<div>Congrats to ISOC!!!</div>
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<div>They have already been doing the work anyway and this selection is to officialize it. So keep up the good work.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Diepiriye Ayerite <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ayeritedw@gmail.com" target="_blank">ayeritedw@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Thanks
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<div class="h5"><span></span><br><br>On Thursday, August 23, 2012, Seun Ojedeji wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hmm... this is great news!<br><br>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. <br>
<br>Thanks for sharing<br><br>Cheers!<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Wilson Abigaba <span dir="ltr"><<a>abigabaw@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">- African Union (AU) Selects the Internet Society to Support<br>Establishment of Internet Exchange Points across Africa<br>
- Project includes 60 capacity building workshops in 30 countries<br><br>[Johannesburg, South Africa --23 August 2012] – The Internet Society<br>today announced that it has been selected by the African Union (AU) to<br>conduct community mobilization and technical aspects workshops to<br>
support the establishment of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in AU<br>Member States as part of the African Internet Exchange System (AXIS)<br>project. The AXIS project aims at keeping Africa’s Internet traffic<br>local to the continent by providing capacity building and technical<br>
assistance to facilitate the establishment of National Internet<br>Exchange Points and Regional Internet Exchange Points in Africa. The<br>project is funded by the Euro-Africa Infrastructure Fund and the<br>Government of Luxembourg.<br>
<br>The Internet Society is committed to organizing 60 community<br>mobilization and technical aspects workshops in 30 African countries.<br>To this effect, the Internet Society will also contribute its own<br>resources for the implementation of this component of the AXIS<br>
project.<br><br>Currently, much of Africa’s Internet traffic is routed through<br>Internet exchange points external to the African continent. As<br>countries establish their own IXPs, Internet traffic will be routed<br>locally, creating a downward pressure on costs and stimulating growth<br>
in and distribution of local Internet content. Through the AXIS<br>project, the interests of the AU and the Internet Society, working<br>with other African Internet organizations such as AfriNIC, AfNOG, and<br>AftLD, will be realized in this collaborative effort to assist in the<br>
development of a more locally operated and, hence, more robust and<br>economically accessible pan-African Internet.<br><br>Moctar Yedaly, Head of Information Society Division, African Union<br>Commission, commented,“Africa is paying overseas carriers to exchange<br>
‘local’ (continental) traffic. This is both a costly as well as an<br>inefficient way of handling inter-country exchange of Internet<br>traffic. Independent analysis has shown that Africa pays over US$600<br>Million to developed countries every year for inter-African traffic<br>
exchange that is carried outside the continent. We are therefore<br>pleased that the African Internet Exchange System project will address<br>this challenge by facilitating optimization of Internet traffic to<br>support intra-continental traffic flows in Africa.”<br>
<br>Dawit Bekele, Internet Society Regional Bureau Director for Africa,<br>stated, “We are very excited to be selected by the African Union to<br>support the growth of IXPs throughout Africa. We believe the AXIS<br>project is extremely important to the continued health of the Internet<br>
ecosystem in Africa, and building the technical infrastructure and<br>training the people to sustain it are fundamental to extending the<br>Internet in Africa. Partnering with the African Union on the AXIS<br>project is central to the Internet Society’s mission to ensure the<br>
open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit<br>of people everywhere.”<br><br>The Internet Society has provided technical training in Africa since<br>the early 1990s, and supports the development of human and technical<br>
capacity to build reliable and sustainable Internet infrastructure in<br>Africa and around the world. The organization’s African Bureau was<br>started in 2006. With 24 Chapters, the Internet Society African Bureau<br>works to promote capacity building and the responsible development of<br>
the Internet throughout Africa. Its principle focus is improving<br>interconnection and traffic exchange within the continent through the<br>implementation of IXPs, network training, and capacity building.<br><br>Link: <a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/news/african-unionau-selects-internet-society-support-establishment-internet-exchange-points-across" target="_blank">http://www.internetsociety.org/news/african-unionau-selects-internet-society-support-establishment-internet-exchange-points-across</a><br>
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