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Periodic Table of World Internet Facts

December 13, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Twenty-Five percent (about 1.73 billion) of the world’s population is currently online, largely in developed world countries. Challenges for bringing the other four billion online ...
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TEDx Week

November 28, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
This week we’ll be distributing all the talks recorded last week at TEDxKampala. What was TEDxKampala? On November 23rd, 2009, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor ...
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More Fiber Optic in West Africa

November 4, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
A few months ago, Phase3 Telecoms launched a plan to connect Ghana to Nigeria via Togo and Benin. This week, Phase3 finally signed an agreement ...
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Internet Everywhere, Even Disaster Zones

September 28, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The latest MAKE Magazine has a great article about getting Internet anywhere (or more specifically, in disaster zones). The first page is online, and ...
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Netbooks for Africa: IBM and Canonical Team Up

September 24, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
IBM is teaming up with Canonical to reduce the costs of netbooks. They plan to take advantage of web based applications and the cloud to ...
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GLO-1 Finally Lands in Lagos: West Africa’s 2nd Undersea Cable has Arrived

September 6, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Yesterday, GLO-1, the 9,800 km long cable between the UK and Nigeria, and the first to be built by a private company, landed in Lagos. ...
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How to Shoehorn the High-Bandwidth Internet into a Low-Bandwidth Connection

August 17, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
High speed Internet access in Africa is rare and often prohibitively expensive. Lucky for us, the web started out as a text-only medium, and with ...
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Tanzania’s SimbaNET Hooks into SEACOM

August 16, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
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 ...
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Designing Websites for Low-Bandwidth Users

July 14, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
As more and Africans are able to connect to the Internet, the disparity in bandwidth between African users and broadband users elsewhere is becoming quite ...
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Frankenstein’s Modem

May 30, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
After 45 years, this Model A modem still works!
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