<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Ory,<br><br></div>Thanks for sharing about this great initiative. I am sure the findings will be of great interest to all.<br><br></div>I don't mean to be contrary - but don't you think that the name of the initiative will cause confusion? Nokia already have a continental initiative called M-Lab, and the local one is housed at the iHub.<br>
<br></div>I am asking as an outsider to both the old and the new M-Lab - but mainly with reference to the fact that the question "which M-Lab" may arise in the future.<br><br></div>Best regards,<br><br>Brian<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Ory Okolloh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ookolloh@gmail.com" target="_blank">ookolloh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-size:medium;font-family:Times"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear listers, </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A few weeks ago, Measurement Lab Research Consortium (M-Lab) launched one of its first locations in Africa, in partnership with KENET Kenya, Google Africa, and many other industry and academic partners. </span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">M-Lab is a collaborative effort working to provide an open, global, publicly available source of data on network performance. To accomplish this M-Lab takes a completely open approach, managing a purpose-built global server platform designed specifically for network measurement. Researchers deploy open-source measurement tools on this platform, and each time a test is run using one of these tools, data is collected. Currently M-Lab makes over 700 terabytes of raw, rich measurement data available to anyone who’s interested. </span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">M-Lab’s presence in Kenya (and also South Africa) mean that this data is now being collected on African networks, giving a new and valuable source of information about the health and performance of African infrastructure. </span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A more public launch will happen in a few weeks, for now I'm hoping to drive some initial research ahead of that and invite you to </span><a href="http://measurementlab.net/data" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">look into</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> the data, and to </span><a href="https://storage.cloud.google.com/?arg=m-lab&pli=1#m-lab" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">access it here</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you’re interested in learning more about M-Lab, please visit <a href="http://measurementlab.net" target="_blank">measurementlab.net</a>. Finally, M-Lab has a full time staff dedicated to answering questions and promoting research. Please don’t hesitate to contact them with any questions: <a href="http://measurementlab.net/contact" target="_blank">http://measurementlab.net/contact</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ory</span></p>
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