News

• #ICT4D Daily – daily aggregation of ICT articles
• AfriBiz – ICT and business news
• Africa Telecom & IT Business – a publication covering business in Africa
• AfricaFocus – bulletins on ICT in Africa, generally pre-2011
• African 4G Broadband Forum – online broadband technology resources
• African Elections Project – African elections news
• African ICT Journos – a list and links to journalists covering Africa
• African Newspapers – all major newspapers on the continent
• African Telecoms – informative magazine with 15 issues as of June 2011
• AfricaTechmeme – huge selection of African tech news and blog posts from around the Internet
• allAfrica.com – a great source for news from all over
• Balancing Act News Update – telecoms, Internet, and broadcast news
• Communications Africa/Afrique – bimonthly magazine for telecoms and broadcast
• ComputerWorld Africa – IT news
• Developing Telecoms (SSA) – news regarding ICTs for emerging markets
• Digital Africa – informative blog updated through 2009
• Digital Opportunity Channel – general news on the shrinking digital divide
• Eldis – ICT4D resource guides
• eLearning Africa News Portal – daily news relating to African ICTs in education
• How We Made It In Africa – business news
• ICT Dev – aggregated global ICT stories
• ICT.co.za – news aggregator, heavy on South African sources
• IFAP Information Society Observatory – aggregated global ICT4D publications
• isiAfrica – information systems in Africa, updated through 2010
• ITMag.sn – telecoms & web news from West Africa (French language)
• Jeune Afrique – Sciences – telecoms & web news from West Africa (French language)
• Magharebia – weekly ICT news from the Maghreb
• Microsoft on the Issues Africa – news, perspectives, and analysis on Africa
• MMD4D – mobile markets blog
• Mobile Money Africa – leading online resource for mobile finance
• MyBroadband.co.za – South African tech news
• Technology Times Nigeria – Nigerian tech news
• TechZim – tech news from Zimbabwe
• Telecompaper – extremely current telecoms news by country
• Telecoms.com Africa – generally South African tech news
• The Africa Report – business news from Africa
• TIC Mag – tech news from Cameroon and Central Africa
• UgaBYTES – news source, last updated in April 2010
• Web Trends Nigeria – Nigerian tech news
• World Bank ICT news – misc. info from the World Bank

Tech

• 3GCdmaAfrica – online CDMA & 3G resource
• 4G-Africa – a company offering 4G services in SSA
• afriapps – search apps, find developers, ask questions
• Africa Android Challenge – annual competition for mobile developers
• African TechHub – a site dedicated to technology as a platform for entrepreneurship in East Africa
• Afridigital – updates on developments relating to the Innovation Africa Digital Summit
• Afrinnovator – telling the stories of African startups
• Appfrica – blog on software development, data visualization, design and global innovation
• Apps4Africa – developing applications for a better-connected Africa
• Apps World Africa 2011 – discover the future of multi-platform apps at this annual conference
• Chisimba – application development framework
• Coders4Africa – aims to train 1,000 African developers by 2016
• crisscrossed – a blog exploring tech for change
• Envaya – tech platform for developing countries
• Fibre for Africa – pre-2009 fibre information
• First Space Fiber – low-cost satellite broadband for Africa
• Garage48 – developer event foundation
• G-Africa Events – listing of future Sub-Saharan Africa Google happenings
• Global Technology Forum – from The Economist, shut-down in 2007
• GoingWiMax – global WiMax news
• Intersat – provider of satellite-based Internet solutions
• IT News Africa – great resource for African tech news
• ITWeb – South African tech site (Gareth van Zyl writes on continental news)
• Mobile Monday-Kenya – bringing the Kenyan mobile industry together
• Mobile Web in Africa 2011 – annual conference
• MoMo Joburg – bringing the South African mobile industry together
• Network Startup Resource Center – non-profit helping deploy networks since the 1980s
• Opera Africa – blog covering Opera browser news from Africa
• PC Tech Magazine – a monthly technology magazine with a focus on East Africa. Debuted Feb. 2010
• Pivot 25 – an initiative to bring focus on the mobile developer and entrepreneur community in East Africa
• Renesys Blog – monitors Net access around the world
• SA IT News – public sector IT news for South Africa
• SlateAfrique Tech Africa – weekly posts on tech stories from around African (in French)
• Tech-In Series – 48hr gathering of ideas, people and digital tools in Nigeria
• Tech4Africa – a web and emerging technology conference
• TechLoy – Nigerian tech blog with daily news updates
• TechMTAA – general African tech news
• TIGA – Technology in Government Awards 2011
• TNW Africa – The Next Web’s African channel
• WhiteAfrican – great blog with a focus on East Africa
• Zamtech Zambia – blog covering Zambia