Even if places like Kenya or South Africa lead Sub-Saharan Africa in terms of internet readiness, these nations have a ways to go if they are to compete on a global level.

A new study of thousands of mobile phone users in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe finds that mobile phones, though still underutilized, are contributing to an increase in reading.

Events to engage girls with information communications technology were held in many African countries as part of international Girls in ICT Day 2014.

Our top 10 stories from the past week feature themes relating to elections, tablets, transparency, free Wi-Fi, and more.

African ICT news headlines, perspectives, and briefs from the past couple of weeks include represent 37 countries (among the most we’ve ever seen at once).

African ICT news headlines for the past 2.5 weeks include a diverse grouping of 182 stories from 35 countries.