{"id":549545,"date":"2006-07-17T17:24:54","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T17:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549545-eassy-stakeholders-agree-on-project-structure.html"},"modified":"2006-07-17T17:24:54","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T17:24:54","slug":"eassy-stakeholders-agree-on-project-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549545-eassy-stakeholders-agree-on-project-structure.html","title":{"rendered":"EASSy stakeholders agree on project structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Governments, Nepad e-Africa Commission, telecommunications operators and the Development Financial Institutions Represented at the Nairobi meetings by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the European Investment Bank (EIB), the Agence Fran\u00e7aise de D\u00e9veloppement (AfD), Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de Promotion et de Participation pour la Coop\u00e9ration Economique (PROPARCO), the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), KfW Entwicklungsbank (KFW), the World Bank (WB) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have all agreed to the project. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Technical assistance was also being provided by the Department for International Development (DFID), the European Union (EU), the Information for Development Program ( infoDev), the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) and the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA). <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The consensus was reached during an all-stakeholders meeting on July 4-6 2006 hosted by the government of Kenya in Nairobi. A joint task force with representatives from each of these groups was also created to maintain continuous dialogue and channel governments\u2019 policy objectives into the construction and maintenance agreement and the shareholders\u2019 agreement. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">EASSy was an initiative to connect over twenty coastal and land-locked countries in East and Southern Africa. The countries are: Burundi, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The aim of the EASSy project is to increase accessibility to information and communication technologies by significantly reducing the current prohibitive cost of telephony and internet connectivity. Consequently, this would boost regional competitiveness and enable Africa to participate more actively in the global economy. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Negotiations have been lengthy to make sure that the project remained lucrative to investors while ensuring that it would enable a cheaper telecoms environment. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=48223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinafrica.net\/\"><i><font size=\"2\">BiA Online<\/font> <\/i><\/a><font size=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following extensive dialogue and negotiations, the project structure of the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) and the roles of the respective stakeholder groups have been agreed to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}