This week’s African tech news round-up consists of 107 stories from 36 countries.
Malawi’s first Data Literacy Bootcamp was recently held in Lilongwe. The aim was two-fold: to teach participants how to analyze data and then to have participants use this data to solve real issues and challenges.
From May 21 through the end of June, eight West African nations will be privy to a country-specific Internet Governance Forum. A recap of the Burkina Faso event.
The World Bank plans to provide even more support to Rwandan ICT development through the SMART Rwanda initiative.
Held from 9-21 June, 2013 in Lusaka, Zambia, the 2nd African Internet Summit brought together more than 400 participants from all sectors of African ICT (academia, public, private).
By now, nearly every African government has at least one official website (some are updated more often than others), but few have a social media presence.
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