Come November, AfricaCom will once again take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. This year, the conference will be celebrating innovation in today's digital Africa. The keynote sessions are expected to gather the most influential companies and individuals in the industry where they will share their views on how to promote new services and business models. In addition to the 2012 gathering, a new session will promote the importance of ICT start-ups across the continent: the Entrepreneurs Incubator Hub will bring together investors, incubators and entrepreneurs to discuss the best strategies to promote start-ups in Africa's telecommunications, media and ICT sector. Over the three days, a number of topics including: network deployment to mobile money, customer experience management, convergence, cloud services, investment, entrepreneurship, broadcasting, app development are expected to be discussed. To book your place, go to http://africa.comworldseries.com In news this week: the African News Innovation Challenge announced its shortlisted finalists; the Rwanda Utilities and Regularity Authority will conduct a study on the use of mobile phones among the rural population; Etisalat is set to launch a mobile commerce service and we find out how Kuza Mobile came about. PS: Take a look at our guide "How to contribute to Bizcommunity, from op-ed pieces to news" Have a good week! Evan-Lee Courie @evan1985
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