Country-Specific Articles: N-Z

Namibia:

• “Namibia ICT Sector Performance Review 2009/2010,” Research ICT Africa Vol 2 Paper 7, 2010. {Research ICT Africa}
• “ICT Policy in the Republic of Namibia,” Schoemans Office Systems, April 30, 2001. {share4dev.info}
• “Namibia’s Telecommunications – Link to Africa,” Klaus Dierks Ph.D., 2001. {klausdierks.com}
• “Electronic Networking in Namibia,” Eberhard W. Lisse, Feb 1997. {isoc.org}

Niger:

• “Does Digital Divide or Provide? The Impact of Cell Phones on Grain Markets in Niger,” Jenny C. Aker, Feb 2008. {econ.duke.edu}

Nigeria:

• “Nigeria Internet Governance Forum 2012 Communiqué,” NIGF, 2012. {NIGF}
• “Connectivity and Accessibility in Nigerian University Libraries: A Survey of Access, Usage, and Problems in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka,” Chigbu, E.D., Dim, C.L., Library Philosophy and Practice, 2012. {U of Idaho}
• “13 years of growth from ground zero in Nigeria 1960-1996, Vanguard, Oct 27, 2010. {vanguardngr.com}
• “Knowledge, Productivity, and Innovation in Nigeria: Creating a New Economy,” Ismail Radwan and Giulia Pellegrini, The World Bank, 2010. {siteresources.worldbank.org}
• “The Internet is Africa’s ‘Gutenberg Moment’,” Tolu Ogunlesi, Dec 2009. {publishingperspectives.com}
• “Use and importance of the Internet at the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria,” Manish Kumar Mishra, First Monday Volume 14, Number 3, Mar 2, 2009. {uic.edu}
• “Internet Connectivity for the Nigerian Universities Network,” Kensar Telecommunications Limited, Jul 2000. {nsrc.org}

Rwanda:

• “Rwanda ICT Sector Profile – 2012,” Rwanda Ministry of Youth and ICT, Dec 2012. {theiguides.org}
• “High speed internet exists, but is inaccessible,” Eric Bright, The Rwanda Focus, Apr 2, 2012. {Focus.rw}
• “ICT, take us to the moon,” Magnus Mazimpaka, The Independent, Sept 6, 2011. {Indpendent}
• “In Rwanda the future is digital – and here,” Masimba Tafirenyika, Africa Renewal, March 2011. {vibeghana.com}
• “Why Rwanda’s internet isn’t the third fastest in Africa,” Nicolas Pottier, July 20, 2010. {blog.nyaruka.com}
• “ICT goes beyond towns,” CEPEX/New Times, 2010. {cepex.gov.rw}
• “Rwanda IGF Report,” EAIGF, 2009. {eaigf.or.ke}
• “Pro-Poor ICT Project Report – Rwanda,” Albert Nsengiyumva, Emmanuel Habumuremyi, Sharon Haba, Jul 2007. {share4dev.info}
• “Africa, Offline: Waiting for the Web,” Ron Nixon, NY Times, Jul 22, 2007. {arp.harvard.edu}
• “An Entrepreneur Has Quixotic Goal Of Wiring Rwanda,” Christopher Rhoads, WSJ, Aug 17, 2006. {4G Africa Forum}

Senegal:

• “Dossier: l’acces a Internet au Senegal,” Khalil Ndiaye, Jan 2013. {La Redac}
• “Obstacles and opportunities for the democratization of broadband in Senegal,” Isabelle Gross for Balancing Act, September 2012. {Google}
• “ICT in Senegal”, Thiam Ndeye Fatou Coundoul, GovTech Conference, September 2010. {unpan1.un.org}
• “Rapport sur le Forum National de la Gouvernance de l’Internet du 29 juillet 2010,” WAIGF, 2010. {waigf.org}
• “Acacia Policy Influence Study/SENEGAL,” IDRC, 2003. {idrc.ca}

Seychelles:

• “Mapping Seychelles ICT,” Seychelles Digital, 2010. {henrieict.blogspot.com}

Sierra Leone:

• “Report on Sierra Leone Internet Governance Forum, December 2010. {waigf.org}
• “Upgrading Sierra Leone’s ICT,” Bai-Bai Sesay, AudienceScape, July 2010. {audiencescapes.org}
• “The Internet in Sierra Leone: The Way Forward?” John Abdul Kargbo, First Monday, Volume 2, Number 2, Feb 3, 1997. {firstmonday.org}
• “Sierranet: Linking Sierra Leone to the World,” Jennifer Pepall, Jan 1997. {idrinfo.idrc.ca}

Somalia:

• “How Broadband Will Get to Somalia Before You Know It,” Jeffrey Swindle/USAID, Jul 16, 2011. {Integra}
• “Al Shabaab, Slow Internet Hinder Connections,” SomaliaReport, Mar 2011. {somaliareport.com}

South Africa:

