Post Archive for March 2011

Who doesn’t enjoy a good story? That reaction is the basis of an educational initiative started in mid-2010 that now plans to utilize the power of the story to spur innovation.

Is HTML5 alive in Africa? Empirical knowledge on the subject is hard to come by, but such is the case with many web developments in Africa. A lack of easily searchable HTML5 web presence in Africa does not necessarily mean a lack of web design skill. Perhaps African web designers …
14 stories on Google/Senegal relations, mHealth data collection, rural e-learning, 4G defined, E. African editorials, m-commerce
Renesys Corp recently uploaded a visualization of January’s Egyptian Internet outage. In the description, the company wrote:
It [The video] shows the routed address space for each country, colored by reachability (at the routing/BGP level). Space in green is globally reachable, while space in red has had all …

For the first time, the Reporters Without Borders annual ‘Enemies of the Internet’ report doesn’t include an African nation.

This post is an update of December 2010’s list of African leaders with a Facebook presence. Of special interest are pages from Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Zimbabwe.