Check out these Undersea Cable Maps for Africa by Steve Song of the Shuttleworth Foundation. The latest one is an outlook of what cables could provide Africa with data by 2013, indicating the ones already active:
Sub-saharan Undersea Cables in 2013 – maybe (version 29) by Steve Song on Flickr, CC-by
The English Wikipedia has an interesting article on submarine communications cables and their history. On the question of the environmental impact of undersea cables, it cites this report (page 29 forward).
The Guardian published a World Map of Undersea Cables in 2008 including context info. Greg’s Cable Map mashes information from Wikipedia and the Web and is regularly updated. It’s a pretty cool and detailed map, giving you the names of cables, landings, and more info on each one of them.
January 20, 2011 – 3:47 pm
This freely available book focussing on technology and business in Africa was recently published by the Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends (STT): “Futures of Technologies in Africa” by Jasper Grosskurth
The editors stress that their approach is not a strict scientific one but rather a way of gathering ideas about innovative approaches for using technologies in development in and for Africa. The book is based on interviews, workshops and research in various countries on the continent, and presents an analysis of the present as well as future scenarios and science fiction. Via Hapee de Groot
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STT Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends / Jasper Grosskurth, http://www.stt.nl, 2010; CC-by-nc-nd 3.0
October 1, 2010 – 9:47 pm
Interview with Sokari Ekine, human rights activist and writer, on mobile activism in Africa, i.e. the use of mobile phones to gather and spread information. Watch the video on Netzpiloten.
Tags activism, Africa, elections, FrontlineSMS, Gender, ICTD, LGBT, mobile, SMS, text messaging, Ushaidi, violence, Women
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Much has been written about the role of the internet and social media networks in the recent political uprisings in Northern Africa. But while the world has been attentively watching the people in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya rise up to claim their rights, little attention is being paid to the effects on the rest of the continent. Sub-Saharan Africa is often but a footnote in the global news stream and perceived as the “Dark Continent” in terms of technology by many. It is time to turn the spotlight on sub-Saharan Africa and investigate what role social media play for political communication and why or why not are they being used for organising protests. read more 