[afnog] Challenges in the African Continent

[m. bey]

Greetings all

The main problem as I see it is a failure of African Leadership, the Leadership on the continent has failed to see it self as a  guiding hand in the process and as a result these problems will persist until these corrupt and weak governments are removed by popular  demand. In Too many places across the continent the Business elite and the system of chieftains too often want to do business, but wind up doing " business as usual", meaning that the short term needs of  the elite are placed before the needs of the people. For certain in some places efforts are being made to bring internet speeds up to par, such as Kenya ( not surprisingly since Obama's Grand Mother lives there). This issus of leadership will have to be addressed, people if nothing else will have to begin to demand  the services and press the leaders for the changes and encourage the local leaders to take their cut on the back side ( wait for progress to occure and tax the results)
 instead of taking a cut on the front end, which usually means the money disapears in some cases.

While this dire scenario is not always the case it is often reprted as such, giving the impression that corruption and stupidity abound in african states. what ever the case more grass roots efforts will be needed, in some cases the chiefs will then see which way the parade is going and then try to get in front of it and take credit. Regardless of who gets the credit thet job will get done, so we hope. Iternet could be free ,it would not matter if the leaders continue to stand in the way of progress either directly or indirectly through inaction.

Regards to all

 Muhammad
 

--- On Fri, 3/27/09, Shaheel Luckoo - Personal <sluckoo at intnet.mu> wrote:

From: Shaheel Luckoo - Personal <sluckoo at intnet.mu>
Subject: [afnog] Challenges in the African Continent
To: afnog at afnog.org
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 9:27 AM




 
 






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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