June 17, 2009 • 3:52 pm 0
Larry Stillman, an Australian researcher and blogger emailed me about the South African-based Digital Doorway Project:
Filed under: Internet , Africa on the Internet, computers, Digital Doorway Project, Hole in the Wall, ICT, Larry Stiller, technology
February 26, 2009 • 9:35 am 1
Africa is a Country featured on WordPress’s “Growing Blogs” list.
* The picture has nothing to do with it. It’s my daughter enjoying a Cirque du Soleil show.
Filed under: Internet , Blogging, We'll take all the love we can get, Wordpress
February 23, 2009 • 8:34 pm 2
Nigeria. The other news is that Mauritius and Seychelles exhibit the highest internet penetration rates.
Meanwhile, in a stroke of genius, that country’s techies have launched their own version of twitter, NaijaPulse (twitter is limited to the US, Canada and India).
Via: White African, and Global Advances.
UPDATE: See also Startups Nigeria.
Filed under: Internet , Internet, NaijaPulse, Nigeria, Which country has the most internet users in Africa?
February 4, 2009 • 2:38 pm 0
This is actually a useful story about the use of satellite technology to bridge the digital divide — to bring internet to rural Kenya. The reporter or a sub-editor at The New York Times had to lose it though by coming up with line (above).
Link.
Filed under: Internet , digital divide, Internet, Kenya, New York Times
April 1, 2008 • 10:30 pm 1
This Friday. At the New Museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Full information here.
Filed under: Internet, US presidential elections 2008, politics, technology , Barack Obama, Internet and Politics, New Museum, Viral Video, Will.i.am, Yes we Can, Youtube
March 30, 2008 • 12:09 pm 0
March 20, 2008 • 10:10 pm 0
The BLK JKS played somewhere in New York City last night (did the New Museum have to use the phrase ‘ tribal rhythms’ though?) I only get back into the city this weekend, so missed it. There must be other gigs, right?
* I stole that line from a Cape Town DJ. ha, ha.
Filed under: Internet, Music, New York City, Not just about Africa, Not on the Radio, South Africa , African music, Black Rock, BLK JKS, Knox Robinson, Music, rock music, South African music, Stuff white people like
February 23, 2008 • 3:57 pm 1
South Africa’s 1996 Constitution outlaws anti-gay discrimination, new laws legalized gay marriage in December 2006, one of the judges on the country Supreme Court of Appeal is an openly gay man, and the country’s leading AIDS campaigner married his partner last month (AIDS, incidentally, largely affects heterosexuals in South Africa). Of course South Africa is not perfect, but the same kind of story can’t be written about most other African countries. (Although he later apologized, two years ago Jacob Zuma, the leader of South Africa’s ruling party — and the front runner to be the country’s third democratically elected President since the end of its racial dictatorship in 1994 — publicly criticized gay marriage and told a crowd at a political rally that ‘When I was growing up, a homosexual would not have stood in front of me. I would knock him out.’) So what happens elsewhere. Here’s a story about gay people elsewhere in Africa and the Middle East do: they go forced underground and now it seems, if they have access, onto the internet. The full story in the Boston Globe.
Filed under: Internet, Not only about Africa, politics, sexuality, technology , Boston, gay Africans, gay Arabs, gays and lesbians in Africa, Internet, sexuality, technology and sexuality
