[AfrICANN-discuss] African Union (AU) Selects the Internet Society to Support Establishment of Internet Exchange Points across Africa

[Holy Kamuzora]

Congrats to ISOC!!!

They have already been doing the work anyway and this selection is to
officialize it. So keep up the good work.

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Diepiriye Ayerite <ayeritedw at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks
>
>
> On Thursday, August 23, 2012, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
>
>> Hmm... this is great news!
>>
>> Trusting that ISOC will utilize the network of already existing
>> continental training orgs such as afnog and the national based ones such as
>> ngnog, ghnog etc in caring out the training workshops.
>>
>> Thanks for sharing
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Wilson Abigaba <abigabaw at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> - African Union (AU) Selects the Internet Society to Support
>>> Establishment of Internet Exchange Points across Africa
>>> - Project includes 60 capacity building workshops in 30 countries
>>>
>>> [Johannesburg, South Africa --23 August 2012] – The Internet Society
>>> today announced that it has been selected by the African Union (AU) to
>>> conduct community mobilization and technical aspects workshops to
>>> support the establishment of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in AU
>>> Member States as part of the African Internet Exchange System (AXIS)
>>> project. The AXIS project aims at keeping Africa’s Internet traffic
>>> local to the continent by providing capacity building and technical
>>> assistance to facilitate the establishment of National Internet
>>> Exchange Points and Regional Internet Exchange Points in Africa. The
>>> project is funded by the Euro-Africa Infrastructure Fund and the
>>> Government of Luxembourg.
>>>
>>> The Internet Society is committed to organizing 60 community
>>> mobilization and technical aspects workshops in 30 African countries.
>>> To this effect, the Internet Society will also contribute its own
>>> resources for the implementation of this component of the AXIS
>>> project.
>>>
>>> Currently, much of Africa’s Internet traffic is routed through
>>> Internet exchange points external to the African continent. As
>>> countries establish their own IXPs, Internet traffic will be routed
>>> locally, creating a downward pressure on costs and stimulating growth
>>> in and distribution of local Internet content. Through the AXIS
>>> project, the interests of the AU and the Internet Society, working
>>> with other African Internet organizations such as AfriNIC, AfNOG, and
>>> AftLD, will be realized in this collaborative effort to assist in the
>>> development of a more locally operated and, hence, more robust and
>>> economically accessible pan-African Internet.
>>>
>>> Moctar Yedaly, Head of Information Society Division, African Union
>>> Commission, commented,“Africa is paying overseas carriers to exchange
>>> ‘local’ (continental) traffic. This is both a costly as well as an
>>> inefficient way of handling inter-country exchange of Internet
>>> traffic. Independent analysis has shown that Africa pays over US$600
>>> Million to developed countries every year for inter-African traffic
>>> exchange that is carried outside the continent. We are therefore
>>> pleased that the African Internet Exchange System project will address
>>> this challenge by facilitating optimization of Internet traffic to
>>> support intra-continental traffic flows in Africa.”
>>>
>>> Dawit Bekele, Internet Society Regional Bureau Director for Africa,
>>> stated, “We are very excited to be selected by the African Union to
>>> support the growth of IXPs throughout Africa.  We believe the AXIS
>>> project is extremely important to the continued health of the Internet
>>> ecosystem in Africa, and building the technical infrastructure and
>>> training the people to sustain it are fundamental to extending the
>>> Internet in Africa. Partnering with the African Union on the AXIS
>>> project is central to the Internet Society’s mission to ensure the
>>> open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit
>>> of people everywhere.”
>>>
>>> The Internet Society has provided technical training in Africa since
>>> the early 1990s, and supports the development of human and technical
>>> capacity to build reliable and sustainable Internet infrastructure in
>>> Africa and around the world. The organization’s African Bureau was
>>> started in 2006. With 24 Chapters, the Internet Society African Bureau
>>> works to promote capacity building and the responsible development of
>>> the Internet throughout Africa. Its principle focus is improving
>>> interconnection and traffic exchange within the continent through the
>>> implementation of IXPs, network training, and capacity building.
>>>
>>> Link:
>>> http://www.internetsociety.org/news/african-unionau-selects-internet-society-support-establishment-internet-exchange-points-across
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