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MinRTT, AvgRTT, Packet Loss,
Jitter and Ping Unreachability
2007 and 2008
(raw data)

Derived Throughput (Kbps)
to the world as seen from
SLAC since 1998
(graphs)


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Yellow: East Asia, Pink: Europe, Light-blue: Latin America,
Orange: Middle East, Grey: North America, Maroon: Oceania,
Royal-blue: Russia, Dark-green: S.E. Asia, Mustard: S. Asia,
Red-triangles: Africa - measurement points]

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  1. Recognize: can't fix all ills for all people over night.
  2. Identify focus areas:
    1. educate teachers & students, attract research (reverse brain drain)
    2. applications: e.g. education, telemedicine, distance learning ...
  3. Find energetic leaders from country/region
  4. Engage policy makers for science, technology, education ...:
    1. Encourage ICT development, Internet adoption
  5. Collaborate between institutions, regions to increase leverage
  6. Form partnerships with vendors & providers:
    1. Drive market penetration, create demand, long term investments...
  7. Get support: funding agencies, diaspora, organizations like IHY, eGY, ICTP, professional societies ...
  8. Make & use measurements to illustrate case for improvement
  9. Acknowledge need for new business models appropriate for region

EU AU JOINT STATEMENT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EU-AU PARTNERSHIP FOR SCIENCE, INFORMATION SOCIETY AND SPACE.

There are 2 projects under the information society priority

  • Africa Connect
    • The AfricaConnect project will support the development of regional research and
      education networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and their interconnection with the European
      GEANT2 network, building on a similar initiative, EumedConnect, implemented in North-
      Africa (currently interconnecting around 1,5 Million users across more than 500 research
      organisations). The objective will be to contribute integrating the African research
      community both at regional and international levels, through interconnection with the most
      cost-effective high bandwidth capacity.
  • The African Internet Exchange System (AXIS)
    • This project aims to support the establishment of a continental African internet
      infrastructure through national and regional internet exchange points. Such
      deployment is considered crucial for the development of the internet in Africa,
      generating huge costs savings by keeping local traffic local and offering better quality
      of service and new applications opportunities. AXIS activities will include technical
      assistance on planning,

News

Orange to link Madagascar to broadband internet via a new submarine fibre optic cable Paris, March 26, 2008, from Mike Jensen

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