The WiMAX Africa Development Summit 2007
42007vUTC05bUTCThu, 10 May 2007 12:28:07 +0000 14, 2006
“Still making waves” you remember the book, yeah something like that, The WiMAX Africa Development Summit is ‘making waves’ through to our dairies as the hottest ICT gathering in 2007. Journalists have already booked their places, ICT researchers are concluding their presentations, and government leaders are preparing to meet the experts.
The summit is scheduled to be on the 6-7 and 8 August 2007 at the Southern Sun Grayston in Sandton, Johannesburg. The initial dates have been changed from the 25-26 June to 6,7 and 8 August due to a number of organsisations interested in participating in the event.
To explore prospects, innovations, development and challenges on the standard based technology; WiMax. The theme for this year’s summit is The Next Big Thing Broadband: WiMax’-prospects and challenges a perspective from the south.
The year 2007 has been crowned ‘season Broadband’, yet not much has been spoken and debated on the African soil about the extend to which WiMax will impact, revolutionarise or alter Africa’s dream of universal Access. A body of growing studies is emerging in developed world; institutes are being refocused on WiMax and its potential. None of this exists in emerging markets; is Africa going to miss another ‘lift’ to an information superhighway? This summit draws the attention of the world to the development of WiMax in developing world. However, in this context, we focus primarily on Africa.
As the producer of the Summit, I wish to extend a warm welcome to each one of you and hope that we will makes this event an interactive forum for debates, engagements and consultations. Lab Epitomy is proud to host the summit, while Computer Society of South Africa is promoting the summit on behalf of the ICT industry practitioners and the Information Technology Association (ITA) will endorse the summit. The Department of Communications will give a presentation, hence ICASA is expected to give a review of some regulatory challenges.
Download the registrations form here: Book Your Place
Visit the Summit Online here
