In December 2012, ICANN announced the start of work to collect and publish data which would help correlate performance of L-Root with growth in the root zone. The first set of measurements concerned with identifying growth in the root zone, was published last month. read more
We already noted this morning that the US, a bunch of European countries, and a sprinkling of other nations around the globe have refused to sign the new ITR agreement put together at the ITU’s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), read more
The Web Index, designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation puts Tunisia in first place (30th overall) in Africa, while South Africa is second regionally, followed by Egypt and Mauritius. Kenya takes first place in terms of Economic Impact of the Web, though it ranks fifth in the region overall. Read More
13 June 2012, ICANN posted all the applied-for strings to the Application Results page of the site. On this page you will find high level statistics about the overall program as the applications work their way through the evaluation process. Read More
Africa is the second-largest continent, after Asia, in both size and population; it is located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by the Indian Ocean at about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth’s total surface area and 20.4% of …
Magnus Nystedt discusses internet usage trends and opportunities across Africa. ALEC HOGG: It’s Thursday June 28 2012 and in this Boardroom Talk special podcast, Magnus Nystedt, who is with Royal Pingdom in Sweden, joins us now. Magnus, you’ve done some interesting analysis of websites hosted in Africa and I suppose the headline number is that it’s …