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Connecting Africa through ICT
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Theme: "Connecting Africa,focus on ICT Broadband infrastructure and Universal Access."

(November 27-29) A three-day ninth edition of the Africa Investment Summit organized by the Ministry of Communications and ICT, Benin and Kemilinks International

The summit takled issues on how countries in African would appreciate and commit to digital broadcasting.
One of the highpoint was the challenges of transition from analog to digital broadcasting and universal access for telecom and broadcasting sectors on the continent.

South Africa and Kenya are infrastructurally and policy ready to switch over to digital broadcasting as early as 2009. South Africa started since 2005 while Kenya was march 14, 2007. South Africa switch on its digital transmission backbone earlier in November for testing and by 2011 will switch off analog equipment while kenya started licensing signal distribution in August 2008 and hopes to switch on its digital switch in Seteber 2009.

Challenges abound for other African countries to switch - political will, funding, awareness, policy and regulatory framework, capacity building, frequency allocation and consumer adoption.

Can this feat be achieved in the earliest posible time?

January 5, 2009 | 8:02 AM Comments  0 comments

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