Egypt’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) held a workshop on June 17-18 to address the importance of e-commerce.

From May 21 through the end of June, eight West African nations will be privy to a country-specific Internet Governance Forum. A recap of the Burkina Faso event.

The World Bank plans to provide even more support to Rwandan ICT development through the SMART Rwanda initiative.

Held from 9-21 June, 2013 in Lusaka, Zambia, the 2nd African Internet Summit brought together more than 400 participants from all sectors of African ICT (academia, public, private).

Dalberg Global Development Advisors, with support from Google, surveyed more than 1,300 businesses in Senegal, Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria as part of the April 2013 “Impact of the Internet in Africa” report.

Speakers and participants at Stockholm Internet Forum 2013 had much to say about how the themes of security and development relate to Africa.