The Namibian Ministry of Education’s Tech/NA! initiative is part of the nation’s Vision 2030 plan to create a knowledge-based society. The plan came about after the government recognized the importance of quality instead of sheer quantity.
Mobile video & farmers, Glo-1 in Ghana, SA’s web/race demographics, Nigerian elections, .africa action, Africa’s business environment, and more
The social media giant tends to keep such statistics private, but allows potential advertisers the number of accounts tied to a given country in the form of “Estimated Reach”:
In case you are wondering, the global Facebook statistics present over at SocialBakers actually are scraped daily from Facebook’s own database. A …
Mobile Monday’s recent state of the African mobile industry report provides an insight into the next 5 years of progress. 68% of the African pop. is expected to have a mobile phone within 5 years.
African download speeds range widely but average 2.1 Mbps, according to data from over 300,000 bandwidth tests on SpeedTest.net. Upload speeds are half as fast.
East Africa Com discussion, WACS heads to SA, Ghana’s cyber fraud culture, African social marketing, Web 2.0 in schools
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