Horrifying image of lack of internet cables to Africa From: "Alice Wanjira" <alice@apc.org> To: kictanet@kictanet.or.ke User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal By KAH writing from LONDON, UK 29/06/2006 14:18 [Access, ICT policy] (0 Comments) At a presentation at APC's national ICT policy workshop currently going on in London, I was shocked to see a map in a presentation by Russell Southwood which shows how poorly connected Africa is with submarine internet fibre. Russell runs APC's Fibre for Africa Site which is full of resources on the issues on affordable international bandwidth for Africa. Check out this map to see the fat glowing white lines between the USA and Europe, and the US and Japan/South Korea, and the meagre lines which inch down Western Africa and around the Cape and then disappear leaving the entire East African coast fibreless. I can't put the map here because it's copyrighted but you can download it as wallpaper to your computer and be reminded on a daily basis about this outrageous situation. If you feel insensed and want to do something about it, check out FibreforAfrica.net and get involved in the Eassy Campaign. See the horrifying map http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_cable/wallpaper.php