Over the past two weeks, we’ve come across 174 news articles and blog posts about how Africans are harnessing the Internet. Some stories are related to business. Others have to do with social progress. Either way, forty nations are represented. This post includes 36 news articles pertaining to Africa in general (as opposed to single countries). Please keep in mind that countless more headlines exist; they happened to fly under our radar this time around.

• MOOCs in Africa A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education {World Bank}
• Information communication technology and social justice: exploring … {The Guardian}
• ICT For Education Solutions: In Africa, By Africans, For The Global … {Ventures Africa}
• Mobile phones in Africa and Middle East unprotected {The Standard Digital News}
• Top African e-commerce websites {IT News Africa}
• Intel predicts strong ICT growth {ITWeb}
• mHealth ‘could save a million African lives by 2017’ {SciDev.Net}
• Bitcoins are About to Reinvent Banking in Africa {ICT Works}
• The social (studies) network: Africa’s cellular education revolution {Christian Science Monitor}
• Worldreader Launches Worldreader Mobile {Broadway World}
• Huawei, Optimistic About Future in ICT {AllAfrica.com}
• New portal to bring African Diaspora ICT experts back home {HumanIPO}
• Mobility, connectivity and the cloud – trends driving ICT {IT News Africa}
• Africa’s young population is huge market for Indian business’ (With Image) {New York Daily News}
• Socially acceptable methods to increasing profits {African Business Review}
• Internet exchanges play critical role during submarine cable outages {FierceTelecom}
• 10 African innovation incubators to watch {IT News Africa}
• Social Media Driving Change in Africa {YouTube}
• 88mph: The VC Firm Investing In Africa’s Tech Startups {Ventures Africa}
• Tech savvy Uhuru joins Africa’s top 10 tweeting politicians {Business Daily}
• Africa hungry for homegrown online content {CNN International}
• France Telecom outsources African towers {Financial Times}
• New apps transforming remote parts of Africa {Washington Post}
• Bitcoin Crypto-currency and the opportunity for a truly Pan-Africa money revolution {Afrinnovator}
• Google Maps Navigation (Beta) for Mobile now in 4 more African Countries {Google Africa}
• Connecting Africa {IEET}
• SpryAds, a New Ad Network for Africa, Now in Beta. {Unconference Pitch for Stockholm Internet Forum}
• Un fournisseur d’accès Internet russe sur le marché africain {Ecofin}
• ZACR highlights dotAfrica value propositions {BiztechAfrica}
• Open data platforms: a tool to revolutionise governance {Daily Maverick}
• How To Power 10 Million Off-Grid African Homes In 10 Years {Co.Exist}
• Fibre only option for high capacity customers – SEACOM CEO {HumanIPO}
• Site to recognise African web designs goes online {HumanIPO}
• eNCA launches online news portal {HumanIPO}
• AfPIF 2013: 3 – 5 September, 2013 {ISOC}
• TweetAfrica, une application née grâce à un article de Jeune Afrique {TechMissus}