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'''<span style="color:#CFA600">UNDER CONSTRUCTION</span>'''
'''<span style="color:#CFA600">UNDER CONSTRUCTION</span>'''
==Pan African Development Information System==
==Organizations==
===Pan African Development Information System===
The Pan African Development Information System, or PADIS was a co-operative initiative started in early 1980 in Ethiopia. PADIS was comprised of five sites that stored data from The PADIS Network which consisted of 39 centres that interacted, created and exchanged information system data amongst themselves. These centres aimed to assist policy-making decisions and the socio-political development of the African continent. Its primary objectives were as follows:
The Pan African Development Information System, or PADIS was a co-operative initiative started in early 1980 in Ethiopia. PADIS was comprised of five sites that stored data from The PADIS Network which consisted of 39 centres that interacted, created and exchanged information system data amongst themselves. These centres aimed to assist policy-making decisions and the socio-political development of the African continent. Its primary objectives were as follows:
* Provision of user services, including printed outputs from data bases, newsletters, selective dissemination of information, current awareness profiles and retrospective searches, question/answer service, hardcopy and microfiche document delivery, data bases on magnetic media and consolidating and repackaging of information. <ref>[http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Padis/padis_ams.html African Studies Center. Retrieved 25 Jan 2016.]</ref>
* Provision of user services, including printed outputs from data bases, newsletters, selective dissemination of information, current awareness profiles and retrospective searches, question/answer service, hardcopy and microfiche document delivery, data bases on magnetic media and consolidating and repackaging of information. <ref>[http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Padis/padis_ams.html African Studies Center. Retrieved 25 Jan 2016.]</ref>
==PADISNET==
===PADISNET===
In a fashion somewhat similar to [[ARPANET]], PADISNET began in 1990 as a pilot project to electronically link distinct network nodes. Supported by the International Development Resource Center (IDRC), PADISNET connected on-demand to London, South Africa, the United States, Dakar (Senegal), Accra (Ghana), and Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania). <ref>[http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Padis/Godard.html Africa and Sciences, The Availability of Computer Communications. Retrieved 25 Jan 2016.]</ref> To be sure, this was not the official beginning of Africa's [[Internet]], but a major step toward refining and advancing it.
In a fashion somewhat similar to [[ARPANET]], PADISNET began in 1990 as a pilot project to electronically link distinct network nodes. Supported by the International Development Resource Center (IDRC), PADISNET connected on-demand to London, South Africa, the United States, Dakar (Senegal), Accra (Ghana), and Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania). <ref>[http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Padis/Godard.html Africa and Sciences, The Availability of Computer Communications. Retrieved 25 Jan 2016.]</ref> To be sure, this was not the official beginning of Africa's [[Internet]], but a major step toward refining and advancing it.
===NSRC===
In the early 1990s Egyptian universities were struggling to connect to one of education's top data dissemination tools, the Internet. After contacting the [[Network Startup Resource Center]] or NSRC, this goal was achieved. Bolstered by this success, the African Education division of the World Bank requested the NSRC to build a sustainable network for email in Guinea. Worked continued in Conakry, where the organization set up a [[Point to Point Protocol]] or PPP and dial up to establish the country's first connections to the Internet.
The NSRC is currently working with [[Uganda On Line]], the [[East Africa Help Desk]], Makerere University and the [[African Virtual University]] to connect more of Africa's academics and NGOs with the Internet. <ref>[https://nsrc.org/about#early About the NSRC-Early History. Retrieved 26 Jan 2016.]</ref>
==References==
==References==