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Access to computers, or to broadband access, remains rare for half of the world's population. For example, as of 2010, on average of only one in 130 people in Africa had a computer [2] while in North America and Europe one in every two people had access to the Internet. [3] 90% of students in Africa had never touched a computer. [4]
Mobile technology in Africa is a fast growing market. [1] Nowhere is the effect more dramatic than in Africa, where mobile technology often represents the first modern infrastructure of any kind. [2] Over 10% of Internet users are in Africa. [3] However, 50% of Africans have mobile phones and their penetration is expanding rapidly. [4]
E-agriculture is one of the action lines identified in the declaration and plan of action of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The "Tunis Agenda for the Information Society," published on 18 November 2005 and emphasizes the leading facilitating roles that UN agencies need to play in the implementation of the Geneva Plan of Action.
Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications [1] and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computers, as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage and audiovisual, that enable users to access, store, transmit, understand and ...
For example, organizations such as RANET (RAdio and interNET for The communication of Hydro-Meteorological and Climate-Related Information) and the ACMAD (African Centre of Meteorological Application for Development) use Internet to develop reliable weather models for Sahel and other areas in Africa, with dramatic benefits for local agricultures.
A large part of the backbone of ICT4D was the action framework called the Africa Information Society Initiative (AISI). Seeking to install the ICT infrastructure in Africa, its goals were to were connect every single African village with the global information network by 2010 and spur growth of smaller ICT initiatives in different sectors. [2]
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5G Cell Tower in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Internet in South Africa, one of the most technologically resourced countries on the African continent, is expanding.The internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) [1].za is regulated by the .za Domain Name Authority (.ZADNA) and was granted to South Africa by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 1990.