From chris at chriszielinski.com  Wed Jan  7 14:54:25 2015
From: chris at chriszielinski.com (Chris Zielinski)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 21:54:25 +0200 (CAT)
Subject: [Bp_localcontent] Is access to information a human right?
Message-ID: <1978794808.61526.1420660465588.vpopmail@atl4oxapp106.mgt.hosting.qts.netsol.com>

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From kolubahzizi at yahoo.com  Fri Jan  9 08:16:06 2015
From: kolubahzizi at yahoo.com (Kolubahzizi T. Howard)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 13:16:06 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Bp_localcontent] Is access to information a human right?
In-Reply-To: <1978794808.61526.1420660465588.vpopmail@atl4oxapp106.mgt.hosting.qts.netsol.com>
References: <1978794808.61526.1420660465588.vpopmail@atl4oxapp106.mgt.hosting.qts.netsol.com>
Message-ID: <1849924547.4146731.1420809366284.JavaMail.yahoo@jws100165.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

Interestingly Chris, in 2013I published an article on whether Internet access was a human right or an essential facility. For those interested it can be found at: Internet Access a Human Right or Essential Facility

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Kind regards.?Kolubahzizi T. Howard 
President 
ISOC Liberia Chapter &
Director of Strategy
Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) 
+231-776200000/+231880539961/+231-555660001 

     On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 7:54 PM, Chris Zielinski <chris at chriszielinski.com> wrote:
   

   This may be of interest to members of this list  Dear All, Is access to information a human right? I?ve just posted a blog trying to answer that question at http://ziggytheblue.wordpress.com ? Wordpress runs a short free registration step and sends you no subsequent spam. Happy New Year to all! Chris chris at chriszielinski.com
 
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From kende at isoc.org  Tue Jan 13 04:50:39 2015
From: kende at isoc.org (Michael Kende)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 09:50:39 +0000
Subject: [Bp_localcontent] Local content hosting paper
Message-ID: <D0DAA8F9.4AB74%kende@isoc.org>

Dear all,

I hope that this finds you well.  If you recall, I discussed several times during our calls our insights regarding the hosting of local content, based on some work we were doing in Rwanda.  I am very pleased to announce the publication of our resulting report today, entitled "Promoting Local Content Hosting to Develop the Internet Ecosystem," which I co-authored with my colleague Karen Rose.   This report starts from the observation that most, if not all, emerging countries already have local content, but it is typically hosted overseas, and must be accessed over often expensive and sometimes under-provisioned international links.  To gather data and insights, we worked in partnership with the Hon. Minister Jean Philbert Nsengimana of Rwanda and his team at the Ministry of Youth and ICT and many of the key stakeholders in the country.

As a result, we can show that content providers in countries such as Rwanda are hosting their content abroad because it is cheaper, but that this is imposing a much larger cost on the local ISPs who must pay to bring the content back to Rwanda.  Further, having to access the content abroad significantly decreases the throughput for users, which decreases usage and suppresses the development of the entire ecosystem.  The paper shows that when Google and Akamai cache content locally in Rwanda, usage goes up significantly as the user experience improves, and provides recommendations for making the local hosting environment a viable choice for local content providers as well.  The result should be more accessible content, more usage, and then the creation of more local content to address the new demand.

For more details and to download the paper, see http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2015/01/content-side-access-equation.  We would look forward to any thoughts or comments you might have.

Best regards,

Michael

PS I apologize if you receive this more than once on different mailings.

Michael Kende
Chief Economist
Internet Society
Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15
CH-1204 Geneva
Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 809 0367
E-mail: kende at isoc.org<mailto:kende at isoc.org>
Website: www.internetsociety.org<http://www.internetsociety.org/>

'The Internet is for Everyone!'

