[Air-L] WEBCAST 1 FEB: Unlocking Cross-Border Connectivity into Landlocked Countries in Africa / Débloquer la connectivité transfrontalière vers les pays enclavés d’Afrique

[Joly MacFie]

Just starting.  /  Commence à peine.

A couple more speakers have been added / Deux conférenciers supplémentaires
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Patrick Christian, Telegeography
Ben Ryall, Meta


ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday 1 February 2022 at 13:00-14:30 UTC the
African IXP Association, in partnership with the Internet Society, host
'Unlocking Cross-Border Connectivity into Landlocked Countries in Africa '.
The focus of this 15th webinar in the Virtual Peering Ser"


[image: LIVESTREAM (EN)] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/afpeering15>On
*Tuesday 1 February 2022* at *13:00-14:30 UTC* the *African IXP Association
<https://www.af-ix.net/>*, in partnership with the *Internet Society
<https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/africa/>*, host '*Unlocking
Cross-Border Connectivity into Landlocked Countries in Africa
<https://www.afpif.org/virtual-peering-series-africa/unlocking-cross-border-connectivity-to-landlocked-countries-in-africa/>
*'. The focus of this 15th webinar in the *Virtual Peering Series – Africa
<https://www.afpif.org/virtual-peering-series-africa/>* will be on the
integral role of cross-border connectivity to access subsea cables in
bridging the digital divide growing between coastal countries and
landlocked countries in Africa.

*SPEAKERS*
*Brian Longwe*, Co-founder and CEO, Converged Technology Networks
*Emmanuel Kwarteng*, Country Manager, MainOne
*Ben Roberts*, Group Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Liquid
Intelligent Technologies

*MODERATORS*
*Michelle Opiyo*, Senior Network Engineer, Workonline Communications
*Jacob Dagunduro*, Head, Technical Services, Internet eXchange Point of
Nigeria (IXPN)

*LIVESTREAM ENGLISH http://livestream.com/internetsociety/afpeering15
<http://livestream.com/internetsociety/afpeering15> *(Open Captions)

Le *mardi 1er février 2022* de *13h00 à 14h30 UTC*, l'*African IXP
Association <https://www.af-ix.net/>*, en partenariat avec l'*Internet
Society <https://www.internetsociety.org/fr/regions/africa/>*, accueillera
« *Débloquer la connectivité transfrontalière vers les pays enclavés
d’Afrique
<https://www.afpif.org/fr/serie-de-peering-virtuels-afrique/debloquer-la-connectivite-transfrontaliere-vers-les-pays-enclaves-dafrique/>*
». L'accent de ce 15e webinaire de la série *Virtual Peering - Afrique
<https://www.afpif.org/fr/virtual-peering-series-africa/>* sera sur le rôle
essentiel de la connectivité transfrontalière pour accéder aux câbles
sous-marins dans la réduction de la fracture numérique croissante entre les
pays côtiers et les pays enclavés en Afrique.

*INTERVENANTS*
*Brian Longwe*, Cofondateur et PDG, Converged Technology Networks
*Emmanuel Kwarteng*, Directeur national, MainOne Ghana
*Ben Roberts*, Directeur de la technologie et de l’innovation au sein du
groupe, Liquid Intelligent Technologies

*MODÉRATEURS*
*Michelle Opiyo*, Ingénieure réseau principale, Workonline Communications
*Jacob Dagunduro*, Responsable des services techniques, point d’échange
Internet du Nigéria (IXPN)

*LIVESTREAM FRANÇAIS http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/afpeering15
<http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/afpeering15>*

*PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3fFSEiF <https://bit.ly/3fFSEiF> *(EN/FR)
(EN Closed Captions)

*REAL TIME TEXT **https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC*
<https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC> (EN)

*TWITTER #IPeerinAfrica <https://bit.ly/IPeerInAfrica> @AfPIF @Af_IX
@ISOC_Africa @blongwe Emmanuel Kwarteng @MainOneGH @benliquidkenya
@RackCentre @wolcomm @Facebook @FLEXOPTIX @paixio @MicrosoftAfrica
#captioned *

*SIMULCASTS*
*https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>*
*https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive> *(EN)
*https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc>*
*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/afpeering15
<https://archive.org/details/afpeering15>*



*SPONSORS*
*FLEXOPTIX <https://www.flexoptix.net/>* | *Meta <https://meta.com/>*
| *Microsoft
<https://www.microsoft.com/>* | *Paix <https://paix.io/>* | *MainOne
<https://www.mainone.net/>* | *Rack Centre <https://rack-centre.com/>*
| *Workonline
Communications <https://www.workonline.africa/>*



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