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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 ...
Posted in Infographics Also tagged 2009, africa, broadband, graphic, infographic, infostate, internet, internet access Leave a comment
TEDx Week
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 ...
Posted in Featured, Interviews Also tagged brandwidth, emerging economies, entrepreneurship, fibre, investment, language, localization, m-money, ted, tedx, video Leave a comment
More Fiber Optic in West Africa
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 ...
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 ...
Netbooks for Africa: IBM and Canonical Team Up
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 ...
GLO-1 Finally Lands in Lagos: West Africa’s 2nd Undersea Cable has Arrived
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Designing Websites for Low-Bandwidth Users
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 ...
The Best Smart Phones for Global Development