In May 2011, YooMee, a subsidiary of 4G Africa AG, recently launched 4G services in Douala, Cameroon and Yaounde, Cameroon.The company touted affordable mobile or desktop Internet service with speeds up to 640 kbit/s (more than double the average market offering). An interview with Anat Bar-Gera (Chairperson of 4G Africa …

Three recent online videos provide different viewpoints of how businesses are bringing positive social change to Africa. The first, in an interview format, discusses the barriers facing entrepreneurs and how Google is enabling local discovery of solutions. The second provides an 11-minute look inside a media center in eastern Ghana. …

Google’s UneHistorie YouTube Channel allows users to create a video using screenshots of Google search results. The idea is to tell a story to the world by using up to 6 different search strings. An interesting service, for sure.
We wouldn’t have discovered this resource had it not been for a …

A recent Kenya Television Network (KTN) technology segment titled “Mobile apps for saving lives” highlights two apps that rely on simplicity to serve powerful humanitarian benefits.
The first is the Kenyans 4 Kenya app which allows Kenyans (and the world) to learn about the gravity of the Horn of Africa famine …

In case you missed them (like we did), here are 9 short video clips devoted to raising awareness of various aspects of ICT progress across Africa. They have all been published in the past 4 months and come from unique sources. This collection by no means represents all of the …

Recently, officials from private schools  in Uganda were trained on ICT in Kampala. A report from NTV Uganda underlines the need for government to emphasis ICT skills training. Points include:

Uganda has the 2nd youngest population in the world after Niger – almost 50% under age 15
Research shows correlation between broadband …