Over 500 key players in the local, regional and global Internet industry are set to gather in Gaborone to discuss Internetworking for African Development.
The global Internet community will convene in Gaborone, Botswna, from 29 May – 10 June 2016 at the Gaborone International Convention Centre for the prestigious Africa Internet Summit (AIS’16) to discuss key issues in African Internet development.The theme of this year’s Summit is “Beyond connectivity: Internetworking for African Development”. Organised by AFRINIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa, and the Af* (‘AF-star’) organisations, this fifth edition of the AIS is proudly hosted by the Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA).
The AIS is an annual multi-stakeholder ICT conference where key players in the African and global Internet industry come together to teach, share, discuss and network with each other. It is open to anyone and is attended by network engineers, governments, business leaders, universities, civil society representatives and individuals interested in African Internet development.
Launched in The Gambia in 2012, the Summit consists of training courses, workshops, tutorials, Internet policy development discussions and conference sessions. It aims to facilitate the sharing of ICT knowledge, capacity building and the sharing of best practices throughout the African region and beyond. Discussions on Internet number resource policy development, Internet security, IPv4 exhaustion, IPv6 deployment, the IANA Stewardship transition, ICT business issues, mobile networking, data, research, local content, IXPs and access provision are on the agenda.
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