It is well known that they are large benefits arising from collaboration amongst tertiary education institutes around the world. But most of African colleges and universities are far lagging behind, mainly because of poor internet connectivity in different parts of the continent:
Paying more for internet access than just about anywhere else in the world doesn’t help the continent’s struggling education and economies.
The good news is that, very soon African education institutions are going to be among the first beneficiaries of high speed connectivity brought by fiber optic cables.
The broadband, which landed in East Africa last month of June 2009, is supposed to be operational by October.
With the usage of new fiber optic connectivity, in lieu of satellite, experts predict that telecommunications costs could go down by 60 percent as the cost of bandwidth will significantly drop.
The education sector is among those to benefit from this development because high speed data solutions are expected with the increased bandwidth.
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As they say Martin the taste is in the pudding. We look forward to faster broadband and the access to learning on the net.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds great for the continent. The digital divide is a real setback for our continent.
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