OA News: May 13-19, 2013
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This week’s African Internet news round-up consists of 88 stories from 31 countries. More stories than usual are found from Algeria (misc.) and Tanzania (4G).
Algeria
- 3G launch delay prompts questions in Algeria {magharebia.com}
- 11 million Internet users in Algeria, says Benhamadi {APS}
- 9000 schools connected to Internet in Algeria, says Benhamadi {APS}
- Bloggers expose state of Algerian hospitals {Magharebia}
- Algerian women get down to business {The National}
- L’Etat aurait demandé une nouvelle estimation de Djezzy… la 3G attendra. {Ecofin}
Angola
- Govt Engaged in Strategies Connecting Country to ICTs {AllAfrica.com}
Benin
- Africa Android Challenge: La Finale Béninoise {Atelier des médias}
- Benin launches cyber security plan {BiztechAfrica}
Botswana
- BlackBerry Jam a hit in Botswana {BiztechAfrica}
Burkina Faso
- Airtel Burkina, réseau leader lance Internet 3.75G {Twitter / AirtelBurkina}
Burundi
- Burundi readies for internet boom with first fibre optic cable {Africa Review}
Chad
- Interview: Chadian Blogger and Journalist Expelled from Senegal to Guinea {Global Voices Online}
Comoros
- Comoros Chats About Identity on Twitter {Global Voices}
Congo
Egypt
- One third of Egypt households have Internet: Govt stats agency {Ahram Online}
- Egypt’s ICT Sector {Business Today}
- Arrests of eight managers from online marketing companies {Daily News Egypt}
- Telecom Egypt To Launch Mobile Services In July {Ventures Africa}
Equatorial Guinea
- Facebook and Opposition Websites Blocked Ahead of Elections {AllAfrica.com}
Eritrea
- Computer Classes Introduced in the Junior and Secondary School in Gerenfit Administrative Area {AllAfrica.com}
Gabon
Gambia
- Internet: Gambia to register internet cafés {Afrique en Ligue}
Ghana
- Ministry, Google Introduce "Innovative Ghana" {AllAfrica.com}
- Ghana gets first E-health online service {Vibe Ghana}
- Africa Coast To Europe Submarine Fibre-optic Cable Inaugurated In … {Ghana}
- The Startup Story of Dropifi [Infographic] {Dropifi Blog}
Kenya
- Young Kenyans Build Mobile Apps For Local Use {NPR (blog)}
- GSMA Establishes Office In Nairobi To Support Burgeoning African Telecoms … {IT News Online}
- Google Looking ‘My Kenya’ Doodle {AllAfrica.com}
- Al Shabaab Recruiting Youth Online {AllAfrica.com}
- Kenya Cyber Bullies On the Loose {AllAfrica.com}
- Accelerator 88mph hopes to find next big mobile-web entrepreneur in Nairobi {ventureburn}
- Safaricom’s fibre network to reach 40% of Nairobi {HumanIPO}
- PC’s For Children: Can the idea work in Kenya? {iHub}
Liberia
- Aid project in Liberia: Trina Solar donates solar panels to … {Renewable Energy Focus}
Malawi
Morocco
- Moroccan mobile subs up 1.28%, fixed down 4.39% in Q1 {Telecompaper}
- Internet et participation citoyenne : les jeunes marocains réinventent leur démocratie {World Bank Blog}
Mozambique
- Mcel launches iPad4 and mobile internet bundle {Telecompaper}
- ICT4D – lagging behind is not always bad {Stockholm Internet Forum}
Namibia
- Namcol Launches E-Learning Portal {AllAfrica.com}
- Nation On the Right ICT Path {AllAfrica.com}
- Launch of Namibian online tourism training platform {IT News Africa}
Nigeria
- Is Lagos Home to an African Tech Movement? {Mashable}
- Main One Rebrands, Addresses Broadband Initiatives {THISDAY Live}
- Intel partners Nigerian women entrepreneurs on digital literacy {The Guardian Nigeria}
- Internet sales flourish in Nigeria {Financial Times}
- Nigeria’s First Lady To Champion Global Child Online Protection {Ventures Africa}
- Microsoft Hosts Software Development Workshop for Students {AllAfrica.com}
- Touts Still Rule Abuja GSM Village {AllAfrica.com}
- Swedish government in talks with Main One {BiztechAfrica}
North Africa
- Al-Qaeda mounts cyber campaign {Magharebia}
Reunion
Rwanda
- The Diaspora can help fuel Rwanda’s Technology and Digital … {African Arguments}
- ITU recognizes Rwanda’s ICT progress {Rwanda Focus}
South Africa
- Microsoft plans SA broadband trial {TechCentral}
- Joburg broadband network to go live on 1 July {MyBroadband}
- SA’s web boom {eNCA}
- Internet proving vital for young South African home buyers {Times LIVE}
- African domain forum coming to Durban {HumanIPO}
Tanzania
- ICT operators asked to share their infrastructure {Daily News}
- Smile Communications launches 4G LTE {Daily News}
- 4G LTE technology to transform business {Daily News}
- Tigo launches 4G technology {Daily News}
- E-books replacing hard copies in Arusha schools {HumanIPO}
Togo
- Innovation in the Open {République Togolaise}
Tunisia
- Tunisiana s’unit à Orange Tunisie pour déployer un câble sous-marin entre la Tunisie et l’Europe {Ecofin}
Uganda
- With WhatsApp, Skype, who needs SMS? {The Observer (blog)}
- Social Media, Social Development and WTF Moments {New Vision}
- Most Ugandans have no Internet access {New Vision}
- Why Africa must abandon the SMS addiction {TechPost}
Zambia
- Zambia places high premium on ICTs for sustainable development – Sakeni {Lusaka Times}
- The Bantu Babel Official Launch {BongoHive}
Zimbabwe
- Zim Broadband Forum a Roaring Success {AllAfrica.com}
- Smartphone survey results: Zimbabwe’s most used & preferred … {TechZim}
General Africa
- Web-connected libraries for Africa: the dream of digital knowledge for all {The Guardian}
- Africa’s most active ICT regions {IT News Africa}
- Innovation or Sustainability: the Choice for African Education {AllAfrica.com}
- Orange in Africa IT services push {TechCentral}
- Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth ‘could rocket’ {BDlive}
- Satellite ultra-broadband in Europe & Africa {Sacramento Bee}
- Orange launches the third edition of Orange African Social Venture Prize {IT News Africa}
- Impacting One Million Lives in Africa {AllAfrica.com}
- Improving service delivery using Innovative ICTs {Indigo Trust}
- Knowing Africa’s markets in a digital divide {Ventureburn}
- Infographic: Over 7.5 million Africans on LinkedIn; South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt account for over 60% of users {CP-Africa}
- Poor-Numbers {The Gates Notes}
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