Internet History in Africa
Some Important Dates
4 June 1996
The Leland Imitative: Internet for Africa. [Link]
15-17 Dec 1998
Africa Internet Group & Cotonou Conference
Hosted by Pierre Dandjinou [Link]
12 June 2000
Africa demands rights to ‘.africa’ Internet suffix
27 July 2000
AfriDNS
afridns.org was registered by Alan Levin.
March 2002
(Updated 30 May 2008)
Challenges facing ISPs in Africa
A PowerPoint presentation by William Stucke, presented to the ATU at the ICC, Accra, Ghana in March 2002.
Last Updated ( Friday, 30 May 2008 )
17 Sep 2003
Intra-African Connectivity
[Link]
Brian Longwe. 1 week Johannesburg, SA.
17th September 2003.
21 June 2004
dotAfrica History paper
At the beginning of the second round of the new Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) application in 2000, an entrepreneur from a western country had the idea of running dot Africa. The entrepreneur approached Nii Quaynor1 and Pierre Dandjinou, Africa’s well known technology ambassadors to organize support for the re-delegation and operation of the geographic domain.
14 juin 2003
Les Labtics: Combler le fossé numérique ente le Nord et le Sud.
Ouverts au Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger et Togo; ils s’incrivent dans le cadre
du programme «Appropriation et usage des technologies de l’information et de la communication » de l’Agence
Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie (calendrier des formations en annexe).
28 Sep – 7 Oct 2004
Rencontre Africaine des Logiciels Libres (RALL)
Les Rencontres Africaines des Logiciels Libres (RALL) sont une initiative de l’AAUL (Association Africaine des Utilisateurs de Logiciels Libres) et de l’Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, à travers son Institut Francophone des Nouvelles Technologies de l’Information et de la Formation (INTIF).
18 June 2005
Africa Regional ccTLD (AfTLD) Representative Election
The Election for the Africa Regional ccTLD (AfTLD) Representative to the ccNSO was announced on June 10, 2005.
Ali Drissa BADIEL has been elected as the Africa Regional ccTLD (AfTLD) Representative to the ccNSO council.
November 2005
Strategies For Increased Internet Growth
A call for a paradigm shift to stimulate Internet growth through content. (pdf)
2006
Regional IXPs: The need for regional Interconnection in Africa.
By William Stucke
Paper written on request for the Commonwealth Minister’s Reference Book, 2006 on the need for regional interconnection in Africa (pdf)
Last Updated ( Friday, 30 May 2008 )
2005 – 2006
Afrispa - Afix Internet Exchange Point Trainings
Workshops
Botswana – May 2005
Zambia – July 2005
Malawi – July 2005
Ghana – October 2005
Benin – October 2005
Burundi – March 2006
Togo – April 2006
Ivory Coast – April 2006
Nigeria – April 2006
Cameroon – July 2006
Senegal – July 2006
Congo – August 2006
Gabon – August 2006
6 Jul 2018
Celebration of 20 years of Internet Governance in Africa.
Cotonou 2018
In December 1998 a group of internet pioneers met in Benin to discuss Africa’s progress, how the internet could be anchored to serve the continent better and even more to plan the development of the internet on the continent. That was the first forum ever held on internet governance in Africa, well ahead of the global ones which followed in the early 20’s.
This historic forum was organized by the African Internet Group (AIG) a newly established organization composed of Africans who had all attended ISOC-organized training sessions and who assigned themselves the task of structuring internet associations on the continent in order to further a gradual and actual ownership of internet by the Africans.
Our aim is to tell you the real story of the Internet in Africa and to bring you regular updates on the evolution of technology in Africa.