The South African National Broadband Forum recently held a workshop focusing on a framework for
a national broadband strategy. This workshop gained input from various stakeholders, including industry players and consumers. <\/p>\n
Willie Currie, on behalf of the South African National Broadband Forum (SANBF), today released a document compiling all the input received from participants and released a Comprehensive Broadband Strategy. The SA National Broadband Forum further called on the public to support a Comprehensive Broadband Strategy.<\/p>\n
The goal of this initiative is to ensure that “all South Africans should have affordable broadband access to the Internet.”
The objectives of the “Framework for a Comprehensive National Broadband Strategy in South Africa” are:<\/p>\n
The SANBF wants to archive the following milestones by 2014:<\/p>\n
Calling on your support<\/strong><\/p>\n “The South African National Broadband Forum invites everyone who believes that affordable broadband access is a national priority to express their support for the development and implementation of a comprehensive National Broadband Strategy for South Africa,” the SANBF said.<\/p>\n “A draft framework has been developed with input from multiple stakeholders at a workshop held on March 24 in Johannesburg. We believe that this framework can serve as a basis for building consensus on a comprehensive national broadband strategy.”<\/p>\n The full Broadband Strategy is available on the website http:\/\/www.broadband4africa.org.za\/<\/a> and users are encouraged to support this initiative by ‘signing the framework’: http:\/\/www.broadband4africa.org.za\/sign-declaration<\/a><\/p>\n