I was pleased to get the PingER update from the University of Trieste - it was the first time I had heard from PingER since 2002, when it was presented at the eJDS Open Round Table on "Developing Country Access to On-Line Scientific Publishing: Sustainable Alternatives". I was there talking about (and hoping to breathe life into) the www4mail tool, and am pleased my www4mail presentation (PPT) is still up on their website! www4mail was developed at the University of Trieste and for a time there were a few really good servers running including ours at Kabissa and another at Bellanet in Canada. These servers played a critical role for a time, enabling people with limited access to the web to request web pages to be sent to them by email.

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?