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Post Archive for March 2011

Nine months later: The Kuyu Project and StorySpaces
March 24, 2011 ♦ Comments Off on Nine months later: The Kuyu Project and StorySpaces
Nine months later: The Kuyu Project and StorySpaces

Who doesn’t enjoy a good story? That reaction is the basis of an educational initiative started in mid-2010 that now plans to utilize the power of the story to spur innovation.

HTML5 appearing in Africa
March 23, 2011 ♦ 2 Comments
HTML5 appearing in Africa

Is HTML5 alive in Africa? Empirical knowledge on the subject is hard to come by, but such is the case with many web developments in Africa. A lack of easily searchable HTML5 web presence in Africa does not necessarily mean a lack of web design skill. Perhaps African web designers …

OA News: March 16-22, 2011
March 22, 2011 ♦ Comments Off on OA News: March 16-22, 2011

14 stories on Google/Senegal relations, mHealth data collection, rural e-learning, 4G defined, E. African editorials, m-commerce

Renesys visualizes the Egyptian Internet Outage
March 21, 2011 ♦ One Comment

Renesys Corp recently uploaded a visualization of January’s Egyptian Internet outage. In the description, the company wrote:
It [The video] shows the routed address space for each country, colored by reachability (at the routing/BGP level). Space in green is globally reachable, while space in red has had all …

Under surveillance: Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Eritrea (and maybe Zimbabwe)
March 20, 2011 ♦ 2 Comments
Under surveillance: Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Eritrea (and maybe Zimbabwe)

For the first time, the Reporters Without Borders annual ‘Enemies of the Internet’ report doesn’t include an African nation.

Updated: African leaders on Facebook (March 2011)
March 20, 2011 ♦ One Comment
Updated: African leaders on Facebook (March 2011)

This post is an update of December 2010’s list of African leaders with a Facebook presence. Of special interest are pages from Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Zimbabwe.