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From kolubahzizi at yahoo.com  Tue Jan 13 07:39:21 2015
From: kolubahzizi at yahoo.com (Kolubahzizi T. Howard)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:39:21 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Bp_localcontent] Local content hosting paper
In-Reply-To: <D0DAA8F9.4AB74%kende@isoc.org>
References: <D0DAA8F9.4AB74%kende@isoc.org>
Message-ID: <347256067.211439.1421152762186.JavaMail.yahoo@jws10095.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

Thank you for sharing Michael.
Happy New Year!?Kolubahzizi T. Howard 
President 
ISOC Liberia Chapter &
Director of Strategy
Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) 
+231-776200000/+231880539961/+231-555660001 

     On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:50 AM, Michael Kende <kende at isoc.org> wrote:
   

  Dear all,? I hope that this finds you well. ?If you recall, I discussed several times during our calls our insights regarding the hosting of local content, based on some work we were doing in Rwanda. ?I?am very pleased to announce the publication of our resulting report today, entitled "Promoting Local Content Hosting to Develop the Internet Ecosystem,"?which?I?co-authored with my colleague Karen Rose. ? This report starts from the observation that most, if not all, emerging countries already have local content, but it is typically hosted overseas, and must be accessed over often expensive and sometimes under-provisioned international links. ?To gather data and insights, we?worked in partnership with the Hon. Minister Jean Philbert Nsengimana of Rwanda and his team at the Ministry of Youth and ICT and many of the key stakeholders in the country. ?
As a result, we can show that content providers in countries such as Rwanda are hosting their content abroad because it is cheaper, but that this is imposing a much larger cost on the local ISPs who must pay to bring the content back to Rwanda. ?Further, having to access the content abroad significantly decreases the throughput for users, which decreases usage and suppresses the development of the entire ecosystem. ?The paper shows that?when Google and Akamai cache content locally in Rwanda, usage goes up significantly as the user experience improves, and provides recommendations for making the local hosting environment a viable choice for local content providers as well. ?The result should be more accessible content, more usage, and then the creation of more local content to address the new demand.?For more details and to download the paper, see?http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2015/01/content-side-access-equation. ?We would look forward to any thoughts or comments you might have.
Best regards,
Michael
PS I apologize if you receive this more than once on different mailings.
Michael KendeChief EconomistInternet SocietyGalerie Jean-Malbuisson 15CH-1204 GenevaSwitzerland
Tel: +41 22 809 0367E-mail:?kende at isoc.orgWebsite:?www.internetsociety.org
'The Internet is for Everyone!'

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From migiraldo at cable.net.co  Tue Jan 13 14:37:05 2015
From: migiraldo at cable.net.co (Martha Giraldo)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:37:05 -0500
Subject: [Bp_localcontent] Local content hosting paper
In-Reply-To: <D0DAA8F9.4AB74%kende@isoc.org>
References: <D0DAA8F9.4AB74%kende@isoc.org>
Message-ID: <004101d02f68$50bf4140$f23dc3c0$@net.co>

Thank you for sharing  Michael and thank you for helping to bring light to
local content issues, a very much needed area ..

 

Martha Giraldo

ICT4D specialist

 

De: Bp_localcontent [mailto:bp_localcontent-bounces at intgovforum.org] En
nombre de Michael Kende
Enviado el: martes, 13 de enero de 2015 04:51 a.m.
Para: bp_localcontent at intgovforum.org
Asunto: [Bp_localcontent] Local content hosting paper

 

Dear all,

 

I hope that this finds you well.  If you recall, I discussed several times
during our calls our insights regarding the hosting of local content, based
on some work we were doing in Rwanda.  I am very pleased to announce the
publication of our resulting report today, entitled "Promoting Local Content
Hosting to Develop the Internet Ecosystem," which I co-authored with my
colleague Karen Rose.   This report starts from the observation that most,
if not all, emerging countries already have local content, but it is
typically hosted overseas, and must be accessed over often expensive and
sometimes under-provisioned international links.  To gather data and
insights, we worked in partnership with the Hon. Minister Jean Philbert
Nsengimana of Rwanda and his team at the Ministry of Youth and ICT and many
of the key stakeholders in the country.  

