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Namibia’s Tech/NA!
April 12, 2011 ♦ Education
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The Namibian Ministry of Education’s Tech/NA! initiative is part of the nation’s Vision 2030 plan to create a knowledge-based society. The plan came about after the government recognized the importance of quality instead of sheer quantity.

OA News: April 7-12, 2011
April 12, 2011 ♦ News
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Mobile video & farmers, Glo-1 in Ghana, SA’s web/race demographics, Nigerian elections, .africa action, Africa’s business environment, and more

In Brief: Facebook user stats
April 9, 2011 ♦ Statistics
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The social media giant tends to keep such statistics private, but allows potential advertisers the number of accounts tied to a given country in the form of “Estimated Reach”:
In case you are wondering, the global Facebook statistics present over at SocialBakers actually are scraped daily from Facebook’s own database. A …

Mobile Monday’s ‘Mobile Africa Report 2011’
April 9, 2011 ♦ Mobile
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Mobile Monday’s recent state of the African mobile industry report provides an insight into the next 5 years of progress. 68% of the African pop. is expected to have a mobile phone within 5 years.

Household Internet speeds for 25 African countries, cities
April 7, 2011 ♦ Broadband & Statistics
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African download speeds range widely but average 2.1 Mbps, according to data from over 300,000 bandwidth tests on SpeedTest.net. Upload speeds are half as fast.

OA News: April 6, 2011
April 6, 2011 ♦ News
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East Africa Com discussion, WACS heads to SA, Ghana’s cyber fraud culture, African social marketing, Web 2.0 in schools