Over the past week, we’ve found 100 stories of how ICT is changing 22+ African nations. Fewer than average countries are represented, with many stories coming out of media powerhouses Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.

Cote D’Ivoire

• ICT in education : public schools vs private schools {BiztechAfrica}

DR Congo

• La RDC officiellement connectée au câble à fibre optique {Radio Okapi}
• L’installation de la fibre optique fait l’objet de critiques {Ecofin}

East Africa

• Inviting tech entrepreneurs in an entrepreneurship research project by GSMA & iHub Research {iHub}
• Mobile Statistics in East Africa {iHub}

Egypt

• Private Egypt initiative offers free online education {Al-Shorfa}

Gabon

• Anonymous protests ritual killings in Gabon, hacks presidential website {Examiner.com}

Gambia

• Gambia Launches CountrySTAT to Monitor National and Sub-Regional Agricultural Data {AllAfrica.com}
• New Internet Law in The Gambia Puts Gag on Government Criticism {Global Voices}

Ghana

• Nita Introduces E-Parliament to MPs {AllAfrica.com}
• Inspiring Rural Communities Through Technology {AllAfrica.com}
• Center To Train Ghanaian Startups {GhanaWeb}
• Is Technology Breaking Families Apart {GhanaWeb}
• Ghanaian Tech Is Rising, But Who Will Tell Their Story? {Tech Cabal}

Kenya

• Analyzing Kenya’s Laptops for Children Initiative {Afrinnovator}
• Lenovo Eyes School Laptops Deal {AllAfrica.com}
• Strathmore University Students’ APP Provides Content for Law Professionals {AllAfrica.com}
• Survey – Majority of Kenyans Back Laptops {AllAfrica.com}
• Kenya’s Juliana Rotich Shows Off the Small BRCK That Solves a Big Problem {AllThingsD}
• New networks not enough {BiztechAfrica}
• New NEMA law to guide e-waste disposal {Capital FM Kenya}
• Kenya: Too little action on hate speech? {Capital FM Kenya}
• Teenager plans ‘hacker school’ to help Africa build next Google {CNN}
• Safaricom in no rush to activate LTE network {HumanIPO}
• Kenya’s national broadband policy to be launched this week {HumanIPO}
• iHub announces Barcamp 2013 {HumanIPO}
• Kenyan regulator looks to decommission domain registrar {ITworld}
• In Kenya, Using Tech To Put An ‘Invisible’ Slum On The Map {NPR}

Libya

• E-Government: Libyan Plan towards Better Services {Tripoli Post}

Malawi

• Malawi espouses White Spaces project {BiztechAfrica}

Mali

• Mali is the First African Nation to Give Its .ML Domain Names Away for Free {WSJ.com}

Mauritius

• Mauritius to conduct validation workshop on e-government {HumanIPO}

Morocco

• Wamda asks: could a sudden ban on unlimited 3G in Morocco actually help entrepreneurs? {Wamda.com}

Nigeria

• Nigerian Government to Ramp Up Internet Surveillance? {Global Voices Advocacy}
• Increased Internet Access Prevents Revenue Generation – Copyright Society {AllAfrica.com}
• 2013 Imagine Cup – Microsoft Announces Winners (Page 1 of 5) {AllAfrica.com}
• Six Million e-Commerce Jobs Coming By 2015 – Minister {AllAfrica.com}
• Airtel Nigeria launches Airtel Techies at the shops {DailyPost Nigeria}
• Nigerians should be able to shop online regardless of perceptionmemeburn {Global Voices}
• Nigerian startup has a job to do — many of them {Africa Review}
• Nigeria: ‘Bandwidth cost crashes in Nigeria’ {Afrique en Ligne}
• Main One rolls out in South West {BiztechAfrica}
• Nigerian app trying to spread organised traffic information {HumanIPO}
• MTN Nigeria aims to roll out LTE in Q1 2014 {HumanIPO}
• Young ICT Developers Community launched in Lagos {HumanIPO}
• More than 1,000 Nigerians use Traffix in two days {HumanIPO}
• Online transactions in Nigeria are safe – Interswitch {HumanIPO}
• How e-Commerce Drives Retail Sector, By Minister {The Guardian Nigeria}
• Minister seeks measures against cybercrime to promote e-commerce {The Guardian Nigeria}
• Govt wants increased PC penetration in Nigeria {The Guardian Nigeria}
• Lagos sets new rule for communication masts {The Guardian Nigeria}

