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The African Internet Summit is underway today in Lusaka, Zambia. Check out the web-feed and hear more about how African Intenret organizations were created and what they do - from the technologists that help train experts across the continent, to discussions on the importance of deploying IPv6, and Internet governance.
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1 June 2013 | Broadband Investment Plan: Nigerian Government targets 80 percent nationwide Internet coverage by 2018 The Nigerian Government recently released its Broadband Investment Plan for the next five years (2013 - 2018). Speaking on the drafted Broadband Investment Plan, Nigeria’s Minister of Information & Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson said: "In meeting with industry leaders, the message is clear that we need to assist the Private Sector in driving pervasive access to Broadband. But then, the Private Sector must also deliver not just on basic reach and penetration, but also on Quality of Service. It is only in doing this that all Nigerians will truly feel the positive impact and benefit of Broadband.
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The Africa Internet Summit 2013 will be held in Lusaka, Zambia, from 9 to 21 June. 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. The local hosts for the AIS 2013 will be the Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority (ZICTA) and the Internet Service Providers Association of Zambia (ISPAZ).
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30 May 2013 | On 9 May 2013, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Donald Kaberuka, addressed an engaging crowd on the potential for emerging powers to be part of the infrastructure solution in Africa whilst highlighting the need for Africa to be resilient when engaging in the global economy.
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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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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.
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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...
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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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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25 March 2013 | Researchers hope to benefit users in developing nations by turning 'feature' phones into virtual smartphones, finds Jan Piotrowski.
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7 June 2013 | The last time I visited Myanmar was before the reforms started. At that time, I had a bit of a struggle connecting to the Internet, and access was slow and intermittent at best, even in what I was told was Yangon’s finest hotel. As I return to Myanmar this week, I had a quick look at what the current statistics say, and while they are slightly out of date, I noted that estimates of Internet penetration hover around the 1% mark.
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30 May 2013 | BRCK, the 'backup generator to the internet'. Ushahidi, the Kenyan not-for-profit organisation behind the development of the BRCK communications device, hopes that its success in raising funds through Kickstarter to develop the product will help to spur more hardware innovation in Kenya and other parts of Africa. The BRCK, which Ushahidi describes as a backup generator for the internet, is a rugged modem and wireless access point that can connect to the internet via Ethernet, wi-fi, and 3G or 4G mobile networks. The BRCK can hop from one network to another and switch from mains power to battery power as required. It can also be accessed remotely to check how the wi-fi and electricity are performing, and alerts and notifications — such as reminders when the BRCK is low on power — can also be configured by smartphone or PC.
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Internet Revealed: A film about IXPs in Spanish
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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.
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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.
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12 May 2013 | Ethiopian women are increasing their footprint across the country, in business and especially in technological innovation.
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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.
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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
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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...
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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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