Years ago, Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, a documentary author, aptly predicted that “Digital cameras will allow us to re-create the African collective memory.” For one, he felt that digital cameras that filmed video were less intimidating than …
Read the full story »Gathering accurate and reliable Internet usage statistics has never been easy. Furthermore, the data we can obtain must be carefully examined before assumptions can be formed.
Despite limited Internet bandwidth, file-sharing websites appear relatively popular in …
It’s tempting to dream of the ideal African ICT establishment, a well-oiled (but sustainable) machine crafted out of the failures of experienced ‘expert’ nations. Is technology leapfrogging still viable in developing areas, such as Africa? …
Often, when speaking about the penetration of broadband on the African continent, the comparison is made with developed nations such as the United States. However, even in the U.S., broadband is not a given. Many …
The African Virtual School, a fairly new e-learning program (based in Sierra Leone and the U.K.) caught my attention after the site recently posted a couple of videos on YouTube. The short, simple, and well-paced …
By the end of the year 2000, every African nation could boast an active Internet connection. However, this statistic sounds more meaningful that it actually was. Most connections were unstable, slow, and limited to capital …
Here are a few miscellaneous articles and posts that have been shared in the past week in case you missed them the first time:
How inefficient operators, information asymmetry between regulator and operators and the role …