Our top 10 stories from the past week feature a SMS ban in Central African Republic, annual doubling of SSA’s mobile data usage, Google’s plan to deliver satellite-based Internet, and more.

35 videos shared on YouTube by various sources in the five months from September 2013 – February 2014 highlight the diverse ways in which the internet is poised to improve African society.

Fill in the blank: _____ will be the next Silicon Valley. _____ is Africa’s greatest ICT hub. As it turns out, there’s a massive difference between being Africa’s ICT hub versus a region’s ICT hub. The key is to think in the relative – not in the absolute.