Special Interest Group for
Supporting International Collaborations in Hard to Network Parts of the World

The Internet2 Special Interest Group (SIG) for Supporting International Collaborations in Hard to Network Parts of the World held a meeting on 3 May 2005 at the Spring 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting.

-- Meeting Notes

-- Meeting Agenda and Presentations

Welcome to the SIG - Warren Matthews (Georgia Tech) [HTML] [PPT]

Africa Workshop - Warren Matthews (Georgia Tech) [HTML] [PPT]

Pakistan - Warren Matthews (Georgia Tech) and Arshad Ali (NIIT) [HTML] [PPT]

Afghanistan - Maria Beebe (WSU)

Quantifying the Digital Divide from Within and Without, Les Cottrell (SLAC) [HTML] [PPT]

Russia, China and Korea - Greg Cole (GLORIAD)

Open discussion on SIG charter and direction.

Wrap-up, next steps, and action items.

Quantifying the Digital Divide from Within and Without

We will use the extensive PingER project measurements to over 110 countries to illustrate how Internet performance worldwide has improved over the last decade. We will show the differences in current performance from the developed world to the major developing regions, illustrate how far behind the developing regions are (sites in many countries have poorer performance than a household in Europe or N. America), and the rates of improvement (which countries are catching up, keeping up or falling behind). New data on the performances within and between developing regions will also be reported from the new monitoring sites in Brazil, India, and Pakistan. Measurements to Africa will also illustrate the generally poor Internet performance, the large differences between the various countries and how the various regions are performing.  We will also compare the Internet performance with the UN Technology Achievement Index for about 70 countries.