Snippets of the weekly tech/Internet/mobile/computing developments in over 20 African nations.

On our mind this February 16th, 2012 are a range of themes – from Wikipedia to hacking to draft laws.

Google street view for Botswana, Comoros Internet advances, new management for .gh domain, Guinea’s hopes for ACE backbone, Nigeria encourages fixed-line growth, broadband in SA still means 256kbps, censorship looms in Tunisia, and more.

This is the seventh post in a series that intends to examine the ICT environment in metropolitan areas of Africa that receive relatively little publicity and lack ICT framework. These cities are often overshadowed by Cape Town, Johannesburg, Cairo, Nairobi, Accra, and Lagos but still have a bright future – …

Guinea’s legislative elections are to be held on 11/27/2011. How can Nigeria’s experience with crowdsourcing apply to Guinea, a nation where social media is less prominent and fact often gets tangled with fiction?

Over the next nine months, sixteen additional African nations will hold democratic elections, but how much information will be exchanged using the Internet?