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OA Goal: Track down ICT happenings in Central Africa, underrepresented nations
March 20, 2010 ♦ Comments Off on OA Goal: Track down ICT happenings in Central Africa, underrepresented nations
OA Goal: Track down ICT happenings in Central Africa, underrepresented nations

A chart listing theĀ  most frequently mentioned nations on this site shows:

South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya have many newsworthy stories
Regionally, East Africa produces the most news articles and ICT updates/opinions
oAfrica.com does not focus on North Africa (for a variety of reasons)
An absence of Central African nations – none of these …

Trends from Google’s Keyword Tool
October 20, 2009 ♦ Comments Off on Trends from Google’s Keyword Tool
Trends from Google’s Keyword Tool

Did you ever want to know the monthly search volume for a particular term? The Google AdWords Keyword Tool is extremely useful for webmasters, but also shows monthly and annual trends in searches. In general, Google searches for African internet subjects are on the rise. The greatest number of searches …

Stats from the Wayback Machine
October 12, 2009 ♦ Comments Off on Stats from the Wayback Machine
Stats from the Wayback Machine

Thanks to the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, we are able to track old Africa’s Internet statistics from Internet World Stats. Cached pages date back to August 2002. The historical data is useful in projecting future trends. For example, over the past 2 years, the Internet penetration rate in …

Map : Color-coded Internet Penetration
October 7, 2009 ♦ 2 Comments
Map : Color-coded Internet Penetration

North African nations experience greater percentages of Internet users than other regions
Sub-Saharan Africa has very poor Internet penetration
Note: The world average Internet penetration rate in 2009 is 24.7%

Table : Internet Penetration vs. HDI, 2009
October 7, 2009 ♦ One Comment

Below is a summary of how African countries measure based on Human Development Index (the United Nations measure of well-being in a country) and the percentage of each country’s population with Internet access. Only two African nations rank in the upper half of the world, based on the HDI data, …

Chart : Internet Penetration vs. Human Development Index, 2009
October 7, 2009 ♦ Comments Off on Chart : Internet Penetration vs. Human Development Index, 2009
Chart : Internet Penetration vs. Human Development Index, 2009

A direct correlation exists between HDI and the percentage of Internet users in African countries. The higher the HDI, the greater proportion of the population using the Internet.

HDI Range
# African
% of African Countries
% Range Is African

Very High (HDI > 0.900)
0
0%
0%

High (0.900 …