"I come here every Sunday," says 12-year-old Lesley Harrison, an IT consultant-in-training. I read my email, chat and look at car pictures. I also play games and register for competitions. What I like the most about the internet is that you can find out such interesting things. And I can also email my auntie who lives in London." (BBC World News, August 2001 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1513251.stm)

"Thruvti shows Martinus Van Schalkwyk the leader of South Africa's New National Party, how to make drawings on the computer at a school outside of Johannesburg"

from Disconnected Continent by Magda Kowalczykowski. Harvard International Review Cambridge:Summer 2002. Vol. 24, Iss. 2, p. 40-43

from Sebastião Salgado "the majority world" three photo essays, 1977-92http://www.terra.com.br/sebastiaosalgado/e_op1/

…sadly Australia too seems “almost completely devoid of modern infrastructre”!

The proBleM wIth cOMPuters iS thAt

there IS nOT eNouGh AfriCA iN THeM

Brian Eno, ‘Wired’ magazine 3.05, May 1995 “Gossip is Philosophy” (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.05/eno.html)

logo of ‘THE ALL-AFRICA INTERNET GUIDE’http://www.goafrica.co.za/

EUREKA!

THE ALL-AFRICA INTERNET GUIDE

bridging the digital divide (http://www.bridges.org/)photo credit “fly_luanda_96” by Dave Robertson – hand-tinted b&w photo

…users of WebCT as e-learning software of choice(http://www.avu.org/default.asp)