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African Women to Drive Digitalization and Transformation: AfChix and Internet Society Renew Partnership
About Internet Society
27 May 2021
African Women to Drive Digitalization and Transformation: AfChix and Internet Society Renew Partnership
African economies are making bold moves to speed up digitalization and transformation. We want women to play a key...
MIRA Project to Provide Overview of Internet’s Resiliency in Africa
Growing the Internet
18 May 2021
MIRA Project to Provide Overview of Internet’s Resiliency in Africa
Internet resilience is the ability of a network to maintain an acceptable level of service at all times. The...
Why faster connectivity means faster economic growth for Kenya
In the News
4 May 2021
Why faster connectivity means faster economic growth for Kenya
Global Diaspora News
Story about roles Kufuor, Rawlings, others played in digitizing Ghana that Akufo-Addo and Bawumia may never tell
In the News
17 March 2021
Story about roles Kufuor, Rawlings, others played in digitizing Ghana that Akufo-Addo and Bawumia may never tell
Modern Ghana
Resources
Promoting the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.
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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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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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Assessment of the impact of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) – empirical study of Kenya and Nigeria
This study quantifies for the first time how IXPs enable Kenya and Nigeria to save millions in telecommunications costs and raise...
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Anchoring the African Internet Ecosystem
Lessons from Kenya and Nigeria’s Internet Exchange Point Growth
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Explainer: What Is Eighty For Africa?
Like buying your food locally, and reducing how much you fly, getting your digital content locally also reduces the...
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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...
Our Members
With 24,753 members, Africa is the home to 33% of our global members. We have 36 Chapters with 13,919 Chapter members in the region. (as of Dec 2020)