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A small team of seven made up of Internet Society and Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) staff, two camera men and a future project site contact set out for a 48 hour journey to capture the stories and key learnings that currently live inside the Wireless For Communities (W4C) project across rural India.
Covering roughly 1500 km by train and car over the two days, the trip began on Saturday morning at the train station in Delhi to reach Baran, some 10 hours away. The goal of the trip was to meet and talk to the local people who are benefiting from the W4C project that the...
Date published 11 December 2013
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On Wednesday November 27th in downtown Toronto on the 51st floor at the Panaroma restrauant the Canadian Internet Registry Agency (CIRA) launched their membership social event open to all members of CIRA ISOC Canada Chapter decided to tag along.
CIRA is the country code registar in Canada To learn more www.cira.ca
As the pictures depict below the event was packed, wall to wall participants and a long line up organized by the staff of CIRA. CIRA Is...
Date published 05 December 2013
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Some three years ago, in October 2010, we deployed the pilot network infrastructure for the Wireless for Communities project in Chanderi, a small rural town pretty much in the middle of India. Getting to the site itself was a bit of an adventure - using a combination of cars and trains that took us some 10-odd hours from Delhi.
We had an idea of what we wanted to achieve with the pilot and thought that if we could get two-thirds of what we wanted done, we would have won. First priority was to get a bunch of young folks (male and female) selected from communities across India...
Date published 26 November 2013
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The Internet is now growing faster in Africa than any other region. But, it took a lot of time and effort of the pioneers to reach this stage. Here at the Internet Society, we believe that it is very important to remember and document the history behind the Internet in Africa so that the contribution of the pioneers is not forgotten.
This why we created the History of the Internet in Africa section in our a website. This dedicated interactive site was developed with the support of African experts to give an overview of the current status of the Internet in the continent as well as...
Date published 25 November 2013
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During the Internet Governance Forum, this week in Indonesia, the Internet Society presented its strategy for launching a Bureau in the Middle East in the last quarter of 2013.
This strategy was formulated with input from Chapter meetings, discussions with Members, Representatives from academic institutions, and governments. Throughout the process, it became clear that there is a strong interest in having a stronger Internet Society presence in the Middle East.
The objectives for the next 3-5 years is that a majority of countries in the region embrace the Internet's...
Date published 25 October 2013
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In the last five years, Africa's technology focus has been on infrastructure, exploring ways to lower connectivity costs and pushing networks to underserved and economically unattractive areas. With the costs falling and network infrastructure improving, focus has shifted to local content, and National Research and Education Networks (RENs) are on the forefront of increasing local content development.
For many RENs, support from governments and private sector institutions has helped in bringing more students and content online. In the private sector, Google Inc has worked with RENs by...
Date published 27 August 2013
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The Kenya Education Network (KENET) was founded in 1999 and was licensed as a private networks operator in 2002. KENET is recognized by ICANN and AfriNIC as a National Research and Education Network (NREN) and allocated AS# and IP block (v4 and v6) on behalf of education community of Kenya.
KENET promotes the use of ICT in institutions of higher learning whilst connecting them to the rest of the world. KENET institutions have so far been provided with affordable and efficient bandwidth.
“KENET gives a non-discriminative connectivity for tertiary institutions within the...
Date published 27 August 2013
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Improved broadband speeds, promotion of key content, healthy competition among carriers and a strategic location has allowed NAP Africa to be one of the fastest growing exchange points.
NAP Africa is a neutral, layer 2 Internet Exchange Point, located within Teraco data centre environment and is currently routing 2.5Gbps of traffic on both the Johannesburg and Cape Town IXPs.
“One of the key factors to the success of the exchange was through our efforts to build relationships with global and African thought leaders in the peering industry, including: Andy Davidson (LONAP),...
Date published 27 August 2013
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It has been a busy year for Liquid Telecom as it continues to invest heavily in its network, cementing the company's position as one of the largest single international fibre network in Africa.
In 2013, Liquid acquired a number of companies which added to its footprint and improved its service offerings. These are; Kenya Data Networks (a data carrier and infrastructure provider in Kenya) Africa Data Networks (an operator in the DRC Stream Rwanda (a service provider in Rwanda) and InfoCom, (an ISP in Uganda)
It also acquired the assets of...
Date published 27 August 2013
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When France IX participated in the Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) last year, they were convinced that this is one of the useful events to meet African Internet players and in particular the network and peering managers, this year, France IX is a sponsor.
France-IX has built a footprint of points of presence in Paris and Marseille and delivers its peering services in these two cities in France. They have decided to extend the IXP in Marseille because it is a gateway from West and South Africa to Europe.
“At the moment, North African operators host part of their...
Date published 27 August 2013
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