 

As a result, we can show that content providers in countries such as Rwanda
are hosting their content abroad because it is cheaper, but that this is
imposing a much larger cost on the local ISPs who must pay to bring the
content back to Rwanda.  Further, having to access the content abroad
significantly decreases the throughput for users, which decreases usage and
suppresses the development of the entire ecosystem.  The paper shows that
when Google and Akamai cache content locally in Rwanda, usage goes up
significantly as the user experience improves, and provides recommendations
for making the local hosting environment a viable choice for local content
providers as well.  The result should be more accessible content, more
usage, and then the creation of more local content to address the new
demand.

 

For more details and to download the paper, see
http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2015/01/content-side-acces
s-equation.  We would look forward to any thoughts or comments you might
have.

 

Best regards,

 

Michael

 

PS I apologize if you receive this more than once on different mailings.

 

Michael Kende

Chief Economist

Internet Society

Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15

CH-1204 Geneva

Switzerland

 

Tel: +41 22 809 0367

E-mail: kende at isoc.org

Website: www.internetsociety.org <http://www.internetsociety.org/> 

 

'The Internet is for Everyone!'

 

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From seun.ojedeji at gmail.com  Tue Jan 13 19:35:55 2015
From: seun.ojedeji at gmail.com (Seun Ojedeji)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 01:35:55 +0100
Subject: [Bp_localcontent] Local content hosting paper
In-Reply-To: <D0DAA8F9.4AB74%kende@isoc.org>
References: <D0DAA8F9.4AB74%kende@isoc.org>
Message-ID: <CAD_dc6hsjn1dexiR8det4bQiRgbaXYSmhVtDBDtDUDq07ou-_w@mail.gmail.com>

Rwanda was a good choice indeed... Thanks for sharing.

Regards

sent from Google nexus 4
kindly excuse brevity and typos.
On 13 Jan 2015 10:50, "Michael Kende" <kende at isoc.org> wrote:

>   Dear all,
>
>
>
> I hope that this finds you well.  If you recall, I discussed several times
> during our calls our insights regarding the hosting of local content, based
> on some work we were doing in Rwanda.  I am very pleased to announce the
> publication of our resulting report today, entitled "Promoting Local
> Content Hosting to Develop the Internet Ecosystem," which I co-authored
> with my colleague Karen Rose.   This report starts from the observation
> that most, if not all, emerging countries already have local content, but
> it is typically hosted overseas, and must be accessed over often expensive
> and sometimes under-provisioned international links.  To gather data and
> insights, we worked in partnership with the Hon. Minister Jean Philbert
> Nsengimana of Rwanda and his team at the Ministry of Youth and ICT and many
> of the key stakeholders in the country.
>
>
>  As a result, we can show that content providers in countries such as
> Rwanda are hosting their content abroad because it is cheaper, but that
> this is imposing a much larger cost on the local ISPs who must pay to bring
> the content back to Rwanda.  Further, having to access the content abroad
> significantly decreases the throughput for users, which decreases usage and
> suppresses the development of the entire ecosystem.  The paper shows
> that when Google and Akamai cache content locally in Rwanda, usage goes up
> significantly as the user experience improves, and provides recommendations
> for making the local hosting environment a viable choice for local content
> providers as well.  The result should be more accessible content, more
> usage, and then the creation of more local content to address the new
> demand.
>
>
>
> For more details and to download the paper, see
> http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2015/01/content-side-access-equation.
>  We would look forward to any thoughts or comments you might have.
>
>
>  Best regards,
>
>
>  Michael
>
>
>  PS I apologize if you receive this more than once on different mailings.
>
>
>  Michael Kende
> Chief Economist
> Internet Society
> Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15
> CH-1204 Geneva
> Switzerland
>
>  Tel: +41 22 809 0367
> E-mail: kende at isoc.org
> Website: www.internetsociety.org
>
>  'The Internet is for Everyone!'
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bp_localcontent mailing list
> Bp_localcontent at intgovforum.org
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From jrjahangir at gmail.com  Tue Jan 13 21:57:30 2015
From: jrjahangir at gmail.com (Jahangir Hossain)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:57:30 +0600
Subject: [Bp_localcontent] Local content hosting paper
In-Reply-To: <D0DAA8F9.4AB74%kende@isoc.org>
References: <D0DAA8F9.4AB74%kende@isoc.org>
Message-ID: <CAG5EbH+9VPD98WUmodKpvUWKAhTXOTgYut1t-S82wGzgjHqQdg@mail.gmail.com>

