Over the past week, we’ve found 107 stories of how ICT is changing Africa. Notable insights come from 36 countries.

Algeria

• Algerian telecom market set to become more competitive with 3G introduction {Afrique en Ligue}
• La concurrence a dopé le marché de l’Internet mobile 3G+ au Maroc  {Algeriesite.com}

Angola

• Angola, i petrodollari mettono le ali alla rete {Wired.it}

Botswana

• Cellphone subscribers top 3mln {Mmegi Online}

Burkina Faso

• Avec l’internet, les radios communautaires du Burkina vont au-delà des frontières {Ouest Afrika Blog}
• Forum National sur la Gouvernance de l’internet au Burkina Faso  {Nandaseye}

Cameroon

• MTN Cameroon launches country’s fastest Internet offer  {CameroonOnline.org}
• MTN unveils new range of WiMAX plans {TeleGeography}

Congo

• «21 Days of Y’ello Care 2013» : le village du savoir a émerveillé plus d’un jeune Congolais {Ecofin}
• Le site Internet «Toyekola» de MTN Congo fascine les élèves et étudiants {Congo-Site}

Cote D’Ivoire

• Les médias sociaux célébrés à travers le Social Media Days  {TechMissus}

Djibouti

• Selon la Banque mondiale, le prix des communications reste élevé à cause du monopole d’Etat {Ecofin}

Egypt

• Egypt’s revolution inspires tech start-ups {BBC News}
• Giza Library offers tech space for entrepreneurs {Daily News Egypt}
• Egypt price comparison site receives investment  {HumanIPO}
• Etisalat launches Flous mobile money in Egypt {BiztechAfrica}

Ethiopia

• Coworking space iceaddis gives a home to Ethiopia’s startups  {Wamda.com}

Gabon

• Airtel to invest $125 million in Gabon {IT News Africa}

Ghana

• Ghana Celebrates Innovation Week 2013, June 25-29 {BusinessGhana}
• Car sales leads the pack in online trading in Ghana {GhanaWeb}
• Airtel Ghana to use its 3.75G broadband network to disseminate information to … {Ghana Business News}
• Ghana ready to face cable theft  {HumanIPO}

Kenya

• Audit of e-Government projects long overdue {The Standard Digital News}
• African Entrepreneurs Deflate Google’s Internet Balloon Idea {MIT Technology Review}
• Laptop plan runs into headwinds {The Standard Digital News}
• yu changes tack and requests 3G licence {TeleGeography}
• Imenti Schools Get E-Learning {AllAfrica.com}
• RIM Forms 1st Girl Developer Group in Kenya {AllAfrica.com}
• Software developers risk losing out on school laptops deal {Business Daily Africa}
• Airtel Kenya restores unlimited Internet, though hikes price and introduces caps {CIO East Africa}
• Orange Kenya launches Facebook for non-data handsets  {HumanIPO}
• African student’s startup leads to Google job  {HumanIPO}
• Agriculture officers in Kenya to get laptops  {HumanIPO}
• 93% Of Youth In Kenya Want A Smartphone & Social Media Is 90% Of Their Mobile Internet Consumption  {Moses Kemibaro}
• Rare technique earns students fame on Internet {Standard Media}

Liberia

• Lonestar Cell launches Mobile Money service in Liberia {TeleGeography}

Madagascar

• Orange Solidarité Madagascar : un projet numérique pour les jeunes isolés d’internet  {Fondation Orange}
• Madagascar’s Telma mulls Comoros move {TeleGeography}

Malawi

• Malawi data: the bootcamp and a bleg {haba na haba}
• The high and lows of ICT entrepreneurship  {BiztechAfrica}

Mali

• Interview with creator of video journal “How are things in Bamako?” {Global Voices}
• Adhoc Networking in the Sahel {West Space Journal}

Mauritius

• Maurice est un mauvais élève  {Defimedia.info}

Morocco

• ‘Qandisha’, the Women’s Webzine that is Ruffling Feathers in Morocco {Global Voices}
• Avec une 3G+ saturée par la concurrence, il est temps de passer à la 4G {Ecofin}

Mozambique

• Convite para Participação no II Hackaton {MCT.gov.mz}

Namibia

• Navachab Donates Computers {AllAfrica.com}

Niger

• Niger’s worst power cuts in years threaten economy  {Reuters}
• 40% rural Nigeria has no network coverage  {BiztechAfrica}

