African Internet Exchange System Project

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African Union Commission
International
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Information about the project
African Internet Exchange System Project
AXIS Project
The African Internet Exchange System (AXIS) project aims to promote keeping of intra-Africa’s internet traffic local by providing capacity building & technical assistance to facilitate the establishment of Internet Exchange Points at country level, Regional Internet Exchange Points and Regional Internet Carriers in Africa. It also promotes the development of regional cross-border interconnection policy frameworks. The AXIS project which is part of the Program on Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) is relevant to the WSIS line of action on Information and communication infrastructure: an essential foundation for the Information Society, which calls on optimizing connectivity among major information networks by encouraging the creation and development of regional ICT backbones and Internet exchange points, to reduce interconnection costs and broaden network access. The project has been implemented for the last 4 years to address the costly as well as an inefficient way of handling intra-country and inter-country exchange of Internet traffic and hence contributing the development of the Internet in Africa.
Regional implementation
  • Africa
Algeria, Angola, Western Sahara, Burundi, Benin, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Central African Republic, Chad (Republic of), Cameroon, Comoros, Cape Verde (Republic of), Djibouti, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia (Republic of the), Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Lesotho, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mauritania, Mali, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Congo, Reunion, Rwanda, South Africa, Senegal, Seychelles, Saint Helena, Sierra Leone, Somali (Democratic Republic), South Sudan, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Ongoing from 02/01/2012 to 31/12/2018
(1) Government of Luxembourg (2) EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund

WSIS information
* International and regional cooperation
  • Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
  • Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
  • Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
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