Integrated development and capacity building supporting the development of the African Broadband Inf

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Integrated development and capacity building
supporting the development of the African
Broadband Infrastructure
Antoine Bagula Victor Kyalo Americo Muchanga
Albert Nsengiyumva Amos Nungu Ulemu
Nyasulu Bjorn Pehrson
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Integrated development and capacity building
what's that?

• Multi-stakeholder partnerships for development
  and learning
• Public and private sector and civil society
• Start from National ICT Strategy and
  implementation plans
• eHealth, eSchools, eGov
• Problem-oriented, project-driven Capacity
  Building (Learning-by-doing development
  projects)?
• Individual learning towards degrees and diplomas
• Organisational learning in Certification schemes
• Consortial learning to refine the understanding
  of roles

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What kind of Development?

• General model, here applied to ICT for
  Development
• To attract infrastructure investments
• Basic Public services (health, education,
  governance, support to entrepreneurs)
• Private public partnerships to complete supply
  chains
• To attract revenues covering running costs and
  profit
• Turn every stone Local entrepreneurs, households
  and civil society can all add to sustainability
  if they can save by spending
• Multi-stakeholder agreements for learning and
  development
• NRENs and Universities as neutral platforms
  producing capacity

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Development projects driving capacity building

• eHealth
• Sentinel surveillance, Telemedicine, continuing
  education of health workers,....
• eSchools
• tele-teaching, peer learning, teacher
  education....
• Local government
• Budgeting support, Environment Impact Assessment?
• Support to local entrepreneurs
• Local ISPs, system integration, maintenance,
  training
• Agriculture, fisheries, secretarial services,
  etc. e.g. market information and budgeting support

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Development projects cont.

• Academic networking demonstrated feasability
• Building area networks, Campus networks, National
  research and education networks, regional
  academic backbones
• Sustainable Broadband Markets
• User premises networks, access networks, regional
  backbones, Internet Exchange Points
• ICT for Rural Development
• Business development, services and applications

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What kind of Capacity building?

• Mix of subject-oriented and problem-oriented,
  project driven learning at all levels
• Individual learning
• PhD, Bachelor and Master, TVET degrees and
  diplomas
• Organizational learning
• Certification schemes
• Consortial learning
• Identification and clarification of roles

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PhD programmes

• 1 year advanced courses
• Application development, Network design,
  IP/Optical Integration, Bandwidth management,
  Traffic theory, Simulation
• 3 years thesis project with original contribution
• Network discovery and mapping (fiber, network
  components)?
• Management of network archipelagos
• Virtualization, sharing of network components
• Secure and manageable service platforms
• Distributed routing
• Wireless sensor networks

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Master Programmes

• Prerequisite requirement
• Bachelor degree with
• Natural sciences,
• Programming (C,C, Java)?
• Computer systems, Communication systems
• Curriculum
• First year discipline-oriented
• Mandatory Research methodology and scientific
  writing, Advanced Internetworking, Interdomain
  routing, Security,
• Electives IP/Optical Integration, Access
  networks
• Second year problem-oriented, project-driven
• 1 semester team work, 1 semester individual thesis

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Tvet and professional continuing education

• Application developers and operators
• Systems designers and administrators
• Network designers and administrators
• Help desk staff
• Startup support and incubation

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Track record

• Campus networks, NRENS, Ubuntunet Alliance
• Internet exchange points (mz, rw, zm, mw, na,
  bi)?
• Tz ICT4RD - Development of Scalable models for
  establishment of sustainable broadband markets
• Ke Community empowerment (Schools as
  telecenters)?
• Mw-Tz Online Water quality monitoring

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Way forward Distributed Graduate School

• Degree programs in Communication Systems
• Internetworking and ICT Entrepreneurship
• Supporting the establishments of campus
  networks, NRENs, Ubuntunet alliance and community
  reach-out, via
• Problem-oriented, project-driven courses in
  teams
• Individual Msc and PhD projects
• Network discovery and mapping (fiber,
  components)?
• Distributed routing
• Virtualization, sharing of network components
• Wireless sensor networks
• Partners?

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Thank You Asanteni