[AfrICANN-discuss] Rwanda: Kigali to become Africa's first 'Wireless' City in U.S.$7.7 Million Deal

Mon Dec 21 13:51:47 SAST 2009

Rwanda: Kigali to Become Africa's First 'Wireless' City in U.S.$7.7 Million Deal 

http://allafrica.com/stories/200912210283.html

Kezio-Musoke David
21 December 2009

Nairobi — Kigali will soon go wireless after the government launched a $7.66 million wireless broadband (WiBro) facility that is set to make it the first "hot spot" capital city in Africa.

The facility, whose infrastructure been under construction for the past two years, will go commercial in three months.

The wireless Internet facility was built by Korea Telecom, South Korea's largest fixed-line telephone operator and second-largest mobile carrier.

Korea Telecom clinched the $7.66 million deal in 2007 from the Rwandan government to build an infrastructure for the WiBro technology-based network.

"The launch marks the first entry of WiBro technology into Africa," Korea Telecom executive vice president and head of global business Soo-Ho Maeng said.

Along with a number of similar projects in Africa, the South Korean company is also undertaking a $40 million project that commenced in 2008 to provide a network for Internet access in Rwanda called the Kigali Metropolitan Network.

The Kigali Metropolitan Network (KMN), which is laid on a fibre optic loop, is a large computer network that spans a metropolitan area.

It also provides Internet connectivity for local area networks in a metropolitan region, and connects them to wider area networks like the Internet.

Version of WiMax

WiBro on the other hand is a version of WiMax technology developed in South Korea. It allows Internet access at broadband speed even when a user is in motion.

During the launch, government officials said that a total of 46 government institutions are already enjoying the high speed Internet connectivity.

Rwanda Development Board chief executive John Gara said KMN is in line with the country's Vision 2020 to promote and facilitate modern infrastructure development.

"This technology will cater for data, voice and video transmission, plus other value added services that the market may require. With this type of technology, we will be able to provide connection to homes, businesses and also stimulate the private sector through affordable and reliable service," Mr Gara said.

The Kigali Metropolitan project is meant to extend broadband availability to more than 700 institutions including schools, health-care centres and local government administrative centres.

RDB's deputy chief executive in charge of information technology, Patrick Nyirishema, said the project would be completed by next year after a trial period of three months.

"The completion of this project brings us to a very important step -- we are now set to roll out a 2,300-kilometre national backbone connecting the entire country. This will subsequently prepare us to link internationally to more affordable and higher capacity submarine cables at the East African coast," he added.

The national backbone is expected to link 36 main points in Rwanda's 30 districts.

The government is targeting gain access to high speed Internet for more than 4 million Rwandans within the next two to three years, partly facilitated by the WiBro project.

The country recently benefited from a $24 million World Bank loan facility to establish its capacity to provide broadband connectivity and access to low-cost international connectivity.

Korea Telecom is a prominent South Korean integrated wired and wireless telecommunication service provider.

It has developed an information and communications business for the past 25 years.

The company also signed a memorandum of understanding with the Algerian government this month to build an Internet network for government offices.

It also clinched a $29 million project to install a broadband wireless network in Sidi Abdela, west of Algiers.

