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

[jaberamatogoro at gmail.com]

Hello Michuki,


Thank you for sharing. 80% locally accessed is something that we can achieve by 2020. As it has been discussed in the mailing list, the challenge of local traffic is partly due to lack of data center to host our local services.


Just as an example, Staff and students in my university may prefer to use gmail/yahoo/Hotmail for mailing services and NOT university email account due to availability and reliability challenges. It is a normal story to find the mail service is down for two to three days.


Secondly, Unemployment rate is high in some of African countries, yet we still have opportunities to offer the employment for our youth. For example, Since 2008 the Government initiated Internet Exchange Point Projects whereby, the government made a strategic decision to allocate FIVE IXP in five Zones. Since then, the peering and content to some of these IXP has been a challenge. If you read literatures, you find a lot of good stories elsewhere which could be used as an opportunity in most of African Context to benefit our community.


Thanks for ISOC and other organization that are working on IXP BUT we still have a lot to do to make this dream a reality.



Regards,

Matogoro J

Manager - Dodoma Internet Exchange Point

Tanzania, East Africa






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From: Michuki Mwangi
Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎August‎ ‎6‎, ‎2015 ‎3‎:‎07‎ ‎PM
To: afpif at afpif.org





Hi Everyone,

As you know we have a vision of 80% locally accessed and 20% international Internet traffic by 2020. We recently came across Telegeography's forecast from 2014 - 2021 which puts it at 60%!.

https://www.telegeography.com/research-services/ip-transit-forecast-service/index.html

Telegeography will be at AfPIF to speak about the trends in Africa over the last 5 years.

We would also like to hear your perspectives.

Thanks and regards,

Michuki.
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