COME TO
THE TRIPLE EXHIBITION & MEDIA DAY, 18
APRIL 2008 AT MONT-SAINT-GUIBERT.
Download invitation.
The Belgian town
of Mont-Saint-Guibert,
30 km from Brussels is hosting TRIPLE during the first part of the pilot
phase for this innovative local wireless mesh network which uses satellite
for backhaul. The next part will be in Kigali. On exhibition will be
security, ITS and other internet-based applications TRIPLE supports.
TRIPLE is an example of both public-private and local-level cooperation
between Europe and Africa for development. It is for the moment privately
funded through contributions by numerous partnering organizations, including
leading satellite operator Eutelsat, MAC Telecom, Group4 Securicor,
Icoms Detections, the Catholic University of Louvain's IT engineering
department, investment group ISSAL and Vitrociset. Deployment in Kigali
promises to pave the way for a radical improvement in ICT provision
in Africa, especially for the over 450 million people in Africa currently
excluded from the information society revolution.
