Team Botswana gets social network support
INTERNET
By BiztechAfrica - July 31, 2012, 10:50 a.m.
By John Churu, Gaborone, Botswana
Other than South Africa, Southern Africa has little to show for its appearance at the 2012 London Olympics to date. But this has not bothered sports fans, who are keeping various social networks awash with pictures and news of the country's teams in London. One of Team Botswana’s medal hopefuls, Oteng Oteng, who was representing the country in the flyweight division in the sport of boxing, was knocked out in the initial stages. All eyes are now trained on one of the country’s best female sprinters Amantle Montso.
Cameron van der Burgh of South Africa did his country proud by winning a gold medal in the men’s 100m breaststroke in a world record time. South Africa's first medal at the London Olympic Games has been lauded by sports minister Fikile Mbalula. "We are now counted amongst the best in the world," Mbalula said in a statement late Sunday night.
However Batswana are unfazed by the fact that their team is not yet in the medals tally and continue to tweet and facebook among themselves about the team’s performance or lack of at the 2012 London Games.
MORE INTERNET NEWS
SkillsMap to recruit across Africa
Business Connexion has joined forces with recruitment company Conscript Africa to create SkillsMap – a new talent community portal. Read MoreZICTA to host AFRINIC conference
Zambia will this year host the African Internet Summit, an annual conference organised by the African Network Information Center (AFRINIC). Read MoreNepad launches web-based African development tracker
Nepad has launched a web-based portal called Virtual PIDA Information Centre (VPiC) to disseminate information about the AU’s regional infrastructure programmes. Read MoreDollar-a-month broadband can change Africa
The Microsoft-led 4Afrika TV white spaces project, taking broadband to rural people for as little as a dollar a month, is now expanding in Kenya and launching in Tanzania. Read MoreYouth get ITU focus
ITU has partnered with the Kofi Annan Foundation and One Young World to launch the ‘Kofi Annan Dialogues: LIVE’ at WSIS Forum 2013. Read MoreITU appoints Nigeria’s First Lady as its Child Online Protection Champion
The Secretary-General of ITU Dr Hamadoun I. Touré, has appointed the First Lady of Nigeria and President of the African First Ladies Peace Mission, Her Excellency Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan, as ITU’s Child Online Protection (COP) Champion. Read MoreBT, SOS launch Connecting Africa project
BT has announced its 'Connecting Africa' project, which will bring broadband internet access to communities across Africa. Read MoreZimbabwe set for first broadband forum
Zimbabwe’s first Broadband Forum will take place on Friday at Cresta Lodge in the capital, Harare. Read MoreSocial media promotes Fast4Hunger challenge
Non-profit Africare is using social media to encourage a fasting pledge from participants around the world to heighten awareness of the plight of food insecure families in developing nations. Read MoreAfrican internet pioneers targeted for .africa
As the likely administrator of the new .africa generic Top Level Domain (gTLD), the ZA Central Registry (ZACR) has embarked on an awareness programme targeting Africa's best known brands. Read More
RELATED STORIES
FEATURED STORY
Red tape slows business in AfricaThe sheer complexity of travelling to many African countries is hampering the roll-out of business there, says Carlos Ferraz, GM of Motorola Solutions.
BEST READ NEWS
IN DEPTH
Africa must think beyond blue collar jobsPan-African job creation initiatives need to look beyond basic job creation, to high level ICT skills development, to develop the economies, says Greg Vercellotti, executive director at Dariel Solutions.