General
A potpourri of writings on Africa’s technological advancements are listed below:
- “The Rhetoric of Ecosystems: Who do African tech entrepreneurs really need?,” Nicolas Friederici, VC4A, Dec 15, 2015. {VC4A}
- “Connecting ICTs to Development, The IDRC Experience,” IDRC, 2015. {IDRC}
- “The face of African infrastructure: Service availability and citizens’ demands, Afrobarometer Working Papers, 2015, no. 154. {Afrobarometer}
- “10 myths about girls’ empowerment and mobile learning,” Linda Raftree, Mar 11, 2015. {LindaRaftree.com}
- “The Gender Digital Divide in Developing Countries,” Amy Antonio and David Tuffley, Future Internet 2014, 6(4), 673-687. {MDPI}
- “Cloud Computing: Adoption Issues for Sub-Saharan Africa SMEs,” Abubakar Abubakar Dahiru, Julian Bass, Ian Allison, EJISDC, Vol 62, 2014. {EJISDC}
- “Africa’s connectivity – Meeting the needs of a continent,” Franck Simon, AME 2013. {Connect World}
- “Connect Africa,” AfDB, 2013. {Transform Africa 2013}
- “A Brief History of Telecommunications in Africa,” Jabulani Dhliwayo, ICT Africa, Aug 21, 2013. {ICTAfrica.info}
- “ICT Applications and Agricultural Input Supply Companies: Highlights from Africa,” USAID, 2013. {USAID}
- “Technology and Collective Action: The Effect of Cell Phone Coverage and Political Violence in Africa,” Bakary Seckan, Jun 12, 2013. {Journalist’s Resource}
- “Crowdsourcing Translation During Crisis Situations: Are ‘Real Voices’ Being Excluded from the Decisions and Policies it Supports?” David Sutcliffe, The Policy and Internet Blog, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, May 7, 2013. {blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk}
- “Africa Wired,” Africa Renewal, May 2013, pp. 28. {UN}
- “African youth hungry for connectivity,” Jonathan Kalan, Africa Renewal, May 2013, pp. 16. {UN}
- “The Role of Public Sentiment and Social Media in the Evolving China – Africa Relationship,” Yu-Shan Wu, South African Institute of International Affairs, Jan 2013. {SAIIA}
- “Towards A Business Model For Funding African Startups,” Brian Laung Aoaeh, 2013. {The World Bank}
- “Mapping Digital Media: News and New Media in Central Africa: Challenges and opportunities,” Marie-Soleil Frère, Open Society Media Program, Dec 2012. {OSISA}
- “MENA Governments Must Speak the Language of Social Media,” Booz & Co., 2012. {Wamda}
- “Democratizing Development through Wikipedia and other Open Solutions,” World Bank, Jul 11, 2012. {World Bank}
- “The fundamentals of a Competitive ICT Market for stimulating investments and accelerating access to ICT services,” Dr. Willie Oosthuysen, ICT Indaba, June 2012. {ICT Indaba}
- “The definitive start-up guide for challenging environments,” Brian Gondo, TechZim, May 22, 2012. {TechZim}
- “Social media and the Internet allowed young Arab women to play a central role in the Arab Spring,” Courtney Radsch, 2012. {Baker Institute via Rice}
- “The Transformational Use ICTs: Summary of Study Outcomes,” eTransform Africa, Apr 3, 2012. {eTransformAfrica}
- “Assessment of the impact of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) – empirical study of Kenya and Nigeria,” Internet Society, April 2012. {ISOC}
- “How Africa can make the most of the internet,” Soul Kabweza, TechZim, 2012. {SlideShare}
- Dobra, Alexandra, “The Democratic Impact of ICT in Africa,” in: Africa Spectrum, 47, 1, 73-88. March 2012. {University of Hamburg}
- “Doing media business in Africa, the colourful continent,” Celia Collins, The Media Online, Mar 19, 2012. {The Media}
- “eTransform Africa: Agriculture Sector Study Sector Assessment and Opportunities for ICT,” Deloitte, Feb 4 2012. {World Bank}
- “Africa at the cusp of Broadband Revolution,” Santosh Anchan, TechMahindra, Jan 13, 2012. {Tech Mahindra}
- “L’Afrique se met à l’e-gouvernement,” Agence Ecofin, Nov 20, 2011. {Ecofin}
- “What’s driving the social media rage in Africa?” Ashnah Kalemera, CIPESA, Nov 2011. {CIPESA}
- “Africa turns to e-government (trans.),” Telecom Network No. 49, Nov 2011. {Ecofin}
- “Solar-powered Internet Cafés for Sub-Saharan Africa,” Chad Now, Sept 2011. {Chad Now}
- “Strengthening ccTLDs in East Africa Research Report,” KICTAnet/IDRC, 2011. {Afrinnovator}
- “The role of Digital Technologies in Africa,” Amy O’Donnell, Frontline SMS, May 26, 2011. {Frontline SMS}
- “What’s next for ICT in Africa?” infoDev, Apr 25, 2011. {infoDev}
