[AfrICANN-discuss] FW: [isoc-advisory-council] NEWS RELEASE: African Union Commission Selects the Internet Society for RIXP and RIC Workshops of the AXIS Project

[Seun Ojedeji]

Great! I hope regional RENs can also tag along in this ;)
Congrats to ISOC and to Africa as a whole.

Cheers!

sent from Google nexus 4
kindly excuse brevity and typos.
On 7 Feb 2014 07:30, "Dawit Bekele" <bekele at isoc.org> wrote:

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> Link to news: www.internetsociety.org/axis-capacitybuilding-workshops
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> The African Union Commission Selects the Internet Society for the Regional
> Internet Exchange Points and Regional Internet Carrier Workshops of the
> African Internet Exchange System (AXIS) Project
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> Capacity building workshops to support the establishment of national and
> regional Internet Exchange Points
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> The Internet Society today announced that it has been selected by the
> African Union Commission (AUC) for the Regional Internet Exchange Points
> and Regional Internet Carrier Workshops of the African Internet Exchange
> System (AXIS) project. The AXIS project is focused on 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.
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> Under the new AXIS contract, the Internet Society will conduct Capacity
> Building workshops focused on best practices and benefits of setting up
> Regional Internet Exchange Points and Regional Internet Carriers. The
> Internet Society will partner with AFRINIC and other organizations in
> Africa and around the world to conduct workshops in each of the five AUC
> geographical regions over the next 18 months.
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> As part of this agreement, the Southern African Development Community
> (SADC) in partnership with the AUC and the Internet Society are currently
> undertaking the first Regional workshop on best practices and benefits of
> setting up Regional Exchange Points and Regional Internet Carriers from 3-7
> February 2014 in Gaborone, Botswana. Attendees at the workshop include more
> than one hundred experts from Ministries, regulatory agencies, IXPs, and
> the private sector from the following countries of the SADC region: Angola,
> Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles,
> South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Zambia.
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> In August 2012, the Internet Society announced that it had been selected
> by the AUC for the first contract under the AXIS project to conduct 60
> Community Mobilization and Technical Aspects workshops in 30 African
> countries.  To date, more than 30 workshops have been completed and a
> number of the countries where these workshops took place are expected to
> launch their IXPs in the first half of 2014, thus highlighting the
> sustainable efforts made by AXIS towards significantly changing the
> interconnection landscape of the entire African continent. As countries
> establish their own IXPs, Internet traffic will be routed locally, creating
> cost and performance benefits and stimulating growth in and distribution of
> local Internet content.
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> In spite of this progress, much of Africa's regional Internet traffic is
> still routed through Internet Exchange Points external to the African
> continent, which is costly and an inefficient way to handle the
> inter-country exchange of Internet traffic.  The regional exchange points
> that will be developed will help keep intra-African traffic within the
> continent.
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> "The award of this contract reflects the success of the Internet Society's
> work to date on AXIS, and we are very thankful to the African Union for
> this recognition and trust," said Dr. Dawit Bekele, Internet Society
> Regional Bureau Director for Africa. "The AXIS project is instrumental in
> developing a reliable and sustainable Internet infrastructure in Africa.
> The Internet Society has provided technical training in Africa for nearly
> 20 years, and we are very pleased to continue this important work."
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> For more information on AXIS, visit http://pages.au.int/axis
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