Nigeria

• Accelerating economic growth through broadband strategy {The Guardian Nigeria}
• Online retail begins to click in Africa’s biggest market {GlobalPost}
• Why reading culture is poor in Nigeria — IGP {Nigerian Tribune}
• FG to Launch Fibre-Optic Network Connecting 27 Universities {AllAfrica.com}
• Why Girls Need ICT {AllAfrica.com}
• OpenApps Crosses 1 Million Collective Visits With Interesting Outcomes {OtekBits}
• E-payment increases Abuja’s revenue by 40%- Minister {Premium Times Nigeria}
• Le régulateur nigérian dénonce l’atterrissage de trop de câble sous-marin de fibre optique à Lagos {Ecofin}
• Nigeria moves to connect ’27 universities’ {IT Web Africa}
• Mobile internet subs grew 11% in Q1 2013 {TeleGeography}

North Africa

• After a tablet cafe launches in Senegal, could the trend transform North Africa? {Wamda.com}

Rwanda

• Late Steve Jobs’ wife visits kLab {kLab}
• Focus on Smart Rwanda  {BiztechAfrica}

Senegal

• Clock ticking on Senegal’s mobile ID registration scheme {TeleGeography}

Sierra Leone

• Africell Supports MamaYe {Awoko}
• Solar Powered Open Education Library in a Box for Schools in Sierra Leone {Sierra Express Media}

Somalia

• How mobile phones are making cash obsolete in Africa {The Globe and Mail}

South Africa

• Digital apartheid: separate and unequal {TechCentral}
• Is our cyber nation in safe hibernation? {IT News Africa}
• Why Have All the Rural Tech Projects Failed? {IDG Connect}
• LTE Advanced, aka 4G, in South Africa {MyBroadband}
• Bring on tech in the classroom {ITWeb}
• Huawei’s cyber lab investment to empower SA youth {IT News Africa}
• 100Mbps Telkom fibre to the home {MyBroadband}
• New crowdfunding site launched in SA  {HumanIPO}

Sudan

• Zain to stay in Sudan, eyes Libya for growth {Telecompaper}

Swaziland

• SPTC poised to re-launch fixed-wireless service {TeleGeography}

Tanzania

• Farmers Benefit From New Zantel Service {AllAfrica.com}

Togo

• OpenStreetMap arrive au Togo {Republique Togolaise}

Tunisia

• Tunisian hackers decrypt dictator’s old internet censorship machines {The Observers}
• Web site monitors Tunisia’s new government {Washington Post}
• Tunisian Internet Agency CEO: Lack of Legal Reforms Imperils Internet Freedom… {Tunisia Live}
• Arab internet users ambivalent about political opinions {gulfnews.com}

Uganda

• The Smart Phone Era {AllAfrica.com}
• Huawei Uganda CEO: “Our ideology is to make hardware irrelevant” {PC Tech Magazine}
• Online company registration now possible in Uganda  {HumanIPO}

West Africa

• Francophone Africa’s bus companies ignore ICTs, innovation  {BiztechAfrica}

Zambia

• Zambia’s Massnet seeking investor to enable LTE deployment {PC Tech Magazine}
• Using ICTs to Unlock Tourism Market {AllAfrica.com}
• Police, ZICTA tackle cyber crimes  {UK Zambians}

Zimbabwe

• Comparison of mobile broadband tariffs in Zimbabwe {Techzim}
• Zimbabwean politics ripe for hactivism – will fruit be sweet? {Radio Netherlands}

General Africa

• How much broadband spectrum is really available in SA? {MyBroadband}
• Africa-Focused Savannah Fund Graduates Its First Batch of Startups {TechCrunch}
• First fibre-speed satcom network for remote areas {E&T magazine}
• Is innovation in Africa good or bad? Venture Talk {Ventureburn}
• AFRINIC faces challenge of attracting government participation {PC Advisor}
• Mobile Money can transform lives of African communities {Africa Review}
• Africa increases cybersecurity efforts {PC Advisor}
• English is no longer the language of the web {Quartz}
• Appropriate IT and the African scene… {ITWeb}
• How technology can transform lives of African women {CNN}
• Africa Tech Shifts from Infrastructure to growing businesses {PC Advisor}
• Girls Are the Future, Digitally {AllAfrica.com}
• 430,000 African IT Professionals to Leave for U.S. in 2015 – NITDA {AllAfrica.com}
• How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa {Tech Soup Forums}
• White Paper Points to Mobile Advertising’s Promising Future in Africa  {Mobile Marketing Watch}
• Vimpelcom attracts ‘concrete’ buyer for unwanted African assets; Laos deal imminent {TeleGeography}