The countries below contain a historic archive of information on the
state of the internet that is now three years old. For some
countries, the information has remained largely the same whereas for
others considerable change has occurred. However it can still be used
to identify organisations involved in developing the internet and to
understand the historic development of the Internet in Africa. For
up-to-date (but "pay-for") information click here:
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This is an area where you can download longer articles and reports of
interest. These will be updated as new material becomes available.
Download 1 (Word format, 875kb)
This IDRC-supported research study looks at how complaints by African consumers in the telecoms and Internet sectors are dealt with and what input consumer organisations are able to make into policy for these sectors. It is based on a survey of 30 African countries and includes detailed case studies of Kenya, Senegal and South Africa.
Download 2 Word document (255kb)
This chapter from the ITU's Global Trends in Telecommunications
Reform 2005 examines the market and regulatory implications of the
shift to IP networks and outlines the different types of responses
regulators are making to VoIP calling.
Download 3 (pdf format, 310kb)
Leslie Chan, Barbara Kirsop, Subbiah Arunachalam look at the use of Open
Access archiving as a way of improving scientific capacity building.
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ISSUE NO 50 JOBS,
PEOPLE, EVENTS...
LINUX CONFERENCE
ANNOUNCES PROGRAMME
AITEC in association with the
Linux Professionals’ Association of South Africa have announced
the programme for their April conference:
DAY 1 - 24 April 2001
7.30 Registration & coffee
8.30 Plenary session - GNU/Linux
and the Opensource Paradigm
Opensourced Development Methodologies: A Comparison, Neil Blakely-Milner,
FreeBSD Project
Linux in Africa - An Overview, Paul Kotschy, Chairman, South
African Linux Professionals Association
11.00 Tea Break
11.30 Track 1 - Management:
Database Systems
A Comparative Analysis of Open Source and Proprietory Database
Technologies, Theo Kramer, Director, Flame Computing Enterprises
Track 2 - Technical: The
Web Paradigm Rapid Internet Applications
using Linux and Apache’s Shared Objects, Paul Kotschy Director,
SevenC Computing
Zope: The Z Object Publishing Environment, Neil Blakely-Milner,
FreeBSD Project
13.00 Lunch Break
14.00 Track 1 ­ Management:
Sourcing software
The Unlicensed Office - How to avoid the BSA, Calvin Browne,
Director, Flame Computing Enterprises
Track 2 - Technical: Hacker’s
Corner Perl, the Linguist’s
Language, Ryan Armstrong, Director, Bridge Electronic Trading
Services
Sendmail Tools and Tricks, Anton de Wet, Technical Director,
Obsidian Systems
15.30 Tea Break
16.0 Plenary Session 2.4: So what?, Jeremy Maccaleri, Director, Visual Numerics
DAY 2 - 25 April 2001
8.30 Plenary Session Open Source, Open Minds, Heinrich Portwig, Technical Director,
EPI-UE The Open Source Internet Server, Dale Gallagher, Systems
Architect, Dimension Data Linux and Networking, the Next Revolution, Marcio H. Saito,
Director of Technology, Cyclades Corporation, Fremont, CA., USA
11.00 Tea Break
11.30 Track 1 - Management:
Impacts on the Enterprise
Linux is free, so why am I paying? Craig Rodney, Marketing Manager,
Obsidian Systems
Linux and Ecommerce, Ryan Armstrong, Director, Bridge Electronic
Trading Services
Track 2 - Technical: The
Network
Linux in the ISlP Market, Mark Elkins, Director, Posix Systems
Linux security for the SMEE, Jeremy Maccaleri, Director, Visual
Numerics
13.0 Lunch Break
14.00 Track 1 - Management
Diskless Linux StarOffice Workstations, Evan Summers & Daniel
Shaw, Director, Obsidian Systems
Mobilising Linux Systems, Deon Engelbrecht, iAnywhere Solutions
(Sybase)
Track 2 - Technical The Use of LInux in
the Radiation and Reactor Theory Group of NECSA, Diana Naidoo,
Scientist, PBMR
Distributed Computing for the Enterprise, Gerhardus Geldenhuis
15.30 Tea Break
15.45 Plenary Session: Linux
Training
Skills vs Knowledge based Training - Equipping Students for Real-World
Challenges, Mark Badham & Mark Stockton, Leading Edge Business
Solutions, Saffral Consulting
Providing Linux Training within Open Source Framework, Mark Badham
& Mark Stockton, Leading Edge Business Solutions, Saffral
Consulting
DAY 3 - 26 April 2001
A morning of advanced technical
workshops including one-to-one assistance for delegates on the
configuration of their Linux-based systems.
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