OA News: September 30 – October 7, 2013
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Over the past week, we’ve found 131 stories of how mobile, internet, and technology in general are changing lives in 32+ African nations.
Algeria
- Lamamra highlights interest attached by Algeria to Internet, welcomes Arab coordination {Algérie Presse Service}
- Un point d’échange internet pour l’Algérie {JAM MAG}
Angola
- Over 6000 Kilometres of Optical Fibre Cable to Be Extended to Brazil {AllAfrica.com}
- Huawei, Angola’s Ministry of Education to Connect the Youth {AllAfrica.com}
Botswana
- BOCRA launches .bw ccTLD campaign {BiztechAfrica}
Burkina Faso
- 127 iPads pour les députés {AfriqueITNews.com}
Burundi
Cameroon
- ‘A Good Blogger Must Already Have the Intrinsic Qualities of All Good Journalists’ {Global Voices}
- Internet-connectivity in Cameroon on Vimeo {Vimeo}
- Internet and other ICTs are valuable tools for farmers {Global Press Journal}
Cape Verde
- Cape Verde mobile phone users hit 457,000 {Telecompaper}
Cote D’Ivoire
DR Congo
- The Internet as a ‘Miracle Solution’ for Congo {Enough Project}
- Mobile Operator Tigo Returns To DRC, Plans 3G Rollout {Ventures Africa}
East Africa
- Sabrina Dar Lays Out Cisco’s Agenda in East Africa {AllAfrica.com}
- Hellofood debuts in Rwanda today, Uganda next on African agenda {HumanIPO}
Egypt
- Cairo Angels invests almost $1m in Egyptian tech startups {HumanIPO}
- Egyptian entrepreneur Amira Azzouz fights back against content theft {Wamda.com}
Eritrea
- Inhabitants of Dengolo-Tahtai Express Satisfaction With Telecommunication Service {AllAfrica.com}
- Digital Library and Internet Service Introduced in Community Library At Denden Camp {AllAfrica.com}
Ethiopia
- Internet Connection Grief {AllAfrica.com}
Gambia
- ‘ICT expansion in Africa enhances socio-economic development’ {Daily Observer}
Ghana
- Ghana-based online teaching & learning platform My eCampus expands across Africa {VC4Africa}
- Huawei unveils 4G LTE, devices at Accra summit {BiztechAfrica}
- African leaders urged to make ICT human-centred {GBC Ghana}
- Online trading in mobile phones soars {GhanaWeb}
- Prioritise Internet Penetration & Access {GhanaWeb}
- Internet access must not corrupt culture {GhanaWeb}
Kenya
- Uhuru, Ruto Push Laptop Programme {AllAfrica.com}
- Airtel, Ecobank Partner to Offer M-Banking in Nine African Countries {AllAfrica.com}
- Internet Access Still Low in Public Universities {AllAfrica.com}
- State to Support Local ICT Industry {AllAfrica.com}
- Using tech to make Kenya’s problems harder to ignore {Innovation Trail}
- Samsung’s Subsidized Laptops Help University Students In Kenya Evade Tax {PC Tech Magazine}
- Airtel Kenya Wants To Give You Free Internet Every Morning {TechMoran}
- What are teens getting up to online in Africa’s innovation hub? {Voices of Africa}
- Kenyan government in “crucial stages” of developing Access to Information bill {HumanIPO}
- AfDB donates $100m towards Kenya’s Konza City {HumanIPO}
- Praekelt to release free Wikipedia access interface {HumanIPO}
- What has the iHub achieved? : Wanjiku’s Take {Wanjiku}
- The technology modernising Kenya’s matatus {BBC}
Liberia
- Postal Ministry Discusses Internet Exchange System {AllAfrica.com}
- Open government and Freedom of Information in Liberia – more than a Hollywood dream? {iLab Liberia}
Madagascar
- Online Tool to Review Candidates Platforms in Madagascar {Global Voices}
- Tech innovation contest launching in Madagascar {HumanIPO}
Namibia
- New Tech for Easy Teaching {AllAfrica.com}
Niger
Nigeria
- ‘Auto Websites Give Consumers a New Vista’ {AllAfrica.com}
- I Created Imongo to Give Nigeria a Facebook Equivalent – Schoolboy Invento {AllAfrica.com}
- Letter to the Senate on Internet Monitoring, Adeolu Ademoyo {Premium Times Nigeria}
- Nigeria’s smartphone builder Ideacentric secures angel investment, part of US$ 200,000 seed round {VC4Africa}
- ICT ignorance ‘a threat to Vision 20:2020’ {BiztechAfrica}
- Going digital critical for Nigerian music artists – Trace TV {HumanIPO}
- Nigerian fixed broadband license bidding to begin at end of 2014 {HumanIPO}
- Nigeria’s wireless backhaul market hits 0m {The Guardian Nigeria}
- Internet users decry service quality, task providers on wider accessibility {The Guardian Nigeria}
- My Takeaway From #MomoNigeria – The Impact of the Internet in Nigeria {tech360ng}
- ipNX deploys FTTH network in major cities {TeleGeographyc}
- IBM President Seeks Support for Nigeria, Africa ICT Development, Articles {ThisDay}
- Report Unveils New Trends in Mobile Phone Usage, Articles {ThisDay}
- How Technology Is Fostering Good Governance In Nigeria {Ventures Africa}
