Promoting African Research and Education Networking in Africa.

2009. 7m18s. English.

While commercial ISPs are flourishing and the costs of getting online are falling in many parts of Africa, the situation with getting African universities online is a different story. The commercial internet and the university internet are two different things. Research and Education Networks (RENs), while well established in the developed world, are just taking root in Africa. Without RENs and the favorable terms of access to undersea and terrestrial fiber optic cables that make connectivity affordable to universities, how can students, faculty, and ultimately African research, be part of the rest of the world?

By consolidating bandwidth, working on policy issues, and training a team of
university IT administrators, African universities are going global. This video outlines how and why. The work of the three organizations profiled here - AfNOG, the African Association of Universities, and the UbuntuNet Alliance - has been supported by Connectivity Africa since 2004.

For more information:
http://www.afnog.org
http://www.aau.org
http://www.ubuntunet.net

Directed by Rana Ghose and Connectivity Africa.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• idrc
• connectivity
• africa
• acacia
• ict4d
• aau
• afnog
• afrinic
• ubuntunet
• alliance
• digital
• divide
• fibre
• optic
• fiber
• bandwidth
• ren
• nren
• universities
• rana
• ghose
• tabasheer
• zutshi

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