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Seacom laying Africa undersea cable
Mauritius-based private equity venture Seacom has started the construction of a fibre optic cable that will link southern and east Africa with India and Europe.
The $650 million project covers more than 15,000 kilometres to link South Africa to India and France through Mozambique, Madagascar, Kenya and Tanzania. It is expected to provide first broadband access to countries in East Africa, which are currently using satellite connections.
In a similar project, NEPAD e-Africa Commission signed a deal with an American firm 5-P Holdings in November 2007 for the construction of an undersea submarine cable to link every country in Africa with the outside world.
This is a joint project between African investors and US telecommunications development company Herakles Telecom. The cable will be ready to serve southern and eastern Africa from 2009 onwards. Read more.
Click here to see Alcatel-Lucent’s animations of laying and repairing of submarine cable.
FLAG to invest $1.5 billion on new submarine cable network
FLAG Telecom plans to deploy the largest IP-based submarine cable network that will connect 60 countries, including many that currently have poor connectivity by 2009. India, Indonesia, and Philippines are among the countries that FLAG’s NGN network will have a presence in. Reliance to carry FLAG far and wide: “We live in a world where there is too much of bandwidth for some, little for others and none for many – there is unequal access to bandwidth in and across countries, continents and communities,” said Anil Dhirubhai Ambani, chairman, Reliance Communications. “FLAG NGN will democratise digital access,” he added.
FLAG NGN will comprise of our systems. FLAG NGN System 1 would cover Asia that includes India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei and Honk Kong. FLAG NGN System 2 would be for Africa covering Kenya, Mozambique, Republic of South Africa, Tanzania, Madagascar and Mauritius.
FLAG NGN System 3 will cater to the Mediterranean region, including Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Malta, Libya and Lebanon. And the Trans-Pacific region, including the US West Coast, Japan, China and Hong Kong, would be covered by FLAG NGN System 4.
National Early Warning System
National Early Warning System: Sri Lanka (NEWS:SL):
*Executive Summary*# *The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed the lives of one in 500 of Sri Lanka�s people and displaced one in twenty has highlighted the critical importance of an effective National Early Warning System for Sri Lanka (NEWS:SL)*. Meeting this need, which has been discussed (and forgotten) after each of our too frequent disasters such as the cyclones of 1978 and the floods of 2003, can no longer be postponed. # *Public warning is a system, not a technology*. The identification, detection and risk assessment of a hazard, the accurate identification of the vulnerability of a population at risk and finally the communication of information to the vulnerable population about the threat in sufficient time and clarity so that they take action to avert negative consequences constitute the system of public warning. Warning allows people to act in order to prevent hazards from becoming disasters. Effective public warning saves lives, reduces economic loss, reduces trauma and disruption in ..read more
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Sujata: summary too lenghty Luxman: Since audience is EU needs to have language on ICT uplifting “masses” and “rural” access. Malathy: Process element of regulation is not there? Rohan: Study was originally for investor study and language taken from WTO language leaving out the independence of regulator. Process question will be in another study comparing different sectors. Malathy: why cant process be built into current study? Rohan: More questions you put in the response rate is poor. Luxman: If performance indicator isnt ok, then need to know what is going wrong with regulator.. Rohan: If sector is doing well, why should I care if regulator isnt answering letters on time? Sujata: Perception could be added for evaluating process regulator? Amal: When respondents received questionnaire they thought it was too long. And deadlines keep slipping Rohan: Add process oriented evaluation for regulation in the proposal, good suggestion Chanuka: Who will be user for benchmark data? Rohan: Providers, government, policymakers can use this data Divakar: Will the data be useful to civil society? Rohan: it allows people to organise protests if the prices in SL is highest in the region. Suajata: Will it allow real-time access to data? Divakar: Yes it would allow. Sujata: in NSF project only when someone enters complete data can they be able to access ..read more
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