For the first time ever, Google brought its Big Tent to Africa. On September 5th, the event made its debut in Johannesburg, South Africa, gathering together leaders from politics, business, and technology to exchange ideas and debate South Africa’s digital future.

Google is giving away $125,000 dollars to the five most inspiring stories of how the web and Google have played a pivotal role in transforming lives in Africa. Each will receive $25,000 to improve on their success.

Like last month, the majority of YouTube videos highlighting ICT progress come from East Africa and Ghana, but this month also includes Namibia and Tunisia.

The second part of this week’s African Internet news round-up consists of 44 stories that focus on African ICT trends.

African nations are at different stages of overall Internet engagement. Some have growing numbers of new users; others have a more experienced online audience.

The global share of Google traffic coming from African countries has grown anywhere from 25-200% since the start of 2012.