AfrISPA

AfrISPA is a continental Association of African Internet Service Provider Associations.

AfrISPA was formed at two meetings on the 1st and 2nd August 2001 by attendees at the ACT Summit in Pretoria, South Africa. Minutes of the first meeting and second meeting and documents of the association are on this site.

The Minutes of the 2002 (First) Annual General Meeting are now available.

Office Bearers for 2002

AITEC EUROPE

Mr. Eric M.K Osiakwan, Executive Secretary of AfrISPA was in London to represent the organisation at the AITEC EUROPE event from 17th to 19th November @ Chelsea Hotelin Chelsea Village where he spoke about AfrISPA and The Halfway Proposition.

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO VIEW HIS PRESENTATION

AfrISPA addresses the thirty-fifth Session of the Commission/Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.

Mr William Stucke, Chairman of AfrISPA, intervened on behalf of the Organisation in respect of African Actions in support of NEPAD Priority Area 4 (Data, Information and Communications) and elaborated on the reasons for the so called 'Digital Divide'.

Issues that he raised with the Ministers included:

Low teledensity in Africa
Exceptionally high bandwidth costs to African ISP's (partly due to Africa having to bear the full costs of connectivity to G8 countries)

Solutions proposed included:

Building national Internet Exchange Points
Building regional carriers
Removal of Regulatory barriers to Private Sector built Networks within and between African Countries
Building of an East African submarine fibre optic cable network.

AfrISPA have produced a working Document entitled "THE HALFWAY PROPOSITION" which elaborates on these issues and proposed solutions. The full text is available here.

Current member Internet Service Provider Associations

Name	Country
ISPA	South Africa
TESPOK	Kenya
UIXP	Uganda
GISPA	Ghana
ISPAN	Nigeria
FAIR	Mauritius
TISPA	Tanzania

If your ISPA would like to join AfrISPA, then please contact any one of the officers of AfrISPA directly. Interested individuals are welcome to join as well - there is no fee for joining at present