- CTO tasks Nigeria, others on broadband service to rural dwellers, FG pledges internet access in five years {The Guardian Nigeria}
- Made-in-Nigeria phones to be launched in November, PAPDAN says {BusinessDay}
North Africa
Rwanda
- Low ICT Awareness, a Challenge for Software Developers {AllAfrica.com}
- We Have Free Wi-Fi, but Who Will Have Access? {AllAfrica.com}
- Is Internet Replacing Hard Copy Books in Academics? {AllAfrica.com}
- Minister urges girls in Rwanda to embrace ICT {BiztechAfrica}
Senegal
- Forum Orange sur le Mobile Money {AfriqueITNews.com}
- Rufisque Tech Hub organise un atelier de partage des outils Google {AfriqueITNews.com}
- Sonatel attracts 1.25 mln Orange Money customers {Telecompaper}
Seychelles
- Seychelles gets banking with Airtel Money {IT News Africa}
Sierra Leone
- UNIDO Delivers Kambia Growth Centre {AllAfrica.com}
- Sierratel Launches Exciting Wifi Product {Awoko}
South Africa
- SA’s e-commerce industry ‘on cusp of great things’ {BDlive}
- What is broadband in South Africa? {BusinessTech}
- Twitter eyes South Africa in IPO filing {BusinessTech}
- Online radio in South Africa {BusinessTech}
- Africa ramps up Fibre-To-The-Home {BusinessTech}
- Peering congestion causing ADSL problems: source {MyBroadband.co.za}
- South Africa telecoms regulator proposes slashing mobile rates {Yahoo News}
- South Africa to finally have broadband policy by November {BDlive}
- Distribution of tablets to bridge digital divide in Gauteng schools {BDlive}
- Conduct begins open-access network expansion in Cape Town {HumanIPO}
- Byte Orbit reopens Startup Knight {HumanIPO}
- SA minister “blown away” by tech education innovation {HumanIPO}
- Who’s behind #ILoveDurban {IOL.co.za}
- South Africa gets first Wi-Fi-enabled stadium {IT News Africa}
- South Africa to develop African smartphone {IT News Africa}
- BRIC Nations Plan Their own “Independent Internet” {ITworld}
- SA fibre broadband set for cheaper access {News24}
Sudan
- Social media activist held in Sudan {News24}
Swaziland
- Election Coverage Found Wanting {AllAfrica.com}
- Thoughts on Media Freedom Under Swaziland’s ‘Monarchical Democracy’ {IFEX}
Tanzania
- Citizens Told to Safeguard Optic Fibre Cable {AllAfrica.com}
- Minister Calls for Improved Use of NICTBB Services {AllAfrica.com}
- ICT Centres to Be Established in Every Village {AllAfrica.com}
- Ministry launches national eHealth strategy {Daily News Tanzania}
- Tanzania advised to invest in electronic tourism {IPPMedia}
- Internet costs in Dar up by 33.3 percent {IPPMedia}
Tunisia
- Breaking Taboos: Tunisians Speak Up Against Homophobia {Global Voices}
- Tunisia’s Famissima aims to simplify African family life {HumanIPO}
Uganda
- Schools to Have ICT Labs, Govt to Provide 40 Computers to Each {AllAfrica.com}
- Making Internet Accessible, Affordable {AllAfrica.com}
- Hive Colab looks to tackle Ugandan youth unemployment {HumanIPO}
Zambia
- MTN connects to WACS {Zambia Post}
- Govt to make Zambia ICT regional hub {Times of Zambia}
Zimbabwe
- Dealing with the ever present power cuts in Zimbabwe {Techzim}
- Zimbabwe Govt Starts Spying On Cellphones {ZimEye}
- Cost of internet access still high {ZimEye}
General Africa
- Appfrica, Apps 4 Africa Creates Opportunitiy for Techies Across Africa {AFKInsider}
- Internet Availability Crucial in Rural Africa {AfricanBrains}
- Growing Potential of Digital Jobs for African Youths {AllAfrica.com}
- To Improve African Education, Focus on Technology {Harvard Business Review}
- A few myths and misconceptions about digital teaching and learning materials in Africa {Edutech}
- 5 major trends anyone in the African tech space should be aware of {memeburn}
- Akamai finds a home in Africa {BiztechAfrica}
- Cloud, mobile innovation to drive market disruption {BiztechAfrica}
- Cloud computing: Boundless opportunities for African Entrepreneurs {Capital Business}
- Acer opens new fronts in tech wars {Gadget}
- Kaymu online marketplace launched in Morocco and Ghana {HumanIPO}
- Airtel launches Africa Connect network {HumanIPO}
- Mdundo launches “SoundCloud for Africa” {HumanIPO}
- Connecting Industry to Government and Civil Society {IT News Africa}
- Race on for Africa-developed smartphones {IT News Africa}
- Wired Women’s Conference to focus on rise of dynamic women {IT News Africa}
- Samsung continues to dominate African smartphone market {ITworld}
- iMENTORS: Find ICT4D Partners On A Map {Ventures Africa}
- Alliance for Affordable Internet to lead digital policy reform in developing countries {Wired UK}
- Making the Internet Affordable {YouTube}
- Intel announces ‘She Will Connect’ initiative to reduce online gender gap {ZDNet}
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