Africa is not waiting, it is exploding into the Net.
More than a third of Africa's citizens should have access to broadband internet by 2012.
Only about four in 100 Africans currently use the internet, and broadband penetration is below 1%.
One of the high-profile technology leaders active in such moves to increase African access to the Internet is Intel's chairman Craig Barrett.
Africa has experienced the highest growth in mobile use globally, in fact, twice the global average over the past three years.
The result in connectivity will be that ideas can be shared with students in other parts of the world.
The resulting interactions can be exciting and this move has profound implications for education. For the first time, Africans, many of whom have never had a textbook, will be wired to the world.
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