All Blog Posts Tagged 'content' (8)

In his article “The Bane of “Consultants” on African Telcos fortunes”, Tom Makau states that investors have made a big mistake by formulating a single strategy for “Africa” assuming there exists a homogenous economic entity called the “African market”.  The African continent as far as geo-political boundaries, economic zoning has widely varying tax policies and regulatory…

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Assessment of the impact of Internet Exchange Points – empirical study of Kenya and Nigeria - a study done by ISOC shows the Kenya Internet Exchange Point (KIXP) currently localizes approximately 1Gbit/s of peak traffic, reduces latency from 200-600 ms to 2-10 ms to 2-10ms allowing ISPs to save almost $1.5 million per year on international connectivity.

On the other hand, the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN)…

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The art of surveillance has been practised throughout history. Sun Tzu's The Art of War, for example, written in the Fifth Century BC, contains a chapter on “The Use of Spies” where he describes the different ways spies may be used to monitor enemy forces.…

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One striking point was made by the Chris Sherwood from Yahoo: the threat of going to court, if there is a threat expressed by Yahoo to go to court because it is expensive, for a company like Yahoo, than how can you expect a regular user of the Internet to apply to the judicial mechanisms?

One of proposed suggestions was that the industry needs an…

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Pedro Less Andrade, Latin American Policy Counsel of Google Inc, made the final presentation of the day. Here are some notes:

Pedro Less Andrade: Content regulations and freedom of expression n the Internet



The web 2.0 is maturing now as the use of the net goes to social web. From the Long Tail to user-generated content and now the communities... and also collective… Continue

The main issue of access and availability of locally relevant content was a ket feature that I observed during my initial intervention in an ICT4D project in Sri Lanka. www.v-village.lk



The project set up 2 telecentres and provided free access. Yet, it had a few users. The majority of users were youth who showed a keen interest to use technology. Besides learning email there were not many other activities the village youth could do as there was a… Continue

What do social media and its communities actually mean to us? This should be one of the base questions when asking why we use social media in our daily lives.



Online communities are not taken as seriously as they should be taken. In our own real-life communities we tend to join due to the safety and security aspects that they are able to offer. The sheer familiarity of the culture joined by friends and relatives bring in the comfort aspect. The same can be said about online… Continue