Rwanda

• Rwandans Consider Their Media Free – Survey {AllAfrica.com}
• First Phase of ICT Awareness Campaign Closed {AllAfrica.com}
• Private Sector Should Spearhead ICT Use {AllAfrica.com}
• ICT4AG Announces Hackathon competition {MINAGRI}

Senegal

• Sonatel’s first-half net profit rises 5 pct to $182 mln {Reuters}

Sierra Leone

• The State of Internet Connectivity in Sierra Leone : Fibre Optic Cable and Electricity {My Sierra Leone}

South Africa

• Computer Labs for Alexandria Learners {AllAfrica.com}
• Shopping malls turn on to social media {BusinessTech}
• ADSL Prices: South Africa vs. Developed Nations {MyBroadband}
• Biggest South African websites {MyBroadband}
• Apps ‘the lifeblood of the digital revolution’ {BDlive}
• Mobile operators cast net wider {BDlive}
• SA tourism’s ‘online marketing growing fast’ {BDlive}
• First “Africa DNS Forum” To Be Streamed Live July 12 and 13 From Durban, South Africa {CircleID}
• Cisco commits to SA {Gadget.co.za}
• National e-Waste Collection Day held in SA {HumanIPO}
• Online paywalls set to flourish {ITWeb}
• South Africa’s Internet Usage {SurveyCompare ZA}
• Knott-Craig: four operators is too many {TechCentral}

Sudan

• Sudan’s first steps in establishing innovation labs {Stories of UNICEF Innovation}

Tanzania

• Tanzania’s Sim card tax under pressure {BBC}
• Internet consumers to pay much more {IPP Media}

Uganda

• Mobile App to Sell Uganda to Tourists {AllAfrica.com}
• MTN Uganda contributes to the digitalization of the Kampala Public Library {PC Tech Magazine}
• Ma3route invited by Ugandan authorities to develop concept for Kampala {HumanIPO}

West Africa

• Orange launches the first offer for mobile-to-mobile money transfers between three different African countries {PC Tech Magazine}
• Africell trio pass the five million subs mark; seeks two new markets for expansion {TeleGeography}

Zambia

• @InsakaChat: Twitter-Based Platform For Zambians to Speak on Social Issues {Global Voices}
• Zambian MPs call for paperless parliament {BiztechAfrica}

Zimbabwe

• Mugabe hunts for internet mole ‘Baba Jukwa’ revealing his secrets {The Telegraph}

General Africa

• Fight Poverty With Data {AllAfrica.com}
• Everybody in Africa Has Been a Cyber Crime Victim {AllAfrica.com}
• How Technologies Can Help With Investing in Girls Education {AllAfrica.com}
• Oh No Not Another Apps Challenge {World Bank Blog}
• Independent African Publishers Go Global Via App Stores {Publishing Perspectives}
• Looking at Africa’s mobile revolution from a human perspective {ventureburn}
• Mavericks, innovation, gaming & expats: Africa’s tech scene at a glance {ventureburn}
• Screw the startups, Africa needs more netrepreneurs {ventureburn}
• The AfDB’s Open Data Platform achieves continent-wide coverage {African Development Bank}
• Africa’s mobile media moves beyond ringtones, football scores and news headlines {balancingact-africa.com}
• Africa SMEs need ICTs to succeed {BizDay.co.zw}
• Partnership to send ebooks to Africa {BiztechAfrica}
• Africa needs to catch up on spectrum {HumanIPO}
• dotAfrica passes initial ICANN evaluation {HumanIPO}
• Fixed-line broadband more beneficial than basic 3G {HumanIPO}
• Mapping ICT accross Sub-Saharan Africa {iMentors}
• Africa’s top ranking mobile subscription hotspots {IT News Africa}
• 14th Forum on Telecom/ICT Regulation and Partnership in Africa {ITU}
• ICT growth in Africa {ITWeb}