INET
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INET Cape Town, South Africa 2010
Date: Monday 24 May - see ISOC-ZA Calendar
Venue: Le-Vendome See Map
Registration and more info: register here
20 London Road, Sea Point Cape Town
In our region we're starting to see signs of competition. Yet the vast majority of South Africans have never had an Internet experience. The Internet is unaffordable for them.
- How can Internet society reach more, how do we achieve MUCH lower costs and MUCH higher speeds?
| Time | Speaker | Topic | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30am | Jon McNurney | Welcome - Introduce INET | ISOC global - COO |
| 8:45am | Chris Morris | ISOC capacity building | ISOC global - Access and Development |
| 9:30am | Alan Levin | Setting the scene - How can ISOC contribute toward bringing prices down significantly, and speeding up Internet access in Southern Africa! | ISOC-ZA Chair |
| 10:10am | Steve Song | African undersea cables | Telecommunications Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation |
| 10:30am | Tea Break | Social Networking | Lobby area |
| 11:00am | Stefan Doeblin | Plenary - the economics of Fibre optic backbones - video link from Paris | Network Economy |
| 11:30am | J. Scott Marcus | Plenary - regulatory models for Internet growth - J Scott Marcus has been the advisor to the FCC (USA regulator) and European Commission on how to regulate for better Internet provision. | WIK |
| 12:30pm | Lunch | networking | Main dining room |
| 1:40pm | Panel | Internet aggregators - backbone providers - up to 1 Gigabit/s related products for ISPs | Telkom, Neotel, DFA, Cape Town, Durban, CSIR. |
| 3:30pm | Tea | networking | Lobby |
| 4:00pm | Panel | Open microphone on way forward - how can our region leap frog | Telkom, Neotel, DFA, Cape Town, Durban, CSIR. |
| 5:00pm | Alan Levin | Close and thanks | ISOC-ZA |
| 5:30pm for 6pm | Cocktails | Main venue | closed event VIPs |
