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This practical example can feature on the East African Internet
Governance Forum, now that it is happening in Uganda this week and
being co-hosted by the Ministry of ICT.
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On 9/21/15, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:On 21 September 2015 at 11:09, Brian Munyao Longwe via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:We established a social enterprise that is using internet technologies toimprove livelihoods for communities in this post-conflict regions. Thisismainly through making high speed broadband available to rural communitiesat low cost. So far we have been able to establish points-of-presence inthe towns of Gulu, Lira, Soroti and Mbale - NGOs, corporates andindividuals alike have been flocking to take up the broadband servicesafter years of poor quality and expensive services from the mobileoperators who sell mainly data bundles that have poor performance. Werideon Uganda's national optical fiber network (owned by the ministry ofICT'sNational IT Authority - NITA-U). and from Kampala interconnect with avariety of bulk providers (Seacom, Liquid Telecom, Simbanet, BCS) who areconnected to submarine networks via Mombasa. Our service approach hasgreatly challenged the internet services paradigm and scored greatly withour subscribers, many of whom enjoy better services in these rural townsthan their colleagues/counterparts in the capital Kampala.Thank you very much Brian for the great work. This is quite interesting.There is an IGF 2015 track called "Policy Options for Connecting the NextBillion". I am not sure if you have heard about it.The short writeup of the same reads like this: "Technological advancementin connectivity expanded broadband access and mobile penetration in recentyears. Three billion people were connected to the Internet by the end of2014. In spite of the progress achieved, more effort is necessary in orderto connect the next billion and to address the digital divide. Theidentification of strategies to improve connectivity is timely due to theongoing process of reviewing the outcomes of the World Summit of theInformation Society (WSIS+10) and the discussion of the post-2015Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Collaboration between governmentaland non-governmental actors is key to meet this challenge and themutistakeholder nature of the IGF makes it a privileged space fordiscussion. "What next: Your implementation is great and can form a great policy optionfor the IGF. We hope you are willing to contribute on the same. Local orregional IGF initiatives are encouraged to contribute on how "we canconnect the next billion to the Internet". Here is the form created by theIGF secretariat to collect feedback. We can then have it presented at theglobal IGF in Brazil later in November.http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/policy-options-for-connection-the-next-billion/contributionshttp://www.intgovforum.org/cms/policy-options-for-connection-the-next-billion/contributionsHere is the landing page:http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/policy-options-for-connection-the-next-billionSincerely,______________________Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk onhigher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson
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