16 February 2009
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To what extent will the new cables being established off the African coast help to lower connectivity costs?
This is the only way we can really encourage lower prices and increase the number of Internet users is by having more of these cables.
Unfortunately, the African continent was late with this. It is good that we have many ambitious projects -- not only ambitious, they are achievable -- and they are coming soon. The one will go around the east coast of Africa. Another will go around the west coast of Africa. There are other links also with neighboring countries. There's a cable now linking Mombasa in Kenya with the Gulf. All this was missing before...
I am very proud and happy to say that there is good development after the Connect Africa Summit because we put all these projects on the table and had the investors there. We had the policy makers, we had the governments and they all debated and discussed this. Everybody benefits and they realize now they have to go ahead with these cables.
How is the ITU supporting the development of indigenous software or young ICT entrepreneurs?
In our big forums we have youth forums where we encourage young people to come and join us and meet with the decision makers in the public and private sectors and learn more about the new technologies and how it can improve their lives and their communities and their countries.
In May we had one for Africa in Cairo and it was very successful. We encourage young people to come. Some of them showcase their experiences and their innovation and how they make use of this new technology to improve their, their family's or their community's lives. We are also doing that for our special initiatives and we work with the public and private sectors to encourage these kinds of experiments with young people.
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We're very excited about Africa's cellular revolution as well!
Nathan Eagle's txteagle program is one initiative that we, here at ALTA, are very excited to see growing!
http://www.altalang.com/beyond-words/2009/02/18/beyond-txt-crowdsourcing-wi th-txteagle/
Very interesting article, Thank you. notebook memory
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