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Cabling Africa: the great data race to serve the ‘last billion’
In the News
31 January 2021
Cabling Africa: the great data race to serve the ‘last billion’
TodayHeadline
Cabling Africa: the great data race to serve the ‘last billion’
In the News
31 January 2021
Cabling Africa: the great data race to serve the ‘last billion’
Financial Times
Africa internet: Where and how are governments blocking it?
In the News
13 January 2021
Africa internet: Where and how are governments blocking it?
Daily Magazine
Featured: Fake news a great concern for SA but can be eradicated
In the News
31 December 2020
Featured: Fake news a great concern for SA but can be eradicated
BrieflyResources
Promoting the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.
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Personal Data Protection Guidelines for Africa
A joint initiative of the Internet Society and the Commission of the African Union
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Internet Infrastructure Security Guidelines for Africa
The Guidelines emphasize the importance of the multistakeholder model and a collaborative security approach in protecting Internet infrastructure.
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Assessment of the impact of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) – empirical study of Kenya and Nigeria
This study quantifies for the first time how IXPs enable Kenya and Nigeria to save millions in telecommunications costs and raise...
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Anchoring the African Internet Ecosystem
Lessons from Kenya and Nigeria’s Internet Exchange Point Growth
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Explainer: What Is Eighty For Africa?
Like buying your food locally, and reducing how much you fly, getting your digital content locally also reduces the...
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Supporting the Creation and Scalability of Affordable Access Solutions: Understanding Community Networks in Africa
Community networks, communications infrastructure deployed and operated by citizens to meet their own communication needs, are being increasingly proposed...
Our Members
With 24,753 members, Africa is the home to 33% of our global members. We have 36 Chapters with 13,919 Chapter members in the region. (as of Dec 2020)