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Visuals on Sub-Saharan African broadband prices, international connectivity, and Internet speeds highlight a need to lower access barriers.
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Check out the latest report commissioned by the Internet Society and written by experts at Analysys Mason - Lifting Barriers to Connectivity focuses in on some key issues that could help facilitate connecitvity. While some of these issues are not new, this report is a timely reminder of the cooperation needed among actors to "level up" connectivity. Delete the scoop?
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24 May 2013 | Of the five global regions, Latin America had the fastest growing internet population, increasing 12 percent in the past year to more than 147 million unique visitors in March 2013, according to a report from comScore. Consumers in Latin America spent 10 hours online per month on Social Networking sites, doubling the global average time spent. 5 of the top 10 most engaged markets with social content worldwide are located in Latin America. Delete the scoop?
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21 May 2013 } The Internet Society Ghana Chapter (ISOC Ghana) in collaboration with the National IT Agency of Ghana and the Ghana ISP Association is organizing a three day workshop on Internet Governance and Standards Development in Accra this week. The Internet Governance and the Standards Development workshop tracks will each have 30 participants selected through a public process... Delete the scoop?
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21 April 2013 | Worldreader Mobile has launched, giving feature phone users in the developing world with a 2G connection to read 1,400 books for free.
Feature phones are omnipresent in the developing world. They're people's lifelines; they're where they get their access to payments and the Internet," Susan Moody, Worldreader's director of marketing and communications, tellsMashable. IPhones and similar smartphones may be buzzworthy, she says, but they apply to a proportionally small number of people. Five billion people are using feature phones that run on 2G networks. Via ET Russell 
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Is there an opportunity for us to learn from this and utilise these technologies in our own countries to reach those who are homeless, living in poverty or living in extreme remote communities? With techonology advances we need to remember that at times the KISS principle may be best. Delete the scoop?
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7 April 2013 | Montevideo, Uruguay—Speaking at the opening of the Fourth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, Alicia Bárcena, the executive secretary of the Economic... Delete the scoop?
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3 April 2013 | Africa is hungry for online content made on the continent -- and a number of startups are filling the gap. Delete the scoop?
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Darshani with her daughter. Darshani is a student at the internet school for farmers and hopes to one day have her own greenhouse like the one behind her in this image. Delete the scoop?
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A selection of recent projects around the world that were funded through the Internet Society's Community Grants program
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Our Community Grants program helps build Internet infrastructure around the world. Listen to these stories and find out more about the development of human, technical, and governance infrastructures! Delete the scoop?
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25 March 2013 | Researchers hope to benefit users in developing nations by turning 'feature' phones into virtual smartphones, finds Jan Piotrowski. Delete the scoop?
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19 March 2012 | Asia set for an information technology jobs bonanza. Statistics from a Singapore government agency forecast that more than four million IT jobs will be created by 2015 to support big data and cloud computing.
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11 March 2013 | Teraco Data Environments has announced that it is now connected with the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), which interconnects over 550 IP networks globally. Delete the scoop?
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19 March 2013 | Face Book Nume Horsfall highlights the importance of social media in youth empowerment and more importantly in the development of Nigeria Youths are critica… Delete the scoop?
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18 March 2013 | Commissioners at the 7th meeting of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development have agreed an ambitious new target designed to spur female access to ICTs. Delete the scoop?
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The Africa Internet Summit 2013 will be held in Lusaka, Zambia, from 9 to 21 June. As is usually the case, the meeting will be hosted by (a) local organisation(s) interested not only in promoting access to the Internet in the country but also in policy development and regulation. Delete the scoop?
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Deadline for FIRE Applications has been extended to 31 May 2013. Apply for this grant programme that encourages innovation and solutions to African ICT challenges. Delete the scoop?
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12 May 2013 | Ethiopian women are increasing their footprint across the country, in business and especially in technological innovation. Delete the scoop?
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12 April 2013 | The excitement about the promise and potential of Massive Open Online Courses is white hot in many quarters. For those who aren't familiar with the phenomenon: A MOOC is an online course, usually at the university level, offered for free over the Internet which aims for large-scale (some courses have enrolled over 100,000 students at a time), 'open' (anyone can join) participation over the Internet. Delete the scoop?
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11 April 2013 | MTN has made a range of cloud computing services for small and medium enterprises available in Ghana and Nigeria Delete the scoop?
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22 March 2013 | Few projects to introduce ICTs at scale across an entire education system have received as much global attention as that of Plan Ceibal in Uruguay, which has (among other things) provided free laptop computers to all public school students.
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31 March 2013 | This blog post continues chronicling a trip of site surveys out to Lagoon Island schools in Chuuk, FSM, to determine the feasibility (both infrastructurally and concerning human-skills/readiness/in... Delete the scoop?
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Maletsabisa Molapo is a researcher and lecturer at the National University of Lesotho. For more information about the Internet Society IETF Fellows program, ...
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A fresh perspective on the IETF from ISOC's IETF 86 Fellow Maletsabisa Molapo from Lesotho. Listen in and learn more about our work with colleagues around the world from a human and technical networking perspective! Delete the scoop?
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March 2013 | One of the three organizers behind the Stockholm Internet Forum 2013 is Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. Sida sees internet based communication as a tool to be used to empower resource poor people in the developing world. That is why Sida is using the term for development (ICT4D) in its operation. But for the Internet to be used for development it has to be open, available and secure for the user. Sida hopes that SIF13 will contribute to this, particularly in the developing world. This is why Sida supports the participation in SIF13 of almost 200 participants from low- and middle income countries. Delete the scoop?
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March 2013 | Almost overnight, China has become the world’s second-largest e-tail market, with estimates as high as $210 billion for revenues in 2012 and a compound annual growth rate of 120 percent since 2003. The country’s retail sector already is among the most wired anywhere—e-tailing commanded about 5 to 6 percent of total retail sales in 2012, compared with 5 percent in the United States—while it is distinctly different from that of other countries. Only a small portion of Chinese e-tailing takes place directly between consumers and retailers, whether online pure plays or brick-and-mortar businesses on retailers’ own Web sites. Instead, most occurs on digital marketplaces.
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20 March 2013 | A $10 billion high-tech hub in Ghana could become home to Africa's tallest building, and bring global IT firms to the country. Delete the scoop?
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22 February 2013 | Tech innovators can solve Africa's social problems, but they're wasting time on unrealistic dreams, says Marieme Jamme.... The winners, chosen from nearly 300 submissions, were Ffene, from Uganda, an app that helps small and medium businesses reduce administrative costs; SliceBiz, from Ghana, a crowdsourcing platform to encourage middle class Africans to invest small amounts in high-growth startups; and Prowork, from Nigeria, which is a project management and real-time collaboration tool for businesses. Delete the scoop?
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