Health & e-governance are hot topics, Ghanaian writers and the Internet, South African fibre, MainOne/Seacom agreement, USA firms eye Kenya

Google Instant, Kigali’s ICT hub in the news, can Twitter influence African science policy?

Digital marketing, Google in West Africa, local language searches, cheaper Internet for universities, the WISP

Fill the Gap, organized by Dutch development organizations Hivos and IICD, is an annual ICT for Development networking event held in the Netherlands. In 2011 the event’s theme was IT entrepreneurship in Africa. Keynote speakers were Google Ghana’s Country Manager Estelle Akofio-Sowah and local Kenyan IT entrepreneur Kamal Budhabhatti.
Notes from …

Do users first generate content, or does content draw in users?

Nine stories from West, East, South Africa on e-commerce, broadband deployment, ind. media, apps, foreign investment