Yes, but an network limited locally isn’t an alternative, what it needed are global alternatives to the US BigBrother hegemony. The Africa network is nice for African people, but isn’t an alternative and less an “terror” for Google.
As I understand it, it’s not limited locally. Africa’s Continental Internet Exchange (CIX) connects Africa internally first, but it still links globally. It’s about sovereignty, not isolation.
In terms of networking, this is not different from Europe and other regions with many local IXPs that allow regional traffic within the continent… the thing is that in the past, Africa has not had an infrastructure that allowed connecting to another African country without it being routed through international networks outside the continent.
This is really exciting: hundreds of millions now keep their internet data inside Africa and are no longer hostage to large companies outside of it
Yes, but an network limited locally isn’t an alternative, what it needed are global alternatives to the US BigBrother hegemony. The Africa network is nice for African people, but isn’t an alternative and less an “terror” for Google.
As I understand it, it’s not limited locally. Africa’s Continental Internet Exchange (CIX) connects Africa internally first, but it still links globally. It’s about sovereignty, not isolation.
In terms of networking, this is not different from Europe and other regions with many local IXPs that allow regional traffic within the continent… the thing is that in the past, Africa has not had an infrastructure that allowed connecting to another African country without it being routed through international networks outside the continent.
Ah, ok, anyway it is mandatory to end the US hegemony in the web, currently more than ever.
Like you said, the headline is overhyped a bit.
But still exciting because it’s a very important first step. Data colonization is being stopped. Nothing could be done until then.
It also puts hard limits on the expansion of the tech bro billionaires