OA News: October 24-31, 2013
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Over the past week, we’ve found dozens of reports of how the internet is changing lives in Africa. Rwanda, host of a major development summit, has been in focus of late. Algeria, about to launch 3G service, is also in the spotlight. In total, there are 122 headlines from 29+ nations.
Algeria
- Telecoms in Algeria: A lost generation {The Economist}
- Technologie LTE/4G d’Algérie Télécom Améliorer les débits de l’internet et connecter les exclus de l’ADSL {ITMag.dz}
- Améliorer l’accès Internet haut débit en Algérie {Oxford Business Group}
Angola
- Unitel claims first African 4G video roaming {TeleGeography}
- Angola to ramp up mobile competition {TeleGeography}
Botswana
- Botswana Fibre Networks aims for global expansion {ITWeb Africa}
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
- #bccam13 Recap {ActivSpaces Cameroon}
- MTN Cameroon now counts 8.2 million subscribers {BiztechAfrica}
Chad
- Gouvernement tchadien : le “coming out” de Daoussa Déby Itno, monsieur Frèr {Jeuneafrique.com}
DR Congo
East Africa
- Business Focus – on Entrepreurship in East Africa 17th October 2013 {YouTube/KTV Kenya}
Egypt
- Egyptian government to enable Internet connectivity in 500 busses next year {ArabCrunch}
- Egypt Internet users reached 36 million in June 2013: MCIT {Ahram Online}
- Communications minister aims to attract new investments in ICT field {Daily News Egypt}
- Egypt open to online market opportunities {HumanIPO}
Ethiopia
- iceaddis Represents Ethiopia’s Innovative Tech Scene {AFK Insider}
- Online Tax Filing On the Horizon for Middle Taxpayers {AllAfrica.com}
Gabon
- Transform Africa 2013 : Ali Bongo fait sa com’ sur Facebook {Ecofin}
- Gabon News perturbé par les dysfonctionnements de l’Internet « haut débit » de Gabon Télécom {Ecofin}
Gambia
- Gambia’s First Digital Opportunity Center Commissioned {AllAfrica.com}
Ghana
- « Nous voulons construire au Ghana un parc technologique de 4eme génération » {Ecofin}
- MTN Ghana boosts network speeds in Ashanti {BiztechAfrica}
- Ghanaian invents pocket PC tablet {GhanaWeb}
Kenya
- New Website for Kenyan Whistleblowers to Report Tax Cheats {AllAfrica.com}
- Rarieda Schools Set for E-Learning {AllAfrica.com}
- Kenyan President Unveils New Website {AllAfrica.com}
- #ExecInsights: Metcalfe’s Law Meets the Masai {Cisco Blog}
- Smartphones Drive Apps Use In Kenya {Coastweek}
- Wikipedia Will Start Texting Info To Users In Kenya Who Lack Internet {Fast Company}
- Health eVillages Founder Announces Grant to Lwala Community Alliance for comprehensive Internet service {Healthcare IT News}
- Kenyan laptop programme rollout pushed to the end of Q1 2014 {HumanIPO}
- Kenya’s BRCK launch delayed until next year {HumanIPO}
- Mobile phones lift banking reach in Kenya to 67 pct of adults {Reuters}
- Demo Africa showcases Kenya’s tech genius {Standard Media}
- We’ll use ICT to improve lives of Kenyans, says President Uhuru Kenyatta {Standard Media}
Liberia
- Improvements in mobile data in Liberia spur radio station to do international online hook-up to promote local music {balancingact-africa.com}
Libya
- Kufra without internet for three days {Libya Herald}
Malawi
- Malawi State House now on Facebook officially {Nyasa Times}
Mauritania
Morocco
Mozambique
- Online Campaign for Peace in Mozambique {Global Voices}
- Mcel et Dstv lance la télévision sur mobile {Ecofin}
Namibia
- Book Your Grave Online {AllAfrica.com}
- Is internet replacing hard copy books? {New Era}
- Telecom Namibia connects to DE-CIX {Telecompaper}
Nigeria
- FG Targets 100 Percent Broadband Penetration By 2017 {AllAfrica.com}
- Broadband expansion seen as driver of N150bn e-commerce industry {BusinessDay}
- Southeastern Nigeria suffers most from telecoms vandalism {HumanIPO}
- “e-commerce growth in Nigeria, beautiful to watch” – Konga.com COO {IT News Africa}
- ICT country profile: Nigeria, Africa’s largest mobile market {ITWeb Africa}
- Nigeria ICT initiatives aim to empower women {ITWeb Africa}
- Nigerian university fibre project to go live {ITWeb Africa}
- Driving Global Child Online Protection, Cybersecurity Campaign {ThisDay Live}
- MainOne To Complete $25Mn Data Centre In Lagos By 2014 {Ventures-Africa}
North Africa
- Kuwait telco Zain looks to expand into North Africa {Reuters}
- Comme au Maroc et en Tunisie, la 3G pourrait écraser l’Adsl en Algérie {Ecofin}
Reunion
- Zeop, Le Cable come up trumps in download speed tests {TeleGeography}
Rwanda
- Public Internet Still Enjoyed By Few {AllAfrica.com}
- Young African ICT Entrepreneurs Honoured in Kigali {AllAfrica.com}
