Hi Lugs interesting discussion on the positives and negatives of yahoo google etc. I want to focus all you guys down to our home market.
Uganda now has an IXP and we are working to join 5 IXPs namely Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique Nigeria and south Africa as phase one and then move to join others as they get up and running. Kenya created an IXP and the local market has created local content to make the IXP a viable proposition. There more domain names sold in these markets than we are doing in Uganda, and more local content. The Local content is a collective process which needs active collaborative involvement from all players. We built the roads, we need traffic on these roads, mere email does not make it a viable proposition. I put on both a techie and business hat and I foresee the business hats in other organisations mine included asking the question. So I would like to hand a challenge to the techies, (Lugs ) etc, how do we create more local content. >From my point of view my door is open, we are prepared to explore any ideas and even co-locate your service for a period of time to proove the concept. ISP's have been the fall guys for the high bandwidth charges. (Granted maybe some of us (the other guys :-) ) over price, but that's because we /(they) are selling the expensive satellite access for people to go to yahoo. Create local content via the IXP. I hope you also know that anyone can pier at the IXP it is not closed to ISP's only. let me not rant I think you get the point. lets create the dialogue online or offline. badru --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
