<div dir="ltr"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.3095047129318118" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><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>
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<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>
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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">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>
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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">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>
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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">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"><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"><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">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">http://measurementlab.net/contact</a></span></p>
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