Africa Online (Sosiyete y'itumanaho)
Africa Online Holding Ltd, rimwe na rimwe mu magambo ahinnye ni AFOL, ni yo itanga serivisi nini kuri interineti (ISP) muri Afurika . [1] Iherereye i Nairobi, muri Kenya, itanga umurongo wa interineti kandi ikorera mu bihugu icumi bya Afurika, harimo Cote d'Ivoire, Gana, Namibiya, Eswatini, Tanzaniya, Uganda na Zimbabwe . Serivisi zitangwa na Africa Online zirimo guhamagara kuri interineti, serivisi zikodeshwa kumurongo, konte ya imeri, guhuza VSAT, DSL, WAN na VPN kubakiriya bigenga n'abacuruzi. Mu mwaka wa 2007 yahindutse ishami rya Telkom South Africa . [2]
Amateka
[hindura | hindura inkomoko]
Sosiyete yatangijwe mu mwaka wa 1994 na Ayisi Makatiani, Karanja Gakio na Amolo Ng'weno, Abanyakenya batatu bahuye ari abanyeshuri bo muri Cambridge, Massachusetts . Makatiani na Gakio bari muri MIT mugihe Ng'weno yari Harvard . Igitekerezo cyibanze cya serivise y'amakuru yo kumurongo kubanyakenya yatejwe imbere n'umuryango wa interineti wakiriwe muri MIT witwa KenyaNet. KenyaNet yari imwe mu tumanaho abaturage benshi bibanda muri Afrika (abandi ni Okyeame muri Gana, Naijanet muri Nijeriya, na Salonet muri Siyera Lewone ) yashinzwe kandi ikorwa nabanyeshuri ba MIT ikanakirwa kuri seriveri ya MIT. [3] [4]
Hamwe no kwamamaza kuri interineti, Africa Online yarebye kure igira igitekerezo cyo kugeza amakuru kubandi banyafurika bo ku mugabane hifashishijwe interineti. Mu mwaka wa 1995, sosiyete yaguzwe na International Wireless ya Boston, bituma irangira amaherezo yitwa Prodigy . Muri icyo gihe, Africa Online yatangiye gukora nka ISP ya mbere yo muri Kenya, nyuma yaje kwaguka muri Cote d'Ivoire mu mwaka wa (1995) igera muri Gana, Tanzaniya, Uganda, Zambiya, Zimbabwe na Swaziland, Abanyakenya batatu bakomeje kuyobora icyo gikorwa. Muri icyo gikorwa, Africa Online yaguze ISP nyinshi, nka Pipex Internet Solution (Swaziland), Net2000 (Kenya), UUNET (Namibia) na Swift Global (Uganda).
Mu mwaka wa 1998, Prodigy yagurishije sosiyete muri Afurika y'Ibiyaga Bigari. Ibiyaga by'Afurika byari byashyizwe ku isoko ry’imigabane ry'i londere kuva mu mwaka wa 1877, bikaba byarimo byaguka mu muco gakondo w'ubuhinzi no mu bucukuzi bw'amabuye y'agaciro. Mu gihe gito iyi sosiyete yishimiwe n’abashoramari, yandikwa ku isoko ry’imigabane rya Nairobi mu mwaka wa 2001, ariko imigabane yayo yaje gutakaza ubutaka maze ishyirwa ku rutonde i Londere na Nairobi mu mwaka wa 2003. Icyo gihe, abashinze iyi sosiyete uko ari 3 bari baravuye muri Africa Online.
Africa Online yaguzwe na Telkom Africa y'epfo mu mwaka wa 2007. [2]
Amashakiro
[hindura | hindura inkomoko]- ↑ Ayisi Makatiani Founder, Africa Online, CNN Money
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Company overview, Bloomberg Businessweek
- ↑ History of Africa Online https://web.archive.org/web/20101119075000/http://www.africaonline.com/index.php/our-history
- ↑ https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/sci-tech/article/2001244223/the-man-with-knack-for-turning-raw-ideas-into-cash