Information Technology · 2025
Kenya Tests Oversight of Data-Centre Facilities.
Kenya’s communications regulator is treating data centres more like critical communications infrastructure, with a licence built for networks.
LinkedIn · LinkedIn Pulse
Information Technology
Africa’s Data-Centre Ambition Meets Transmission Limits.
Africa Data Centres’ West Africa lead argues that building halls is the easy part — power and fibre transmission are what stall them.
Briefing
What this piece covers.
A regional data-centre operator puts the constraint plainly: generation exists, but transmission lines, grid quality and terrestrial fibre do not keep up. A hall that cannot be fed with stable power and a path to the internet is a building, not a facility.
The same bottleneck shows up on institutional ICT programmes. A data centre, a government cloud node or a radio hub is only as reliable as the power and the last-mile network around it — which is why energy and ICT briefs on this site often arrive together.
Samanga did not write these articles. The briefing on this page is ours; the original stays on LinkedIn.
Further reading
More briefings.
Information Technology · 2023
Public Digital Infrastructure and Uganda’s Vision 2040.
NITA-U’s backbone and government cloud sit behind the next round of e-government work — RCIP completed, UDAP described as the follow-on.
LinkedIn · John Paul Olowo
Transport & Mobility · 2025
One Year of Electric Public Transport in Uganda.
E-Bus Xpress closed its first full year of operations, pairing electric buses with cashless payments and journey tracking.
LinkedIn · E-Bus Xpress Kiira Ltd