Source : Allafrica.com

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> > AFRINIC-11, DAKAR, SENEGAL
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> > The African Network Information Center, AfriNIC, the Regional Internet
> > Registry
> > for Africa, held its 11th Public Policy Meeting, 21 – 27 November 2009, at
> > the
> > Radisson Blu Hotel, Dakar, Senegal. The meeting, which was graciously
> > hosted by
> > l’Agence de Régulation des Télécommunications et des Postes (ARTP) and
> > sponsored
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> > 150 delegates representing twenty (20) nations.
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> > Mr. Ndongo Diao, Directeur General, ARTP, opened the meeting with remarks,
> > followed by the Keynote Address from Mrs. Aminata Tall, Ministre d'état,
> > Secrétaire Générale de la Présidence de la République. The programme
> > consisted
> > of two-days of IPv6 training, workshops on Internet Measurement, DNS
> > Operations,
> > Mail Abuse, African 4th IPv6 Day, Internet Governance Day, two-days of
> > Plenary
> > Sessions that included the Public Policy Discussion.
> >
> > The industry presentations covered issues related to Access, Security, IPv4
> > exhaustion and the uptake of IPv6, Internet Governance initiatives, report
> > of
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> > Names and
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> > Universities (AAU), and other representation from academia, government, and
> > the
> > private sector. On the issue of Security, AfriNIC announced the first
> > AfriNIC
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> > 26
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> >
> > One of the major outcomes of the Public Policy Discussion was the consensus
> > by
> > the community to endorse the Global Policy proposal for “Allocation of ASN
> > Blocks to the RIRs by IANA.” Another policy proposal discussed was the
> > 'IPv6
> > Allocations to Non-Profit Networks', with a consensus being reached that
> > proposal should be withdrawn, and that the author of the proposal should
> > liaise
> > with the AfriNIC staff and Board to devise a more viable solution if the
> > main
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> > A third policy proposal, related to 'IPv4 Soft Landing' which define how
> > AfriNIC should manage its last IPv4 blocks, did not reach consensus during
> > the
> > meeting and was returned to the Resource Policy Discuss (RPD) mailing list
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> >
> > During the meeting, AfriNIC and AAU signed a Memorandum of Understanding,
> > establishing that AAU via a grant from FRENIA will contribute to the setup
> > fees
> > and a first-year membership fee of eligible African Academic institutions
> > and
> > RENs from Africa. This is the second MoU between AfriNIC and AAU to
> > support the
> > common goal of improving Campus and Research network infrastructure in
> > Africa.
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> > AfriNIC’s Public Policy meetings are open to anyone and are particularly
> > relevant to members, ISPs, the Internet community, academia, governments
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> > regulators. Participation in these meetings will give you tremendous
> > opportunities to improve your network infrastructure, increase your
> > knowledge on
> > Internet related issues, networking, and to have your say in policies that
> > affect future development of the Internet in your region. We are pleased to
> > announce that AfriNIC’s 12th Public Policy meeting will be held in Kigali,
> > Rwanda, 23 May - 4 June, 2010 and would like to extend a warm invitation to
> > the
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> ICANN Consultation on New gTLD Registry Agreement
> 
> 15 December 2009
> 
> ICANN invites community participation in an open consultation regarding the
> proposed registry agreement for new gTLDs. This meeting is being organized
> in response to a commitment made by ICANN at its meetings in Seoul to
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> including the process for amending the agreement, aspects of registry
> services reviews, and restrictions on registry operators' ability to
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> The consultation will be held on Thursday, 7 January 2010, from 14:00 to
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> discussion from Washington, DC and space will be available to accommodate
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> The reference materials for the consultation include the Registry Agreement
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> If you are interested in participating, please confirm at
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> For Immediate Release
> http://www.afrinic.net/af11_press.pdf 
> 
> AFRINIC-11, DAKAR, SENEGAL
> 
> The African Network Information Center, AfriNIC, the Regional Internet Registry
> for Africa, held its 11th Public Policy Meeting, 21 – 27 November 2009, at the
> Radisson Blu Hotel, Dakar, Senegal. The meeting, which was graciously hosted by
> l’Agence de Régulation des Télécommunications et des Postes (ARTP) and sponsored
> by Espresso, Huawei, Internet Society (ISOC), and Orange, was attended by some
> 150 delegates representing twenty (20) nations. 
> 
> Mr. Ndongo Diao, Directeur General, ARTP, opened the meeting with remarks,
> followed by the Keynote Address from Mrs. Aminata Tall, Ministre d'état,
> Secrétaire Générale de la Présidence de la République. The programme consisted
