Botswana

• Google action:
  Street View coming to Botswana {TechCentral}

Comoros

• The project will give the population access to the internet, a sources of knowledge, and will connect hospitals, schools and Ministries, improving the quality of life of the local people:
  Comoros, Italian project brings low-cost link to islands {ANSAmed}

Egypt

• A relatively new Egyptian site offers parenting advice which is checked by healthcare professionals:
  My Business: Egyptian mothers on the net {BBC}

Ghana

• Ghana Dot Com (GDC), the current manager of the .gh domain namespace, is to begin the process of transfer of the management of the namespace to the government:
  Ghana to run .gh domain name space {Vibe Ghana}
• Up to 5,000 students at the University of Ghana’s Legon campus can connect to the network at the same time using their laptops, tablets, and smartphones:
  Vodafone unveils Ghana’s ‘largest’ WiFi zone {ITWeb}

Guinea

• Guinea wants to build 4,000km of terrestrial fibre backbone connecting to the coastal ACE cable. They estimate the project to be finished in a year, but the extensive funding remains up in the air:
  Guinean govt says backbone to cost USD 300 million {TelecomPaper}

Kenya

• The Communication Commission of Kenya has improved in recent times, but some complain about the lack of complete independence and the prevalence of red tape:
  Regulator can do much better but… {Daily Nation}

Namibia

• The University of Namibia rolls out wireless internet {Balancing Act}

Nigeria

• Eugene Juwah, chief executive officer of Nigerian Communications Commission, says that “the licenses will be issued to revive the fixed-line telecommunication services that have been comatose and will benefit our broadband initiative.”
  Nigeria Plans Fixed Phone Licenses in 2013 to Spur Broadband {Bloomberg}
• Africa’s Hottest Tech Startups: Afroterminal.com {Forbes}
• Making Nigeria Ripe For Software Exports {Leadership}
• Nigeria To Licence 2.3GHz, 2.6GHz Spectra {Leadership}

South Africa

• In South Africa an Internet connection must still have a download speed of at least 256 kilobits per second to qualify as broadband, according to the National Broadband Policy:
  Broadband speed to stay 256kbps in SA {MyBroadband}

Tunisia

• Censorship of the Internet looms in Tunisia as courts are considering filtering pornographic material. RWB fears that such censorship will be extended to ‘other kinds of content’:
  Internet filtering – danger of return to past {Reporters Without Borders}
• Smart Host will be the first B2B operator dedicated to cloud computing in North Africa:
  Tunisie: Smart Host, s’annonce premiere entreprise de cloud computing en Afrique du Nord {Ecofin}

West Africa

• A summary of how WACS and ACE cables are bringing development to West Africa:
  Internet en Afrique de l’Ouest: Le Senegal en voie de guerison {Rewmi}

General Africa

• Mending Africa’s Tech Skills Gap & Tapping into its Youthful Population to Power Innovation in Tech & the African Renaissance {Afrinnovator}
• The paper presents an analysis of these issues against the backdrop of the current status of broadband deployment in Africa, with particular interest in South Africa and Nigeria:
  Broadband Technology and Development in Africa: How Critical is Access? {Social Sceience Research Network}
• Despite the decade-long surge, Booz & Company has determined that today’s African mobile sector faces three obstacles that threaten to constrain future growth; pricing pressures, high investment costs and uncertain and uneven regulation:
  Connecting Africa: The next 10 years of mobile growth {BusinessIntelligence Middle East}