Publication: Feasibility Study to Connect All African Higher Education Institutions to High-Speed Internet
Date
2021-07-16
ISSN
Published
2021-07-16
Author(s)
World Bank
Knowledge Consulting Ltd.
Abstract
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.
Citation
“World Bank; Knowledge Consulting Ltd.. 2021. Feasibility Study to Connect All African Higher Education Institutions to High-Speed Internet. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/36042 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”