Yes, it’s Google, and yes, it’s similar to Yahoo! Answers, but the new Baraza site fills a major void in African web-space. Not only is there relatively little targeted African content, but typical African content that does exist often lacks value or focus.  Now, with Baraza, not only can users …

Video excerpt from Nigeria’s 50th anniversary lecture at the Embassy of Nigeria, Paris. Mr. Eemeagwali had some excellent quotes including:

“I see the internet enabling citizens to become reporters, decentralizing the media. I see technology enabling freedom of the press and democracy in Africa.”
“Democracy without technology is void.”
“My journey …

MWEB, a South African Internet service provider, has created two short YouTube videos to explain how 1) ADSL works in South Africa and 2) how the Internet works. The animated and voiced-over videos are simple but effectively explain how international data arrives at a computer via the World Wide Web. …

At the African conference for Fourth African Conference on FOSS (free and open source software) and the Digital Commons, Idelo 4, ict@innovation captured stories of people working with Free and Open Source in Africa. Conference attendees worked on such projects as:

Free and open source applications to teach online in Africa …

It’s a no-brainer. Walk more than 5 kilometers to the nearest cyber café or simply use a standard mobile phone to send e-mail. Well, ForgetMeNot Africa, a specialist in unified messaging for telecommunications operators, has developed a system of sending emails to mobile devices via SMS. Of course, this technology …

Although mostly stock footage, this brief video from NTVKenya highlights the general lack of e-commerce surrounding Africa, more specifically, travel-related e-commerce. Damian Cook, CEO of E-Tourism Frontiers (a program to develop online tourism in emerging markets) recently commented on the lack of online presence of African tourism businesses:
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