[AfrIPv6-Discuss] Understanding (IPv6 in) Africa

[Willy MANGA]

Hi Nico,

Le 12/03/2019 à 15:47, Nico Schottelius a écrit :
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> after reading the last thread about content providers and what is the
> cost for small companies, I was wondering how IT business is driven in
> Africa.

I can't speak directly about it but from a citizen point of view and my
humble opinion, there are unfortunately too much politics everywhere
even within technical AND scientific communities ; at least in some
areas in Africa.
Hopefully one day, people will keep politics where it should stay and
focus on the core of their job/teaching/research and feel free to talk
about it.

>[...]
> This means that IPv6 adoption is pushed by SME and eventually executed
> by telcos. My impression from the US was that IPv6 adoption is driven by
> enterprises and users follow.

$DAYJOB is the only organization using IPv6 in Cameroon and Chad on a
daily basis since 2 years. $DAYJOB is a small organization. IT Team
convinced its manager to request from telcos IPv6 and succeed.
I'm not proud to be the only one. Some years ago when I suscribe to
various mailing-lists , I read many people on pro and cons regarding
IPv6. I decided to assess myself and my organization. My conclusion was
that IPv6 was a necessity and it was somehow 'easier' to manage at least
for my context.
We knew our telcos were able to deploy IPv6. It was 'just' a matter of
sending a formal request and less than 1 month later, it was working.

Many issues are not on a technical side first. It's about people
*willing* to deploy the 6th version of IP :)


> So to come back to my original question, I am wondering how innovation
> in general and in particular with IPv6 is driven in Africa? Is Afrinic
> the main driver or is it more (small?) businesses moving forward?

Not sure if it's specific to Africa but from my humble opinion it is a
combination of various factors which will drive towards IPv6 deployment.

People are looking for leaders and incentives. It is all about leaders
able to drive community in the right way.
If a 'respectable' and 'appreciated' person lead the way, many will follow.

my 2 XAF :)

-- 
Willy Manga
@ongolaboy
https://ongola.blogspot.com/

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