[Air-L] WEBCAST MAR 16 – Libraries in Response – Broadband from Space: In To Africa

[Joly MacFie]

Starlink recently announced it is connecting libraries in Nigeria
<https://punchng.com/five-nigerian-libraries-gain-free-access-to-starlink/>,
and schools in Rwanda
<https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/elon-musks-starlink-brings-high-speed-internet-to-500-schools-in-rwanda/kb4gmck>.
Today's commentators include ISOC's own Verengai Mabika

REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3JovUC8

[image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/16431>On *Thursday March 16
2023* at *08:00
PDT* (16:00 UTC) *Gigabit Libraries Network
<https://gigabitlibrariesnetwork.wildapricot.org/>* presents Session 71 in
its *Libraries in Response
<https://gigabitlibrariesnetwork.wildapricot.org/page-1712339>* series,
with the theme '*Broadband from Space: In To Africa
<https://bit.ly/3JKQrCo>*'

Join to hear about the first community anchor institutions in Africa to
initiate connectivity via low earth orbit sat systems. Can LEO's allow the
least connected continent to reach into every community?

*SPEAKERS*
*Dr. Nkem E. Osuigwe*, Development & Training Director, African Library and
Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA)
*Verengai Mabika*, Senior Policy Advisor, Africa, Internet Society ·
*Dr. Larry Press*, Professor of Information Systems, California State
University

*LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/leo-africa
<http://livestream.com/internetsociety/leo-africa>*

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*TWITTER @GigLibraries <https://bit.ly/3mVyjwD> @librarian_nkem @AfLIACon
@VerengaiMabika @InternetSociety @larrypress @DominguezHills #leo #Starlink
#libraries #africa #InternetForEveryone*

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*ARCHIVE*
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