health care practice.
As well as modernizing the country's financial system, the government is also laying the foundations for Zimbabwe to become a digital society by 2015.
While this may sound ambitious for a developing country, the information technology and communications landscape has changed exponentially since 2008; the cellphone telephony penetration rate skyrocketed from 13 percent to 72 percent in 2011, while Internet penetration jumped from 1.3 percent in 2008 to 24 percent last year, amounting to some 1.42 million users.
The latest update explains further the ZimSwitch Shared Services platform; basically, a single point of connection for the financial institutions allowing them to offer financial services via mobile, web and to integrate seamlessly with service providers such as the utilities companies (ZESA for example), companies providing subscription based services like DSTV and merchants in general.
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