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2009 MESSAGE FROM AFRISPA'S GENERAL MANAGER |
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Written by Sheba Kimani
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I would like to begin this year's message with reference to a quote that was made quite some while ago. "Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design.... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction." Douglas Engelbart, 1970 |
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2009 MESSAGE FROM AFRISPA'S EXECUTIVE BOARD |
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Written by Sheba Kimani
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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. . |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 06 April 2009 )
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Written by Web Master
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AfrISPA | A continental Association of African Internet Service Provider Associations AfrISPA is a non-profit organisation, whose members are themselves non-profit organisations, The members of these national ISP Associations in turn are mostly commercial organisations. Formed in 2001, AfrISPA has grown over the years in membership numbers, in effectiveness, and in influence. This process has been greatly helped by generous sponsorship from a number of organisations, including DFID (UK) via the CATIA programme, IDRC (Canada) and OSI. AfrISPA has a number of objectives, of which we have been particularly successful in helping to increase the number of operational Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) and Internet Service Provider Associations (ISPAs) in Africa. All the people involved in the training content and workshops mentioned below are Africans. We have built up a cadre of over 40 indigenous experts who have helped to pass on their expertise to some 700 senior African technical and managerial staff members, regulators, politicians and others in 23 countries so far. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 28 March 2008 )
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