• “Internet population in SA revealed,” MyBroadband.co.za, Dec 1, 2012. {MyBroadband}
• “Broadband Presentation: Making South Africa a Global Leader in Harnessing ICTs for Socio-economic Development,” South Africa Ministry of Communications, Nov 6, 2012. {TechCentral}
• “A gender-based analysis of ICT adoption and usage in South Africa,” Maleka, Mbombo Bruce Mokebe, Oct 3, 2012. {WIReDSpace}
• “Africa Prepaid Mobile Price Index 2012: South Africa,” Research ICT Africa, 2012. {RIA}
• “Broadband in the Republic of South Africa: Politics, Regulation and Service Delivery,” Ewan Sutherland, University of Witwatersrand, LINK Centre; University of Namur, CRIDS, Aug 27, 2012. {SSRN}
• “South Africa Country Report – Telecommunications Market,” Analytix BI, May 2012. {Analytix BI}
• “Mobility 2012: The Mobile Internet in South Africa 2012.” World Wide Worx, July 2012. {World Wide Worx}
• “Internet Matters South Africa,” World Wide Worx/Google, May 2012. {InternetMatters.co.za}
• “Trends in technology in South Africa (for ICT RDI Roadmap team),” Dr. Derek Keats, May 2012. {SlideShare}
• “Things that ‘Tweet’ in South Africa,” Laurie Butgereit, Louis Coetzee, John Hay, Johann Hugo, Kim Gush and Meraka Institute, CSIR, 2011. {researchspace.csir.co.za}
• “South African ICT Sector Performance Review,” Research ICT Africa Vol 2 Paper 6, 2010. {Research ICT Africa}
• “Internet Usage in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Debra Goldschmidt, Aug 28, 2009. {gottaquirk.com}
• “South Africa: Seizing the Moment: Turning the Promise of Broadband Connectivity into Reality,” Cisco, 2009. {4G Africa Forum}
• “Internet turnaround has begun in SA,” Arthur Goldstuck, Dec 4, 2008. {thebigchange.com}
• “Enhancing the Livelihoods of the Rural Poor: The Role of ICT,” Louis Fourie, March 2007. {share4dev.info}
• “ICT provision to disadvantaged urban communities: A study in South Africa and Nigeria,” Akinsola, Herselman, and Jacobs, IJEDICT, 2005, Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 19-41. {share4dev.info}
• “The role of ICT in the economic development of Africa: The case of South Africa,” Kehbuma Langmia, IJEDICT, 2005, Vol. 2, Issue 4, 144-156. {share4dev.info}
• “Bridging the Digital Divide in South Africa,” Linda Martindale, Linux Journal, Nov 1, 2001. {linuxjournal.com}

South Sudan:

• “The Coming of Connectivity as the coming of the Town,” Naomi Pendlei, African Arguments, Feb 13, 2013. {African Arguments}
• “#OSJUBA,” r0g media, Jun 20, 2012. {Prezi}

Sudan:

• “Can Social Media Unshackle the Press?” Maha El-Sanosi, Think Africa Press, Mar 7, 2012. {Think Africa Press}

Tanzania:

• “Internet use behaviour of cybercafé users in Morogo ro Municipality, Tanzania,” Alfred F. Sipe, Annals of Library and Information Studies Vol. 60, March 2013, pp. 41-50. {ALIS}
• “Country Focus: Tanzania’s State Of ICT,” Charlie Fripp, IT News Africa, Jun 7, 2012. {IT News Africa}
• “Pro-poor social and economic opportunities in the African ICT innovation ecosystem,” Toivanen, Mutafungwa, Hyvönen, Ngogo, VTT, 2012. {VTT.fi}
• “Mobile internet costs in Tanzania,” Tanzania Conservation Resource Centre, Jan 26, 2012. {tzcrc.org}
• “Internet and Data Services in Tanzania: A Supply-Side Survey,” TCRA, Sept 2010. {tcra.go.tz}
• “Tanzania ICT Sector Performance Report 2010,” Research ICT Africa Vol 2 Paper 11, 2010. {Research ICT Africa}
• “National Internet Governance Forum 2009,” EAIGF, 2009. {eaigf.or.ke}
• “Analyzing the usage patterns and challenges of telecenters among rural communities,” W.P. Mtega and A.W. Malekani, 2009. {ijedict.dec.uwi.edu}
• “ICT Education in Tanzania,” GESCI, 2007. {gesci.org}
• “Rural Communication Access Centres in Tanzania,” Lian Tan, IICD, Jul 2007. {share4dev.info}
• “Pro-Poor ICT Project Report – Tanzania,” Albert Nsengiyumva, Emmanuel Habumuremyi, Sharon Haba, Dec 2006. {propoor-ict.net}
• “ICT education project amid rural connectivity challenges,” Aloyce Menda, 2006. {share4dev.info}
• “Telecentres and transformations: Modernizing Tanzania through the internet,” Claire Mercer, Afr Aff (Lond) (April 2006) 105(419): 243-264. {Oxford Journals}

Togo:

• “Supporting Multistakeholder Internet Public Policy Dialogue in a Least Developed Country: The Togo Experience,” Ben Akoh, iisd, July 2012 {iisd}
• “Togo Internet Village,” GlobalGiving, 2011. {globalgiving.org}
• “Internet in Togo,” C@Fenet, 2001. {SlideServe}

