AFRINIC Registration is AFRINIC’s core activity and had a busy start for this first quarter. We highlight our key activities and achievements.
Resources Allocation Quarter 1 2018
Internet pervasiveness in Africa has been slowly but steadily increasing since the beginning of this millennium. Thanks to several organisations which donated time and resources, it is nowadays possible to claim that the AS ecosystems of several countries in Africa are now experiencing an early stage of the peering era. But how much of this newborn peering connectivity are we able to reveal using the BGP route collectors publicly available? By analysing BGP data available with existing techniques we found that a lot of this connectivity is missing from the dataset, mainly due to the lack of data sources in the region. In most countries, this could theoretically be solved by introducing no more than ten new ASes sharing their full routing information to route collectors.
Read more: African peering connectivity revealed via BGP route collectors
Twelve recipients selected from a total of 652 applicants have been awarded an AFRINIC Fellowship to participate at AFRINIC-28 in Dakar Senegal.
The AFRINIC Fellowship Programme provides opportunities for those individuals from African countries who have an interest in Internet operations and governance to participate in the AFRINIC public policy meetings.
The Fellowship Committee places special emphasis on supporting diversity in the region, awarding fellowships to six women from Cameroon, Botswana, Namibia, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and Gambia.
Congratulations to all the Fellows! We look forward to seeing you soon in Dakar.
When the only connectivity in an environment is offered by commercial network operators, Internet development tends to be slow. This has certainly been the case in my home, Nigeria, where every improvement of performance and accessibility has generally been accompanied by an increase in cost.
However, things are starting to change. In this post I will discuss how community-centric networks are playing a part in reducing costs and increasing accessibility in developing economies such as Nigeria.
Read more: IXP assists with accessibility, cost of Internet in developing economies
AFRINIC participated at the 2017 Internet Governance Forum (IGF 2017) from 18 to 21 December 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland. The theme ‘Shape your Digital Future’, welcomed around 2,000 Delegates from 142 economies to participate at a total of 260 sessions, in addition there were 32 remote hubs with some 1,600 online participants.
