[Air-L] WEBCAST TODAY: Measuring the Internet in Africa Project (MIRA) Quarterly Update

[Joly MacFie]

AFRINIC are hosting today's meeting, a MIRA progress report. English only
this time round.

ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday 16 September 2021 at 13:00 UTC the Measuring
the Internet in Africa (MIRA) project will hold its first quarterly update
meeting. The project uses Internet measurements gathered by measurement
devices called MIRA pods, which are located within "


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<http://livestream.com/internetsociety/miraupdate1>On *Thursday
16 September 2021* at *13:00 UTC* the *Measuring the Internet in Africa
(MIRA) project <https://pulse.internetsociety.org/resilience>* will hold
its *first quarterly update <https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/6220>*
meeting. The project uses Internet measurements gathered by measurement
devices called MIRA pods, which are located within African countries, to 1)
Determine levels of Internet resilience in African countries over time by
recording specific metrics, including throughput and latency (the time it
takes to reach various Internet destinations); 2) Increase the number of
Internet measurement vantage points in Africa, i.e., the places from which
measurements are taken; 3) Make the data available to everyone, everywhere
on the *Internet Society’s Pulse platform
<https://pulse.internetsociety.org>*.

During this one hour webinar, topics include: The MIRA Internet Resilience
Index; MIRA Pods deployment and hosting; MIRA Pods data visualization

MIRA is a joint initiative between *African Network Information Centre
<http://www.afrinic.org/>* (AFRINIC) and the *Internet Society
<https://www.internetsociety.org/>*.

*SPEAKERS*
*Arthur Carindal*, AFRINIC
*Simon Seruyinda*, AFRINIC
*Kevin Chege*, Internet Society
*Amreesh Phokeer*, Internet Society
*Dieudonne Munganga*, Researcher
*Henok Sisay*, Researcher

*LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/miraupdate1
<http://livestream.com/internetsociety/miraupdate1>*

*AGENDA https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/6220
<https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/6220>*

*PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3lvKlYW <https://bit.ly/3lvKlYW>*
(ENGLISH ONLY)

*REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3Cghi2h <https://bit.ly/3Cghi2h>*

*TWITTER #InternetResilience
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/InternetResilience?src=hashtag_click>
@isoc_pulse @afrinic @isoc_africa @InternetSociety*

*SIMULCASTS*
*https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>*
*https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>*
*https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>*
(AI captions)
*https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/
<https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/>*
*https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/
<https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/>*

*ARCHIVE*
*https://archive.org/details/miraupdate1
<https://archive.org/details/miraupdate1>*

*IMAGE: Gerd Altmann <https://pixabay.com/users/geralt-9301/> from Pixabay*

*Permalink*
https://isoc.live/14534/



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