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• 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,

Business Model

According to Vital Wave Consulting, there are:

Three Inhibitors to Emerging Market Success

1. Multinational corporations want to grow revenues in emerging markets, but their success is threatened by deeply ingrained practices tailored to the mature-market environment:
2. Corporate incentive structures favor short-term performance over longer-term business investment and execution
3. Technological innovation overshadows new business models

Reliance on traditional data sources and market analyses that misrepresent developing-country business opportunities.

also offer:

solutions that suit shared-use computing environments (e.g., government offices, schools, SMBs, Internet cafés, and community centers). The challenge in these settings is to provide a genuine PC experience to more people for the lowest cost per computing terminal.

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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• "The Strategic importance and impact of e-infrastrucures for Science, Society and Economy in Europe and neighbouring Southern Countries", Robert Klapisch,  EUMED 2008, Amman, Jordan 2008
• Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan African Universities: recommendations and monitoring, by B. Barry, M. Petitdidier, L. Cottrell, C. Barton for the IST-Africa conference and exhibition, May 07-09, 2008 Windhoek, Namibia.
• Internet Connectivity in Africa, presented by Les Cottrell at the Internet and Grids in Africa: An Asset from African Scientists for the Benefit of African Society, 10-12 December 2007, Montpellier France.
• January 2008 report of the ICFA-SCIC monitoring Working Group
• Telegography Telecoms International Workshop, Tim Stronge, Eric Schoonover at PTC'08 13-16 January 2008
• GLOBAL BANDWIDTH RESEARCH SERVICE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, Telegeography
• "Spiralling bandwidth demands spur undersea cable deployment", Joel Hruska, ARSTechnica, July 2008
• "Internet-led demand puts cable-laying at top of list", Paul Yaylor, Financial Times July 8, 2008