Scientific Measure of Africa's Connectivity
Author(s) -
Marco Zennaro,
Enrique Canessa,
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan,
A. A. Rehmatullah,
R.L.A. Cottrell
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/881793
Subject(s) - the internet , measure (data warehouse) , digital divide , developing country , data science , focus (optics) , computer science , regional science , geography , economic growth , world wide web , economics , data mining , physics , optics
Data on Internet performance and the analysis of its trend can be useful for decision makers and scientists alike. Such performance measurements are possible using the PingER methodology. We use the data thus obtained to quantify the difference in performance between developed and developing countries, sometimes referred to as the Digital Divide. Motivated by the recent interest of G8 countries in African development, we particularly focus on the African countries
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