ICT4D Program and the Internet in Africa Today

Last week there was a workshop at re-publica, Berlin named



Netz-Kultur in Ländern des Südens



with Andrea Goetzke (newthinking) , Frederic Dubois (APC), Christian Kreutz (GTZ) and xy Matzka (??). Most of the presenter mentioned the ICT4D Programme. So I looked for there Website and the digital Version of the book online



'ICT4D - CONNECTING PEOPLE FOR A BETTER WORLD'

Lessons, Innovations and Perspectives of Information and Communication Technologies in Development.



(If I see the material and presentations from this session Online, I will publish such links on this post.)



Andrea Goetzke presented stats from 2005, so I checked the actual "The Internet World Stats on Usage" (updated - March 2007).



Some data on Internet Africa



Total Population: about 933. 5 mio. equals 14.2 % of world pubulation

Total Internet Population: about 33.3 mio.



- equals 3.6 % of African population

- equals 3.0 % of Internet users in the world



African countries with highest Internet penetration



Reunion (France) 27.4 %

Sychelles 24.7 %

Mauritius 23.2 %

Morocco 15.1 %

South Africa 10.3 %

Zimbabwe 9.6 %

Tunesia 9.2 %

Egypt 6.9 %

Algeria 5.7 %



Internet users in numbers (000)



South Africa 5,100

Egypt 5,000

Nigeria 5,000

Marocco 4,600

Sudan 2,800

Algeria 1,920

Zimbabwe 1,200

Kenya 1,111

Tunisia 953

Senegal 540

Uganda 500

Benin 425

Ghana 401

Tanzania 333

Togo 300

Mauritius 300

Cameroon 250

Zambia 231



The complete Africa stats you find at Internet World stats

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