- “Freedom on the Net 2011,” Freedom House & UNDEF, April 2011. {Freedom House}
- “Internet Exchange Points,” Stephanie Silvius, Jan 2011. {Euro-IX via Scribd}
- “Harnessing Africa’s Digital Future.” Francis Mdlongwa & Moagisi Letlhaku, ed., Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V., Oct 4, 2010. {KAS}
- “Broadband broadens scope for cyber crime in Africa.” Grobler, M and Jansen van Vuuren, J. 2010. Proceedings of the 2010 Information Security for South Africa conference. Sandton, South Africa, 2 – 4 August 2010. {researchspace.csir.co.za}
- “Essays on African Tech,” Afrinnovator. {Afrinnovator}
- “Growing Africa’s Internet use: Top down vs bottom up – Which way is up?” Balancing Act, Jul 30, 2010. {Balancing Act}
- “Is a non-Western path to Modernity via the Deployment of Information Communications Technology Possible in Africa?” Peter A. Kwaku Kyem, PhD, GISP, 2010.{mak.ac.ug}
- “Connecting Region Via ICT Diffusion,” Daily Champion, Nov 17, 2009. {allAfrica}
- “Criminal Uses of Information & Communication Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trends, Concerns and Perspectives,” Journal of Information Technology Impact Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 155-172, 2009. {JITI}
- “Broadband Across Africa,” Cisco, 2009. {4G Africa Forum}
- “Africa: Wireless Internet in the Countryside”, AfricaFocus Bulletin, Nov 7, 2008. {AfricaFocus}
- “Training African Regulators, infoDev Working Paper #18, Nov 2008. {infoDev}
- “Sub-Saharan Africa Undersea Cables in 2010 – take 7”, Rodney, Sept 25, 2008. {manypossibilities.net}
- “Broadband for Africa: Developing Backbone Communications Networks,” Mark D. J. Williams, infoDev & The World Bank, August 2008. {infoDev}
- “Voice over IP in Africa”, William Stucke, Mar 29, 2008. {Afrispa}
- “Web Design by Donor Organizations for Low Bandwidth,” {Columbia University}
- “Spectrum management and implications for Open Access fibre,” CIPESA, Dec 2007. {CIPESA}
- “Empirically testing factors that drive ICT adoption in Africa and OECD set of Nations,” Kallol Bagchi & Godwin Udo, Issues in Information Systems, 2007. {citeseerx.ist.psu.edu}
- “In the developing world, broadband spans the digital divide”, Thomas Crampton, Dec 3, 2006. {The New York Times}
- “Regional IXPs: the need for regional interconnection in Africa,” William Stucke, The Commonwealth Ministers Handbook – 2006, 2006. {Afrispa}
- “bridges.org,” Last updated 2006. {http://www.bridges.org/}
- “ICANN, Internet governance and Africa,” CIPESA ICT policy briefing series, Oct 5, 2005. {CircleID}
- Bridges.org (2005). Comparison Study of Free/Open Source and Proprietary Software in an African Context. Cape Town: Bridges.org. {ICTlogy}
- “Connectivity Africa Infobook,” IDRC, 2005. {IDRC via APAN}
- “Partnerships in Development Practice: Evidence from multi-stakeholder ICT4D partnership practice in Africa,” Tim Unwin, UNESCO, 2005. {share4dev.info}
- “An ICT-Hub model for rural communities,” S. J. Jacobs and Marlien E. Herselman, IJEDICT, 2005, Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 57-93. {share4dev.info}
- “Readiness for the Networked World,” IBM, Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2004. {cyber.law.harvard.edu}
- W.M.J.van Binsbergen ; R.A.van Dijk ; J.B. Gewald (eds.) Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture, Leiden [etc.]: Brill, pp. 107-146, 2004. {Ascleiden.nl}
- “Developing a fiber optic backbone for Africa,” Jabulani Dhliwayo, Corning, Inc., 2004. {ResearchGate}
- “ICTs and Poverty Reduction in Sub Saharan Africa,” Richard Gerster and Sonja Zimmermann, Oct 2003. {share4dev.info}
- “A Rural ICT Toolkit for Africa,” Andrew Dymond and Sonja Oestmann, Intelecon Research & consultancy Ltd., 2003. {share4dev.info}
- “Structural Properties of the African Web”, Boldi, Codenotti, Santini, Vigna, 2002. {www2002.org}
- “A $1.8 billion ring around Africa”, Boston Globe, Jul 22, 2001. {Boston.com}
- “Rural Access by Radio and Internet Helps Close the Digital Divide,” Lynne Gallagher and Djilali Benamrane, Apr 2001. {ISOC}
- “Financing equitable Internet,” Michel Elie, 2001. (Web Archive) {Aftidev via web.archive.org}
- “User’s Guide To Electronic Networks in Africa”, University of Pennsylvania – African Studies Center. {africa.upenn.edu}
- “Expanding International Email Connectivity–Another Look”, John C. Klensin and Randy Bush, 1993. {NSRC}
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