The World Summit Award is a global initiative within the UN Framework. It awards outstanding local e-content and promotes it at a global level. 14 African nations are represented in 2013.

Now two years old, the Kenya Open Data Initiative has set a high standard for Open Data in Africa. The platform – the first of its kind in a developing country – has encouraged government transparency within Kenya and beyond.

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.

Dalberg Global Development Advisors, with support from Google, surveyed more than 1,300 businesses in Senegal, Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria as part of the April 2013 “Impact of the Internet in Africa” report.

The second part of this week’s African Internet news round-up consists of 44 stories that focus on African ICT trends.

Tech activity in the Indian Ocean islands has been heating up of late. Especially in Madagascar where ICT events are more common than ever.