Sunday, April 27, marked the first anniversary of the issuance of two arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity committed in Sudan’s Darfur region. Tendai Maphosa (VOA) reports the Internet sites Facebook and Google are helping human rights organizations put pressure on the Sudanese government to hand over the suspects.

Afrigator - Africa’s social media aggregator just released some insightful stats (see blow) on the blogging phenomenon in Africa. The data - collected over a one year period - captures the activities on the aggregator since it went live in April 2007.
Some Facts:

South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria are the big-three blogger-nations on the continent, and [...]

Sokari the author Black Looks blog shines more light on the state of the African blog-ring and independently web domains on MediaShift, here is the link: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2008/03/mini_headblogging_for_africa.html

Netsquared [http://www.netsquared.org/] needs your help in selecting the Top 20 projects eligible to receive $100,000 in grant money.
All you need to do is register on the site and vote for choice project. You can select up to four (4) projects.
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Ushahidi - used to document political violence during Kenyan election. [http://www.ushahidi.com/]

Assetmap.org/uganda - [...]

There are many happy people swimming in the information society here in Ghana who are totally oblivious to the phenomenon that is Facebook. There are many satisfied with doing the occasional searches in Google; checking their electronic mail, and surfing the Internet on anything and everything. That you can go to any internet café around [...]

David Ajao laments the state of e-commerce/Internet banking in Nigeria. His experience with Interswitch, one of the major platforms for online transaction led him to declare e-commerce in Nigeria is “back to the stone age”.

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The Microsoft-Yahoo! soap, in its second week, was turning out to have more thrillers than a CAN2008 tournament. The actors remain the same, but some have made their presence felt more than others.
The protagonist has got to be Yahoo! itself whose fifteen minute of fame has been abused by now: like MTN, [...]

Over the past seven years, Kabissa has played a crucial role in putting the power of the Internet into the hands of African civil society organizations for the benefit of the people they serve. Now, more than ever, the African civil society sector is in need of tools and resources that can support the important [...]

Computer-giant Microsoft has gone and done it again: it’s gone and made a proposal to acquire yet-another enterprise. This new catch is nothing less than the search engine “Yahoo”—and it wants to acquire it for $44.6bn. It might be too early to speculate on the modalities of this acquisition, but what is clear is that [...]

Here at AfricanLoft, we’re ever committed to ensuring that only the best is good enough for our readers and contributors. In addition to the Main Homepage which has been redesigned to ensure easier navigation and better presentation of contents, we’re pleased to announce the following updates in the Community pages…