Ambitious broadband policy for Mauritius, Internet training in Mali, Mozambique eyes e-government, opinions on social media in Kenya/Nigeria/Rwanda, “3.75G” for Ghana & Zambia, broadband costs, and more!

African ICT news from the first week of December, 2011. Featured are 47 stories of how technology is changing lives in 18 African nations and beyond.

2011 ICT Facts and Figures {ITU}
Online schools: beware of fakes {Daily Monitor}
Fight illiteracy to benefit from ICT sector – minister {The Citizen}
Young, gifted and crooked: Hi-tech fraud soars in EA {The East African}
Submarine Cable Already Being Tested- Reveals Govt Official {AngolaPress via allAfrica.com}
Rwanda: Supreme Court Goes Hi-Tech {The New Times …

October 26

Africa: 84 million mobile devices are Internet enabled {IT News Africa}
Samsung launches solar-powered internet schools in Africa {TelecomPaper}
Angola engaged in broad band expansion {AngolaPress}
eLearning and sustainable development: perspectives from Benin {eLearning Africa}
Information Africa: Reducing dependency on foreign ICT consultants in Ghana {VC4Africa}
E-commerce blow to Kenya as Kalahari site shuts …

Action in Angola, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Standard Group Kenya’s KTN Business recently aired a video segment on Seacom’s planned upgrade of its undersea cable to cope with growing demand on the eastern seaboard of Africa. Mark Simpson, the new Chief Executive Officer at SEACOM, says that the advent of 4G services will mean that additional demand …