In advance of the Connect Arab Summit which took place in early March 2012, the ITU released a report titled “ICT Adoption and Prospects in the Arab Region.”

Quite a few videos relating to African technology have been uploaded to YouTube in the past four months.

ITU Internet numbers are rightfully authoritative and grab the attention of the public, but they should be used with care. Instead, consider citing local data.

The rural nature of Africa poses challenges for bringing the Internet outside of urban areas. We thought it would be interesting to compare estimated Internet penetration rates with how urbanized a given country claims to be.

On November 16, 2011, the ITU released updated key ICT indicators for their six defined global regions. The latest data includes projections for 2011. How do African (Sub-Saharan African) trends look based on a few years of data?

Randall Lane, of Forbes, sits down with Dr. Hamadoun Touré, the head of the International Telecommunication Union to discuss broadband as a human right.