[Chapter-delegates] NEWS RELEASE: Internet Society’s African Peering and Interconnection Forum Provides Opportunities for Regional Internet Growth

[Joly MacFie]

We do expect to be webcasting this via the Chapters channel.

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On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:25 PM, <cover at isoc.org> wrote:

> Internet Society’s African Peering and Interconnection Forum Provides
> Opportunities for Regional Internet Growth
>
> AfPIF-3 Highlights Regional Interconnection – Addressing Africa’s Internet
> Transit Deficit
>
> [Washington, D.C. and Geneva, Switzerland --13 August 2012] – The third
> African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF-3), organized by the
> Internet Society, will be held 22-24 August 2012 in Johannesburg, South
> Africa.  A multistakeholder forum, AfPIF aims to foster national and
> cross-border interconnection opportunities where key stakeholders,
> including infrastructure and service providers, Internet Exchange Points
> (IXPs), regulators, and policy makers can share experiences, hear from
> experts, and advance peering and interconnection arrangements.
>
> According to recent research, nearly all peering and interconnection
> agreements are forged at regional and global peering forums around the
> world. A unique regional forum, AfPIF facilitates discussions on
> infrastructure challenges, including terrestrial capacity issues, national
> and regional IXP development, local content development, and international
> peering.  AfPIF provides a venue for productive technical discussions and
> business relationships that can be forged to augment Internet
> infrastructure and services in Africa.
>
> Keynotes and panel sessions will cover topics that address Africa’s
> Internet transit deficit, including Peering Negotiations and Strategies for
> Operators, Peering and Transit Economics, Landlocked Countries and
> Cross-border Regulatory Reality, Exploring the Content Business in Africa,
> and Attracting Global Content via Regional IXPs.
>
> “AfPIF has established itself as a strategic event for conducting business
> in Africa,” said Dawit Bekele, Internet Society Regional Bureau Director
> for Africa. “This year, we’ve added even more opportunities for business
> connections to be made and agreements to be negotiated.  This conference
> offers an impressive array of speakers and educational programs, along with
> networking events to provide attendees with a venue where they have access
> to a wide range of regional interconnection opportunities.”
>
> The Internet Society would like to recognize and thank all of the AfPIF-3
> sponsors, including Platinum sponsors Liquid Telecom and SEACOM, and
> Connectivity sponsor Dark Fibre Africa.
>
> Ben Roberts, CTO of Liquid Telecom
> “Liquid Telecom is proud to sponsor AfPIF in Johannesburg. The event has
> come to Southern Africa at the right time.  With high speed cross border
> fibre connections (like Liquid Telecom's fibre project) linking South
> Africa to its neighbouring countries, the visions discussed at these AfPIF
> events are becoming a reality."
>
> Mark Simpson, CEO of SEACOM
> “With SEACOM's commitment to building the African Internet, we feel very
> strongly about the values that the AfPIF events represent.  Bringing the
> operational community together to collectively work toward improving the
> Internet experience in Africa through peering, AfPIF embodies the very
> principles that SEACOM hold dear to its heart, and we are proud to be
> associated with, as well as contribute to, the success of this meeting.”
>
> Gustav Smit, CEO of Dark Fibre Africa (DFA)
>
> "As South African’s leading open access dark fibre infrastructure
> provider, DFA is privileged to be sponsoring the fibre infrastructure for
> the event. We are excited to showcase the capabilities and speed of fibre.
> DFA has already laid in excess of 6 200 kilometres of infrastructure across
> South Africa and is open to all licensed players on equal terms. Our
> expenditure plan is in excess of R3.5-billion. Any service provider,
> licensed to do so by ICASA, may rent fibres from DFA for their own
> transmission and backbone infrastructure purposes."
>
> The full list of AfPIF-3 sponsors, along with the programme and
> information about the speakers and panelists can be found at
> http://www.internetsociety.org/afpif-2012/overview.
>
> Link --
> http://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society%E2%80%99s-african-peering-and-interconnection-forum-provides-opportunities-regional
>
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