OA News: August 23-30, 2012
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A curated weekly selection of 59 headlines highlighting the spirit of African technology. 21+ nations are represented this week.
Angola
Botswana
- Botswana, SA share notes on ICT {BizTech Africa}
Cameroon
Egypt
- Egypt looks to post-revolution ICT boost {BizTech Africa}
Ethiopia
- Death of Ethiopian prime minister leads to internet uncertainty {CPI Dubai}
- Tanzania, Ethiopia: Meles Zenawi ‘Tweets’ from Grave {Global Voices Online}
Kenya
- Posta to roll out wireless Internet {Daily Nation}
- New Africa: the Kenyan internet nerd reshaping a nation {The Guardian}
- AccessKenya targets counties {BizTech Africa}
- Innovation Spaces in Kenya {*iHub}
Mauritius
- Mobile connectivity improved in Republic of Mauritius {Bizcommunity.com}
- Statistics Mauritius ICT Report: 370 000 Internet Subscribers … {Mopays.com}
Morocco
- Morocco to develop ultra-fast broadband {magharebia.com}
Namibia
- LTE comes to Angola, Namibia {TechCentral}
Nigeria
- Women in Tech Bemoan Bad Impact of Technology On Children {AllAfrica.com}
- Nigeria: NCC To Accelerate Broadband Services, Lobbies Investors {Ventures Africa}
- Online comics African style {Radio Netherlands}
- iROKING hits 100 000 registered users {Bizcommunity.com}
- Google Aids Online Presence Of 250000 Nigerian SMEs {Ventures Africa}
- Nigeria Secret Police Details Leaked {AP via NPR}
- Online retail expands as tech-savvy Nigerians seek bargain buy {BusinessDay}
- Nigeria: GSM Coverage Reaches 60 Percent, Says Minister {AllAfrica.com}
North Africa
- Internet ‘important tool’ to hire executives in Mena region {Gulf Times}
- Facebook Israel-Arab Youth Group Has Rare Meeting {ABC News}
Rwanda
- 45% of Rwandans have access to mobile phones {Chris Tredger}
- Rwanda : Carnegie Mellon University officially launches in Rwanda {News Of Rwanda Group}
- Rwanda: Volunteers Put Kigali On Google Map {AllAfrica.com}
Senegal
- Dakar abrite le premier TechCamp organisé en Afrique subsaharienne {Ecofin}
- Sénégal: un forum national pour préparer le Forum mondial sur la gouvernance de l’Internet {Ecofin}
Sierra Leone
South Africa
- Broadband Stats SA – Campaign to improve South Africa’s {Facebook}
- SA’s online retail explosion {Moneyweb.co.za}
- 56kbps dial-up soon a premium Internet access service {MyBroadband}
- IPSA appoints full time INX manager {Bizcommunity.com}
- Telkom network added to open source fibre map {MyBroadband}
- Sandton hotel gets 2Gbit/s Internet access {TechCentral}
South Sudan
- South Sudan aims to replace VSAT internet with fibre links {Telecompaper}
Sudan
- Sudan urges technology in education {BizTech Africa}
Swaziland
- SPTC introduces high speed home internet package {The Swazi Observer}
Tunisia
- The Tunisian Blogosphere in Search of a New Direction {Tunisia Live}
- Social Media and Protest Mobilization in Tunisia {LDCR}
Uganda
- Uganda holds National IGF 2012 {ISOC Uganda}
- Apps: the Afro revolution {The Guardian}
- Broadband link reaches all town centres {The Citizen}
Zimbabwe
- Towards a National E-Health Vision {AllAfrica.com}
General Africa
- Online piracy: how African innovators are tackling music’s biggest scourge {Memeburn}
- Cloud Computing for the Poorest Countries {New York Times (blog)}
- Consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa Ready for Next Step in M-commerce {Einnews Portugal}
- 100Gbps IS-WACS dual-route cable system completed {MyBroadband}
- Huawei to provide Movicel with LTE backhaul networks {IT News Africa}
- Six African projects named among world’s 100 most innovative {Creamer Media’s Engineering News}
- Seacom ‘no longer just a cable’ {ITWeb}
- Africa’s top-selling mobile handsets {IT News Africa}
- Africa embroiled in dot com frenzy {IT News Africa}
- The quest for an African Internet {BizTech Africa}
- 10 dollars pour acquérir le dotAfrica à partir de 2013 {Ecofin}
- African Union(AU) Selects the Internet Society to Support Establishment of Internet Exchange Points across Africa {ISOC}
- Infrastructures en Afrique: L’arrivée des nouveaux câbles ouvrira davantage la compétition {Ecofin}
- Africa’s innovators to showcase their talent in Nairobi {IT News Africa}