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 Wang

Andrew Forbes

Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT)

University of Glasgow
University of Strathclyde
University Hospital Southampton
University of the Witwatersrand
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Nokia Bell Labs
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Square Kilometre Array
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Università degli Studi di Padova
National Metrology Institute of South Africa
Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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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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