Promoting technological innovations in Africa by Africans

Wednesday 14 January 2015

ISOC: FOREIGN WEBSITE HOSTING IS IMPENDING INTERNET GROWTH IN AFRICA.



Lack of locally hosted content in African countries might be stifling development of the Internet ecosystem on the continent. In the latest information from Internet Society (ISOC), it posited that in many growing countries and emerging regions, the vast majority of content accessed by local users is hosted abroad and this according to ISOC, '' Have significant impact on the entire Internet ecosystem in a country''.

According to Michael Kende, ISOC's Chief Economist and co-author of the report, ''Accessing any type of content abroad can be very costly for ISPs, and therefore, international links are often under-provisioned, resulting in slow access times that limit usage. Second, these raised costs for accessing international content are passed on to users, the high prices limiting usage. Finally, these limits on demand will, in in turn, decrease the creation of further Internet content, keeping the entire ecosystem underdeveloped.''

Using Rwanda as a case study, the information which was co-authored by Mr. Kende and Karen Rose of the Strategy and Research office of the organization, recommends that policymakers, companies, and content entrepreneurs, should focus on building a positive enabling environment that will incentivise local hosting and service growth. This according to the information will offer content providers a local choice, rather than imposing measures that artificially require local hosting.  

 

No comments:

Post a Comment

About Us

Recent

Random