Building Africa's Information Highway

The High Level Working Group on Information and Communications Technologies in Africa (HLWG) worked under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Its report, Africa's Information Society Initiative (AISI): An Action Framework to Build Africa's Information and Communications Infrastructure is available in English, French, and Portuguese. The World Bank's Electronic Media Center, led by Peter Knight, helped with the production of five video case studies of Internet development (Egypt, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Senegal, and South Africa) and made use of footage shot for these videos to produce this summary on its own Media 100 digital video system. The program includes the main messages of the case studies and supports the HLWG report. The video Building Africa's Information Highway is available in both broadcast quality (Betacam SP) and VHS in English, French, and Portuguese language versions from the World Bank's Film and Video Unit (do a search on Film Library).

Here are a few frames from the video and a photograph of the shooting of the Senegal video.

	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; Computer assisted instruction in South Africa

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