This is really inseparable paper . Thanks Michael for sharing this .

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Michael Kende <kende at isoc.org> wrote:

>   Dear all,
>
>
>
> I hope that this finds you well.  If you recall, I discussed several times
> during our calls our insights regarding the hosting of local content, based
> on some work we were doing in Rwanda.  I am very pleased to announce the
> publication of our resulting report today, entitled "Promoting Local
> Content Hosting to Develop the Internet Ecosystem," which I co-authored
> with my colleague Karen Rose.   This report starts from the observation
> that most, if not all, emerging countries already have local content, but
> it is typically hosted overseas, and must be accessed over often expensive
> and sometimes under-provisioned international links.  To gather data and
> insights, we worked in partnership with the Hon. Minister Jean Philbert
> Nsengimana of Rwanda and his team at the Ministry of Youth and ICT and many
> of the key stakeholders in the country.
>
>
>  As a result, we can show that content providers in countries such as
> Rwanda are hosting their content abroad because it is cheaper, but that
> this is imposing a much larger cost on the local ISPs who must pay to bring
> the content back to Rwanda.  Further, having to access the content abroad
> significantly decreases the throughput for users, which decreases usage and
> suppresses the development of the entire ecosystem.  The paper shows
> that when Google and Akamai cache content locally in Rwanda, usage goes up
> significantly as the user experience improves, and provides recommendations
> for making the local hosting environment a viable choice for local content
> providers as well.  The result should be more accessible content, more
> usage, and then the creation of more local content to address the new
> demand.
>
>
>
> For more details and to download the paper, see
> http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2015/01/content-side-access-equation.
>  We would look forward to any thoughts or comments you might have.
>
>
>  Best regards,
>
>
>  Michael
>
>
>  PS I apologize if you receive this more than once on different mailings.
>
>
>  Michael Kende
> Chief Economist
> Internet Society
> Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15
> CH-1204 Geneva
> Switzerland
>
>  Tel: +41 22 809 0367
> E-mail: kende at isoc.org
> Website: www.internetsociety.org
>
>  'The Internet is for Everyone!'
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bp_localcontent mailing list
> Bp_localcontent at intgovforum.org
> http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/bp_localcontent_intgovforum.org
>
>


-- 
Regards //  Jahangir Hossain
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From Kivuva at transworldafrica.com  Wed Jan 14 07:56:28 2015
From: Kivuva at transworldafrica.com (Mwendwa Kivuva)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:56:28 +0300
Subject: [Bp_localcontent] Local content hosting paper
In-Reply-To: <347256067.211439.1421152762186.JavaMail.yahoo@jws10095.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
References: <D0DAA8F9.4AB74%kende@isoc.org>
	<347256067.211439.1421152762186.JavaMail.yahoo@jws10095.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <CAEhPqwq553D6v4uRXNAKjR8fUFZM8_XTSy=Zd9tKxXiwZZzt1A@mail.gmail.com>

This paper mirrors most parts ot the developing world irregardless of
continent.

