What we're reading:

• What is the impact of blockchains on privacy?
• Bitcoin Blazes New Trail In Emerging Markets
• A problem shared: Nigerian women turn to Instagram for life advice
• African users fear of data – Time for the continent to stop selling its customers shortage
• Digitata’s Dynamic Voice Tariffing helps Africa’s mobile operators to sell unused capacity – data version could crack giving lower data prices

• Why Cape Town has emerged as the biggest startup hub on the African continent
• Move over Asia, it’s Africa’s time now
• Governance and startups — the Ethiopia experience

• Google’s Project Link commits to building 1,200 kms of metronet fibre in three key Ghanaian cities and changes the pricing model
• Connecting the Poor Is the Best Hope for Ending Poverty
• Facebook's laser drones v Google's net-beaming balloons
• A map of all the underwater cables that connect the internet
• A breakthrough new kind of wireless internet
• Google, Facebook, SpaceX, OneWeb plan to beam Internet everywhere
• Connecting the world from 20,000 meters
• Zero Rating: A Modest Proposal
• Tech Infrastructure in the Developing World
• Zero-Rating and the silent voices: notes on IGF 2015
• Taking Free Basics in Kenya for a spin
• SimbaNET, has launched SimbaSKY, an SME-based product, to enhance internet access in remote rural areas as it seeks to diversify its business
• Forget Wi-Fi: You may soon access the internet via ordinary light bulbs

• Facebook’s Internet for All Is a Tough Sell in India
• Farmers switch to social media to cope with distress
• MTN now offers dual-SIM high end smartphone

What we're saying:

• Our Work 1 – Contextual data to understand digital lives
• Our Work 2 – 2015 projects
• Our Work 3 – Digital Lives in Ghana Kenya and Uganda