[or maybe it's about connectivity]
DistroWatch in Africa
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| Rank Country/Territory 2006 2007 % Change
| 1 South Africa (ZA) 41,630 45,866 +10.2%
| 2 Egypt (EG) 18,555 21,770 +17.3%
| 3 Morocco (MA) 9,803 12,164 +24.1%
| 4 Algeria (DZ) 3,829 6,820 +78.1%
| 5 Tunisia (TN) 1,364 3,283 +140.7%
| 6 Kenya (KE) 1,443 1,895 +31.3%
| 7 Zimbabwe (ZW) 1,227 1,863 +51.8%
| 8 Nigeria (NG) 1,367 1,662 +21.6%
| 9 Ghana (GH) 995 1,422 +42.9%
| 10 Libya (LY) 1,778 1,420 -20.1%
| 11 Senegal (SN) 1,103 1,140 +3.4%
| 12 Côte d'Ivoire (CI) 623 870 +39.6%
| 13 Sudan (SD) 164 736 +348.8%
| 14 Namibia (NA) 234 693 +196.2%
| 15 Mali (ML) 36 653 +1,713.9%
| 16 Uganda (UG) 561 627 +11.8%
| 17 Cameroon (CM) 169 581 +243.8%
| 18 Malawi (MW) 77 541 +602.6%
| 19 Togo (TG) 12 498 +4,050.0%
| 20 Tanzania (TZ) 587 498 -15.2%
| 21 Madagascar (MG) 225 454 +101.8%
| 22 Zambia (ZM) 66 315 +377.3%
| 23 Mozambique (MZ) 213 205 -3.8%
| 24 Angola (AO) 57 204 +257.9%
| 25 Cape Verde (CV) 69 198 +187.0%
| 26 Ethiopia (ET) 79 188 +138.0%
| 27 Botswana (BW) 171 178 +4.1%
| 28 Réunion (RE) 115 133 +15.7%
| 29 Gambia (GM) 69 131 +89.9%
| 30 Eritrea (ER) 17 120 +605.9%
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070820#stats
Recent:
Freedom Toaster
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| Frustrated by the exorbitant cost of computer software and the painfully slow
| (not to mention expensive) bandwidth in South Africa?
|
| Fear not, for the Shuttleworth Foundation's Freedom Toaster is coming to your
| rescue.
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http://cooltech.iafrica.com/features/420662.htm
Related:
Africa: 'Microsoft is Imperialistic' Says Open Source Advocates
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| Microsoft Corporation's products have been locked out of the
| on-going World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi Kenya.
|
| With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press,
| organizers of the WSF have preferred to provide open source
| software products and blocked all Microsoft related products for
| the forum's usage and its related activities.
|
| [...]
|
| Activists at the forum also believe that since Microsoft is a
| corporate brand from the United States of America, a country
| they believe has intentions of maintaining the status quo of
| a unipolar world over which it is above international law and
| the UN, the brand should be locked out.
|
| [...]
|
| "The open source movement is providing Linux, a robust free
| software. Everybody owns it and it can be shared. And this
| is what WSF is all about - a free society, a movement
| fighting for ownership of free resources" he adds.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200701230831.html
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