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Internet and technology: Highlights and articles on internet and technological developments in Africa.
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East Africa: 3rd Uganda National Internet Governance Forum
The third National internet Governance forum was held in Kampala on 14th/July/2010 at Imperial Royale Hotel. It was organized by I-network, CIPESSA and WOUGNET in collaboration with Uganda Communications Commission(UCC) and the Ministry of Informatio...
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Africa: Ministers pass ICT directive
African countries have to balance their spending on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for education better. Skills development among teachers, which accounts for only 10% of most countries? ICT budgets, has to be strengthened. Spendin...
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East Africa: Fault disrupts Seacom internet cable
An undersea cable that brought high-speed net access to East Africa for the first time has been hit by a fault, knocking many in the region offline. The owners of the Seacom cable said the exact cause of the fault was "still being investigated", but ...
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Nigeria: Facebook influences football team ban U-turn
Nigeria's president has said the hundreds of posts on his Facebook page helped persuade him to reverse his suspension of the national football team from international competition. "I have listened to your voices," Goodluck Jonathan said in a posting ...
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East Africa: EASSy arrival will bring down prices
The EASSy cable connecting the east coat seaboard is currently in its testing phase and will go live some time around the middle of this month. Its WIOCC shareholder consortium has always promised lower rates and better transit prices and these are o...
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Ghana: Additional U.S.$44.7 million for E-Ghana project
The World Bank has approved financing in the amount of US$44.7 million from the International Development Association (IDA) to the Government of Ghana as additional funding for the ongoing eGhana Project. The original eGhana Project of US$40 million ...
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Africa: Special FAO online forum to discuss gender, ICTs and rural livelihoods
From 5 ? 16 July 2010, a special online forum being hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization?s e-agriculture.org initiative, and will discuss the issues surrounding gender, ICTs and rural livelihoods. The forum will also be moderated by the AP...
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Togo: Women, adolescents embrace technology for development
On June 17th, the third panafrican conference on best practices in ICT in francophone Africa opened in Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso [fr]. While the conference focused on strategies to curb cyber-criminality, the Togolese blogosphere is embracing the pot...
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East Africa: ICTs for democracy
What is the potential of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to support processes of democratisation and empowerment in developing countries? This report, prepared for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, outlines the ...
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Africa: Business deal to put Africa on the Internet cloud
The average American waits less than a second for Google to respond to a search query. In most of Africa, it takes three seconds to do the same thing. This two-second difference may not seem a drastic, but such a delay typifies the gap between Intern...
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