Recently, the term ’3.75G’ has been appearing all across Africa. What exactly is 3.75G and how does it compare to 3G or 3.5G?

Sierra Leone’s transparency portal, SA targets corruption using new media, mobile begins to negatively impact Internet cafe business, ACE cable brings hope to Liberia, start-ups urged in Zimbabwe, Egyptian protests one year later, terrorists use the Internet in Algeria and Nigeria

Ambitious broadband policy for Mauritius, Internet training in Mali, Mozambique eyes e-government, opinions on social media in Kenya/Nigeria/Rwanda, “3.75G” for Ghana & Zambia, broadband costs, and more!

3G for Algeria, Chad/Cameroon fibre partnership, Google Ghana aims to help get business online, Nigerian protests successful with social media, St. Helena aims for broadband upgrade, behind Tanzania’s TCRA, random stats, and more!

Although 2012 will most likely see a dozen or more BarCamp events, there are very few on the calendar as of mid-January.

News-worthy African tech articles from early January 2012 that focus on 22 individual countries.