Apply for NEPAD’s fully-funded course Internet Governance in Africa

Diplo and the NEPAD Agency invite applications for the 11-week long online training course Internet Governance in Africa – An Introduction, which starts on 14 September 2015. The course covers fundamental aspects of Internet governance and Internet policy including:

MainOne’s data center to service critical infrastructure in West Africa

Nigeria‘s MainOne this week opened what it describes as the largest commercial, vendor-neutral data center in West Africa, the Tier III Lekki Data Centre, to address the growing demand for co-location, cloud and disaster recovery services for enterprises and governments in the region.

Why you should watch out for Nigeria’s tech sector

Three years ago, ICT contributed only 5.46 percent of Nigeria’s GDP. This year the sector is on track to generate about $50 billion…