Feasibility Study to Connect All African Higher Education Institutions to High-Speed Internet

Feasibility Study to Connect All African Higher Education Institutions to High-Speed Internet

Broadband connectivity is a critical enabler for modernizing higher education institutions (HEIs) in their mission of teaching, research, and community outreach. Connecting African HEIs for improved learning, research collaboration, and access to g...

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Main Authors: World Bank, Knowledge Consulting Ltd.
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:
CONNECTIVITY
REMOTE LEARNING
TERTIARY EDUCATION
BROADBAND
INTERNET ACCESS
DIGITAL DIVIDE
LEARNING OUTCOMES
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/320071626434508906/Feasibility-Study-to-Connect-all-African-Higher-Education-Institutions-to-High-speed-Internet
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spelling okr-10986-360422021-08-04T05:10:41Z Feasibility Study to Connect All African Higher Education Institutions to High-Speed Internet World Bank Knowledge Consulting Ltd. CONNECTIVITY REMOTE LEARNING TERTIARY EDUCATION BROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS DIGITAL DIVIDE LEARNING OUTCOMES EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY Broadband connectivity is a critical enabler for modernizing higher education institutions (HEIs) in their mission of teaching, research, and community outreach. Connecting African HEIs for improved learning, research collaboration, and access to global scientific resources has been on national and global development agendas for many years but has never achieved top priority policy consideration. The higher education sector in Africa falls far behind the rest of the world in connecting to global research and education networks. The available bandwidth is generally expensive and limited in capacity and therefore cannot meet modern institutions’ research and education requirements. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic highlighted the urgent need to extend broadband infrastructure even further to facilitate teaching, learning, research, access to educational resources, and the attainment of effective administration in higher education. This report presents a summary of the feasibility study and establishes a roadmap for connecting all African HEIs to high-speed internet. 2021-08-03T16:44:06Z 2021-08-03T16:44:06Z 2021-07-16 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/320071626434508906/Feasibility-Study-to-Connect-all-African-Higher-Education-Institutions-to-High-speed-Internet http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36042 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Education Study Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
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topic CONNECTIVITY
REMOTE LEARNING
TERTIARY EDUCATION
BROADBAND
INTERNET ACCESS
DIGITAL DIVIDE
LEARNING OUTCOMES
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
spellingShingle CONNECTIVITY
REMOTE LEARNING
TERTIARY EDUCATION
BROADBAND
INTERNET ACCESS
DIGITAL DIVIDE
LEARNING OUTCOMES
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
World Bank
Knowledge Consulting Ltd.
Feasibility Study to Connect All African Higher Education Institutions to High-Speed Internet
geographic_facet Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
description Broadband connectivity is a critical enabler for modernizing higher education institutions (HEIs) in their mission of teaching, research, and community outreach. Connecting African HEIs for improved learning, research collaboration, and access to global scientific resources has been on national and global development agendas for many years but has never achieved top priority policy consideration. The higher education sector in Africa falls far behind the rest of the world in connecting to global research and education networks. The available bandwidth is generally expensive and limited in capacity and therefore cannot meet modern institutions’ research and education requirements. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic highlighted the urgent need to extend broadband infrastructure even further to facilitate teaching, learning, research, access to educational resources, and the attainment of effective administration in higher education. This report presents a summary of the feasibility study and establishes a roadmap for connecting all African HEIs to high-speed internet.
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author World Bank
Knowledge Consulting Ltd.
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Knowledge Consulting Ltd.
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title Feasibility Study to Connect All African Higher Education Institutions to High-Speed Internet
title_short Feasibility Study to Connect All African Higher Education Institutions to High-Speed Internet
title_full Feasibility Study to Connect All African Higher Education Institutions to High-Speed Internet
title_fullStr Feasibility Study to Connect All African Higher Education Institutions to High-Speed Internet
title_full_unstemmed Feasibility Study to Connect All African Higher Education Institutions to High-Speed Internet
title_sort feasibility study to connect all african higher education institutions to high-speed internet
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/320071626434508906/Feasibility-Study-to-Connect-all-African-Higher-Education-Institutions-to-High-speed-Internet
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