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OA News: July 4-7, 2011
July 7, 2011 ♦ Comments Off on OA News: July 4-7, 2011

iHub weekly, G-Cameroon recap, Francophone hackathon, Seacom & Zim, ZubaBox Internet cafes, Google Engage in SA, the power of youth

The challenge of visualizing Google search volume
May 16, 2011 ♦ Comments Off on The challenge of visualizing Google search volume
The challenge of visualizing Google search volume

Submitted just last week, WebGL Globe, an experiment authored by the Google Data Arts Team, utilizes WebGL (used to power HTML5) to merge Google search volume by popular language by latitude/longitude.

Eritrea: Stifled by cyber-censorship
March 16, 2011 ♦ Comments Off on Eritrea: Stifled by cyber-censorship
Eritrea: Stifled by cyber-censorship

Eritrea again ranks in the 2nd tier on the Reporters Without Borders annual list of nations under surveillance. Perhaps EriTel can grow infrastructure even if censorship remains.

In Libya, YouTube traffic even more stifled than regular traffic
February 22, 2011 ♦ Comments Off on In Libya, YouTube traffic even more stifled than regular traffic
In Libya, YouTube traffic even more stifled than regular traffic

Access to YouTube appears to have been preemptively cut days before the Libyan Internet as a whole became blocked.

Quotes about Egypt’s Internet censorship
January 29, 2011 ♦ Comments Off on Quotes about Egypt’s Internet censorship
Quotes about Egypt’s Internet censorship

Reports of Egypt censoring the Internet are all over the news. What are people saying?

Gaddafi’s stance on Internet shifts again
January 18, 2011 ♦ Comments Off on Gaddafi’s stance on Internet shifts again
Gaddafi’s stance on Internet shifts again

Libya’s leader had shown greater interest in the Internet since 2003 – that is, until Tunisia’s so-called ‘social media revolution’.