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Pamoja Media is the premier vehicle for marketers looking to reach an African online audience globally. Previously, marketers both on the African continent and in the Diaspora have had a hard time connecting with the diverse African audience. Our success relies on delivering key advertising to the right audience on the right portal at the [...]
Established in Ghana in 2001, BusyInternet is the largest privately owned & operated ICT centre in Africa. With a unique mission to provide both commercial services as well as social and economic development, Busy has been featured as a promising ‘hybrid’ model for Africa. Located in a 14,000 square foot former gas-bottling factory in the [...]
Based in South Africa, Integr8 Group Pty Limited designs, implements and maintains the information, communication and telecommunication environment of many leading corporations across Africa with an emphasis on bridging the digital divide. The company was founded in 1928 and aims to be recognized as the preferred IT Service Partner, focused on innovative, integrated and managed [...]
ICT Policy and Regulation in Africa
There are several multilateral organizations that have been active in promoting and providing governments with technical and capacity building assistance. UNECA has been particularly active in providing support. UNECA calls these ICT plans National Information and Communication Infrastructure (NICI) policies and plans. According to the the UN Economic Commision for Africa (UNECA), as of June 2008, there [...]
Indian mobile application developer is teaming up with mobile operators in Africa and providing less costly solution to mobile email access.
Fiber Metropolitan Area Networks
A few sub-Saharan African cities have seen the deployment of fiber MANs. These include Kampala, Nairobi, Mombasa, Abidjan, and Lagos.
Libya’s submarine fiber optic cable. See more here.
Atlantis connect Europe to Latin America with 2 landing points in Africa: Dakar, Senegal and the Cape Verde Islands.
South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe
A few countries in North Africa are connected to the SEA-ME-WE cables that connection South East Asia, Western Europe and the Middle East. SEA-ME-WE 2 has landing points in Africa in Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria. SEA-ME-WE 3 has landing points in Africa at Djibouti (Djibouti), Egypt (Suez & Alexandria)and Tetuan (Morocco). SEA-ME-WE 4 is the [...]
While many countries now have some internal fiber networks, there is only one trans-continental fiber cable system serving sub-Saharan Africa running from Portugal round the west coast of Africa to South Africa and onwards to Malaysia. This submarine cable system is called South Africa/West Africa Submarine Cable/South Africa Far East (SAT3/WASC/SAFE) cable system. This cable [...]
