Post Archive for April 2011

Over the years, numerous African philosophers have weighed-in on the perceived role ICT should take in Africa. Does electronic ICT in Africa liberate the African culture? Is it contributing to the destruction of Africa’s heritage?
Google Instant, Kigali’s ICT hub in the news, can Twitter influence African science policy?

The Namibian Ministry of Education’s Tech/NA! initiative is part of the nation’s Vision 2030 plan to create a knowledge-based society. The plan came about after the government recognized the importance of quality instead of sheer quantity.
Mobile video & farmers, Glo-1 in Ghana, SA’s web/race demographics, Nigerian elections, .africa action, Africa’s business environment, and more

The social media giant tends to keep such statistics private, but allows potential advertisers the number of accounts tied to a given country in the form of “Estimated Reach”:
In case you are wondering, the global Facebook statistics present over at SocialBakers actually are scraped daily from Facebook’s own database. A …

Mobile Monday’s recent state of the African mobile industry report provides an insight into the next 5 years of progress. 68% of the African pop. is expected to have a mobile phone within 5 years.