From May 21 through the end of June, eight West African nations will be privy to a country-specific Internet Governance Forum. A recap of the Burkina Faso event.

The World Bank plans to provide even more support to Rwandan ICT development through the SMART Rwanda initiative.

Held from 9-21 June, 2013 in Lusaka, Zambia, the 2nd African Internet Summit brought together more than 400 participants from all sectors of African ICT (academia, public, private).

By now, nearly every African government has at least one official website (some are updated more often than others), but few have a social media presence.

In Nigeria, PCs are more common than mobile devices, but the difference is still not a landslide (although it is statistically significant). Windows may be the most common operating system, but browsers are even less clear-cut. Nokia, Firefox, and Opera all have between 17% and 20% share.

This week’s African tech news round-up consists of 91 stories from 31 countries.