I have experienced the same issues elsewhere, more expensive bandwidth
because of international carrier prices, and high latency.
On Jan 13, 2015 3:39 PM, "Kolubahzizi T. Howard" <kolubahzizi at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Thank you for sharing Michael.
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> Kolubahzizi T. Howard
> President
> ISOC Liberia Chapter &
> Director of Strategy
> Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA)
> +231-776200000/+231880539961/+231-555660001
>
>
>   On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:50 AM, Michael Kende <kende at isoc.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>   Dear all,
>
>  I hope that this finds you well.  If you recall, I discussed several
> times during our calls our insights regarding the hosting of local content,
> based on some work we were doing in Rwanda.  I am very pleased to announce
> the publication of our resulting report today, entitled "Promoting Local
> Content Hosting to Develop the Internet Ecosystem," which I co-authored
> with my colleague Karen Rose.   This report starts from the observation
> that most, if not all, emerging countries already have local content, but
> it is typically hosted overseas, and must be accessed over often expensive
> and sometimes under-provisioned international links.  To gather data and
> insights, we worked in partnership with the Hon. Minister Jean Philbert
> Nsengimana of Rwanda and his team at the Ministry of Youth and ICT and many
> of the key stakeholders in the country.
>
>  As a result, we can show that content providers in countries such as
> Rwanda are hosting their content abroad because it is cheaper, but that
> this is imposing a much larger cost on the local ISPs who must pay to bring
> the content back to Rwanda.  Further, having to access the content abroad
> significantly decreases the throughput for users, which decreases usage and
> suppresses the development of the entire ecosystem.  The paper shows
> that when Google and Akamai cache content locally in Rwanda, usage goes up
> significantly as the user experience improves, and provides recommendations
> for making the local hosting environment a viable choice for local content
> providers as well.  The result should be more accessible content, more
> usage, and then the creation of more local content to address the new
> demand.
>
>  For more details and to download the paper, see
> http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2015/01/content-side-access-equation.
>  We would look forward to any thoughts or comments you might have.
>
>  Best regards,
>
>  Michael
>
>  PS I apologize if you receive this more than once on different mailings.
>
>  Michael Kende
> Chief Economist
> Internet Society
> Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15
> CH-1204 Geneva
> Switzerland
>
>  Tel: +41 22 809 0367
> E-mail: kende at isoc.org
> Website: www.internetsociety.org
>
>  'The Internet is for Everyone!'
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bp_localcontent mailing list
> Bp_localcontent at intgovforum.org
> http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/bp_localcontent_intgovforum.org
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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From paf at frobbit.se  Wed Jan 14 15:25:31 2015
From: paf at frobbit.se (=?utf-8?Q?Patrik_F=C3=A4ltstr=C3=B6m?=)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:25:31 -0500
Subject: [Bp_localcontent] Local content hosting paper
In-Reply-To: <D0DAA8F9.4AB74%kende@isoc.org>
References: <D0DAA8F9.4AB74%kende@isoc.org>
Message-ID: <7F7B3102-F14A-4106-A815-C43CB0A7F48F@frobbit.se>

Michael, Karen,

This is a very good paper, and as many people have said, just like the paper ISOC created on access costs, even though the examples happen to be in Africa, similar problems and issues exists for example also in Sweden where I live.

There is a lot to learn here.

Once again, good report by everyone involved and of course mostly you and Karen Rose!

