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• Acacia Initiative : Communities and the Information Society in Africa (International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada)
  • "The Acacia Initiative is an international effort led by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to empower Sub-Saharan African communities with the ability to apply information and communication technologies to their own social and economic development." The web site is in both English and French.
  • There are many individual Acacia projects: Pan-African, Benin, Eastern Africa, Mali, Mozambique, Sénégal, South Africa, Southern Africa Region and West African Region.
  • Acacia studies and reports
  • "Networking Africa's Future" Conference, April 13-16, 2003, Pilanesburg, South Africa
  
  
• AfriNIC: African Network Information Center (Mauritius)
  'In 2001, the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) approved a Criteria for the Establishment of New Regional Internet Registries...AfriNIC has been proposed by the African community for the purpose of managing the IP addressing in the continent. It is expected that African organizations that presently obtain IP address space from RIPE or the ARIN will in future obtain IP addresses space from the AfriNIC.' See also: the French version of this website.
  
  
• AfNOG: Africa Network Operators' Group (via Computer Frontiers International, Kampala, Uganda)
  "...AfNOG is a forum for the exchange of technical information, and aims to promote discussion of implementation issues that require community cooperation through coordination and cooperation among network service providers to ensure the stability of service to end users."
  
  
• AITEC: African IT Exhibitions and Conferences (AITEC UK Ltd., Cambridgeshire, UK)
  • Established in 1987, AITEC seeks to facilitate the development of information technology markets and capacities in Africa through publications, consultations, conferences, and exhibitions. AITEC has offices in the UK, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Tanzania, and Nigeria. See also:
  • Events--Future
  • ITAfrica--database of ICT experts, businesses, events, and projects
  
  
• Africa Action on Africa and the Internet (formerly Africa Policy Information Center, Washington, DC)
  • Africa: Internet Status (October 2000)
    A list of relevant links and a September 2000 report on the status of the Internet in Africa.
  • Africa on the Internet: Starting Points for Policy Information (July 1996).
    A special "background paper".
  
  
• Africa Computing (Marseille, France)
  Ce site s'agit des projets divers en Afrique....surtout le Bénin, le Burundi, le Burkina Faso, le Tchad et le Niger. << ...une association française [non gouvernementale à but non lucratif] dont les activités s'inscrivent dans un objectif d'échanges et de transferts de compétences pour la pratique de l'informatique et de l'Internet en Afrique. >>
  
  
• Africa ICT Policy Monitor (APC--Association for Progressive Communications, Melville, South Africa ; Nairobi, Kenya)
  This site offers extensive information on all ICT and development policy-related issues for Africa; plus news and some country-level statistics.
  
  
• Africa 2008 ITU Telecom, Cairo, Egypt, May 12-15, 2008 (via International Telecommunication Union, a UN specialized agency, Geneva, Switzerland)
  • An exhibition and forum for communications technologies. Previous Africa TELECOMs have taken place in Johannesburg in 1998, Cairo in 1994, Harare, Zimbabwe in 1990, and Nairobi, Kenya in 1986.
  • See also: Africa Telecom '98: May 4-9, 1998, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
  
  
• African Information Society Initiative -- See under: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, below
  
  
• "The African Internet -- A Status Report" (2002) by Mike Jensen. Chapter 6 of 2002-2003 global competitiveness report -- Geneva, Switzerland: World Economic Forum, [2003] PDF format
  
  
• African Online Digital Library: West African Digital Resources Project (Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
  A website about a new digital library project (begun in 2000/2001) at Michigan State University, l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, and the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal.
  
  
• African Studies Association of the United States: 45th Annual Meeting -- "Africa in the Information and Technology Age": December 5-8, 2002, Washington, DC (via Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey)
  The final program and a link to the main menu of the ASA web site.
  
