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<p><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Hind Regular";color:#24366E">Join us for a webinar on 21 July 2021, at 13:00 UTC, for a webinar on Measuring the Internet in Africa (MIRA).</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Hind Regular";color:#24366E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Hind Regular";color:#24366E">The joint Internet Society – AFRINIC initiative on Measuring Internet Resilience in Africa (MIRA) seeks to determine levels of Internet resilience in African countries. The initiative has
already began conducting various measurements as outlined in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://pulse.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Measuring-Internet-Resilience-in-Africa-EN-May2021.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:#3A82E4">MIRA
project overview</span></a>and MIRA measurement infrastructure has been deployed in 11 countries so far, with 25 MIRA pods actively collecting data on latency, upload and download speeds. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Hind Regular";color:#24366E">Join us on the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Hind Regular";color:#24366E">21st of July, 2021</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Hind Regular";color:#24366E"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Hind Regular";color:#24366E">for
a webinar to get an update on our work, the measurements taken so far and how you could participate in the MIRA project. We will also present our ongoing work to build an Internet Resilience Index, for which more than 20 indicators have been identified. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Hind Regular";color:#24366E;font-weight:normal"><a href="https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TJtDSliNRSWbJSYmV9vviA"><span style="color:#3A82E4">Register now</span></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Hind Light";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Israel Bionyi</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Hind Light";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">,
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Hind Light";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Communications and Outreach Manager,
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<a href="mailto:nyoh@isoc.org" title="mailto:nyoh@isoc.org"><span style="font-family:inherit;color:#0563C1">nyoh@isoc.org</span></a>
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