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Page last updated at 15:34 GMT, Monday, 29 November 2010

TECHNOLOGY
How the world was connected
map: global broadband network
See how the broadband network has grown and high speed internet use expanded rapidly across the globe
FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Children using laptop computers dot.life
Rwanda's ambition to transform itself using technology
Connecting Rwanda Hi-tech innovator
Rwandans' internet hopes in audio and pictures
ZACK MATERE Your connection?
'Google rescued my potato harvest from a mystery pest'
Tinga Tinga Tales Cartoon motion
Spotlight on Kenya's young animation pioneers
Connected world graphic Need for speed
What is required to run different applications?
A woman uses a computer at an internet cafe in Kibera In pictures
New technology widens Kenya's digital divide



KEY STORIES

Fibre optic cable in front of children, Rwanda National pride
Rwanda prepares to take a high-speed broadband leap

Internet user in Kenya Broadband 'ready'
New high-speed internet cable to connect East Africa with world

Riding the digital express
Mobiles offer lifelines in Africa
'Africans to gain' from web plan
Cable fault cuts off West Africa
YOUR STORIES AND CONNECTIONS
The internet connection is a milestone in our school life
Dramane Ouerdraogo, Burkina Faso
AUDIO AND VIDEO
Seacom broadband cable in Mombasa The broadband pipe that brings the internet to Africa

Computer lab at St Charles Lwanga Secondary in Mombasa How one Kenyan school copes without an internet connection

Rory Cellan-Jones holding broadband cable in Mombasa Can Africa afford fast internet?

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