Google continues to work on making the Internet be part of everyday life in Africa. They are serious about Africa and their strategy is simple: get users online by developing a relevant, accessible, vibrant and self-sufficient Internet ecosystem. The current focus is to strengthen the African developer community …

Nii Quaynor, an Internet pioneer of Ghana, adhered to nationalistic bandwidth practices: 1) increase rates for Ghanaians who access international sites and 2) consider having affluent countries support high African access costs.

21 stories from the past week including: censorship, kiosks, e-books, fibre, Paul Kagame, co-location, mobile apps, e-commerce, gender gap, e-governance

g-Ghana conference, UN speaks to African ICT as societal need, Intel to test small-quantity prepaid broadband, ICT centre in Harare

Health & e-governance are hot topics, Ghanaian writers and the Internet, South African fibre, MainOne/Seacom agreement, USA firms eye Kenya

Catch up on 24 newsworthy African ICT stories from the last week of April