Renesys Corp recently uploaded a visualization of January’s Egyptian Internet outage. In the description, the company wrote:
It [The video] shows the routed address space for each country, colored by reachability (at the routing/BGP level). Space in green is globally reachable, while space in red has had all …

Launched just last year (2010) with seed funding from the World Bank Institute, Libraries Across Africa is preparing to create thousands of public libraries at the lowest possible cost.

Fill the Gap, organized by Dutch development organizations Hivos and IICD, is an annual ICT for Development networking event held in the Netherlands. In 2011 the event’s theme was IT entrepreneurship in Africa. Keynote speakers were Google Ghana’s Country Manager Estelle Akofio-Sowah and local Kenyan IT entrepreneur Kamal Budhabhatti.
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The video is the cherry on top of a three-part research process conducted by the Artefact Group, who:

Partnered with a resident and expert of the hard-to-access township communities for cultural immersion
Conducted in-context research with the youth and their peers, witnessing genuine interactions with each other and …

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, …

TEDx Nairobi, a series of local and self-organized events that brought people together to share a TED-like experience may have taken place this past September, but videos of the presentations have just made their way online. All 9 speakers are worth a view, but Julie Gichuru’s presentation on her perceived future …