AfrISPA | A continental Association of African Internet Service Provider Associations

AfrISPA is a non-profit organisation, whose members are themselves non-profit organisations, The members of these national ISP Associations in turn are mostly commercial organisations. Formed in 2001, AfrISPA has grown over the years in membership numbers, in effectiveness, and in influence.

This process has been greatly helped by generous sponsorship from a number of organisations, including DFID (UK) via the CATIA programme, IDRC (Canada) and OSI. AfrISPA has a number of objectives, of which we have been particularly successful in helping to increase the number of operational Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) and Internet Service Provider Associations (ISPAs) in Africa.

All the people involved in the training content and workshops mentioned below are Africans. We have built up a cadre of over 40 indigenous experts who have helped to pass on their expertise to some 700 senior African technical and managerial staff members, regulators, politicians and others in 23 countries so far.

On behalf of the Executive Board, I would like to welcome all members to 2008, a year that holds a lot of promise for AfrISPA, I see it as a year of GREATER WORKS.

In order words, in the last year, we did great things; fundamental of which was the commitment and process of reforming this great institution that we all laboured to see born and this year we will be building on that in order to achieve even greater works!