[Bp_localcontent] Local content hosting paper

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

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
>
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