Integrated development and capacity building supporting the development of the African Broadband Infrastructure Antoine Bagula Victor Kyalo Americo Muchanga Albert Nsengiyumva Amos Nungu Ulemu Nyasulu Bjorn Pehrson

Integrated development and capacity building – what's that? Multi-stakeholder partnerships for development and learning Public and private sector and civil society Start from National ICT Strategy and implementation plans eHealth, eSchools, eGov Problem-oriented, project-driven Capacity Building (Learning-by-doing development projects) Individual learning towards degrees and diplomas Organisational learning in Certification schemes Consortial learning to refine the understanding of roles

What kind of Development? General model, here applied to ICT for Development To attract infrastructure investments Basic Public services (health, education, governance, support to entrepreneurs) Private public partnerships to complete supply chains To attract revenues covering running costs and profit Turn every stone: Local entrepreneurs, households and civil society can all add to sustainability if they can save by spending Multi-stakeholder agreements for learning and development NRENs and Universities as neutral platforms producing capacity

Development projects driving capacity building eHealth Sentinel surveillance, Telemedicine, continuing education of health workers,.... eSchools tele-teaching, peer learning, teacher education.... Local government Budgeting support, Environment Impact Assessment? Support to local entrepreneurs Local ISPs, system integration, maintenance, training Agriculture, fisheries, secretarial services, etc. e.g. market information and budgeting support

Development projects cont…. Academic networking demonstrated feasability Building area networks, Campus networks, National research and education networks, regional academic backbones Sustainable Broadband Markets User premises networks, access networks, regional backbones, Internet Exchange Points ICT for Rural Development Business development, services and applications

What kind of Capacity building? Mix of subject-oriented and problem-oriented, project driven learning at all levels Individual learning PhD, Bachelor and Master, TVET degrees and diplomas Organizational learning Certification schemes Consortial learning Identification and clarification of roles

PhD programmes 1 year advanced courses Application development, Network design, IP/Optical Integration, Bandwidth management, Traffic theory, Simulation 3 years thesis project with original contribution Network discovery and mapping (fiber, network components) Management of network archipelagos Virtualization, sharing of network components Secure and manageable service platforms Distributed routing Wireless sensor networks

Master Programmes Prerequisite requirement: Bachelor degree with Natural sciences, Programming (C,C++, Java) Computer systems, Communication systems Curriculum First year discipline-oriented Mandatory: Research methodology and scientific writing, Advanced Internetworking, Interdomain routing, Security, Electives: IP/Optical Integration, Access networks Second year problem-oriented, project-driven 1 semester team work, 1 semester individual thesis

Tvet and professional continuing education Application developers and operators Systems designers and administrators Network designers and administrators Help desk staff Startup support and incubation

Track record Campus networks, NRENS, Ubuntunet Alliance Internet exchange points (mz, rw, zm, mw, na, bi) Tz: ICT4RD - Development of Scalable models for establishment of sustainable broadband markets Ke: Community empowerment (Schools as telecenters) Mw-Tz: Online Water quality monitoring

Way forward: Distributed Graduate School Degree programs in Communication Systems: Internetworking and ICT Entrepreneurship Supporting the establishments of campus networks, NRENs, Ubuntunet alliance and community reach-out, via: a) Problem-oriented, project-driven courses in teams b) Individual Msc and PhD projects i. Network discovery and mapping (fiber, components) ii. Distributed routing iii. Virtualization, sharing of network components iv. Wireless sensor networks Partners?

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