> of two-days of IPv6 training, workshops on Internet Measurement, DNS Operations,
> Mail Abuse, African 4th IPv6 Day, Internet Governance Day, two-days of Plenary
> Sessions that included the Public Policy Discussion. 
> 
> The industry presentations covered issues related to Access, Security, IPv4
> exhaustion and the uptake of IPv6, Internet Governance initiatives, report of
> the IGF 2009 event, updates from ICANN/IANA, ISOC, other RIRs, Orange, Huawei,
> ARTP, Association of African Universities (AAU), and other representation from
> academia, government, and the private sector. On the issue of Security, AfriNIC
> announced the first AfriNIC Government Working Group event for Law Enforcement
> Agencies to be held 25 – 26 January, 2010, Ebene, Mauritius.
> 
> One of the major outcomes of the Public Policy Discussion was the consensus by
> the community to endorse the Global Policy proposal for “Allocation of ASN
> Blocks to the RIRs by IANA.” Another policy proposal discussed was the 'IPv6
> Allocations to Non-Profit Networks', with a consensus being reached that
> proposal should be withdrawn, and that the author of the proposal should liaise
> with the AfriNIC staff and Board to devise a more viable solution if the main
> rational is to have a special discount and category for this category of users.
> A third policy proposal, related to 'IPv4 Soft Landing' which define how
> AfriNIC should manage its last IPv4 blocks, did not reach consensus during the
> meeting and was returned to the Resource Policy Discuss (RPD) mailing list for
> further discussion. 
> 
> During the meeting, AfriNIC and AAU signed a Memorandum of Understanding,
> establishing that AAU via a grant from FRENIA will contribute to the setup fees
> and a first-year membership fee of eligible African Academic institutions and
> RENs from Africa. This is the second MoU between AfriNIC and AAU to support the
> common goal of improving Campus and Research network infrastructure in Africa. 
> 
> AfriNIC’s Public Policy meetings are open to anyone and are particularly
> relevant to members, ISPs, the Internet community, academia, governments and
> regulators. Participation in these meetings will give you tremendous
> opportunities to improve your network infrastructure, increase your knowledge on
> Internet related issues, networking, and to have your say in policies that
> affect future development of the Internet in your region. We are pleased to
> announce that AfriNIC’s 12th Public Policy meeting will be held in Kigali,
> Rwanda, 23 May - 4 June, 2010 and would like to extend a warm invitation to the
> community to attend and participate. Access our website at www.afrinic.net for
> additional information.
> 
> 
> Contact: Lillian Sharpley
> Communications Area Manager
> Email: press at afrinic.net
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:56:41 -0800
> From: Glen de Saint G?ry <Glen at icann.org>
> Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Public Comment: STI Report on Trademark
> Protection in New gTLDs
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> http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-17dec09-en.htm
> Public Comment: STI Report on Trademark Protection in New gTLDs
> 
> 17 December 2009
> The Special Trademarks Issues Working Team (STI) has published its Report on its recommendations to create a Trademark Clearinghouse and Uniform Rapid Suspension procedure to protect trademarks in the New GTLD Program. The public comment period ends on 26 January 2010. 
> http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-201001.htm#sti
> 
> Special Trademark Issues Review Team Recommendations [PDF, 272K]
> http://gnso.icann.org/issues/sti/sti-wt-recommendations-11dec09-en.pdf
> 
> You can also find this report at http://gnso.icann.org/issues/. 
> 
> Background 
> 
> On 12 October 2009, the ICANN Board sent a letter [PDF, 736K] to the GNSO requesting its review of the policy implications of certain trademark protection mechanisms proposed for the New gTLD Program, as described in the Draft Applicant Guidebook (http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/draft-rfp-clean-04oct09-en.pdf [PDF, 198K]) and accompanying memoranda. Specifically, the Board Letter requested that the GNSO provide input on whether it approves the proposed staff model , or, in the alternative, the GNSO could propose an alternative that is equivalent or more effective and implementable. 
> 
> In response, t he GNSO adopted a resolution creating the Special Trademarks Issues review team (STI) on 28 October 2009, which included representatives from each Stakeholder Group ; At-Large; Nominating Committee Appointees; and the Government Advisory Committee, to analyze the specific rights protection mechanisms that have been proposed for inclusion in the Draft Applicant Guidebook. The STI delivered to the GNSO Council its Report [PDF, 272K], which describes an alternative model that the STI believes is more effective and implementable than the model proposed in the Draft Applicant Guidebook version 3. The GNSO Council unanimously approved the recommendations contained in the STI Report for public comment and consideration by ICANN when it finalizes the proposed model for trademark protection in the New gTLD Program. 
> 
> For additional information on the new gTLD Program: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/related-en.htm.
> 
> Glen de Saint Géry
> GNSO Secretariat
> gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org
> http://gnso.icann.org
> 
> 
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