Obama skips Kenya

United States president Barack Obama will not be visiting Nigeria as recently speculated in the media. Obama and his wife Michelle will only visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania between June 26 and July 3.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201305210117.html

Obama is the first US President that has ancestors in Africa.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/21/obama-africa-tour-kenya-loser

Uganda orders investigation of network made by Huawei

The Ugandan government has ordered a probe into the national fibre optic project currently being developed by China’s Huawei Technologies in the country.

http://www.itnewsafrica.com/2012/10/uganda-orders-investigation-of-huaweis-fiber-optic-grid/

http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=170740&seqNum=7

The cost of building network into remote places like Uganda may be high as they may lack necessary infrastructure (like roads, electricity grid etc.).

According to New Vision in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni has sent a letter to Prime Minister Amama that reportedly says he had “received intelligence information that Huawei used inferior cable type G-652 instead of type G-655.”

http://www.itnewsafrica.com/2012/10/uganda-orders-investigation-of-huaweis-fiber-optic-grid/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda

It is not easy to operate in LDC and doing business in Africa is expensive.

Ethiopia outlaws Skype

The telecoms law strictly prohibits VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) which includes audio and video related social media communication, and the transfer of information packages through the fast growing global cyber networks.

http://www.africareview.com/Business+++Finance/New+Ethiopian+law+criminalises+Skype/-/979184/1426020/-/ln43ps/-/index.html

Outlawing any form of communication is very bad for business and fundamentally destroys any possibilities for economic growth, which Ethiopia desperately needs.

In the last five years websites and blogs critical of the government have been frequently blocked and all Amharic language broadcasts targeting Ethiopia jammed.

http://www.africareview.com/Business+++Finance/New+Ethiopian+law+criminalises+Skype/-/979184/1426020/-/ln43ps/-/index.html

http://bafric.blogspot.fi/2012/03/linux-in-zambia.html

Linux in Zambia

The wireless networking is done using standard Wi-Fi kit. An omni-directional high-gain antenna on top of a water tower blankets a 3km radius at the heart of Macha with network signal, while beyond that directional antennas extend the range point to point.

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/how-linux-is-changing-lives-in-zambia-1067863

Linux and Ubuntu allows Zambia to be networked with low cost networks.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201203110129.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/

http://bafric.blogspot.com/2011/11/microsoft-launches-annual-sponsorship.html

http://www.zambian.com/

Cumulative CO2 emissions and Durban

It is very important for justice that West pays compensation for those CO2 emissions that it did during early industrialization as it was then when West secured access to superior productive resources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_atmosphere

Climate change is being caused by total CO2 emissions and not annual. Therefore the basis of calculation for compensation should be CO2 emissions caused by person historically during last 300 years.
http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/historical-trends-in-carbon-dioxide-concentrations-and-temperature-on-a-geological-and-recent-time-scale

http://insights.wri.org/news/2011/11/climate-finance-cop17-durban

http://globalcitizen.net/Data/Pages/1291/papers/2009103014156814.pdf

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2009/06/01/204179/us-responsible-for-29-of-carbon-dioxide-emissions-over-past-150-years-triple-chinas-share/

http://timeforchange.org/cumulative-co2-emissions-by-country

Finnish bloggers blogging about Africa

Emma writes about her experiences in Africa (in Finnish).
http://www.rantapallo.fi/myexploration/

She has many pictures.
http://oceanchild87.blogspot.com/2011/11/afrikka.html

Microsoft launches annual sponsorship program for entrepreneurs in Tunisia

The aim of this annual program, organized in partnership with HP Tunisia, Tunisie Télécom, El Ghazela Technological Park and the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, is to support ten startups operating in the field of developing information technology programs and solutions.

http://www.africanmanager.com/site_eng/detail_article.php?art_id=17486

Annual program is organized by HP and Microsoft.

He added that the program aims to sponsor startups, provide the necessary support for job creation and promote digital economy, in addition to the development of new generations of applications and services at lower costs.

http://www.africanmanager.com/site_eng/detail_article.php?art_id=17486