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How Africa is marginalised from the internet. Technology amplifies social differentiation]]>
How Africa is marginalised from the internet. Technology amplifies social differentiation]]> Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:40:51 GMT /slideshow/discoverability-and-digital-colonialism-66966920/66966920 firoze2@slideshare.net(firoze2) Discoverability and Digital Colonialism firoze2 How Africa is marginalised from the internet. Technology amplifies social differentiation <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/discoverabilityfm-161010154051-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> How Africa is marginalised from the internet. Technology amplifies social differentiation
Discoverability and Digital Colonialism from Firoze Manji
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The whole continent of Africa contains only about 2.6% of the world’s geo-tagged Wikipedia articles despite having 14% of the world’s population and 20% of the world’s land. Africa has more than 800 languages spoken amongst its various ethnic groups. However, the Internet is an ‘English’ based medium which affects the usability and content creation thereon. A vast majority of programs, applications and services continue to be provided in English thereby denying access to large swathes of the population and exacerbating the digital divide. Africa has more countries than any other continent, but only 10 of the ccTLDs have functional registries within the African countries they belong to. Nigeria imports 90% of all software used in the country. The local production of software is reduced to add-ons or extensions creation for mainstream packaged software. Only around 10% of applications for the registration of intellectual property (IP) rights in Africa are made by African citizens or residents.]]>
The whole continent of Africa contains only about 2.6% of the world’s geo-tagged Wikipedia articles despite having 14% of the world’s population and 20% of the world’s land. Africa has more than 800 languages spoken amongst its various ethnic groups. However, the Internet is an ‘English’ based medium which affects the usability and content creation thereon. A vast majority of programs, applications and services continue to be provided in English thereby denying access to large swathes of the population and exacerbating the digital divide. Africa has more countries than any other continent, but only 10 of the ccTLDs have functional registries within the African countries they belong to. Nigeria imports 90% of all software used in the country. The local production of software is reduced to add-ons or extensions creation for mainstream packaged software. Only around 10% of applications for the registration of intellectual property (IP) rights in Africa are made by African citizens or residents.]]> Sun, 09 Oct 2016 20:43:09 GMT /slideshow/discoverability-and-digital-colonialism/66927812 firoze2@slideshare.net(firoze2) Discoverability and Digital Colonialism firoze2 The whole continent of Africa contains only about 2.6% of the world’s geo-tagged Wikipedia articles despite having 14% of the world’s population and 20% of the world’s land. Africa has more than 800 languages spoken amongst its various ethnic groups. However, the Internet is an ‘English’ based medium which affects the usability and content creation thereon. A vast majority of programs, applications and services continue to be provided in English thereby denying access to large swathes of the population and exacerbating the digital divide. Africa has more countries than any other continent, but only 10 of the ccTLDs have functional registries within the African countries they belong to. Nigeria imports 90% of all software used in the country. The local production of software is reduced to add-ons or extensions creation for mainstream packaged software. Only around 10% of applications for the registration of intellectual property (IP) rights in Africa are made by African citizens or residents. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/discoverabilityfm-161009204309-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> The whole continent of Africa contains only about 2.6% of the world’s geo-tagged Wikipedia articles despite having 14% of the world’s population and 20% of the world’s land. Africa has more than 800 languages spoken amongst its various ethnic groups. However, the Internet is an ‘English’ based medium which affects the usability and content creation thereon. A vast majority of programs, applications and services continue to be provided in English thereby denying access to large swathes of the population and exacerbating the digital divide. Africa has more countries than any other continent, but only 10 of the ccTLDs have functional registries within the African countries they belong to. Nigeria imports 90% of all software used in the country. The local production of software is reduced to add-ons or extensions creation for mainstream packaged software. Only around 10% of applications for the registration of intellectual property (IP) rights in Africa are made by African citizens or residents.
Discoverability and Digital Colonialism from Firoze Manji
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