Resumen
This article focuses on the diffusion of Internet in the sub Saharan region of Africa (SSA). This region faces many problems like hunger epidemics and other socio economic problem. Dissemination of Internet is the last thing to be associated with Africa. A very little data is available to know the current status of the impact of Internet. The available statistics tells that no longer the telephone densities of SSA is trapped below the 1% threshold, which is considered essential to economic growth and development. No longer is the region as stifled by a lack of fair regulation and free competition. In the last two years, 36 new operators launched mobile services and well over half of the countries across the region established independent organizations to regulate their information and telecommunications sectors. These changes have largely taken place since the mid 1990s, before which most of SSA was a technological desert. Statistics obtained in 1995 show a continent with sparse Internet presence and low connectivity. Much of this has changed now.