The Monday Round-Up: ICT in Africa and the Silicon Savanna

Africa is quickly becoming an I(C)T hub, with Kenya in particular in the news lately. For this week's roundup, we're focusing on technology in Africa, so check out the articles we've been reading and share your thoughts with us in the comments.

• Dubbed the 'Silicon Savanna,' Kenya is rising fast as a technology powerhouse on the African continent. Afrinnovator's Kenya Technology, Innovation & Startup Report talks about the why and how.
• A Kenyan invents a new technology to charge your cell phone with electricity generated from your shoes.
• AccessKenya, one of the country's leading internet solutions and data providers, is proven vulnerable by Rwandan hackers.
• The Kenyan government is seeking investors for the proposed Konza Technology City, a multi-billion dollar city that will host a business park, science park, central business district, university, and residential housing.
• Social media is on President of Kenya Mwai Kibaki's mind - he spoke about it last week at the East African Journalists Convention.
• Thanks to a new super cable, Angola, Nigeria, and South Africa will be connected to the US by 2014. Meanwhile, African ICT officials call for harmonized undersea cable guidelines.
• Insights Africa is a new website that explores why and how Africans get online.
• Two African countries - Eritrea and Equatorial Guinea - make the list for the top 10 most censored countries. The other honorees: North Korea, Syria, Iran, Uzbekistan, Burma, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, and Belarus.
• China's Sina Weibo microblogging platform introduces a 'user contract' that could impede the free flow of information.
• North Korea conducted a massive GPS jamming attack against its southern neighbor, disrupting aircraft, ship, and in-car navigation systems for about a week in early May.
• Iran's filtering system is caught censoring itself: not even Ayatollah Khamenei can talk about anti-filtering.
• A survey by Unisys finds that Americans are more concerned with cyberattacks than they are terrorist attacks.
• TweepsMap is a cool site that maps the locations of your Twitter followers, complete with pie charts.
• You know that Julius Caesar invented cryptography, right? Get learned with this awesome visualization of the history of encryption.