Internet progress continues to accelerate across Africa as media outlets spend more effort on tech coverage. This week we’ve come across seven dozen stories that speak to how the Internet is changing lives in Africa. Some stories are more mundane than others, but all contribute to ICT advancement.

Botswana

• Botswana celebrates women in ICT: {BiztechAfrica}
• Botswana Gateway Communications connection live: {BiztechAfrica}

Burundi

• Burundi mobile users up 19 pct in 2011-regulator: {Reuters}

Cote d’Ivoire

• Controversy during 2012 Tech Conferences: {Global Voices}

Cameroon

• Internet and Communication Technologies Offer Agricultural Advancement in Cameroon: {Global Press Institute}
• African Internet Standars Forum Remote Hub Cameroon Report is Now Available: {ISOC}

DRC

• DRC Misses Deadline for High Speed Internet: {VOA News}

Egypt

• Egypt activates high speed data link for researchers: {SciDev}
• Googling Egypt’s candidates: {The Arabist}
• To Stop Corruption, Egypt Needs a Freedom of Information Law: {Huff Post Blog}

Eritrea

• Eritrea celebrates its 21st independence anniversary: {CapitalEritrea.com}

Ethiopia

• Ethiopia’s Telecom Re-Launches 3G Network: {2Merkato}
• The New Ethiopian Telecom Service Infringements Law. Is it the …: {Endalk’s Blog}

Gabon

• Gabon finances ACE connection with World Bank loan: {TeleGeography}

Ghana

• Ghana decides holds social media workshop in Ho: {Vibe Ghana}
• TiGo Ghana slashes its internet tariffs: {ITWeb}
• Conversion of Ghana’s 360 post offices into ICT centres shows fall of …: {HumanIPO}
• Zambia, Namibia beat Ghana in launching LTE technology for mobile: {Ghana Business News}
• Ablakwa inaugurates ICT centre at Agbogba: {Myjoyonline}

Kenya

• Kiswahili lovers find rich digital content on new Internet hub: {Balancing Act}
• Students develop software to monitor unborn babies: {SciDev}
• Kenya to feature at UN ICT meet in SA: {Standard Digital}

Liberia

• Monrovia, Liberia | Girls in ICT: {GirlsInICT.org}

Libya

• Opinion: Expanding Internet in Libya: {Tripoli Post}

Malawi

• University graduates create social network: {Bizcommunity}

Mali

• Internet experimented in villages near the river Niger: {GlobalVoices}

Morocco

• Moroccan Site Asnad Offers Online Market for Arabic Digital Content: {Wamda}

Mozambique

• Mozambique e-learning workshop underway: {BiztechAfrica}

Namibia

• WACS international fibre optic cable …: {BuddeComm}

Nigeria

• FG Inaugurates ICT Complaints Platform: {AllAfrica}
• FG Bars NESREA From Sealing Telecoms Masts: {AllAfrica}
• Nokia partners with Nigeria’s CCHub to start a mobile software accelerator academy: {HumanIPO}
• FG partners foreign firm To Train 5000 Nigerians on ICT, says minister: {BusinessDay}
• Lagos Residents Bemoan Increase In Cybercrime: {Nigerian Observer}
• Misuse of Facebook affects children negatively – parents: {Vanguard}
• NITDA Establishes IXPs to Crash Internet Cost: {AllAfrica}
• Over 7.78Terabyte of Internet Capacity Untapped: {ThisDay}
• Fed Govt urged to develop ICT literacy policy: {The Nation}
• MTN empowers SMEs with modems, iPads: {Vanguard}
• Ace Blogger, Linda Ikeji on BN – How She Turned Her Blog into one of Nigeria’s …: {BellaNaija}
• Software piracy in Nigeria remains high: {BusinessDay}

North Africa

• North Africa’s post-revolutionary telecoms market presents oportunities amid …: {Telecoms.com}

Rwanda

• OLPC CEO in Rwanda: {AllAfrica}
• Tracking Country’s ICT Ambitions: {AllAfrica}
• Airtel says to roll out 3G in Rwanda in next quarter: {Reuters}
• Social media, networking and African women’s leadership training in…: {ONE}

South Africa

• South African streaming radio station hits iTunes: {MyBroadband}
• Young, emerging ‘Middle Class’ boosts SA internet growth: {Bizcommunity}
• VoIP changing SA telecoms landscape: {BusinessTech}
• Beware leaving out that pesky www: {MyBroadband}
• Software has failed South Africa: {ITWeb}
• Seacom to double capacity: {TechCentral}
• Inside Western Cape’s big broadband push: {TechCentral}
• South Africa still behind in Internet penetration: {IT News Africa}
• South African internet user base grows to 8.5 mln in 2011: {Telecompaper}

South Sudan

• Plans Are Underway to Connect Country With Fiber Optics: {AllAfrica}

Tanzania

• How Mobile Technology Is Saving Mothers: {Huffington Post}

Togo

• Togo Télécom révolutionne la communication au Togo: {Afrik.com}

Uganda

• Wildlife Opens New Portal: {AllAfrica}
• Libya’s LAP Green takes back control of Uganda Telecom: {PC Advisor}

West Africa

• WAFICT: Bridging Digital Divide through Broadband, Articles …: {ThisDay}

Zambia

• Zambia’s 3.5G mobile broadband services launched with up to 21Mb/s: {BuddeComm}

Zimbabwe

• Zimbabwe’s March 2012 mobile & fixed subscriber stats: {TechZim}
• Is the internet killing African society?: {ZBC}

Africa

• Getting in the Access Loop: {PLOS}
• Mobile Africa Report 2012: {MobileMonday}
• Eskimi Rapidly Spreading Across African Feature Phones: {ArcticStartup}
• Prof. John Traxler: Potential of Learning with Mobiles in Africa: {World Innovation Summit for Education}
• MTN scores for Africa: {ITWeb}
• Ory Okolloh: “La monétisation du marché monte en puissance”: {Jeuneafrique}
• Where Opportunities Lie in the African Mobile Space: {Afrinnovator}
• Africa Day dawns on new, connected continent: {IT News Africa}
• How The Future of Mobile Lies in the Developing World: {TechCentral}
• Africa’s top policy makers to meet in Kenya over innovation: {Coastweek}
• Is Firefox winning the browser war?: {TechZim}
• The eLearning Africa 2012 Report: {eLearning Africa}
• South Africa and Nigeria with highest Online Shopping Potential in Africa: Africa {openPR}
• Why it’s hard to use Google Plus in Africa: {TechZim}
• What Has China Done for ICT4D in Africa?: {ICT Works}
• Summit to encourage ICT development and innovation: {IT News Africa}
• 8 facts about mobile life in Sub-Saharan Africa: {Memeburn}
• Mobile Phones Cut Malaria Response Time From Weeks to Minutes: {Mashable}
• ITU urges broadband policies to drive Net access in developing countries: {PC Advisor}
• Africa’s Growth Hindered By Lack Of Infrastructure…: {Schirach Report}
• The Techzim definitive start-up guide: {TechZim}