  
• African Technology Forum -- Archives (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
  • "African Technology Forum is the premier source of information on science and technology in Africa. We provide practical information to corporations, individuals and institutions in the US, Africa and the rest of the world." Note: This site includes electronic versions of "feature articles" only from selected back issues of ATF's journal, "Forum". The printed version of this journal has been suspended.
  • For selected current articles and web links, see: ATF Consulting Office Website
  
  
• "African telecommunication infrastructures for information access." by Muriuki Mureithi. UDT occasional paper, no. 3. (Online) July 1997. (via International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, France)
  "Muriuki Mureithi has been in the telecommunication industry for the last 15 years, for 12 years as senior manager in International Relations of Kenya Posts and Telecommunication Corporation and later as Deputy Managing Director of Telecommunication Foundation of Africa. Presently Mr. Mureithi is the Director of Summit Strategies based in Nairobi, Kenya."
  
  
• African Telematics Symposium, Addis Ababa, 1995 (University of Pennsylvania)
  The electronic version of the full proceedings of this conference held on April 3-7, 1995 in Addis Ababa.
  
  
• African Virtual University (Nairobi, Kenya ; The World Bank, Washington, DC)
  • The web site includes information for the public about the programs. Note: User registration is required to access curriculum materials. "The African Virtual University (AVU) is a first-of-its-kind interactive-instructional telecommunications network established to serve the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The mission of AVU is to use the power of modern information technologies to increase access to educational resources throughout Sub-Saharan Africa ... training world-class scientists, technicians, engineers, business managers, health care providers, and other professionals."
  • Université virtuelle africaine
  
  
• African Virtual University: "L'Université virtuelle africaine, histoire d'une mise en scène" (2005). Mémoire par Pierre-Jean Loiret, Université de Rouen, France, Faculté de psychologie, sociologie et sciences de l'éducation. (via OSIRIS--Observatoire des Systèmes d'Information, des Réseaux et des Inforoutes au Sénégal, Dakar, Sénégal) 228 pages en format PDF.
  -- Voir aussi: le résumé de cette recherche.
  
  
• AFRICA'NTI (Unité Mixte de Recherche 9937 CNRS-IRD REGARDS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et l'Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III et Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV, France)
  • "Le projet Africa'nti a pour objectif d'observer les processus d'insertion des technologies de l'information et de la communication et leurs impacts en Afrique." Voir surtout:
  • Les bréves et les autres publications
  • Guide de sites utiles
    
    
  • Colloque international << Les fractures numériques Nord/Sud en question: quels enjeux? quels partenariats? >> 25-28 août 2003, Université d'été de la communication d'Hourtin, Gironde, France.
    A l'initiative de AFRICA'NTI du Centre d'Etudes d'Afrique Noire, Université Bordeaux IV et l'Institut Méditerranéen de la Culture et de la Communication.
    • Présentation des thèmes
    • Le programme détaillé
  
  
• AITI-KACE: Advanced Information Technology Institute--Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (Accra, Ghana)
  "Our dynamic team works to stimulate the growth of the ICT Sector in ECOWAS. Established in 2003, through a partnership between the Government of Ghana and the Government of India, this state-of the-art facility provides an ideal environment for innovation, teaching and learning as well as practical research on the application of ICT4D in Africa."
  
  
• ARIMA: Revue africaine de la recherche en informatique et mathématiques appliquées. (Online) -- Paris, France: Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA), 2002--
  << La revue est née d'une collaboration scientifique Nord/Sud menée depuis plus de dix ans dans le sillage des activités CARI (Colloque Africain pour la Recherche en Informatique). >>
  
  
• Association for Progressive Communications on Africa (San Francisco, California)
  See also: APC Publications on Internet and ICTs
  
  
• Balancing Act news update. (Online) -- London, UK: Balancing Act, 2007-
  Balancing Act seeks to be the primary source for information on the telecoms, Internet and audio-visual media industries in Africa. The website/newsletter also includes links to free (and fee-based) reports on African Internet Connectivity issues in individual countries and regional trends.
  -- See also: African broadcast, film, and convergence. (Online): another e-newsletter, published by Balancing Act.
  
