[53887] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Networking in Africa...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Mon Dec 2 13:24:43 2002
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 10:24:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: alex@yuriev.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10212021309230.12982-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 alex@yuriev.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > A friend of mine is working on one of the committees for next years
> > Supercomputing conference and noticed that, in the past, they'd had
> > participants from most continents but none from Africa. Does anyone
> > know of a good organization/group/etc which we could spam with our
> > conference notice and request for participation?
>
> Would that friend be so kind as to name more than a handful places in Africa
> with IP connectivity (multinational companies do not count).
Most major cities in most countries have at a minimum ip dialup services,
in major metropolitan centers there are now large numbers of wireless
isps as well...
A more interesting and germane question is how big is the number of
people/organizations in africa with hpc applications and how do your reach
them, since that is the subset of folks interested in attending super
computing.
> Alex
>
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