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[Barrack Otieno]

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Date: Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:28 AM
Subject: [Africanchapters] FW: [isoc-advisory-council] NEWS RELEASE:
African Union Commission Selects the Internet Society for RIXP and RIC
Workshops of the AXIS Project
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Link to news: www.internetsociety.org/axis-capacitybuilding-workshops



The African Union Commission Selects the Internet Society for the Regional
Internet Exchange Points and Regional Internet Carrier Workshops of the
African Internet Exchange System (AXIS) Project



Capacity building workshops to support the establishment of national and
regional Internet Exchange Points



The Internet Society today announced that it has been selected by the
African Union Commission (AUC) for the Regional Internet Exchange Points
and Regional Internet Carrier Workshops of the African Internet Exchange
System (AXIS) project. The AXIS project is focused on keeping Africa's
Internet traffic local to the continent by providing capacity building and
technical assistance to facilitate the establishment of National Internet
Exchange Points and Regional Internet Exchange Points in Africa.



Under the new AXIS contract, the Internet Society will conduct Capacity
Building workshops focused on best practices and benefits of setting up
Regional Internet Exchange Points and Regional Internet Carriers. The
Internet Society will partner with AFRINIC and other organizations in
Africa and around the world to conduct workshops in each of the five AUC
geographical regions over the next 18 months.



As part of this agreement, the Southern African Development Community
(SADC) in partnership with the AUC and the Internet Society are currently
undertaking the first Regional workshop on best practices and benefits of
setting up Regional Exchange Points and Regional Internet Carriers from 3-7
February 2014 in Gaborone, Botswana. Attendees at the workshop include more
than one hundred experts from Ministries, regulatory agencies, IXPs, and
the private sector from the following countries of the SADC region: Angola,
Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles,
South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Zambia.



In August 2012, the Internet Society announced that it had been selected by
the AUC for the first contract under the AXIS project to conduct 60
Community Mobilization and Technical Aspects workshops in 30 African
countries.  To date, more than 30 workshops have been completed and a
number of the countries where these workshops took place are expected to
launch their IXPs in the first half of 2014, thus highlighting the
sustainable efforts made by AXIS towards significantly changing the
interconnection landscape of the entire African continent. As countries
establish their own IXPs, Internet traffic will be routed locally, creating
cost and performance benefits and stimulating growth in and distribution of
local Internet content.



In spite of this progress, much of Africa's regional Internet traffic is
still routed through Internet Exchange Points external to the African
continent, which is costly and an inefficient way to handle the
inter-country exchange of Internet traffic.  The regional exchange points
that will be developed will help keep intra-African traffic within the
continent.



"The award of this contract reflects the success of the Internet Society's
work to date on AXIS, and we are very thankful to the African Union for
this recognition and trust," said Dr. Dawit Bekele, Internet Society
Regional Bureau Director for Africa. "The AXIS project is instrumental in
developing a reliable and sustainable Internet infrastructure in Africa.
The Internet Society has provided technical training in Africa for nearly
20 years, and we are very pleased to continue this important work."



For more information on AXIS, visit http://pages.au.int/axis


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