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Post Archive for December 2013

OA News: December 17-31, 2013
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Rounding out the African ICT news stories for 2013 are 122 stories from 29 countries.

OA News: December 10-16, 2013
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This week’s African Internet/ICT news round-up consists of 95 stories from 28+ countries.

Face-to-face media usage surveys in Mali and Somalia shed light on Internet habits
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Face-to-face media usage surveys in Mali and Somalia shed light on Internet habits

Results of nationally representative, face-to-face surveys tell of growing mobile internet usage in Mali and Somalia.

West and Central African governments eye fibre network expansion in the next 2-3 years
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Not all African nations are at the same state of network evolution: some have national fibre backbones yet most are lacking in scale. Moreover, few ministries boast a comprehensive broadband plan that guides network expansion. Still, many governments, particularly those in West and Central Africa, dream of substantial bandwidth for …

OA News: December 2-9, 2013
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This week’s African Internet/ICT news round-up consists of 93 stories from 21+ countries.

Alliance for Affordable Internet Affordability Report highlights successes in Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria
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Alliance for Affordable Internet Affordability Report highlights successes in Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria

The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) has just released “The Affordability Report 2013” which attempts to understand why only some countries have succeeded in creating universal Internet access.