Over the year, AfrISPA has gained global significance by her work in lobbying for liberalisation of the telecoms market in Africa backed by efforts in establishing ISP Associations and the building of Internet eXchange Points as part of Africa's Internet Infrastructure. Much progress has been made in the understanding within policymakers, regulators and political leaders as it was enshrine in the World Summit on Information Society’s Plan of Action that "governments should facilitate the establishment of national and regional exchange centres”. All of these happened under a virtual institutional structure for AfrISPA and going forward this posed a risk to the scaling of such efforts. .