Visualize African Connectivity: Sobering "Internet Weather Map" shows Africa is a decade behind

Via the incom-l mailing list I received Marco Zennaro's news of a new video visualizing African Internet connectivity. Over the years, the PingER project has been keeping track of actual server availability in Africa and around the world (300 servers are monitored) using the simple ping computer network tool. Copy of announcement follows. I'd be interested in hearing from experts in the Kabissa community on the topic - is this an accurate representation of the connectivity you have access to?

We have completed the (first-ever) "Internet Weather"-like video that shows network performance measured from Trieste, Italy to African Universities for the one year period April 2007 to March 2008. These measurements are made by the international PingER project and provide strong evidence of the extent of the Digital Divide.

Have a look at the YouTube video: "Visualize African Connectivity"

http://www.youtube.com/sciencedissemination

We hope this information will be useful for your discussions and research aiming to increase awareness on the digital and knowledege divide world-wide. So, could you please inform your collegues, friends, policy makers, etc about this 46 secs. open video on the web.

A higher resolution version of the movie is available upon request.

Cordially yours,

The SDU Team