[sdnog] Utilizing Sudan' Resources

[Gael Hernandez]

> On 4 Feb 2015, at 13:59, Samir S. Omer <samir.saif at sudren.edu.sd> wrote:
> 
> Dear colleague and SdNOGgers
> 
> I'm writing this email as a starting point to try to brainstorm on how to fully utilize Sudan' resources to achieve Network autonomy, rich local content, and maybe in the future have outer ISPs wanting to peer with us
> 
> if we look at Sudan we can see that we have
> 
>  * good National fiber network that extends to all states in Sudan.
>  * we have an IXP.
>  * we a big datacenter maybe on of the top data centers in Africa.
>  * we have good technical community and eager engineers.
>  * the universities' online registration system, that was enforced by
>    the ministry of education broke the online payment barrier that was
>    always an issue in Sudan
>  * Sudan terrain allows it to become a wholesale distribution point to
>    neighbouring countries.
> 
> seeing all of the above factors, I think achieving this goal is more of an awareness/governance/policy issues than of a resource issue. I know it's not a simple task that can be done in short time.
> for the time being let's just start the discussion
> so I like to hear from you on how can we possibly put all of these pieces together.

Hi Samir and SdNOG,

Greetings to everyone. My name is Gael and I work with PCH on policy topics. I recently joined the mailing list and I’d like to share thoughts about how to leverage on the many existing resources you listed.

First of all, I totally agree with your diagnosis. You might have lots of resources but without the capacity of engaging with the relevant stakeholders and align each of the individual interests, then the resources become stale. What do you think of having SdNOG facilitating a process aiming at formulating and articulating a vision? The process should be as inclusive as possible so that, in the medium term, all the stakeholders can continue working in their environment (government, university, private sector, civil society) towards the vision.

Another thing that could help to gain positive momentum is to propose feasible projects that can be quickly implemented and delivered, like for instance local mirroring of a GNU/Linux distributions. Technical projects like this could be quick wins for the community, and should be fun to work on!

Just some thoughts, would be happy to hear feedback on how feasible these are.

Gaël 

Gaël Hernandez
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