  
• Batik: bulletin d'analyse sur les technologies de l'information et de la communication. (Online) -- Dakar, Sénégal: Observatoire sur les Systèmes d'Information, les Réseaux et les Inforoutes au Sénégal (OSIRIS), 1999-
  'Batik est une lettre d'information électronique mensuelle qui traite de l'actualité des TIC au Sénégal.' Sur ce site, on peut lire (en version HTML ou en PDF) les numéros depuis avril 1999.
  
  
• Bisharat! A language, technology, and development initiative (See below)
  
  
• Bridges.Org (2006) (Cape Town and Durbanville, South Africa and Washington, DC)
  A clearingshouse website for applied technology issues and the 'digital divide'. "Bridges.org's mission is to help people in developing countries and underserved communities use technology...by focusing attention on the policy issues...bringing people in developing countries and underserved communities into technology policy discussions...assisting in efforts to develop sound legal and regulatory frameworks...serving as an information clearinghouse..."
  
  
• CARI '2000 -- 5e Colloque Africain sur la Recherche en Informatique = 5th African Conference on Research in Computer Science, 16-19 octobre 2000, Antananarivo, Madagascar. L'organisation est confiée à l'Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique de l'Université d'Antananarivo.
  Le programme et l'appel aux communications: "CARI 2000 est la cinquième édition d'une série de colloques bi-annuels sur la recherche en informatique et en mathématiques appliquées en Afrique."
  
  
• CIPACO: Centre sur les politiques internationales des TIC = Centre for International ICT Policies, Central and West Africa (Dakar, Sénégal)
  [CIPACO] est mis en place afin de renforcer les capacités des acteurs pour une meilleure participation à la prise de décision internationale en matières des TIC ...Cinq activités: animation d'un système d'information, réalisation d'études et d'analyses, organisation de débats électroniques appui à la participation à des réunions internationales clés, collaboration avec les autres initiatives spécialisés sur les politiques des TIC."
  
  
• Colloque international de géographie et amenagement & Assises régionales du numérique, du 8 au 11 juin 2009, Université Gaston-Berger de Saint-Louis, Sénégal: "Modèles d'ici et d'ailleurs : la société de l'information en ses territoires".
  
  
• 4th Annual International Conference on Computing and ICT Research, August 3-6, 2008, Kampala, Uganda (Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda)
  
  
• Connectivity Africa (Ottawa, Canada)
  • This website includes selected news on ICTs in Africa, related links, and a list of projects. "Connectivity Africa is managed by IDRC though its offices in Ottawa, Cairo, Dakar, Nairobi and Midrand, South Africa. It operates in parallel with IDRC’s Acacia Initiative, which supports ICT research and initiatives to empower sub-Saharan African communities."
  • See also: the French version
  
  
• CODESRIA: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa: Conference on Electronic Publishing and Dissemination: "Employing ICTs for the Advancement of Research = L'Utilisation des TICs pour l'avancement de la recherche", 1-2 September 2004 (Dakar, Senegal)
  The web site offers full text copies of most of the papers (PDF format) presented at this workshop.
  
  
• East African Internet Association: 1996 announcement (via Univ. of Pennsylvania)
  
  
• ELDIS on ICT for Development Resource Guide (Electronic Development and Environment Information System, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
  This web page, part of a larger site, provides links to current news and online reports on ICT development in individual countries and on a regional level, including Africa.
  
  
• e-Learning Africa: 3rd International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, Accra International Conference Centre, Accra, Ghana, May 28-30, 2008
  See especially: Call for Papers: The deadline for proposals is December 7, 2007.
  
  
• Electronic journal of information systems in developing countries. (Online) -- Hong Kong ; Omaha, Nebraska: City University of Hong Kong and the University of Nebraska, 2000-
  
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization--Sustainable Development Dimensions: Communication for Development in Africa -- via Columbia University Libraries.
  
