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'Connect Africa' Summit Ends With Pledge To Link Continent's Capitals, Major Cities By 2012; Total Global Hook-Up To Follow; Problem Said to Be Policy, Not Technology; Governments Promise Better Regulatory Environment as Private Sector Investment Offered.

Publication: M2 Presswire
Publication Date: 31-OCT-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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M2 PRESSWIRE-31 October 2007-United Nations: 'Connect Africa' Summit Ends With Pledge To Link Continent's Capitals, Major Cities By 2012; Total Global Hook-Up To Follow; Problem Said to Be Policy, Not Technology; Governments Promise Better Regulatory Environment as Private Sector Investment Offered(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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(Received from a UN Information Officer.)

KIGALI -- The "Connect Africa" summit concluded today in Kigali with commitments to create the right regulatory environment from African leaders and pledges by private-sector leaders to invest in the continent's communications sector.

Some 1,000 participants -- including six African Presidents, executives of information and communications technology (ICT) companies and heads of international development banks -- convened in the Rwandan capital to devise ways to improve Africa's information and communications technology infrastructure, especially in relation to Internet broadband connectivity.

The technologies to connect the whole of Africa are available, said Craig Barrett, the Chair of the United Nations Global Alliance for...

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