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It seems the world is moving away from a U.S. centric web…

For past two years, I have been pointing towards a subtle but important shift that has started to take place - the globalization of the Internet. Thanks to a broadband boom in Europe, Asia and in new emerging economies such as Brazil [...]

So this weekend I’ve been exploring the Chinese social web from here in Uganda. With the aid of translate.google.com, a few Firefox translation extensions and my knowledge of PHP and HTML, I’ve managed to do pretty good. How does knowing a little code help? Well often at the bottom of these sites, you’ll find that [...]

South Africa’s De Beers is in the middle of a heated dispute with the U.S. based domain registrar Joker.com who’s users deployed spoof ads mocking De Beers on the New York Time’s website. The ad in question announced that diamond purchases “will enable us to donate a prosthetic for an African whose hand was lost [...]

via InternetWorldStats

Prospect Magazine recently looked at the world’s internet traffic to debunk the myth that it would be full of porn sites. The good news was that in the Top 100, only two were adult sites, which hopefully means people are
turning to the web for information and not their more carnal vices.
A brief note for [...]

One of the things that baffles me about the Ugandan ITC space is the lack of collaboration among the people and businesses here. In an area where internet costs are high, IT resources are low and educated workers are sparse, there’s not a whole lot of communication between the various groups. Even among [...]

Image by Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL via Flickr
Fewer than four out of 100 Africans currently use the internet, and broadband penetration is below 1%
The above quote from the BBC News Archive made me do some hard research into the current state of broadband penetration in Africa. Is the situation [...]

In “How Datanet Provides Premium Internet to East Africa” and this post I wrote about the various factors working against affordable internet connectivity in East Africa. This morning I came across this post by Ryan Allis (Chief Executive Officer of iContact) where he mentions plans for T1 connectivity in Uganda by 2009.
We stayed [...]

When I arrived at FangFang Hotel in East Africa I was immediately surprised at how fast their internet was. I got to Uganda expecting things to be extremely slow so when I began using the FangFang connection and I found that the rate was well above 300kbps I was floored. So I asked [...]