The East African Telecenter Practitioners

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Comment by Voices of Africa for Sustainable Development on October 13, 2009 at 4:07am

Please see our websites: www.voicesofafrica.org and www.ruralinternetkiosks.com. We are using a kiosk model and building ICt4D training centers through East Africa. We are interested in joining with other people who envision a technologically empowered Africa.

Comment by Francis Mwathi on April 28, 2009 at 2:04am

Hallo Members,

This is a little information that i would like to share with you.

The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009

Denmark and Sweden once again lead the rankings of The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009, released for the eighth consecutive year by the World Economic Forum out of 134 countries. The United States follows suit at third followed by Singapore (4), Switzerland (5) and the other Nordic countries together with the Netherlands and Canada complete the top 10.

In Africa, Tunisia remains the leader of the thirty countries of the continent followed by Mauritius (51), South Africa (52), Egypt(76), Botswana(77), Senegal(80), Morocco(86), Nigeria(90), Gambia(91), Namibia(92), Kenya(97), Libya (101), Zambia (102), Ghana(103), Mali(107), Algeria(108), Mauritania (109), Malawi (110), Côte d'Ivoire(111), Madagascar(112), Burkina Faso(113), Lesotho(118), Tanzania(119), Uganda(120), Benin(121), Cameroon(123), Mozambique(124), Ethiopia(129), Burundi(131), Zimbabwe(132), and Chad(134) in the classification of the "Networked Readiness Index 2008-2009 ".

Comment by AHMED SUDAN on February 10, 2009 at 9:36am

dear friends here is collection of links which provide you with many free tutorials ( HTML, java script, CSS, PHP, ASP, CGI) and tools to help you design or build your website. Also you can find special courses like dearmweaver, AutoCAD, ArchiCAD 12

http://openeducation.developmentgateway.org/Open-Educational-Resources.9506.0.html

UNU Open Courseware
United Nations University launches the UNU OpenCourseWare Portal, which offers open access to about a dozen courses developed by three of UNU's Research and Training Centres and Programmes (RTC/Ps) and the Tokyo-based UNU Media Studio. The intent of the UNU OpenCourseWare Portal is to make the course materials used by UNU RTC/Ps available on the web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world. The initiative is not meant to replace degree-granting higher education or for-credit courses, but rather to provide content that can be used by educators for curriculum development, by students to augment their current learning resources and by individuals for independent self-study. The topics currently covered include e-governance, economic development and innovation, mangrove biodiversity and integrated watershed management. More courses are in production and in 2008, additional UNU units will participate in this initiative which promotes open sharing and global benefits for self-learn


http://developmentgateway.org/

http://www.distancelearningnet.com/blog/2009/50-free-open-courseware-classes-for-web-designers-perfecting-their-craft/

http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/09/60-open-courseware-collections-to-help-you-be-a-better-teacher/

http://opentraining.unesco-ci.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?d=1

http://www.freewebknowledge.com/html.php

http://opentraining.unesco-ci.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Categories%2FAgriculture%2FICT_for_agricultural_and_rural_development%2Findex.html;d=1

http://p31-dev.itcilo.org/delta/LLEL/LifeLongElearning/en/home/

http://www.apc.org/en/node/2733

http://alison.com/login/index.php

Comment by Gabula Atudde Telecentre on February 5, 2009 at 4:20am

Hallo members allow me to join this group as we are a Telecentre based in Uganda

Comment by AHMED SUDAN on January 26, 2009 at 11:48pm

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/01/22/internet-2008-in-numbers/

Internet 2008 in numbers
Posted in Main on January 22nd, 2009 by Pingdom
What happened with the Internet in 2008?
How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many blog posts were published? This post will answer those questions and many others with more interesting statistics than you can shake a stick at.
We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested. In some of the cases we here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get even more numbers to play around with.
Email
• 1.3 billion – The number of email users worldwide.
• 210 billion – The number of emails sent per day in 2008.
• 70% – The percentage of emails that are spam.
• 53.8 trillion – The number of spam emails sent in 2008 (assuming 70% are spam).
Websites
• 186,727,854 – The number of websites on the Internet in December 2008.
• 31.5 million – The number of websites added during 2008.
Web servers
• 24.4% – The growth of Apache websites in 2008.
• 13.7% – The growth of IIS websites in 2008.
• 22.2% – The growth of Google GFE websites in 2008.
• 336.8% – The growth of Nginx websites in 2008.
• 100.3% – The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2008.

Domain names
• 77.5 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2008.
• 11.8 million – .NET domain names at the end of 2008.
• 7.2 million – .ORG domain names at the end of 2008.
• 174 million – The number of domain names across all top-level domains.
• 19% – The increase in the number of domain names in 2008.
Internet users
• 1,463,632,361 – The number of Internet users worldwide (June 2008).
• 578,538,257 – Internet users in Asia.
• 384,633,765 – Internet users in Europe.
• 248,241,969 – Internet users in North America.
• 139,009,209 – Internet users in Latin America/Caribbean.
• 51,065,630 – Internet users in Africa.
• 41,939,200 – Internet users in the Middle East.
• 20,204,331 – Internet users in Oceania/Australia.

Blogs
• 133 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by Technorati).
• 900,000 – The number of new blog posts in a day.
• 329 million – The number of blog posts in 2008.
Images
• 10 billion – Photos hosted by Facebook (October 2008).
• 3 billion – Photos hosted by Flickr (November 2008).
• 6.2 billion – Photos hosted by Photobucket (October 2008).
Videos
• 12.7 billion – The number of online videos watched by American Internet users in a month (November 2008).
• 87 – The number of online videos viewed per month per Internet user in USA.
• 34% – The increase in viewing of online video in USA compared to 2007.
• 3.1 – The number of minutes of an average online video.
Web browsers

Malicious software
• 1 million – The number of computer viruses in April 2008.
• 468% – The increase in malicious code compared to 2007.
Data sources: Website and web server stats from Netcraft. Domain name stats from Verisign and Webhosting.info. Internet user stats from Internet World Stats. Web browser stats from Net Applications. Blog stats from Technorati. Email stats from Radicati Group via About.com. Spam stats from DCC. Virus stats from Symantec via Times Online. Online video stats from Comscore. Photo stats from CNET and Flickr.

Comment by Tiragana Audes on January 20, 2009 at 3:01pm

Dear members of The East African Telecenter Practitioners group members, thank you for the knowledge you are sharing with the entire world. Please allow me to join this group as an new member on this virtual community, I hope to share and learn from it. Thank you.
Audes

Comment by Edwin Galiwango on January 16, 2009 at 1:54am

Thank you for the inspirational story from Tanzania

Comment by Harrison Ntokote on January 14, 2009 at 1:02am

Happy new year The East African Telecenter Practitioners group members, allow me to join this group as i hope i may be able to share and learn from it.

Comment by Dean Mulozi on January 6, 2009 at 11:56am

Hi Francis ans Sandra,
May I also say that the new year is going to provide us with new impetus in the implementation of new telecenter activities.

Let us get down to serious work!

Comment by Francis Mwathi on December 12, 2008 at 3:07am

We would like to recognise the new members that have joined this group. You are too invited to share in the discussions going on or start a discussion. Welcome.

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