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Periodic Table of World Internet Facts
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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Appfricast 18 – A Chat with Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web visits Kampala to discuss the history of the web as well as the future of the ...
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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 ...
Internet Everywhere, Even Disaster Zones
The latest MAKE Magazine has a great article about getting Internet anywhere (or more specifically, in disaster zones). The first page is online, and ...
How to Shoehorn the High-Bandwidth Internet into a Low-Bandwidth Connection
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 ...
Global Communication Infrastructure
The images below visualize what the global ‘undersea cable’ infrastructure looks like that allows the world to communicate using various platforms (like the internet). These ...
Benin is Back! Togo and Niger, Not So Much
Yesterday, Benin Telecoms announced that Internet connections were being turned back on throughout the country. The state-run ISP has negotiated with neighboring countries to circumvent ...
Kigali Welcomes Citywide Wireless Internet
Kigali announces fast speed mobile wireless Internet. Using a technology called WiBro, a wireless broadband solution developed by South Korean telecoms, users will be able ...
UN to Launch New Tool to Monitor and Map Investment in Africa
The United Nations and the African Union today launched a new tool, designed in partnership with the Microsoft Corporation, to help map investment flows on ...
Appfrica Labs: Almost a Year Old!