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 »The lowest common denominator is the first issue a web designer needs to address. The type of connection and the type of computer used to access a websit will dictate if a website can load …
According to one source, only a handful of African countries had Twitter users in mid-2007, whereas all but three (Monaco, San Marino, and Vatican City) European nations had registered users on the site. Most African …
Seacom’s exhibition of “true broadband” speeds at the recent Sandton exhibition highlights an often overlooked issue with African Internet connectivity: it doesn’t matter how many people have access to the Internet if the connection is …
Thanks to the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, we are able to track old Africa’s Internet statistics from Internet World Stats. Cached pages date back to August 2002. The historical data is useful in …
North African nations experience greater percentages of Internet users than other regions
Sub-Saharan Africa has very poor Internet penetration
Note: The world average Internet penetration rate in 2009 is 24.7%
Below is a summary of how African countries measure based on Human Development Index (the United Nations measure of well-being in a country) and the percentage of each country’s population with Internet access. Only two …
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