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.

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.

Municipal wi-fi catching on in SA, Android in Africa, infra sharing, Tanzanian tech advice, another solar-powered computer lab for Kenya

Interview with head of ITU, Kenya as Silicon Valley, African computers a global threat?, Indian investment, SA shopping