   Regards, Patrik

> On 13 jan 2015, at 04:50, Michael Kende <kende at isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I hope that this finds you well.  If you recall, I discussed several times during our calls our insights regarding the hosting of local content, based on some work we were doing in Rwanda.  I am very pleased to announce the publication of our resulting report today, entitled "Promoting Local Content Hosting to Develop the Internet Ecosystem," which I co-authored with my colleague Karen Rose.   This report starts from the observation that most, if not all, emerging countries already have local content, but it is typically hosted overseas, and must be accessed over often expensive and sometimes under-provisioned international links.  To gather data and insights, we worked in partnership with the Hon. Minister Jean Philbert Nsengimana of Rwanda and his team at the Ministry of Youth and ICT and many of the key stakeholders in the country.
> 
> As a result, we can show that content providers in countries such as Rwanda are hosting their content abroad because it is cheaper, but that this is imposing a much larger cost on the local ISPs who must pay to bring the content back to Rwanda.  Further, having to access the content abroad significantly decreases the throughput for users, which decreases usage and suppresses the development of the entire ecosystem.  The paper shows that when Google and Akamai cache content locally in Rwanda, usage goes up significantly as the user experience improves, and provides recommendations for making the local hosting environment a viable choice for local content providers as well.  The result should be more accessible content, more usage, and then the creation of more local content to address the new demand.
> 
> For more details and to download the paper, see http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2015/01/content-side-access-equation <http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2015/01/content-side-access-equation>.  We would look forward to any thoughts or comments you might have.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Michael
> 
> PS I apologize if you receive this more than once on different mailings.
> 
> Michael Kende
> Chief Economist
> Internet Society
> Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15
> CH-1204 Geneva
> Switzerland
> 
> Tel: +41 22 809 0367
> E-mail: kende at isoc.org <mailto:kende at isoc.org>
> Website: www.internetsociety.org <http://www.internetsociety.org/>
> 
> 'The Internet is for Everyone!'
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Bp_localcontent mailing list
> Bp_localcontent at intgovforum.org
> http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/bp_localcontent_intgovforum.org

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From chii.ngek at gmail.com  Wed Jan 14 15:34:28 2015
From: chii.ngek at gmail.com (Augustine CHII Ngek)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:34:28 +0100
Subject: [Bp_localcontent] Local content hosting paper
In-Reply-To: <D0DAA8F9.4AB74%kende@isoc.org>
References: <D0DAA8F9.4AB74%kende@isoc.org>
Message-ID: <CALqCD1O9AUhmaJx5w+TCHBYcNRHNB7GWnWHr-HCxaqRWKHUaVQ@mail.gmail.com>

Thank you people very much for sharing. The results though for Rwanda
represent many other countries. It gives a good picture of the situation in
my country Cameroon.   I am very impressed by the report. Thanks for
sharing.
Best regards.
Augustine CHII
On 13 Jan 2015 10:50, "Michael Kende" <kende at isoc.org> wrote:

>   Dear all,
>
>
>
> I hope that this finds you well.  If you recall, I discussed several times
> during our calls our insights regarding the hosting of local content, based
> on some work we were doing in Rwanda.  I am very pleased to announce the
> publication of our resulting report today, entitled "Promoting Local
> Content Hosting to Develop the Internet Ecosystem," which I co-authored
> with my colleague Karen Rose.   This report starts from the observation
> that most, if not all, emerging countries already have local content, but
> it is typically hosted overseas, and must be accessed over often expensive
> and sometimes under-provisioned international links.  To gather data and
> insights, we worked in partnership with the Hon. Minister Jean Philbert
> Nsengimana of Rwanda and his team at the Ministry of Youth and ICT and many
> of the key stakeholders in the country.
>
>
>  As a result, we can show that content providers in countries such as
> Rwanda are hosting their content abroad because it is cheaper, but that
> this is imposing a much larger cost on the local ISPs who must pay to bring
> the content back to Rwanda.  Further, having to access the content abroad
> significantly decreases the throughput for users, which decreases usage and
> suppresses the development of the entire ecosystem.  The paper shows
> that when Google and Akamai cache content locally in Rwanda, usage goes up
> significantly as the user experience improves, and provides recommendations
> for making the local hosting environment a viable choice for local content
> providers as well.  The result should be more accessible content, more
> usage, and then the creation of more local content to address the new
> demand.
>
>
>
> For more details and to download the paper, see
> http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2015/01/content-side-access-equation.
>  We would look forward to any thoughts or comments you might have.
>
>
>  Best regards,
>
>
>  Michael
>
>
>  PS I apologize if you receive this more than once on different mailings.
>
>
>  Michael Kende
> Chief Economist
> Internet Society
> Galerie Jean-Malbuisson 15
> CH-1204 Geneva
> Switzerland
>
>  Tel: +41 22 809 0367
> E-mail: kende at isoc.org
> Website: www.internetsociety.org
>
>  'The Internet is for Everyone!'
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