In September 1997 Peter Knight worked with managers at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and various World Bank units under the coordination of the Information Solutions Group to organize Bank participation in the African Information Society Initiative. 

Earlier, while still leading the Electronic Media Center (EMC) at the World Bank, Dr. Knight was a participant in the High Level Working Group on Information and Communications Technologies in Africa and helped produce video and/or television programs in Egypt, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Senegal, and South Africa. This involved arranging for finance, conducting video interviews, and in four cases participating in script writing. A summary program, Building Africa's Information Highway  (1996, 27 minutes) was produced at the EMC in Washington using footage shot in all five countries. 

Copies of Building Africa's Information Highway are available in both broadcast quality (Betacam SP) and VHS from the World  Bank's Film and Video Unit (do a search on Film Library) in English, French, and Portuguese language versions, as are English and Portuguese versions of Internet in Mozambique, BITE - Bringing Internet to Ethiopia, and several other information and communications technology videos/TV programs produced by the EMC under Peter Knight's direction.

Here are a few frames from Building Africa's Information Highway

Hisham El Sherif, Chairman, Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center, Egypt; Pyramids at Giza

Dawit Johannes, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ethiopia; Ethiopian networker

Venāncio Massingue, Director of the Informatics Center at Eduardo Mondlane University, and "father" of the Mozambican Internet; Tank with children and antennas

View of Dakar, Senegal from island where slaves were shipped to the Americas; Senegalese crew shooting at a booth promoting Internet use by small businesses and set up by the African Institute for Enterprise Development at the Place de la Republique, downtown Dakar.

 Thabo Mbeki, Deputy President of South Africa (now President); Computer assisted instruction in South Africa

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