  
• Groupe Pour l'Etude et l'Enseignement de la Population (GEEP) (Dakar, Sénégal)
  • "Le GEEP est une organisation non gouvernementale située sur le campus de l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar et constituée de chercheurs, d'enseignants et de professionnels intéressés par les problèmes et phénomènes de population, d'environnement et de développement. Il fonctionne comme un réseau de personnes-ressources et se veut une force de mobilisation sociale surtout au niveau des jeunes."
  • Expérimentation des Espaces Cyber Jeune dans l'Enseignement moyen et secondaire au Sénégal. Innovations pédagogiques. Approches alternatives ; document no. 2 (en format PDF)
  • Internet à l'école: de l'apprentissage à l'autonomie. Innovations pédagogiques. Approches alternatives ; document no. 3 (en format PDF)
  • Voir aussi: l'ancien site du GEEP (2004)
  
  
• Highway Africa Conference on "Citizen Journalism, Journalism for Citizens", 8-10 September 2008, Rhodes University, South Africa (Grahamstown)
  
  
• How to Cite Internet Resources (via Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• Iafric: Le développement Internet NTIC en Afrique (Cotonou, Bénin?)
  • [Depuis 2001] "Le site se donne pour vocation d'héberger des documents portant sur les TIC dans les pays africains et de rendre visibles les initiatives dans ce domaine." Voir aussi, la version anglaise du site.
  • Etat des NTIC en Afrique de l'Ouest francophone: bibliographie annotée (2002)
  
  
• International Telecommunication Union (Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Africa, ICT Indicators 2007
  • Telecommunication/ICT markets and trends in Africa 2007. -- Geneva, Switzerland: ITU, 2007. 34 pages in PDF format
    
    
  • All publications
  • All statistics
  • African and Other Country Case Studies
  • "Improving IP Connectivity in the Least Developed Countries" -- Workshop held at ITU headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, 11-12 April 2002: Background paper (February 2002) and workshop presentations.
  
  
• ICANN--Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, 1-5 December 2004
  • See also: ICANN Meeting, 27-31 October 2003, Carthage, Tunisia = Réunion de l'ICANN, du 27 au 31 octobre 2003 (via Tunis)
  
  
• Institut Panos -- Afrique de l'Ouest (Dakar, Senegal)
  • Sur ce site, on peut lire les nouvelles à propos des programmes du Institut en Afrique de l'Ouest. Il y a aussi beaucoup de liens à autres sites de PANOS et ceux sur les médias.
  • Actualités des médias en Afrique
  • Annuaire des organisations
  • Liens aux médias en Afrique en ordre alphabétique par pays
  • Lois et réglements en Afrique de l'Ouest
  • Comprendre et traiter la société de l'information. -- Dakar, Sénégal: Institut Panos Afrique de l'Ouest, 2003. (214 p.) Format PDF
  
  
• Internet and Computing in Africa (Compiled by Karen Fung, Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
  An extensive list of links to important networking resources.
  
  
• Internet in Ethiopia (2001) (Samuel Kinde, Media Ethiopia.Com, USA)
  A brief overview of the current state of Internet services in Ethiopia.
  
  
• Internet Mailing Lists, Listservs & Discussion Groups on Africa (University of Pennsylvania)
  A frequently updated, list of links to subscription information on all sorts of Africa-related listservs.
  
  
• Internet Service Providers Association, South Africa
  
  
• IST-Africa 2009 Conference & Exhibition, 6-8 May 2009, Kampala, Uganda
  "IST-Africa 2009 will focus on the Role of ICT for Africa's Development and specifically on Applied ICT research topics addressing major societal and economic challenges, which is part of the European Commission's Information Communications Technologies (ICT) Theme of FP7."
  
  
• ITEdge. (Online) -- Lagos, Nigeria: ITEdge, 2004-
  The electronic version of a weekly magazine on the ICT sector for Nigeria and Africa in general. The archive contains back issues from June 2004 to present.
  
