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PAIX confirms investment in Ghana's RackAfrica

PAIX's investment in RackAfrica marks the launch of its colocation services in Ghana and West Africa as part of its strategy of building a Pan-African data centre platform [ITWEB]

Mark Davies: Adventures in technology

He rented a former bottling factory, and converted it into Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest private technology centre; BusyInternet. It set out to be an incubator, promoting the use of ICT among small and medium-sized companies. [GRAPHIC]

Buy, cell, hold

TradeNet will unveil a simple sort of eBay for agricultural products across a dozen countries in west Africa. It lets buyers and sellers indicate what they are after and their contact information... [CNN]

Dot.com tycoon turns to Africa

An old gas-bottling plant in Ghana's capital city of Accra became the incubating laboratory for a selection of dot.com start-ups and one of the continent's flashest cyber cafes. [BBC]

On Ghana's Tech Frontier, Internet Start-Up Flourishes

Mr. Davies, a Welsh-born American, is the founder of BusyInternet, which provides Internet access to Ghanaians. By any standard, the company is already a tremendous African success story... [WSJ]

Taking the Net Where the Phone Is a Luxury

Our philosophy is to say nobody really knows what's right for Ghana... the best thing you can do is create these little incubators where you're bringing people together and coming up with solutions on their own [NYTIMES]

Entering the Queue at Africa's No-Frills Cybercafes

Davies originally planned a philanthropic venture to provide better communications ... but as he considered the failures of other misbegotten African aid programs, Davies had a change of heart... [BOSTON GLOBE]

London: the 'wired'City of Europe

First tuesday can be credited with unleashing a level of entrepreneurship not seen in London since the City's shipping days, as it brought ideas, people and money together in holy alliance [EVENING STANDARD]

Is it last Tuesday for the dot.com dream-makers?

The dot.com that made dot.com dreams come true is on the verge of collapse. First Tuesday, the networking concept that started as a get-together of would-be internet entrepreneurs in a Soho bar... [THE INDEPENDENT]

Accidental millionaires sell First Tuesday

First Tuesday has become a community and a popular movement... It is not about fashionable twenty-somethings meeting at cocktail parties, rather it is a mechanism for helping entrepreneurs, financial backers and service providers to meet and do business. [GUARDIAN]

Doing the local motion

when the Cambridge University graduate discovered the Internet last year, he got to work. Cadging money from his friends and stretching his credit cards to the max, Davies began building Metrobeat... [LATIMES]

Free Cyberservice tells what's happening where

With Metrobeat, you can search by categroy, by neighborhood, by venue. We are better than newspapers... [NYPOST]