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Page last updated at 09:59 GMT, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 10:59 UK

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Anina von Wachtel The web guru
'The beach is now my office since 3G came to Kenya'
Dramane, headteacher The schools
'Now our pupils in Burkina Faso can talk to the world'
Cosmas Mutwiwa The internet cafe
'The broadband sea cable has doubled speed in Mombasa'

Zack Matere The farmer
'Google rescued my potato harvest from a mystery pest'
Willy Ted Manga The college
'Youtube is banned in my Cameroon computer lab'
Margaret Kinnaird Wildlife scientist
'The undersea cables will not help us in rural Kenya'

, pilot The mission pilot
'Google helped me evacuate a high profile person'
Garikai Dzoma The rural student
'Here in Zimbabwe the need for the internet is so great'
Mehseen Khatri The hospital
'Our patients in Tanzania see doctors worldwide'

Phil, Windhoek, Namibia The music shop
'In Namibia we order all our music instruments online'
Stefan Ferreira The online gamer
'In Cape Town we can't play with the rest of the world'
Ben Everard The NGO
'We believe this is a revolution for computing in Africa'
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