14 stories on Google/Senegal relations, mHealth data collection, rural e-learning, 4G defined, E. African editorials, m-commerce
Renesys Corp recently uploaded a visualization of January’s Egyptian Internet outage. In the description, the company wrote:
It [The video] shows the routed address space for each country, colored by reachability (at the routing/BGP level). Space in green is globally reachable, while space in red has had all …
For the first time, the Reporters Without Borders annual ‘Enemies of the Internet’ report doesn’t include an African nation.
This post is an update of December 2010’s list of African leaders with a Facebook presence. Of special interest are pages from Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Zimbabwe.
Fibre-to-home competition heats up, Namibia gets 4G, Rwanda’s fibre project nears completion, Zambia tax e-filing, & many infrastructure projects.
Excerpts and tech snippets from Algeria (telecom goals), Burundi (infrastructure), Cameroon (mobile Twitter ban), Eritrea (Internet freedom), Ethiopia (tech city), Ghana.
oAfrica is a showcase of the dynamic African digital landscape. We addresse a variety of aspects of African Internet connectivity with an understanding that every nation has different tools and ideologies to utilize. Although every African citizen may not have the chance to access the Internet for years to come, African digital opportunities are rapidly expanding. We do our best to objectively share those stories.