Gallery: Google Doodles for Africa
27 unique Google Doodles have been featured on Google search homepages in Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, East Africa, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda.
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African Tech Tidbits: regionalism, Egypt, energy, and more
On our mind this April 24th, 2012 are a range of themes – from regionalism to Egypt to energy.
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OA News: April 13-18, 2012
Themes include LTE for Angola, Gambia online censorship, cyber crime in East Africa, a study on IXPs, and other ICT news.
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OA News: April 7-12, 2012
60 stories from 18+ countries. Heavy on East Africa, South Africa, and General Africa this week.
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Notes from the 2011-2012 Global Information Technology Report
The World Economic Forum’s annual report is a treasure trove of Networked Readiness information for 142 economies.
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OA News: April 1-6, 2012
57 stories from 21+ countries to start off April 2012. Some include: Angolan social media powers protests, combating web censorship in Djibouti, Google in Egypt, Ethiopia’s digital summit, Morocco Internet woes, all sorts of progress in Rwanda, and articles on the role of government and the African Internet.
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What did they say? African tech quotes from March 2012
Poignant (and often humorous) quotes made by leaders in the African tech space in March 2012.
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Notes on mobile broadband
Various facts and trends regarding mobile broadband.
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Busy month for Google in Africa
Google has been extremely busy in Africa this March, holding a handful of events for developers and businesses.
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Online resources to monitor Mali coup events (including YouTube video from state television)
Instead of a post on how Malians are using social media to promote the now-delayed April 29th, 2012 presidential elections, we turn to see how social media has been used to spread information of a military coup on March 22, 2012.
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Egyptian, Eritrean, Tunisian Internet still considered ‘under surveillance’
Until last year, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the world’s leading watchdog of press freedom, had always considered at least one African nation an “Enemy of the Internet”. Fortunately, the trend has continued into 2012 – none of the twelve nations with the heaviest Internet censorship are found in Africa. Still, even a year after North African regime changes and Arab Spring, RSF has kept perennial [...]
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New competition to launch developers’ apps to 75% of Zimbabwe’s mobile users
ForgetMeNot Africa eTXT Apps Challenge to launch at JumpStart Community event next week in Zimbabwe.
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Senegal’s mobile Internet users up by 680% in 2011
The number of Internet subscribers in Senegal grew phenomenally in 2011; the number of mobile Internet users grew by 680%.
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A quick look at Moroccan Internet stats
Notes from “Maroc: L’Internet mobile a le vent en poupe” (Morocco: Mobile Internet on the rise).
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Highlights from 2nd National Internet Governance Forum Gambia
In early February 2012, The Gambia hosted its 2nd National Internet Governance Forum.