According to a December 2010 infoDev report, “the primary challenges facing ICT SMEs as they attempt to launch and grow may vary significantly depending on the country in which the entrepreneur may be located.”
While challenges of each country are unique, the general hurdle preventing ICT uptake among small and medium …

Is the volume and selling price of domain names containing African terms is a harbinger of what’s to come in terms of Africa’s e-commerce industry?

By now, many Internet users interested in human rights or non-profits are probably aware of A Human Right’s campaign to buy an old TerreStar satellite. The publicity generated by the story (features on ABC News, Gizmodo, al-Jazeera, NRK Norway, 1000+ tweets and 1,600+ Facebook fans) is great for raising awareness, …

Exactly one year ago, I published on post on the outlook for iTunes in Africa citing payment issues, bandwidth limitations, and the confinement of smartphones to urban areas, if at all present. This is a corollary to that viewpoint.

The landscape for African music downloads looks very promising, especially given the …

600 applicants
40 hailed from South Africa
3 of 23 semi-finalists were from South Africa
0 of 12 finalists are African start-ups

Not surprisingly, the concept of life cycle assessment (LCA) is not widespread in Africa (a bevy of information exists on the related subject of sustainable consumption and production, but more on that later). After all, the evaluation of environmental impacts of digital products and services is a daunting task. It …