Tackling Africa's digital divide

Martin P.J. Lavery; Mojtaba Mansour Abadi; Ralf Bauer; Gilberto Brambilla; Ling Cheng; Mitchell A. Cox; Angela Dudley; Andrew D. Ellis; Nicolas K. Fontaine; Anthony E. Kelly; Christoph Marquardt; Selaelo Matlhane; Bienvenu Ndagano; Francesco Petruccione; Radan Slavík; Filippo Romanato; Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán; Filippus S. Roux; Kobus Roux; Jian Wang; Andrew Forbes

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Tackling Africa's digital divide

Martin P.J. Lavery, Mojtaba Mansour Abadi, Ralf Bauer, Gilberto Brambilla, Ling Cheng, Mitchell A. Cox, Angela Dudley, Andrew D. Ellis, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Anthony E. Kelly, Christoph Marquardt, Selaelo Matlhane, Bienvenu Ndagano, Francesco Petruccione, Radan Slavík, Filippo Romanato, Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán, Filippus S. Roux, Kobus Roux, Jian WangAndrew Forbes

Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT)

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Innovations in ‘sustainable’ photonics technologies such as free-space optical links and solar-powered equipment provide developing countries with new cost-effective opportunities for deploying future-proof telecommunication networks.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	249-252
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature Photonics
Volume	12
Issue number	5
Early online date	26 Apr 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-018-0162-z
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2018

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Lavery, M. P. J., Abadi, M. M., Bauer, R., Brambilla, G., Cheng, L., Cox, M. A., Dudley, A., Ellis, A. D., Fontaine, N. K., Kelly, A. E., Marquardt, C., Matlhane, S., Ndagano, B., Petruccione, F., Slavík, R., Romanato, F., Rosales-Guzmán, C., Roux, F. S., Roux, K., ... Forbes, A. (2018). Tackling Africa's digital divide. Nature Photonics, 12(5), 249-252. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-018-0162-z

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