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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?

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From: Frank A. Coluccio	7/22/2007 4:14:19 AM
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Africa, Offline: Waiting for the Web By Ron Nixon \| July 22, 2007 \| NY Times -- Excerpt: A lack of infrastructure is the biggest problem. In many countries, communications networks were destroyed during years of civil conflict, and continuing political instability deters governments or companies from investing in new systems. E-mail messages and phone calls sent from some African countries have to be routed through Britain, or even the United States, increasing expenses and delivery times. About 75 percent of African Internet traffic is routed this way and costs African countries billions of extra dollars each year that they would not incur if their infrastructure was up to speed. “Most African governments haven’t paid much attention to their infrastructure,” said Vincent Oria, an associate professor of computer science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a native of the Ivory Coast. “In places where hunger, AIDS and poverty are rampant, they didn’t see it as critical until now.” For complete story: tinyurl.com ------

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