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Post Archive for March 2010

Video: East Africa Report – ICT in Kenya
March 31, 2010 ♦ Comments Off on Video: East Africa Report – ICT in Kenya

Here is a recently uploaded video with interviews from representatives of the four largest players involved with the launch and regulation of the EASSy cable, bandwidth, and pricing. It’s always good to match faces with names. The promises of these men will most come to fruition, but the larger question …

OA News: March 30, 2010 Part II
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Kenya’s ICT education plans, Tanzania & EASSy, using technology during crises

City Profile: Kinshasa “Kin la Belle”, DRC
March 30, 2010 ♦ 2 Comments
City Profile: Kinshasa “Kin la Belle”, DRC

This is the first post in a series that intends to examine the ICT environment in large metropolitan areas of Africa that receive relatively little publicity and lack ICT framework. These cities are often overshadowed by Cape Town, Johannesburg, Cairo, Nairobi, Accra, and Lagos but still have a bright future …

OA News: March 30, 2010
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African entrepreneurship, 2010 defining year, promising years for Zimbabwean ICT, addressing illicit $, PayPal in SA

OA News: March 27, 2010
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‘The Cheetah Generation’, connecting rural Sierra Leone, advancing ICT in war-torn rural Uganda

Demand, resources limit African web design…for now
March 26, 2010 ♦ 8 Comments
Demand, resources limit African web design…for now

Around the globe, social media may be heralded as “the next big thing”, but in the United States and in Europe, web design is a close second. And understandably so. Modern web design involves sufficient bandwidth, training, and free time. However, theses resources merely provide the basis for web design. …