ICT and hunger in Malawi, how ISPs have become regional carriers, conference news from Ghana & Nigeria, LCAs

(9/21/10 Update: @googleafrica has picked up its pace and tweeted 20 times in the past month. Furthermore, the Google Africa Blog has seen 7 posts. Very nice!)
Despite the resources at their disposal, neither the Google Africa or Microsoft Africa blogs or Twitter accounts post frequent updates. In fact, the Google …

Potential East African TLD, coordinating ICT policies to enhance inter-country communication, HP grant for Kenyan project, gender and ICT in DRC

Although mostly stock footage, this brief video from NTVKenya highlights the general lack of e-commerce surrounding Africa, more specifically, travel-related e-commerce. Damian Cook, CEO of E-Tourism Frontiers (a program to develop online tourism in emerging markets) recently commented on the lack of online presence of African tourism businesses:
Something is wrong …

News from Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and more

Top down vs. bottom up Internet development, preventing a price war, 44mm Nigerians online, SA broadband survey