Comments on: What a Map on Drinking Age Can Tell us About Africa

By: Analysis of the TradeNet service - AfricanLoft

Analysis of the TradeNet service - AfricanLoft — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:35:24 +0000

[…] and it seems that potentially this service may be helping that issue (White African blog wrote a post about it a while back). But it seems that more needs to be known about what data, and how it could be used […]

By: Global Voices amin’ ny teny malagasy » Blog Archive » Afrika : Saritanin’izao tontolo izao sy ny fahalalana ny teo-javatra any an-toerana

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:26:35 +0000

[…] blaogy White African dia mampiharihary izay ambaran’ny sarintanin’izao tontolo izao izay mirakitra ny lÃ lana mifehy ny zava-pisotro… : Â« This map instead represents a real problem that we face in Africa: the lack of local content […]

By: Global Voices Online » Africa: Map of drinking age and African local content

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:02:44 +0000

[…] African shows what the map on drinking age tells us about Africa: “This map instead represents a real problem that we face in Africa: the lack of local […]

By: ScribbleSheet

ScribbleSheet — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:25:48 +0000

Getting good data out of Africa is tough. This is for something like alcohol. When you need to find really important information such as interest rates over the past few years or number of HIV related deaths, finding the right stuff is incredibly challenging.

By: random african

random african — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:59:57 +0000

aaah.. once again, the issue of web presence.

Man, do you think anybody knows what’s the legal drinking age in DRC ? or in Somalia ?
May be having consistent, clear and published laws on paper somewhere would help.
I mean why complain about the lack of information online if that information simply doesn’t exist ?
priorities ?

By: Chris Albon

Chris Albon — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:39:06 +0000

I completely agree. My wife was in Kisumu looking for a place to rent, and after a long search online we realized that there was absolutely nothing on the web.