African States Aim To Improve Internet Interconnections 27
jfruh writes A rapidly growing percentage of Africans have access to the Internet — and yet most of the content they access, even things aimed specifically at an African audience, is hosted on servers elsewhere. The reason is a bewildering array of laws in different nations that make cross-border cooperation a headache, a marked contrast to places like Europe with uniform Internet regulations. At the Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum in Senegal, a wide variety of Internet actors from the continent are aiming to solve the problem.
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Depends on your definition of "kill". Current killing methods, using physical means, results in breeding more terrorists. On the other hand, easy access to knowledge and first person shooters will kill terrorists by making sure they're not born in the first place. Knowledge has this effect on beliefs: it kills them and builds a nice wall of reason to resist them reviving in the 3rd day. When you no longer live (solely) for the afterlife, you usually aren't inclined to martyr yourself as easily.
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Aftrican internet has issues, mainly because they can't afford to run much fiber, nor to secure it against various threats.
"Lack of uniform regulations" is almost certainly not the issue.
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They have the money it's just being spent on weapons and palaces or stolen by foreign corporations or stashed in Swiss bank accounts.
Great idea! (Score:2)
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Oh, yes, "they" should. Because infrastructure doesn't help with any of the problems you listed, and there is no middle class in Africa (definitely not a rapidly growing one). Furthermore, there is no variation at all in a continent of over 50 countries and a billion people - every last person in Africa is constantly ducking snipers whilst starving in the middle of the desert and coughing up blood on account of ebolavirus AT THE SAME TIME.
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Shouldn't they focus on human rights, eradicating corruption, poverty, disease, getting rid of the so called debt they `owe` to Europe and the west? Instead, they want to improve their internet connection.. They really have the wrong priorities set at the moment...
Are you the guy who is always bitching about research projects? The one who can't see past your own prejudices? Maybe one of the people who want every problem on earth fixed before we went to the moon?
So how does your system work?
No internet for them until they improve human rights, end corruption, poverty, disease, and debt?
For immediate purposes, how might the internetz be helpful in eliminating poverty?
Maybe the farmer might be able to get a good idea of what the weather is going to be. Maybe inf
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Erm, nope.. I'm just asking a simple question. No need for all this rudeness.
I'm sure 95% of the population of Africa won't give a toss about faster or better internet, or even know or care what that is to begin with. There are more important things to work on and solve over there..
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Erm, nope.. I'm just asking a simple question. No need for all this rudeness.
I'm sure 95% of the population of Africa won't give a toss about faster or better internet, or even know or care what that is to begin with. There are more important things to work on and solve over there..
Well then, let us make sure they have no internet until they solve all their other problems.
You might think it's rude, but perhaps that is because of the way you use the internet. If I had to produce food, lest I die, Rain, and or crop information might just be of real interest to me.
So who is the arbiter of what these people are allowed to have or not have. Should they be converted to Christianity first? Some look at that as job number one.
Should we just give them food? Feed them forever and ever?
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Shouldn't they focus on human rights, eradicating corruption, poverty, disease, getting rid of the so called debt they `owe` to Europe and the west? Instead, they want to improve their internet connection.. They really have the wrong priorities set at the moment...
Exactly. As we all know, organizations with millions of people are completely incapable of addressing more than one problem at a time.
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Ran across the "IXP Toolkit" program a little while ago, and they have quite a few examples of how IXPs can really help the local tech industry and improve service:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0pVDSY-RfIpRtGhj2Kw-Ew/videos
They interview the folks that run a bunch of IXPs: Kenya, Egypt, South Africa, Zambia, etc.
It can surprisingly (to me) bring about a lot of change by simply having a telco neutral exchange point.
Some first class BS here. (Score:2, Interesting)
most of the content they access ... is hosted on servers elsewhere
Since when did that matter on the Internet ?
The reason is a bewildering array of laws in different nations
Welcome to the World.
places like Europe with uniform Internet regulations
Tell us about these uniform regulations.
Wrong accusations are so easy (Score:2)
I had a situation that appeared that a hacker had taken control of a VOIP system and ran up a full E1 worth of calls to Africa 24x7 for a weekend resulting in a $1.4 million dollar phone bill. The initial evidence showed that Sierra Leone was involved with toll sharing fraud but I looked deeper. I called a few of their embassies and found out they couldn't call home if they tried and the London embassy had some who had the job of trying to calling home all day. It turns out that someone else was playing