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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Networking in Africa...
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 [email protected] 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 > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Academic User Services [email protected] -- PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -- In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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