[cyber~rights] ++ Internet in Africa.

[Marco Trotta]

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From: ferry.byte at ecn.org
To: cyber-rights at ecn.org
Subject: [cyber~rights] ++ Internet in Africa.
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:24:18 +0200

+ African Internet Map <http://www.acacia.org.za/africa_internet_map.htm>.

+ Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) Telecommunications,
Internet and Computer Infrastructure in Africa
<http://www3.wn.apc.org/africa/>.

+ The African Internet - A Status Report
<http://www3.wn.apc.org/africa/afstat.htm>.

+ AricaDotEdu: IT Opportunities and Higher Education in Africa.
Despite serious obstacles, access to ICTs like the Internet is improving
in Africa. This book is the first to chronicle and analyse the growth of
the Internet in Africa and especially highlight the role of the
education sector. What kind of impact is IT having on educational
institutions, systems, processes and knowledge assets in Africa? And
what critical roles does the higher education sector play in developing
local capacities in pedagogy, research, knowledge exchange, publishing,
healthcare, e-commerce and cyberlaw
<http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=5507&do=gpage> ?

+ Argentines to Get the E-Vote.
The Sept. 14 pilot test will involve 500,000 voters distributed among 20
constituencies in the eastern Argentine province of Buenos Aires, the
most populous in the country. With an area of 118,000 square miles, the
province -- with a population of more than 10 million -- is roughly the
size of the state of Arizona
<http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=5508&do=gpage>.

+ Blackout gives cell phones a black eye.
Since Thursday, many wireless subscribers in the Northeast have returned
to the landline telephones they've increasingly given up in favor of
cell phones. Verizon Communications, a part-owner of Verizon Wireless,
said Friday that use of landlines was 300 percent above normal levels
following the blackout. Traditional lines continued working, because
phone companies have added back-up power throughout their systems, which
also send electrical current to phones
<http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=5504&do=gpage>.


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