ccTLDs of Africa without Egypt [Infographic]
In this image, the country code top level domains of Africa are organized by geoposition. The top countries are scaled to reflect the number of millions of internet users in those countries. Top Countries (by millions of users): (1) Egypt (2) Nigeria (3) Morocco (4) South Africa (5) Sudan (6) Algeria (7) Kenya (8) Tunisia … Read more
Map of African Country Codes (Infographic)
This map visualizes the ccTLDs of the African continent. The country code top level domains of Africa are organized by geoposition, while the top countries are scaled to reflect the number of millions of internet users in those countries. View on Flickr. View High Res. Also available as a high-quality large format poster and tshirt. … Read more
So You Want to Start a Country?
This post from ForeignPolicy by Joshua Keating details the necessary steps to form your own country but the image below sums it all up neatly… This all looks fairly straightforward so I’ve decided to declare my office as the sovereign nation of Appghanistan. It’s not just a developing nation, it’s a web developing nation! Our … Read more
Periodic Table of World Internet Facts
Twenty-Five percent (about 1.73 billion) of the world’s population is currently online, largely in developed world countries. Challenges for bringing the other four billion online include: investment in regional infrastructure, reducing individual poverty, offering multilingual content, engaging mobile web users, producing local content and reducing the wholesale costs of bandwidth and computing equipment. It’s incredible … Read more
Conspicuous Correlation: Coltan and Crisis Reports
Mashing up some data from Ushahidi and a number of reports on the mining of coltan (columbite and tantalite) it’s easy to see the correlation between heavily mined areas and the conflict regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo. As you can see in the graphic above, red indicates reports of incident captured at drc.ushahidi.com … Read more
The Untold Story of African ccTLDs
In my Infostate of Africa graphic I tried to bring attention to one of the geekier problems facing Africa: the issue of country-code Top Level Domain (ccTLDs) and why only a fifth of African countries own and control them. For those of you who aren’t sure what this means, think .us, .uk, .nz, .jp etc. … Read more
Population of the Dead
How many people have ever lived? While doing research about populations for my last piece, I began to wonder just how many people had ever walked the face of the earth. The articles I found [here and here] were intriguing so I decided to visualize them as well. Link to the high-res.
Infostate of Africa
People often only see Africa from one perspective, here’s another. The above infographic details some of the happenings over the past few years in regards to infrastructure improvement and capacity building in Africa, particularly in the area of the internet and cost. The sources are various reports from the International Monetary Fund, InternetWorldStats, the Millennium … Read more
