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Africa
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Africa news

Nearly seven in ten (69%) South Africans turn to Internet for vital services during pandemic
South Africa Today
How Internet Connectivity In Public Schools Can Save Nigeria’s Education System
Leadership
Remembering Francis Kariuki: Africa’s Tweeting Chief
The African community networks community is sad to learn about the passing of one of its prolific members, Chief...

Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa
For many in the African region, Internet interruptions or service degradations occur frequently, which results in a disjointed Internet...
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Personal Data Protection Guidelines for Africa
A joint initiative of the Internet Society and the Commission of the African Union
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Supporting the Creation and Scalability of Affordable Access Solutions: Understanding Community Networks in Africa
Community networks, communications infrastructure deployed and operated by citizens to meet their own communication needs, are being increasingly proposed...
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A Case Study in Local Content Hosting: Speed, Visits, and Cost of Access
The availability of locally relevant content is increasingly seen as a limiting factor in the widespread adoption of the...
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Internet Infrastructure Security Guidelines for Africa
The Guidelines emphasize the importance of the multistakeholder model and a collaborative security approach in protecting Internet infrastructure.
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Internet for Education in Africa: Helping Policy Makers to Meet the Global Education Agenda Sustainable Development Goal 4
This report reviews the potential implications of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in general, and the Internet in particular,...
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Promoting Content In Africa
The vision of the Internet Society is that the Internet is for everyone, everywhere, and to help achieve this...
Our Members
With 20,469 members, Africa is the home to 31% of our global members. We have 34 Chapters with 11,611 Chapter members in the region.