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The Importance of Strong Technical Communities and Partnerships in Africa
Growing the Internet
23 April 2024
The Importance of Strong Technical Communities and Partnerships in Africa
The recent outage in West Africa caused by submarine cable damage could have been a lot worse. A strong...
Bridging the Unemployment Gap for Young Female Graduates
Shaping Future of the Internet
22 February 2024
Bridging the Unemployment Gap for Young Female Graduates
Women in Mali are bridging the unemployment gap by learning practical skills in Internet Society hands-on training courses.
The Decade That Changed The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Internet
Growing the Internet
8 February 2024
The Decade That Changed The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Internet
In just under 10 years, IXPs helped the DRC improve its Internet accessibility and started the country on its...
Advancing Digital Africa: Empowering Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in Benin, Malawi, and Rwanda
Internet Exchange Points
8 January 2024
Advancing Digital Africa: Empowering Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in Benin, Malawi, and Rwanda
The Internet Society and ICANN partnered to help empower IXPs in Africa to improve Internet access by making it...
How Internet Exchange Points are Expanding and Improving Internet Access in Morocco
Internet Exchange Points
8 November 2023
How Internet Exchange Points are Expanding and Improving Internet Access in Morocco
If you needed to send a letter to your neighbor, you wouldn’t choose to send it via airmail across...
An Internet Champion for Africa: Remembering Pierre Ouédraogo
Community
17 July 2023
An Internet Champion for Africa: Remembering Pierre Ouédraogo
On 13 July 2023, the African Internet technical community lost one of its stars, Pierre Ouédraogo, fondly known by...
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Promoting the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.
Promoting the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.
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Personal Data Protection Guidelines for Africa
A joint initiative of the Internet Society and the Commission of the African Union
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Internet Infrastructure Security Guidelines for Africa
The Guidelines emphasize the importance of the multistakeholder model and a collaborative security approach in protecting Internet infrastructure.
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Assessment of the impact of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) – empirical study of Kenya and Nigeria
This study quantifies for the first time how IXPs enable Kenya and Nigeria to save millions in telecommunications costs and raise...
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Anchoring the African Internet Ecosystem
Lessons from Kenya and Nigeria’s Internet Exchange Point Growth
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Explainer: What is Eighty For Africa?
Like buying your food locally, and reducing how much you fly, getting your digital content locally also reduces the...
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Supporting the Creation and Scalability of Affordable Access Solutions: Understanding Community Networks in Africa
Community networks, communications infrastructure deployed and operated by citizens to meet their own communication needs, are being increasingly proposed...
Our Members
With 24,753 members, Africa is the home to 33% of our global members. We have 36 Chapters with 13,919 Chapter members in the region. (as of Dec 2020)
With 24,753 members, Africa is the home to 33% of our global members. We have 36 Chapters with 13,919 Chapter members in the region. (as of Dec 2020)