Post Archive for July 2011

Twitter accounts come and go, but their efforts are not forgotten. Here are a couple dozen example of once-active African accounts that currently lie dormant.

In November 2010, we reported on demographics of visitors to this site. Now, 8 months later and with a larger sample size, it is time to examine how African web habits have changed. A less-than-scientific look at internal web traffic to this site confirms many national, regional, and continental trends. …

Over the next nine months, sixteen additional African nations will hold democratic elections, but how much information will be exchanged using the Internet?

15 stories: MXit privacy, Burundi’s 3G, Africa Digital Week on horizon, Seacom’s land network, Google & education networks, Co-creation hub Nigeria, on ‘Made in Africa’
In case you missed them (like we did), here are 9 short video clips devoted to raising awareness of various aspects of ICT progress across Africa. They have all been published in the past 4 months and come from unique sources. This collection by no means represents all of the …
Updated 3/2/13 with Pennysaver.co.ke. Updated 12/10/11 with news of closures of Dealify and Zappon in South Africa. Updated 11/19/11 with site from Zimbabwe. Updated: 9/25/11 with sites from Ghana, Morocco, RĂ©union, SA, and Tunisia. The South African and Kenyan markets are very near saturation. Encouraging is the appearance of sites …