The World Economic Forum’s annual report is a treasure trove of Networked Readiness information for 148 economies.

At the AITEC Southern Africa ICT Summit 2014, Mozambique became the third African country and the first in Southern Africa to join the Alliance for Affordable Internet.

Not all African nations are at the same state of network evolution: some have national fibre backbones yet most are lacking in scale. Moreover, few ministries boast a comprehensive broadband plan that guides network expansion. Still, many governments, particularly those in West and Central Africa, dream of substantial bandwidth for …

Internet statistics from 2005 give a sense of how African internet access and cost have improved in the past decade.

The latest issue of WIOCC’s thought-leadership e-bulletin, Connected, explores the business case for investing in Africa following major improvements in high-capacity terrestrial connectivity.