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Theme: Regional Strategy for Developing Content and Interconnection Infrastructure
For the last three days, the Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum has tackled several issues and deliberated on possible solutions that can lower internet costs, promote access to more people and help countries interconnect better.
The first day was dedicated to engineers, second day to policy discussions while the third day dealt with infrastructure, content, innovation, entrepreneurship and Internet traffic analysis.
Over the last three years, lack of local content has...
Date published 17 September 2013
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Theme: Role of Public-Private Partnerships in Promoting National and Regional Interconnection
The Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum kicked off the non-technical segment of the meeting with a focus on increasing cooperation between public and private sector to achieve regional interconnectivity.
Day two focused on the role of public and private sector in achieving regional interconnectivity. Lack of political will and policy bottlenecks have been blamed for failure to interconnect and presentations dealt with practical examples that have worked or not worked.
The...
Date published 05 September 2013
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More than 150 technology experts gathered in Casablanca for the “Peering Coordinators Day” session, ahead of the fourth Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) opening ceremony.
The Peering Coordinators Day is an open session for peering coordinators, network operators, and policy makers to discuss practical ways to make content exchange and interconnection in Africa possible. Peering Day was started two years ago as a forum for Internet engineers, peering coordinators, Internet exchange point (IXP) operators, and content providers to understand the economics and...
Date published 04 September 2013
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