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Thursday, 7 October 2010

Google University Access Program goes live!

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In today's academic environment, the value of a computer lab not connected to the Internet is negligible. Faculty and students must be connected with the research community in order to contribute to and benefit from it. Much of the due diligence we have done in Sub-Saharan universities has uncovered no shortage of computers, but rather a severe lack of connectivity. Connectivity between computers on campus, between universities and onto the Internet. Inevitably, this provides little incentive for our next generation of African leaders to embrace technology and make the most of the tools available.

The Google University Access Program aims to address the underlying cause - the high cost of Internet bandwidth and access to experienced engineers. The program offers Internet bandwidth, Google Apps for Education, training & integration grants and the support of Google engineering. This is return for the University committing to invest in their campus infrastructure - so ultimately the Internet bandwidth will reach faculty and students.

Today we are proud to share the news from our first participant: the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), where Nigeria’s Vice President Namadi Sambo launched the new campus wide wireless network, intra-campus fibre and trans-national fibre connection to MainOne’s undersea cable. Over time, we are looking forward to seeing thousands more students getting online, not only at UNN but at other Nigerian universities, and indeed at universities across a number of other African countries, too.

Posted by Ego Obi & Euan Guttridge, Technical Program Managers for Sub Saharan Africa.

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Le programme d’accès à l’Université Google est lancé !

De nos jours, un laboratoire informatique universitaire sans connexion Internet n’a pas grand
intérêt. Il est en effet indispensable pour une faculté et ses étudiants de pouvoir se connecter
à la communauté des chercheurs afin de partager les connaissances. En passant en revue
les universités subsahariennes, nous nous sommes rendu compte qu’elles ne manquaient
pas d'ordinateurs mais souffraient d’un sérieux manque de connexion, que ce soit entre les
ordinateurs d’un même campus, d’une université à l’autre ou à Internet. Sans conteste, cet
état de fait encourage bien peu la nouvelle génération de leaders africains à s’approprier la
technologie et à tirer le meilleur parti des outils disponibles.

Le Programme d’accès à l’université Google a été conçu pour remédier aux causes de ce problème: le coût élevé de la connexion Internet et l’accès aux ingénieurs expérimentés.
Ce programme donne en effet accès à Internet haut débit, à des applications pédagogiques
Google (Google Apps), à des aides à la formation et l’intégration, et enfin au support
de l’ingénierie Google. L'offre s’adresse à l’Université qui s’engage à investir dans
l’infrastructure de son campus – de sorte que la faculté et les étudiants puissent accéder à
Internet haut débit.

Aujourd’hui, nous sommes fiers de communiquer des informations du premier participant au
programme, L’ Université du Nigéria Nsukka (UNN), où le Vice-Président du Nigéria, Namadi
Sambo, a inauguré le vaste réseau sans fil d’un campus, une connexion par fibre optique à
l’intérieur du campus et une connexion nationale par fibre au câble sous-marin de MainOne.
Petit à petit, nous espérons que des centaines d’autres étudiants vont se connecter, non
seulement à l’UNN mais aussi dans d’autres universités du Nigéria et d’autres pays africains.

Poste par Ego Obi & Euan Guttridge, Technical Program Managers for Sub Saharan Africa.
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