The focus was on enhancing Africa's Internet infrastructure, content and expertise. Pragmatic, clearly-focused and comprehensive, the Symposium presented cutting-edge information on current and emerging technical and policy issues confronting African educators, technologists and policy-makers.

The theme of the Symposium was "Beyond Basic Connectivity in Africa" and presentations were made on the results of several international connectivity projects and on pressing Internet-related issues facing African nations today.

The African Networking Symposium keynote speech was delivered by the Honorable Cmdr. P. M. G. Griffiths, Dep. Minister of Communication for the Government of Ghana. Symposium papers addressed the status of various African Internet-related activities. The Symposium also included African country/regional reports and distinct panel sessions on:

• Leland Initiative
• the Sustainable Development Network Program
• the Orstom Initiatives ... and more.

For further information, you may contact:

tkamel@idsc.gov.eg
shem@arcc.or.ke
quaynor@ghana.com

Presentations

The African Networking Symposium grew out of the activities of a group of African participants at the 1996 Developing Countries Workshop in Montreal, an activity of the Society.

At that time, about 250 participants were trained in depth in networking technology, use and management, in a one week workshop preceding the conference.

African participants convened and decided to share their experiences informally. Interest in the topic was sufficiently high that the Internet Society decided to formalize it as one of the events surrounding the annual conference.

• Preface
  
• Authors
• Sessions
  
• Participants
  
• Papers