INET
From ISOC
Revision as of 22:45, 5 May 2010 by Alan Levin (talk | contribs)
INET Cape Town, South Africa 2010
Date: Monday 24 May - see ISOC-ZA Calendar
Venue: Le-Vendome See Map
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?
Preliminary Agenda
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 | Gonzalo Huidobro | Plenary - the economics of Fibre optic backbones | Network Economy |
12:30pm | Lunch | networking | Main diningroom |
2:00pm | Panel | Internet aggregators - backbone providers | Telkom, Neotel, Infracom, DFA, Durban, Cape Town, Tshwane. |
3:30pm | Panel | Open microphone on way forward | Telkom, Neotel, Infracom, DFA, Durban, Cape Town, Tshwane. |
5:00pm | Alan Levin | Close and thanks | ISOC-ZA |
5:30pm for 6pm | Cocktails | Main venue | closed event VIPs |