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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

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Issues

According to Vital Wave Consulting, there are:

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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.

The saturation of Internet penetration, broadband use etc. in developed countries is not happening for developing countries (see for example Emerging Countries Start to Move up the Broadband ranks and World Broadband Statistics Q3 2008). This is despite the current mixture of financial meltdown, recession, the threat of deflation, global apocalypse etc.

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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