I use Pinboard to track African telecommunications and internet news and resources. It’s a great way to maintain web resources using semi-structured data. Here’s an explanation of how you can get the most of out of the years of links I have collected.
- In 2024, I built an Open Data map of Open Access Datacentres in Africa
- From 2014 to 2023 I produced an annual review of telecommunications infrastructure development in Africa, covering a range of telecom infrastructure news from fibre to wireless spectrum to satellite and more.
- I also map the development of undersea and terrestrial fibre optic infrastructure development on and around the continent.
- In 2023, I created an Open Data map of Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) around the world.
- In order to better keep track of the wide variety of connectivity indexes, maps and statistics, I created this awesome list.
- In my quest for Open Telecom Data and more transparency in general in the telecommunications sector, I contribute a wiki of good practice when it comes to transparency.
- In response to the current pandemic, I also started this list of Country Responses regarding Internet access during COVID-19 Pandemic which now has several contributors.
All of the above resources are either under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution-Only license or in the case of the Awesome List of Connectivity Indexes, Maps, and Reports and the Country Responses, a CC0 license.