The World Economic Forum’s annual report is a treasure trove of Networked Readiness information for 142 economies.

Google, in a partnership with Basis Research Ltd, released an interactive dataset based on survey data from 2010 and 2011.

Relatively little local content exists from Africa. This trend can be seen via uploads to Flickr, Google, and Wikipedia.

Comparing data from December 2011 with numbers from October 2010, we find that more editors are needed for 42 languages spoken in Africa.

In advance of the Connect Arab Summit which took place in early March 2012, the ITU released a report titled “ICT Adoption and Prospects in the Arab Region.”

The number of Internet subscribers in Senegal grew phenomenally in 2011; the number of mobile Internet users grew by 680%.