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Broadband in Africa: How low will prices go?
Read: 'Wishingful thinking on broadband prices'.
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Will zero-cost internet in Africa ever be possible? Send us your views: chakula at apc.org [replace 'at' with @]
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CICEWA: Communications for influence
CICEWA ("see-say-wah"), a new project by APC and KICTANet, seeks to identify the political obstacles to extending affordable access to ICT infrastructure in Africa - and to advocate to remove them. For more information on this new initiative, click here.
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This book, commissioned by APC and written by David Souter, looks at the participation of developing countries and civil society, and the impact of WSIS on international ICT decision-making in general. |
Download Whose Summit?
Whose Information Society?
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If you’re new to ICT policy – welcome! Visit
Getting Started.
 TIGA awards for ICT and government delivery 
30/09/2008 (UNECA) --
The Economic Commission for Africa and the the Canadian Fund for Africa have launched the Second Technology in Government in Africa (TIGA) Awards. The awards aim to recognise the work of African governments in the effective use of ICTs for public service delivery.
Dem. Rep. of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe | Access, National ICT Strategies
South Africa: Where to now with universal access?
30/09/2008 (SANGONeT) --
In recent weeks the CEOs of two national development agencies in South Africa, the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) and Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (USAASA), were fired or suspended for incompetence or misconduct. These incidents raise serious questions about the integrity and intent of the people entrusted with guiding development efforts in the country, writes SANGONeT Director David Barnard.
South Africa | Access, National ICT Strategies
Nepad e-schools on the blink
30/09/2008 (MyBroadband.co.za) --
The e-schools satellite learning programme, run by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), has linked less than 100 schools in Africa to the internet. That's after promising to connect some 600,000 schools on the continent in 2003.
Dem. Rep. of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe | National ICT Strategies
Google edges into Africa
16/09/2008 (BBC) --
Google is helping develop a system to bring high-speed internet connections to three billion people in developing countries in Africa and elsewhere. The 03b Networks system aims to use satellites to provide broadband services at the same speeds as those on offer in rich countries.
Dem. Rep. of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe | Access
South Africa: Citizen journalism under the spotlight
16/09/2008 (Highway Africa) --
More than 700 journalists from over 40 African countries were expected to attend the 12th Highway Africa conference in Grahamstown, South Africa. The conference is the world's biggest gathering for African journalists and took place on 8 - 10 September. This year's theme was citizen journalism.
South Africa | Communication Rights, Content and Language
Broadband "glut" predicted in Africa
10/09/2008 --
Industry pundits argue that it's unlikely that all the fibre-optic cables planned for Africa are going to succeed. And, perhaps for the first time, projections of a "capacity glut" are being made.
Dem. Rep. of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe | Access
Equitable access: getting even
29/09/2008 --
Equitable access is about addressing social and economic imbalances when developing policy and rolling out ICTs, so that people from diverse backgrounds have more or less similar opportunities when it comes to accessing and using technology. APC has commissioned a series of papers and commentaries on equitable access. These include discussions on the themes of business models, policy and regulation, tools and technologies and people, networks and capabilities.
Dem. Rep. of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe | Access
ACCESS: Race for bandwidth hots up
24/09/2008 --
Four international fibre projects are racing to complete ahead of each other on the west coast of Africa to give some much needed additional capacity and price competition to the SAT-3 fibre-optic cable. The drop in bandwidth prices could be spectacular.
Dem. Rep. of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe | Access
Copyright and government information
18/09/2008 --
This paper, by Denise Nicholson and Dick Kawooya, looks at the impact of copyright on access to public information in Uganda and South Africa.
South Africa, Uganda | Intellectual Property
Fibre: 'Arteries of the modern world'
18/09/2008 --
They are the arteries of the modern world. Stretching for tens of thousands of miles over the ocean beds, the vast web of intercontinental submarine cables have brought the possibility of cheap high-speed internet and clear long-distance telephone calls to all major parts of the globe. Except one.
Dem. Rep. of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe | Access
Satellite still king in Africa
09/09/2008 --
Africa still relies heavily on expensive satellite connections to gain access to the internet, according to a report just released by the South Africa-based telecommunications analysts BMI-TechKnowledge. It says over 80% of African internet use is routed through satellite connections.
Dem. Rep. of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe | Access
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