Tunisia:

• “Internet in Tunisia,” Aymen Amri, Lund University, March 2013. {Scribd}
• “Tunisia: From Revolutions to Institutions, Reboot, 2012. {Reboot}
• “Regulatory Issues for the Development of Cloud Computing in Tunisia”, ITU/ATi, June 2012. {ITU}
• “World Bank Charts ICT-Driven Roadmap – Analysis,” Eurasia Review. Mar 18, 2012. {Eurasia Review}
• “Internet Powers Tunisian Protests,” VOANews, Jan 17, 2011. {voanews.com}
• “Tunisia ICT Sector Performance Review 2010,” Research ICT Africa Vol 2 Paper 12, 2010. {Research ICT Africa}
• “Internet Filtering in Tunisia in 2005: A Country Study,” OpenNet Initiative, 2005. {OpenNet}
• ‘How to Adapt Electronic Commerce to the Needs of a Developing Country,” Zitoun and Sghaier, 2000. {isoc.org}
• “Internet in Tunisia,” Tunisia Online, 1998. {tunisiaonline.com}

Uganda:

• ICT4Dem Newsletter, April 2013. {CIPESA}
• Uganda National Internet Governance Forum 2012. {ISOC Uganda}
• “Uganda Open Government data readiness study,” Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and The Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), Apr 2012. {APC}
• “ICT Boom for Economy, A Bust for Some Women,” IPS, Nov 2010. {ipsnews.net}
• “Uganda Country Profile,” BMI-T, 2010. {BMI-T via Zunia}
• “Telecentres in Uganda do not appeal to rural women,” GEM, Jan 19, 2010. {genderevaluation.net}
• “Uganda ICT Sector Performance Review 2010,” Research ICT Africa Vol 2 Paper 13, 2010. {Research ICT Africa}
• “An Easy Guide to the Internet Connectivity in Uganda,” i-network. {iicd.org}
• “Report of the Uganda Internet Governance Online Discussion,” EAIGF, 2009. {eaigf.or.ke}
• “In Uganda, Twitter and Facebook challenge Western media hegemony,” This Magazine, Sept 17, 2009. {this.org}
• “EASSy workshop report Uganda,” CIPESA, May 2, 2006. {CIPESA}
• “The Internet in an African LDC: Uganda Case Study,” Minges, Brown, and Kelly, Feb 2001. {itu.int}

Zambia:

• “ICT Hubs model: Understanding Factors That Make Up Bongo Hive, Lusaka Zambia,” Duncan Gathege and Hilda Moraa, *iHub Research, April 2013. {iHub Research}
• “Zambia: almost ready for mass market and mobile Internet?” Mark Bennett, May 21, 2012. {Slideshare}
• “Technology retains talent,” Gertjan van Stam, ICT Update no. 62, Oct 2011. {ictupdate.cta.int}
• “State of Competition in Zambia’s Telecommunications Sector,” Thulasoni Kaira, The African Journal of Information and Communications Issue II, 2011. {link.wits.ac.za}
• “Zambia turns to Internet to fight climate change,” AlertNet, Apr 5, 2011. {trust.org}
• “Zambian ICT Sector grows,” ZedFibre, Mar 15, 2011. {zedfibre.com}
• “ICTs and development in Zambia: challenges and opportunities,” Panos, Nov 2010. {panos.org.uk}
• D. L. Johnson, E. M. Belding, K. Almeroth and G. van Stam, “Internet usage and performance analysis of a rural wireless network in Macha, Zambia,” NSDR’10, San Francisco, CA, June 2010. {UCSB}
• “ePiano, a case of music education via internet in rural Zambia,” Shoemaker, Kristin and van Stam, Gertjan, Proceedings of the WebSci10: Extending the Frontiers of Society On-Line, April 26, 2010. {journal.webscience.org}
• “Report on the Zambia Telecentre Network Workshop,” SatNetwork, 2010. {Share4Dev}
• “Zambia ICT Sector Performance Review 2010,” Research ICT Africa Vol 2 Paper 17, 2010. {Research ICT Africa}
• “ICT4D: Challenges & Opportunities in Zambia,” John Munsaka, COMDEV/JSM Business Consultants, October 2009. {share4dev.info}
• “Exploring the Value of Internet in Tourism,” Milner Makuni, Sept 27, 2007. {share4dev.info}
• “Bringing Internet connectivity to rural Zambia using a collaborative approach,” Matthee, Mweemba, Pais, van Stam, Rijken, 2007. {share4dev.info}

Zimbabwe:

• “National ICT Policy Framework,” Zimbabwe Ministry of ICT, Nov 2012. {TechZim}
• “Media Use In Zimbabwe 2012,” Broadcasting Board of Governors & Gallup, 2012. {BBG}
• “Country Focus: Zimbabwe,” Charlie Fripp, IT News Africa, Aug 16, 2012. {IT News Africa}
• “Zimbabwe Thetha Forum Highlights Key ICT Issues,” NGO Pulse, 2009. {sangonet.org.za}