Africa: Expanding Africa’s broadband capacity: The Connect Africa summit

The recently held Connect Africa Summit in Kigali, Rwanda had two aims: to bring connectivity to Africa and to promote ‘Connect Africa’, a new partnership that seeks to expand the ICT infrastructure in Africa, especially Internet broadband. By the end of the two-day summit, investment commitments worth USD 55 billion had been secured and 2012 had been targeted for connecting all African capitals and major cities and strengthening their connectivity with the rest of the world.