  
• Languages of Africa and the Internet -- Research
  • African Languages Technology Initiative--ALT-I (2004) (Ibadan, Nigeria)
    • "African Languages Technology Initiative (Alt-I) was set up to facilitate development of the necessary resources that will enable the engagement of information communication technologies (ICT) in African Languages. ...to appropriate various aspects of human language technology (HLT) such as speech synthesis, speech recognition, natural language understanding, machine translation and many others..."
    • Projects--corpus development, Yoruba keyboard, speech synthesis, etc.
    
    
  • Bisharat! A language, technology, and development initiative (The Netherlands)
    • "Bisharat! is an evolving idea based on the importance of maternal languages in sustainable development and the enormous potential of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) to benefit efforts in the area of language and development. Anticipating the gradual introduction of computers and the internet to rural communities in Africa, the current focus of Bisharat is on research, advocacy, and networking relating to use of African languages in software and web content."
    • Basic documents on language policy in Africa
    
    
    
    • Pan African Localisation Project = Projet panafricain sur la localisation (Supported by IDRC and in collaboration with Kabissa)
      -- PanAfrLoc/ PmWiki Workshop, June 13-16, 2005, Casablanca, Morocco
      
      
    • A12N-Collaboration -- African Language Encoding, Fonts, Keyboards: Discussion Fora and Reference Pages
    • Links
    
    
  • klnX: The Open Swahili Localization Project = Mradi wa kuswahilisha programu huria (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; IT+46, Sweden)
    The website about the joint effort to provide computer operating software in Kiswahili.
    
    
  • "Le traitement informatique des langues africaines" (novembre 2003). Par Marcel Diki-Kidiri, Edema Atibakwa Baboya, et Christian Chanard. Cahiers du Rifal; no. 23. (via Carrefour International Francophone de Documentation et d'Information, Paris, France)
    Ce document comprend une liste des sites étudiés dans l'annexe de 50 pages. Voir aussi, le site principal des Cahiers du Rifal qui est publié au Canada.
    
    
  • "Traitement informatique des langues africaines: problèmes et perspectives" (décembre 1995). Par Emile Camara [...et alli.] ALAF-Action de Recherche Partagée AUPELF-UREF. (Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France)
    
    
  • Unicode Consortium (Mountain View, California)
    • "The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization originally founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in modern software products and standards."
    • Language and scripts already encoded
    
    
  • University of California--Berkeley, Department of Linguistics: Script Encoding Initiative (Berkeley, California)
    • "The goal of the project is to fund the development of script proposals that will be successfully approved by the Unicode Technical Committee without requiring extensive revision or involvement of the committee itself. A secondary goal for certain scripts is to produce freely-available fonts, both for publication of the standards and for end-users."
    • Lists of language scripts not yet encoded
  
  
• Leland Initiative and AfricaLink Programs of the US Agency for International Development (via "USAID on Africa", Columbia University)
  
  
• Marrakech : Le rôle et la place des médias dans la société de l'information en Afrique et dans les pays arabes -- Conférence internationale de suivi du sommet mondial sur la société de l'information, du 22 au 24 novembre 2004 Sommet Mondial sur la Société de l'Information, Genève 2003 -- Tunis 2005. (Maroc, Ministère de la Communication, Rabat)
  
  
• Marweb -- Annuaire et Moteur de recherche du Maghreb Arabe (Fès, Maroc)
  • Voir aussi les versions en arabe et en anglais.
  
  
• MediaAfriq Bibiographie sur les Médias et les Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (1999) (Multimania, France)
  
  
• MED-IT 2009: Salons d'affaires sur les spécialisés IT (Informatique, Internet, & Télécoms): Alger--Casablanca--Tunis (mai, novembre et décembre 2009) Organisé par Label France, XCOM, et UBIFRANCE--Agence française pour le développement international des entreprises.
  << Ces rencontres d'affaires comprennent une exposition, des conférences et l'organisation de rdv planifiés. Les entreprises peuvent y rencontrer d'une part leurs homologues, acteurs des technologies de l'information (partenaires, revendeurs potentiels) et d'autre part les acteurs économiques locaux à la recherche de compétences ou de solutions innovantes >>.
  
