[Afpif] Transit vs. peering Focust for Africa by 2021

[Anibe Onuche]

Hello Tinka.

Thanks for your mail and bringing us up to date on best approach to the 
issue at hand.

I would like to point out some few things here though.

First, I was referring to the 80% locally generated content vision while 
not ignoring the percentage the global internet brings.
  I would like to see a scenario where Africans build up content by 
themselves to suit African contents.
I would like to see a mail server that matches the yahoo prototype with 
an African identity.
India has done it with their rediff portal (rediff.com).
I also want to see an Akamai ( and a lot of concepts e.g netflix ) 
prototype in Africa.  Iroko Partners are buying into the idea of hosting 
within the African content and I hope this happens soon.

You mention the usual suspects but you might be shocked on the a new 
direction we African want in the not too distant future. We are seeing 
this happening slowly.
Digital Media , Social networks, Newspaper contents,Mobile money, movies 
with African Content will be more receptive soon.

We need to put our acts together to make this happens.

Thanks .
Anibe Onuche

On 8/6/2015 3:11 PM, Mark Tinka wrote:
>
>
> On 6/Aug/15 15:47, Anibe Onuche wrote:
>
> > Hello all. > > 80% locally accessing would mean a lot of work. > Most content 
> meant for the local internet ecosystem are hosted outside the shores 
> of the country :-(   . > Local traffic is been imported into the country.
>
> I think what Africa needs is not only a return of its content into the 
> continent, but also for non-African content to come quicker into Africa.
>
> This is what migrated traffic away from North America into Europe, and 
> from North America into the Asia Pacific.
>
> The global content is every bit as important as the local content, 
> especially when that global content forms a greater part of the % of 
> traffic hitting users in Africa.
>
>
> > I am of the opinion that African IXPs should work in tandem with organizations ( e.g ISOC ) ,  Government and  stakeholders to host content locally with the ISPs. > ISPs should come together and form alliances where the challenges 
> of the industries are looked into with a view of reducing such 
> challenges and obstacles. > The resultant effect to local content can 
> be rewarding to the local IXP , ISPs and Government.
>
> You touch on a very important point, and that is data centre co-location.
>
> One of the many reasons we are not seeing growth in local content 
> concentration (and in effect, localization of traffic) is because 
> there aren't any carrier-neutral data centres in Africa to host that 
> content (yes, a few here and there, but the situation is a lot dire 
> than that).
>
> ISP facilities are neither carrier-neutral nor designed for co-lo 
> services.
>
>
> > It would be nice to generate local traffic rather that getting such from the global internet. >  Possibly then,   we might start exporting such local traffic outside.
>
> I think the issue of "generating" local content, while noble, is not a 
> solution.
>
> Users want what they want, and these days, it's the usual suspects I 
> need not burden all of you with naming.
>
> The real question is whether that popular content is coming from 
> within or outside Africa.
>
> Mark.

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