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| Identifying U.S-African Collaborations and Projects that Would Benefit from Expanded Bandwidth to Africa |
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 Posted by Ed Dodds on Thursday November 27, @01:06PM
from the dept.
 The Internet Educational Equal Access
Foundation (IEEAF), along with several partners, has received
a planning
grant from the National Science
Foundation to propose very high speed Internet extensions, on
the order of 10 Gbps, to connect the academic, research, health and
non-governmental organization (NGO) communities in African countries
to the rest of the world. Such connections would provide African
universities and medical centers connectivity equivalent to the best
available to comparable institutions in the United States. To win
the large grant that would allow the network connection to be implemented,
the team that won the NSF planning grant is seeking evidence of academic
collaboration, particularly in science and in health, between U.S.
and Africans in four countries-Ghana and Senegal most importantly,
but also Madagascar and Mozambique-to help the NSF understand, appreciate,
and value the impact of having these high speed connections in place.
The team is requesting information about:
- Joint projects at your institution that involve collaboration with
scientists, other researchers, medical personnel, and NGOs in any
of these countries.
- Joint projects with known individuals from or in these countries
that would take place, but cannot currently because of inadequate
bandwidth/communication between your institution and the African
country.
- Projects involving existing or former graduate students from any
of these countries that are good candidates for joint work upon the
graduate student's returns to his or her country.
- Potential projects, previously not conceptualized or implemented
because of a lack of high-speed Internet connections to institutions
and researchers in these countries.
Information should be sent via e-mail to africaprojects@internet2.edu
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