  
• NICI in Africa: National Information and Communications Infrastructure for Sustainable Development in Africa -- see below under the UN Economic Commission for Africa.
  
  
• National Universities Commission of Nigeria: Nigerian Virtual Library (2003--) (Abuja, Nigeria)
  The website --under construction-- includes selected Nigerian publications in wide variety of disciplines, links to Nigerian newspapers, and information on Nigerian universities. "The National Universities Commission is a parastatal of the Federal Ministry of Education charged with the responsibilities of orderly development of universities in Nigeria."
  
  
• NEPAD Council: "ICTe Africa 2006 Conference", 17-21 May 2006, Nairobi, Kenya (South Africa?)
  A call for papers and detail information on purpose: "ICTe Africa is a continental event for the presentation of technologies appropriate to development of ICT in Africa and for the discussion of a broad range of challenges and potential relevant solutions...presentations on next generation networks, infrastructure projects, Internet applications/solutions, rural telephony, ICT policies, ICT financing and solar energy for powering rural networks...[plus] professional development courses in fiber optics, broadband access, VoIP and other emerging technologies."
  
  
• Netcafeguide.Com: A directory of Internet Cafés in Africa. (See World66 below)
  
  
• OpenNet Initiative on SubSaharan Africa -and- Middle East & North Africa (The Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto; Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University; Advanced Network Research Group at the Cambridge Security Programme, University of Cambridge; and Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, UK)
  "Our aim is to investigate, expose and analyze Internet filtering and surveillance practices in a credible and non-partisan fashion."
  
  
• OSIRIS: Observatoire sur les Systèmes d'Information, les Réseaux et les Inforoutes au Sénégal (Dakar, Sénégal)
  "OSIRIS est une association à but non lucratif créé en mars 1998 qui se propose de produire des analyses, d'informer et de sensibiliser sur tous les sujets relatifs à l'utilisation et à l'appropriation des technologies de l'information et de la communication au Sénégal."
  
  
• Open Access 2005, 3rd International Workshop, 10-11 May 2005, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique
  -- Program and downloadable papers
  
  
• PADIS in 1994-95: Pan African Development Information System (via University of Pennsylvania)
  
  
• PIAC: The Project for Information Access and Connectivity (2002) (Nairobi, Kenya)
  General information about the project, reports, and useful institutional links. "The Project for Information Access and Connectivity (PIAC), which is sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, was established in 1998."
  
  
• PICTA: Partnership for Information and Communication Technologies in Africa (UN Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Bellanet, Ottawa, Canada)
  • This site provides general information on the activities of various agencies involved in the development of communication technologies in Africa, including the Internet; plus downloadable reports and a searchable database of projects and activities. "PICTA is an informal group of donors and executing agencies committed to improving information exchange and collaboration around ICT activities in Africa. It builds on the work of the African Networking Initiative (ANI) and the African Internet Forum (AIF)."
  • PICTA bulletin. (Online) -- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: PICTA, 2001-
  
  
• Research ICT Africa! -- The researcher's network (Link Centre, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
  News and research reports on ICTs in Africa; plus related links. "...seeks to provide the research base needed to support continental and international initiatives to reduce the digital divide. This will include examining the broad nexus of social, economic, developmental and policy issues surrounding information and communications technologies, including ICT infrastructure development, policy and regulation."
  -- Towards an African e-Index: SME e-Access and Usage in 14 African Countries (2006) -- Johannesburg, South Africa: Research ICT Africa, 2006. PDF format
  (The countries covered include Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.)
  
  
• SchoolNet: African Education Knowledge Warehouse (Braamfontein, South Africa; Dakar, Senegal)
  The website --in English or French-- includes information on ICTs and computers in schools, reports on ICTs & education in Africa, programs, conferences & workshops, etc. "[Founded in 1999] SchoolNet Africa is one of Africa's first African-led, African-based non-government organisations (NGO) that operates across the continent in its endeavour to improve education access, quality and efficiency through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in African schools."
  
