Around the world, connectedness has begun to define the our ability to gain access to education, to participate in governance, and to create and access resources whether nationally or globally. Increasingly, we see a direct relationship between the growth of broadband infrastructure and national economic growth. The African continent is on the cusp of a broadband transformation as more and more undersea fibre optic cables find their way to African shores. However, in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, access to these new terabytes of fibre optic broadband only reaches major cities.