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A Vision of the Present
Radoslav Zilinsky’s 2007 enchanting painting “The World” depicts a distant future where enormous prosperity is accompanied by enormous disparity. Funny because his future looks a …U.S. State Department’s Conversation with African Innovators
Last week representatives from the U.S. State Department Elana Berkowitz and Bruce Wharton reached out directly to innovators in East Africa to discuss the Apps …Google Developer Days Coming to Kenya, Uganda
Google is hosting two events in September to teach the use of Google technologies and products in Africa… Google is dedicated to making the Internet relevant …Asia and Africa, Fastest Growing Facebook Regions
Facebook recently hit the half billion users mark (more than a quarter of all internet users) and somewhat unsurprisingly developing countries are fueling a lot …TED Recap: A Fornication of Ideas Pt. 1
TED Global 2010 wrapped up last week in Oxford, UK. As a TED Senior Fellow, I’m lucky in that I’ve now attended three TED events …
The TED Phone
At TED Global in Oxford, UK this week TED and Nokia announced a partnership to bring TED talks to Africa and other developing parts of …Hive Colab Announced in Uganda
Earlier in the day we announced Apps < 4> Africa, a competition for app developers across Africa. Also, today in Uganda, Appfrica Labs in …Apps for Africa Contest Announced in Nairobi
Over the past few weeks myself, Solomon King of NodeSix.com, Joshua Goldstein an Appfrica Fellow, Jessica Colaco at the iHub in Nairobi, Philip Thigo and …
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Best of Appfrica 2009
The close of the year is often a time for reflection, for individuals and companies alike. For Appfrica it’s no exception as we profile the ...
Google controls 6% of all Internet traffic
Only 150 networks control over 50% of all online traffic. This, in comparison with 5 years ago, when traffic was democratized among thousands and thousands ...
1 Household in 5 Worldwide has Broadband
A new Gartner study says that one household in five will have broadband access by the end of 2009.
A total of 422 million households ...
Veröffentlicht in Development Auch getagged digital divide, emerging economies Kommentare geschlossen
Tanzania’s SimbaNET Hooks into SEACOM
Last week in Dar Es Salaam, the Tanzanian ISP SimbaNET plugged into SEACOM. Issa Michuzi reports:
SimbaNET becomes one of the very first private company to ...
Veröffentlicht in Technology Auch getagged bandwidth, fiber optic, seacom, simbanet, Tanzania Kommentieren
Dreaming of an Internet Co-Op
One of the things that baffles me about the Ugandan ITC space is the lack of collaboration among the people and businesses here. In ...
The Current State of Internet Penetration in Africa
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 ...
Periodic Table of World Internet Facts