OA News: June 21-26, 2011
June 26, 2011 » NewsNo Comment
- On investing in African tech start-ups (the time is soon):
Africa Rising: No Tech Bubble Here {Kopo Kopo} - South African social network users are linked to an average of 130 friends on social networking sites, according to a recent study:
Find your social network target {IOL.co.za} - Some African delegates to an international dialogue in Malaysia claim Internet access is not a problem in their nations. Guinea feels otherwise:
Internet Penetration Gaining Momentum In Africa {Bernama} - Praise for the opening of Kenya’s m-lab a couple of weeks back:
Kenya launches Africa’s first mobile apps lab {TNW} - Quotes from government reps from Egypt, Tanzania, Guinea. The 3 nations are all at different points of the social media spectrum:
Social media can bring govt to the people – envoy {IPPmedia} - The company seeks to increase revenue (the motive here is not to better serve the people):
3G coming to Telkom Kenya {IT News Africa} - Ghana aims to provide LTE service with the help of Alcatel-Lucent:
Ghana to launch LTE technology for mobile {GhanaWeb} - Cites inMobi stats, 6300 series popularity, m-learning in SA, Opera stats, and more:
The mobile world: 10 surprising facts about Nokia in Africa {Nokia Nseries Blog} - The Tanzanian government says that 19 of 30 regions are now connected by fibre-optic cable:
Tanzania-Information technology: Government Moves to Embrace ICT {Tanzania Daily News via Afrique en ligne}
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