Attachment 1999AAI letter April

This document pretains to SAT-LOA-19900723-00002 for Application to Launch and Operate on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

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TE 8R CR—AMEACR NSMUIE AAl e UNITED PSR LEARNING ANDP LEADERGHIP MORA MCLEAN PRESDENT HEar SVARTERE 380 lexingion e, 42nd Floor New York, NY 10168—4298 Phone: 2 2—949—5666 Foxr 2 2—682—6174 April 7, 1999 EMoil: cain tonkine.org Wns k rni ox B.G. Ms. Magalie Roman Salas, Esq 1625 Massachy s Ave, NW. Secretary Washingto} p, DC 20036 Phone: 20 12.667.5636 Federal Communications Commission Fox: 202—265—.6332 The Portals 445—12th Street, S.W. — Room TWD204 RCPRES ENT ATIVES inz Washington, DC 20554 Benm Botnwona Burkina Pqeo Re: Amendment of AfriSpace, Inc.‘s Application for Authority to Construct, Conge Launch, and Frepare a Sub—regional Africa and Middle Eastern Satellite Sound Con dteaire Efhiors Broadcasting Transmission System, File No. CSS—90—017 [IBFS File No. SAT— Ghane 10A—19900723—00002]; Amendment File No. SAT—AMD—19990125—00016 Guinea (call sign 52367). Gutres. Bissau Maill Dear Ms. Sales: Maorombigque Namibia Nigetia The Africa—Amnerica Institute (AAD) recognizes the valuable role that modern Senage! Seta leone telecommunications technology can play in empowering Africans to address Souh affico their most pressing political, social and economic needs. An imadequate Tanzonis communications infrastmicture is one ofthe biggest hurdles facing the region‘s Zomblo Zmnbabwr development and AAL welcomes the efforts ofAffriSpace, Inc. to increase Affica‘s telecommunications capacity and the region‘s access to critical sources Boarp or T Ru=2TER® of information, education and news. Roger , Chairmgn Peggy Dulany, CoVice Chair AAI is a non—profit, multi—ractal, multi—ctmic organization whose mission is to Dr. John Spencer, promate African development, primanily through education and training. We are dedicated to sustaining that development by promoting mutually beneficial rclations between a wide spectrum of Africans and Americans in the public and private sectors. AAJ‘s Trade, Investment and Economic Development (TIED) program is working to strengthen the capacity ofAfricans to campete in the global economyand to help Africans and Americans to address and overcome existing barriers to trade and investment in the region. Aun efficient telocormmunications infrastructure is a prerequisite for mcreased trade and investment flows. In the fall of 1997, AAJ hosted & roundtable, Connecting Worlds: Africa and the United States in the Information Age, which assessed the importance of the information technology and telecommunications sectors to Africa‘s development and especially to its development in the areas of human resources, media, governance and policy, and trade and investment.

Building on the objectives ofthe Connecting Worlds mitiative, AAl supports programs that seek to develop the continent‘s telecommunications infrastructure, increase mfonnation flows in the region and enhance the capacity ofAfricans to compete in the global cconomy. Satellite technology can fill the information gap that imperdles the extension of communications services to remote and rural areas and open new markets for opportunity. For the above reasons, we support approval of the Amendment of AfriSpace, Inc.‘s application. Si ly, 1 Mora McLean: 2 President BCC: Gracia Hillmsn, President WorldSpace Foundation


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