A couple of weeks ago, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), regarded as the source for Internet statistics, released a report on Internet usage habits in 152 countries around the world. The title: “Measuring the Information Society 2011.” Of interest to many is the ICT Development Index which ranks nations by …

A 2009 study found 36% of Cameroonians to have full confidence in online media.

In November 2010, we reported on demographics of visitors to this site. Now, 8 months later and with a larger sample size, it is time to examine how African web habits have changed. A less-than-scientific look at internal web traffic to this site confirms many national, regional, and continental trends. …

Few head-of-state Facebook pages are officially maintained by the leader, but that doesn’t stop the public from supporting their leader. In the past 3 months, the median fan-base for an African leader on Facebook has grown by 23%.

Internet maps were once all the rage. Simple, yet powerful, these visualizations contributed to the creation of robust global networks. 14 such maps provide a throwback of African Internet progress.

Submitted just last week, WebGL Globe, an experiment authored by the Google Data Arts Team, utilizes WebGL (used to power HTML5) to merge Google search volume by popular language by latitude/longitude.