OA News: September 14-20, 2013
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Over the past week, we’ve found 117 stories of how mobile, internet, and technology in general are changing lives in 25+ African nations.
Algeria
- Mobilis, Nedjma, Djezzy approved for 3G auction {TeleGeography}
- The most popular websites in Algeria [Infographic] {Wamda.com}
Burundi
- Burundi, China sign 3 cooperation agreements {People’s Daily Online}
Congo
East Africa
- The East African startup landscape: everything you need to know {ventureburn}
- Fibre to home creates new revenue opportunities for ISPs – SEACOM {HumanIPO}
Egypt
- Oracle Academy, MCIT Egypt run computer science workshops for thousands of Egyptian students {AMEinfo}
- ElWafeyat: Online Obituaries {Cairo Scene}
- Egypt’s mobile phone users grow to 96.8 mln {Telecompaper}
- Intel Egypt supports in bridging digital illiteracy {Zawya}
Eritrea
- Eritrean PIA talks about Internet Connection in Eritrea by EriTV {Eritrea-TV.Net}
Ghana
- Tourism practitioners trained in online marketing {VibeGhana.com}
- Increase of Internet usage in Ghana and Its Implications {BusinessGhana}
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
- Rádio Nacional da Guiné-Bissau quer reforçar emissão e difundir na Internet {Novas da Guiné Bissau}
Kenya
- IT Week 2013 Comes to a Close {AllAfrica.com}
- KDN Rebrands to Liquid Telecom Kenya, to Offer Retail Services {AllAfrica.com}
- Youths See Opportunity in Digital Outsourcing {AllAfrica.com}
- Critic Who Rules Kenya’s Twitterverse {AllAfrica.com}
- Social Media No Forum for Hate Speech {AllAfrica.com}
- Kenya IT hubs launched for primary schools {BBC}
- Safaricom to Increase Capital Spending as It Rolls Out Cable {Bloomberg}
- CCK to tackle rising cyber crime {Capital FM}
- Capital Blog Kenya’s future as a regional ICT hub » Capital Blog {Capital FM}
- Hellofood feeds growing appetite for online meal deliveries in Kenya {Ventures Africa}
- iLabAfrica launches specialist academy for digital security {HumanIPO}
- Smartphones to outnumber feature phones in Kenya by end of 2013 {HumanIPO}
- Kenya seeks to enhance tech and innovation cooperation with China {HumanIPO}
- AMS-IX starts regional internet exchange hub in Kenya {Telecompaper}
- Kenya’s tech visionaries lead the way {The Observer}
- Universal Access Documentary {YouTube}
Liberia
- New Company Takes Over Comium {AllAfrica.com}
- UL to Benefit From Litelco’s Wireless Internet Service {AllAfrica.com}
Libya
- Libya to tender for first private mobile license, says minister {Alarabiya.net English}
- Libya plans to list mobile operator Libyana next year {Baltimore Sun}
- LTT signs ADSL-2 internet contract with Alcatel {Libya Herald}
Malawi
Mali
- How Malian Citizens Help Monitor the 2013 Presidential Elections {Global Voices}
Mauritania
- Remaniement ministériel {AMI}
Morocco
- Morocco arrests website editor for airing al-Qaeda video {Alarabiya.net English}
- Quand Internet transforme des artisans analphabètes en stars d’Etsy {Wamda.com}
Mozambique
- Vodacom to launch e-centre in Mozambique {HumanIPO}
Nigeria
- Another Nigerian Designs Road Traffic Mobile APP {AllAfrica.com}
- The Rise of e-Shops {AllAfrica.com}
- $1bn Nigerian Apps market linked to rising smartphone ownership {BusinessDay}
- Senate backs controversial internet, phone spy programme {Premium Times Nigeria}
- Cybercrime : huit pays africains « fichés » parmi les plus risqués de la planète {Ecofin}
- Dolphin Telecom to land ACE cable in Nigeria {BiztechAfrica}
- Huawei Targets Nigeria Smartphone Boom for Market Share {Bloomberg}
- Nigerian Customs Service tackles internet fraudsters {HumanIPO}
- Applying e-health in Nigeria is difficult – AAJIMATICS {HumanIPO}
- CcHUB Nigeria celebrates second anniversary {HumanIPO}
- 15% of Nigerian operator revenue comes from data – Informa {HumanIPO}
- Multiple lines per user blur true subscriber numbers – MTN Nigeria {HumanIPO}
- ‘LTE technology will drive broadband growth in Nigeria’ {The Guaridan Nigeria}
- Africa At Play: The Kuluya Story {Ventures Africa}
- Nigeria’s Mobile App Market To Experience 15% Growth Rate – Analysts {Ventures Africa}
