The Importance of Strong Technical Communities and Partnerships in Africa
The recent outage in West Africa caused by submarine cable damage could have been a lot worse. A strong community ensured it wasn’t.
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Let's Think Differently to Shape Tomorrow
In 2015 the world made one of the biggest promises to itself in the form of 17 Global Goals set out by the United Nations. These goals – the Sustainable ...
ISOC’s Policy Statement at the WSIS Forum: Support Your Local Heroes
On 13 June 2017, Internet Society Vice President, Global Engagement, Raúl Echeberría, and Senior Director, Global Internet Policy, Constance Bommelaer de Leusse, participated in the Opening Ceremony and the High-Level Policy Session on Bridging Digital Divides ...
Bringing Internet to Nepal’s Remote, Mountainous Villages
In 1997, we finally got the Internet in Nepal. Unfortunately, it was only available in the capital, Kathmandu, which is very far from my village of Nangi. But almost immediately, ...
With the Right Tools and Support, Anyone Can Build an Internet Connection
Billions of people are still offline. According to the most recent statistics from the International Telecommunication Union, 53% the world is still lacking access to the Internet and all the ...
Bringing Internet to Venezuela’s Remote Regions – While Setting a World Record
My interest in networking began during my time as a professor and head of the telecommunications lab at the University of Los Andes, in Merída, Venezuela, where we began experimenting ...
In response to the State of Disaster pronounced in March in South Africa, and the subsequent lockdown in 2020, Zenzeleni community networks worked within the rural communities of Mankosi and ...
Using TV Whitespace To Connect Communities in Malawi
About twenty years ago, people here at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy started thinking about what happens to the people who come here after they ...
Creating an IXP in Denver, Colorado, USA
The word Internet is short for internetwork. It’s just a network of networks. So the more places you can connect those networks, the more robust the whole system is. That’s ...