- Participants discuss the continents ICT progress and the Smart Africa Manifesto at Day 1 of Transform Africa {Official Website of the Government of Rwanda}
- MTN gives free Internet to schools {The New Times}
- How Rwandan startup GIRA ICT is making smartphones and laptops affordable for all {Wired UK}
- Rwanda’s ambitious 4G rollout begins, education cited as major beneficiary {Wired UK}
- Welcome to kLab, Rwanda’s startup hub for top young tech talent {Wired UK}
Senegal
- Naafyo: la StartUp qui veut (et va?) révolutionner l’entrepreunariat au Sénégal {AfriqueITNews.com}
- L’OMS milite pour l’adoption de la cyber-santé en Afrique {Ecofin}
- Senegalese entrepreneurs introduce tech solutions to hospitality industry {How We Made It}
South Africa
- Broadband prices in South Africa: 2003 vs 2013 {MyBroadband}
- South Africa’s “Independent Internet” plans with BRICS {MyBroadband}
- The apps changing South Africa’s transport services {BBC}
- MWEB’s success shows fibre to become ‘de facto’ technology of choice {BDlive}
- Spinlet to launch music platform in South Africa {BiztechAfrica}
- New South African smartphone targeted at lower-income consumers {How We Made It}
- Cybercrime costs SA $102.5m annually {HumanIPO}
- DoC hosting broadband policy workshop {HumanIPO}
- 31% of online birth registration facilities in SA offline {HumanIPO}
- Satellite internet launched in KZN {HumanIPO}
- What South Africa’s students cannot do without {IT News Africa}
- #MeetSouthAfrica through Instagram {News24}
- 100Mbit/s for most S Africans by 2030 {TechCentral}
- SA broadband at a crossroads: Came {TechCentral}
- MTN deploys LTE towers for speed record trials {Telecompaper}
- South Africans Enter Phone App Marketplace, Slowly {VOA News}
Swaziland
- Swaziland next African country to come to Street View {Official Google Africa Blog}
Tanzania
- Tanzania: IT Expert Advocates Whiteboard Technology {AllAfrica.com}
- Vodacom Tanzania launches solar-powered e-learning centre {HumanIPO}
Uganda
- Orange Sees Future in Data {AllAfrica.com}
- Museveni Roots for ICT in Regional Integration {AllAfrica.com}
- Innovative Sseremba offers Ugandans a Facebook alternative {The Observer}
Zimbabwe
- Education At the Click of a Mouse {AllAfrica.com}
- Telecel Browser’s Popularity Soars {AllAfrica.com}
- Oracle in Zimbabwe: competition, applications & cloud: (Interview) {TechZim}
- Econet Zimbabwe profit drops by 9.5% in 1H FY2014 {TeleGeography}
- Logicode officially launches in Zimbabwe {The Zimbabwe Independent}
General Africa
- Unicef Draws On Ibm Analytics to Give a Voice to Youth in Africa {AllAfrica.com}
- Eight Heads of State for Crucial Africa ICT Meet {AllAfrica.com}
- Silicon Valley and The Rift Valley: Parallels in African Hardware Technology {Appfrica}
- Doing Business 2014 – Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprise {World Bank Group}
- 5 African countries included in T-Mobile’s “Free International Roaming” {Mshale}
- African Business Professionals massively migrating towards Mobile Devices {Africa Business Communities}
- Railway Lines of Internet Connectivity in Africa {WhiteAfrican}
- Five PR lessons when working with tech start-ups in Africa {Bizcommunity}
- How Orange Marine cable ship Leon Thevenin helps keep Africa online {BiztechAfrica}
- Mboweni: investment, innovation key to telecoms success {BiztechAfrica}
- Fibre and satellite should address different needs in Africa {Developing Telecoms}
- China’s Huawei holds 2013 North Africa Strategic Cooperation Forum in Ethiopia {Globaltimes.cn}
- Russian technology company eyes Africa {How We Made It}
- Africa’s Youth Riding the Wave of Technical Innovation {HuffPost}
- African startups should internationalise – Evernote {HumanIPO}
- Nokia to fund 16 African startups {HumanIPO}
- Africa boosts Airtel’s revenues amid a weak rupee {HumanIPO}
- Web Video: Does Africa Get Forgotten? {IDG Connect}
- Microsoft enters into cooperation agreements to accelerate African innovation {Microsoft}
- Google, Facebook top executives to attend Transform Africa ICT summit {The New Times}
- Airtel Africa to offer free access to Wikipedia {Telecompaper}
- MTN Group closed out third quarter with 203.8m subscribers {TeleGeography}
- Africa’s international bandwidth growth to lead the world {TeleGeography}
- Africa’s mobile phone boom – the Portuguese speaking countries {The Portugal News}
- Africa’s Tech Innovators Show Off at ‘Demo Africa’ in Nairobi {VOA News}
- Report: Africa still needs more ICT education and cheaper tech to grow a competitive knowledge economy {Wired UK}
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