Rwanda
- Sustained ICT Revolution Will Help Accelerate Development {AllAfrica.com}
- Peace Corps Volunteers Lead Tech Camp for Young Women in Rwanda {AllAfrica.com}
- Hotels Urged to Improve the Internet Connection Service {AllAfrica.com}
- Rwanda, Korea Telecom Ink Partnership to Operate Advanced ICT Services in Rwanda in Line With EDPRS2 {AllAfrica.com}
- Justice sector to set up electronic case management system in Rwanda {HumanIPO}
- kLab Rwanda to link with university communities {HumanIPO}
- Will Rwanda overtake Kenya as East Africa’s ICT Hub? {ITWeb Africa}
- kLab – a Tech Innovation hub in Kigali, Rwanda {YouTube}
Senegal
- Senegalese Rappers Spin World News on TV Program {ABC News}
- NetHope expands VSAT certification program to Senegal {Telecompaper}
- Senegalese mobile market up 3.7% in Q2 {Telecompaper}
Somalia
- Somali government seeks private investor {TeleGeography}
South Africa
- Free Tablets, Wi-Fi for Gauteng Schools {AllAfrica.com}
- The future of e-commerce in SA {BusinessTech}
- Mobile set to rock SA Internet {BusinessTech}
- iPhone 5s, 5c for South Africa: which one to buy? {MyBroadband.co.za}
- Online content: fair game or fair usage? {The Media Online}
- Ad campaigns miss mobile community {BDlive}
- Press slow to explore digital media {BDlive}
- Is fibre only for the elite? {Bizcommunity}
- From bricks to clicks {BiztechAfrica}
- Online lessons to be released for SA students {HumanIPO}
- MTN Mobile Money surpasses one million users {HumanIPO}
- Cost of last mile fibre installation too high – Pretorius {HumanIPO}
- Wiki Africa placing SA on the map {IOL.co.za}
- Social media is more important in South Africa – Interactive Intelligence {IT News Africa}
- Tech start-ups are a threat to established businesses – Gartner {IT News Africa}
- Social media: data goldmine {ITWeb}
- New Mxit CEO to drive change, smartphones {News24}
- Telkom to double ADSL speeds {TechCentral}
Sudan
- Workshop On Impacts of Internet On Youths to be Held Wednesday {AllAfrica.com}
- In a Faded Literary Capital, Efforts at a Revival {NYTimes.com}
Tanzania
- Govt Lauds Optic Cable Network in ICT Development {AllAfrica.com}
- Call for More Use of ICT Services {AllAfrica.com}
- Tanzania’s optic fibre network attracts neighbouring countries {IPPMedia}
- Liquid Telecom connects to TTCL fibre network {Telecompaper}
Togo
- La deuxième édition du forum national sur la gouvernance de l’internet au Togo s’est ouvert ce jeudi à Lomé {TechOfAfrica}
Zimbabwe
- New Online Investor Relations Portal Launched {AllAfrica.com}
- Zimbabwe mobile broadband speedtests results compared #ICTAfrica2013 {Techzim}
General Africa
- Should access to the internet be a human right? {African Arguments}
- Platform Technology {AllAfrica.com}
- Angels Over Johannesburg {AllAfrica.com}
- 5 Companies Creating Digital Jobs in Africa {AllAfrica.com}
- Maker Faire Co-Founder on Bolstering Innovation in Africa {AllAfrica.com}
- Internet access is a vital healthcare tool {The Great Debate (Reuters)}
- Strong demand for mobile data spurs smart Wi-Fi adoption {BusinessDay}
- Mobile Transformation: What could 4G do to Africa? {Cisco}
- Meet The Mobile Apps Streaming Music To Africa {Forbes}
- Growth first, returns later, says African e-commerce group {How We Made It In Africa}
- Expert calls for common e-health application for Africa {HumanIPO}
- Mobile technology is boosting African innovation – Matiangi {HumanIPO}
- Q&A: Alice Munyuna, member of dotAfrica steering committee {HumanIPO}
- Orange awarded Telecom Company of the Year in Africa {HumanIPO}
- Africa falls far behind in mobile broadband access {IOL.co.za}
- Virtual peace-building: Can social media help to reintegrate ex-combatants? {ISS Africa}
- Six key African sub-sea broadband cables {ITWeb Africa}
- A future of African-led development is underway {SciDev.net}
- Radio: The Killer-App that African developers ignore (for the right reasons) {TechPost}
- Cape to Cairo: Econet founder Masiyiwa shares of dreams of fibre expansion {Techzim}
- Samsung to bring BBM for Android to Africa on Friday {ZDNet}