Am exited about this forum. My interest is on local content development to feed our our entertainment hungry population. We have a rich culture and talented young producers who only require a little boost and they can produce good local content. Am in the business of training and I know the potential. <br>
<br>Sylvia Machini <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Michuki Mwangi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michuki@swiftkenya.com" target="_blank">michuki@swiftkenya.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><apologies for cross posting><br>
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Internet Society’s African Peering and Interconnection Forum Provides<br>
Opportunities for Regional Internet Growth<br>
<br>
AfPIF-3 Highlights Regional Interconnection – Addressing Africa’s<br>
Internet Transit Deficit<br>
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[Washington, D.C. and Geneva, Switzerland --13 August 2012] – The third<br>
African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF-3), organized by the<br>
Internet Society, will be held 22-24 August 2012 in Johannesburg, South<br>
Africa. A multistakeholder forum, AfPIF aims to foster national and<br>
cross-border interconnection opportunities where key stakeholders,<br>
including infrastructure and service providers, Internet Exchange Points<br>
(IXPs), regulators, and policy makers can share experiences, hear from<br>
experts, and advance peering and interconnection arrangements.<br>
<br>
According to recent research, nearly all peering and interconnection<br>
agreements are forged at regional and global peering forums around the<br>
world. A unique regional forum, AfPIF facilitates discussions on<br>
infrastructure challenges, including terrestrial capacity issues,<br>
national and regional IXP development, local content development, and<br>
international peering. AfPIF provides a venue for productive technical<br>
discussions and business relationships that can be forged to augment<br>
Internet infrastructure and services in Africa.<br>
<br>
Keynotes and panel sessions will cover topics that address Africa’s<br>
Internet transit deficit, including Peering Negotiations and Strategies<br>
for Operators, Peering and Transit Economics, Landlocked Countries and<br>
Cross-border Regulatory Reality, Exploring the Content Business in<br>
Africa, and Attracting Global Content via Regional IXPs.<br>
<br>
“AfPIF has established itself as a strategic event for conducting<br>
business in Africa,” said Dawit Bekele, Internet Society Regional Bureau<br>
Director for Africa. “This year, we’ve added even more opportunities for<br>
business connections to be made and agreements to be negotiated. This<br>
conference offers an impressive array of speakers and educational<br>
programs, along with networking events to provide attendees with a venue<br>
where they have access to a wide range of regional interconnection<br>
opportunities.”<br>
<br>
The Internet Society would like to recognize and thank all of the<br>
AfPIF-3 sponsors, including Platinum sponsors Liquid Telecom and SEACOM,<br>
and Connectivity sponsor Dark Fibre Africa.<br>
<br>
Ben Roberts, CTO of Liquid Telecom<br>
“Liquid Telecom is proud to sponsor AfPIF in Johannesburg. The event has<br>
come to Southern Africa at the right time. With high speed cross border<br>
fibre connections (like Liquid Telecom's fibre project) linking South<br>
Africa to its neighbouring countries, the visions discussed at these<br>
AfPIF events are becoming a reality."<br>
<br>
Mark Simpson, CEO of SEACOM<br>
“With SEACOM's commitment to building the African Internet, we feel very<br>
strongly about the values that the AfPIF events represent. Bringing the<br>
operational community together to collectively work toward improving the<br>
Internet experience in Africa through peering, AfPIF embodies the very<br>
principles that SEACOM hold dear to its heart, and we are proud to be<br>
associated with, as well as contribute to, the success of this meeting.”<br>
<br>
Gustav Smit, CEO of Dark Fibre Africa (DFA)<br>
<br>
"As South African’s leading open access dark fibre infrastructure<br>
provider, DFA is privileged to be sponsoring the fibre infrastructure<br>
for the event. We are excited to showcase the capabilities and speed of<br>
fibre. DFA has already laid in excess of 6 200 kilometres of<br>
infrastructure across South Africa and is open to all licensed players<br>
on equal terms. Our expenditure plan is in excess of R3.5-billion. Any<br>
service provider, licensed to do so by ICASA, may rent fibres from DFA<br>
for their own transmission and backbone infrastructure purposes."<br>
<br>
The full list of AfPIF-3 sponsors, along with the programme and<br>
information about the speakers and panelists can be found at<br>
<a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/afpif-2012/overview" target="_blank">http://www.internetsociety.org/afpif-2012/overview</a>.<br>
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Link --<br>
<a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society%E2%80%99s-african-peering-and-interconnection-forum-provides-opportunities-regional" target="_blank">http://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society%E2%80%99s-african-peering-and-interconnection-forum-provides-opportunities-regional</a><br>
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