  
• Science and Technology in Africa (via Columbia University Libraries)
  
  
• Technology times. (Online). News Service of the Nigerian ICT Industry. -- Lagos, Nigeria: Technology Times Media Network, 2004-
  This online magazine offers articles on selected developments in the ICT sector of Nigeria.
  
  
• UNECA: UN Economic Commisssion for Africa
  • African Information Society Initiative (AISI) (Addis Ababa)
    
    
  • CODI: Committee on Development Information: 3rd Meeting of the CODI -- "Information and Governance", Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10-17 May 2003 (Plus links to CODI I and II (1999 and 2001)
    
    
  • "Global Connectivity for Africa = La connectivité globale pour l'Afrique": June 2-4, 1998, held at the UN Conference Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
    A conference co-sponsored by the UNECA, The World Bank Group, The African Development Bank, The Information for Development Program, The International Telecommunications Union, and the Government of the Netherlands. This site contains opening statements, the program, and issue papers.
    
    
  • National Information and Communication Infrastructure for Sustainable Development in Africa (NICI in Africa)
    -- NICI African country profiles -- by region
    -- NICI in Africa: developing national information and communications infrastructure (NICI) policies, plans and strategies: the 'why' and 'how', 1999
    -- Other NICI Documents
  
  
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Dakar Symposium -- Digital Opportunities for Africa: Community Multimedia Centres, 12-17 June 2003, Dakar, Senegal
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• United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force -- African Stakeholders Network (2002-2006) (UN Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  
  
• UNRISD: UN Research Institute for Social Development:  Information Technologies and Social Development -- Unpublished Papers on ICTs in Senegal and Internationally, 2001-2005 (Geneva, Switzerland)
  Note: several of the papers are available only in French.
  
  
• US Agency for International Development on Communications & the Internet in Africa (via Columbia University)
  
  
• User's Guide to Electronic Networks in Africa (1994). Originally produced for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sub-Saharan Africa Program. (via African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
  
  
• WiderNet Project (University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa)
  General information about the project and short profiles on Internet connectivity at Nigerian universities (in 1999) are the key highlights of this website. "The WiderNet Project is an independent nonprofit project based at the University of Iowa that works to improve digital communication in developing countries. Our current focus is in Africa and our closes ties and connections are with Nigerian universities."
  
  
• The World Bank: ICT Projects & Reports on Africa (Washington, DC)
  • Global Information & Communication Technologies Department--Projects
    Search by country.
  • Information for Development Projects
    -- All infoDev reports (General)
    
    
  • Survey of ICT in Education in Africa: a summary report, based on 53 country surveys (2007):
    2 volumes in PDF format!
  
  
• World Digital Library on Africa -and- The Middle East and North Africa (Paris, France)
  This site offers a relatively small selection (122 items for Africa and 157 for the Middle East/North Africa) of digitized rare books, maps, and documents which can be downloaded. UNESCO, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, The Library of Congress of the USA, and many other institutions have partnered to launch this project.
  
  
• World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, Tunisia, 16-18 November 2005 = Sommet mondial sur la société de l'information, Tunis 2005 (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland)
  • World Summit on the Information Society, 10-12 December 2003, Geneva, Switzerland
    • Special focus: Background documents on Africa (2003)
  
  
• World66 Netcafeguide.Com for Africa (World66, USA)
  Search for listings of Internet cafés or "cybercafés" in Africa by selecting a country in the Choose country box.
  
  
• WoYaa! Search Engine for Africa: Computers and Internet (WoYaa.Com)
  Part of a larger portal and search engine for Africa. The site is also available in French.
  
  
• Yenza!: using the Internet for research and teaching in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Centre for Science Development, HSRC, Pretoria & INFOLIT of the Cape Library Cooperative, South Africa--Reader's Digest Association, Inc.; via National Research Foundation, South Africa)
  A general list of annotated links for basic research--mostly within South Africa.