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Africa: trailing in IP Per Capita

Monday, December 4th, 2006 @ 14:57 UTC

by Ndesanjo Macha

Countries:: Burundi, Central African Republic, D.R. of Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Niger
Topics:: Internet & Telecoms, Technology

White African posts a chart showing IP per capita in the world, “African countries represent the bottom of the chart. Actually, 8 of the bottom 10 are African countries (Madacascar, Guinea-Bissau, Central African Republic, Burundi, Malawi, Ethiopia, Niger, Democratic Republic of Congo). That’s not a good thing, but not altogether that surprising either.”

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