Larry Stillman, an Australian researcher and blogger emailed me about the South African-based Digital Doorway Project:
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the digital doorway project
Posted in Internet, tagged Africa on the Internet, computers, Digital Doorway Project, Hole in the Wall, ICT, Larry Stiller, technology on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ll take all the love we can get (2)
Posted in Internet, tagged Blogging, We'll take all the love we can get, Wordpress on February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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.
Which country has the most internet users in Africa?
Posted in Internet, tagged Internet, NaijaPulse, Nigeria, Which country has the most internet users in Africa? on February 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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.
‘The last place on earth [you] would expect to find an Internet connection…’
Posted in Internet, tagged digital divide, Internet, Kenya, New York Times on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.
The Legendary Roots Crew has a blog now
Posted in Internet, Music, tagged Blogging, hip hop, jazz, Music, The Roots on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s like when someone you know finally signs up for a Facebook profile. Here. (They compete for my loyalty with Abdullah Ibrahim).
They look like Africans in New York?*
Posted in Internet, Music, New York City, Not just about Africa, Not on the Radio, South Africa, tagged African music, Black Rock, BLK JKS, Knox Robinson, Music, rock music, South African music, Stuff white people like on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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.
‘Gay Arabs and Africans come out online’
Posted in Internet, Not only about Africa, politics, sexuality, technology, tagged Boston, gay Africans, gay Arabs, gays and lesbians in Africa, Internet, sexuality, technology and sexuality on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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