[afnog] Challenges in the African Continent

[Shaheel Luckoo - Personal]

Dear Sirs and Madam :

 

If we look at the Internet as an online solution provider for various
services, whether online games, ASPs, content providers, e-payments, etc. we
can say that we have the required platform for such creative expressions of
projects. However, being an end user located on the African continent, I see
the low bandwidth that we have a very big challenge for the future. If we
look at other continents or countries we notice that the end users have a
very high bandwidth for inland communications and that too at a very low
cost. For example in Hong Kong the end users have enormous bandwidth for
services and websites being hosted locally. I am well aware that the
International bandwidth is quite high for this part of the world and also
the lack of inadequate telecommunication infrastructure because of the rural
divide which exists in Africa.

 

I am well aware that the majority of our continent's web hosting are being
done either in the US or in European countries.

 

As such, I would like to know whether there are certain strategies in place
to overcome this pressing challenge and if so what are they and how us the
community can help.

 

Thanks for your feedback.

 

Kind regards,

 

Shaheel Luckoo

Mauritius

 

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