Our top 10 stories from the past week feature themes relating to mobile money, tech ecosystems, local content, solar power, and more.

14 videos shared on YouTube and Vimeo by various sources between February 2014 – May 2014 highlight the diverse ways in which the internet is poised to improve African society.

Even if places like Kenya or South Africa lead Sub-Saharan Africa in terms of internet readiness, these nations have a ways to go if they are to compete on a global level.

A new study of thousands of mobile phone users in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe finds that mobile phones, though still underutilized, are contributing to an increase in reading.

Events to engage girls with information communications technology were held in many African countries as part of international Girls in ICT Day 2014.

African ICT news headlines, perspectives, and briefs from the past couple of weeks include represent 37 countries (among the most we’ve ever seen at once).