• DocumentCode
    1366249
  • Title

    Africa Shifts Focus from Infrastructure to Interconnection

  • Author

    Rose, Karen

  • Author_Institution
    Internet Society
  • Volume
    14
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    56
  • Lastpage
    58
  • Abstract
    Implementing the Internet across multiple countries in Africa is a complex process that requires participation, training, and collaboration at the local, national, and international level from governments, individual users, and IT providers. The authors report on some of the work happening that´s allowing people to interconnect on many levels.
  • Keywords
    Internet; globalisation; government; IT providers; Internet; governments; individual users; interconnect; international level; Africa; Communities; Google; Government; Integrated circuit interconnections; Internet; Optical fiber cables; IXP; Internet; Internet exchange point; infrastructure; interconnection;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Internet Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7801
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MIC.2010.132
  • Filename
    5617058