[AfrICANN-discuss] Re: AfrICANN Digest, Vol 68, Issue 72

Y Mshana2003 ymshana2003 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 10:41:11 SAST 2012


Thumbs up for this approach. 
Let the Internet Business Council come in with that bargaining power while we look for useful content...
Bravo!!!
Yassin


From Yassin . Sent from samsung mobile. On O2.

Gideon <gideonrop at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

Thanks for the insightful inputs, i beleive that at the end of the day from the look of things, the business side of the internet has the most influence, no wonder others are keen to warm upto the "[The sender pays proposal] .

What i think we could start to do in our home turf, Africa is to vigorously build our content, perhaps develop our own knowledge portal. This way we will increase traffic Africa-wards, and then our bandwidth margin of 1Tbps can increase, this will go with issues like ensuring that more can access the internet not only on mobile devices but also PC's.

The only way Africa could have a voice is to have a bargaining power that exists not in the lobbying only but more tangible factors like "we have this % of content, that holds the %  stake of the www e.t.c. ". so we shall argue based on the stake we hold!!

Keep Well,

Gideon Rop
DotConnectAfrica

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   1. Re: Who controls the internet? (Vika Mpisane)
   2. Re: Who controls the internet? (SM)
   3. Re: Who controls the internet? (nabil benamar)
   4. Re: Who controls the internet? (Nii Narku Quaynor)
   5. R?f.: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Who controls the internet?
      (Alioune Traore)
   6. Re: Who controls the internet? (Kivuva)
   7. Re: Who controls the internet? (Y Mshana2003)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:47:35 -0400
From: Vika Mpisane <vika at zadna.org.za>
Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Who controls the internet?
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I note Alice's insightful & more informed take on the matter, but I'm even
encouraged by the comment of Milton Mueller:

Mueller says: "We're all 'prepared to fight the ITU'  but we're
ignoring threats that come from Icann, the US government and from nation
 states. We're not building the kind of new institutions we need to
govern the internet and keep it free."



I think Milton sums up well what's the issue with the current internet
governance landscape because as much as any supposed ITU "take-over" of
the Internet (although the ITU says it plans no such take-over) should be
challenged as it would threaten the open internet, ICANN too is not immune
to serious challenges that we should still address.

Regards,

Vika Mpisane | Tel: +27 11 314 0077







On 2012/10/18 6:37 AM, "Victor Ndonnang" <ndonnang at isoc-cameroon.org>
wrote:

>Thanks Anne-Rachel for share this interesting article.
>The same question with new answers. Anyway, this question will still
>around
>for many years.
>Great input from Alice Munyua:
>
>"Western dominance is the one of the biggest challenges for developing
>nations, says Alice Munyua, a researcher and policy development expert,
>representing Kenya and Africa on forums such as Icann. "It is a big
>concern
>for African governments and stakeholders, and not just because of how the
>internet is governed, but how it is developed from a commercial and
>technical perspective," she said. "There is a feeling that we are not able
>to participate or contribute effectively because of the lack of capacity,
>skills and resources, so there's a digital divide in terms of access, but
>also in appropriating the internet for our own development."
>
>This, she believes, is the reason most African governments are supporting
>Arab proposals that countries should be compensated, by websites and
>internet services, for the flow of internet traffic they generate, and
>that
>wide-ranging privacy protections be introduced with exceptions for law
>enforcement."
>
>I is clear that the Multi-stakeholder model of the Internet Governance is
>under-construction.
>
>Best regards,
>Victor Ndonnang.
>
>
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>De : africann-bounces at afrinic.net [mailto:africann-bounces at afrinic.net] De
>la part de Anne-Rachel Inné
>Envoyé : jeudi 18 octobre 2012 05:29
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>Objet : [AfrICANN-discuss] Who controls the internet?
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:01:31 -0700
From: SM <sm at resistor.net>
Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Who controls the internet?
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The image at
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/8/2/1343919312614/Internet-map-008.jpg
could be used as input to answer the question in the subject
line.  Africa is a quarter the size of South America in terms of
addressability.  The most visible ccTLD in Africa is .za which is
0.3% of the web.  The total international bandwidth for Africa is 1
Tbps.  It was mentioned that Africa has less international bandwidth
than Austria.

In other news a well-known search engine has threatened to exclude
some sites in a country from search results if the country goes ahead
with plans to make search engines pay for content.

Regards,
-sm



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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:17:35 +0000
From: nabil benamar <benamar73 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Who controls the internet?
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Hi All,

The Hungout realized today around the subject who control Internet, is of
some interest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t6NQBsNJrg&feature=plcp

Weight in

Regards

2012/10/18 SM <sm at resistor.net>

> The image at http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-**images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/*
> *2012/8/2/1343919312614/**Internet-map-008.jpg<http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/8/2/1343919312614/Internet-map-008.jpg>could be used as input to answer the question in the subject line.  Africa
> is a quarter the size of South America in terms of addressability.  The
> most visible ccTLD in Africa is .za which is 0.3% of the web.  The total
> international bandwidth for Africa is 1 Tbps.  It was mentioned that Africa
> has less international bandwidth than Austria.
>
> In other news a well-known search engine has threatened to exclude some
> sites in a country from search results if the country goes ahead with plans
> to make search engines pay for content.
>
> Regards,
> -sm
>
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:21:11 -0400
From: Nii Narku Quaynor <quaynor at ghana.com>
Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Who controls the internet?
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Ack. Africa should focus and build its Internet industries

On Oct 18, 2012, at 16:01, SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote:

> The image at http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/8/2/1343919312614/Internet-map-008.jpg could be used as input to answer the question in the subject line.  Africa is a quarter the size of South America in terms of addressability.  The most visible ccTLD in Africa is .za which is 0.3% of the web.  The total international bandwidth for Africa is 1 Tbps.  It was mentioned that Africa has less international bandwidth than Austria.
>
> In other news a well-known search engine has threatened to exclude some sites in a country from search results if the country goes ahead with plans to make search engines pay for content.
>
> Regards,
> -sm
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:35:21 +0100 (BST)
From: Alioune Traore <alioune_b_traore at yahoo.fr>
Subject: R?f.: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Who controls the internet?
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+1 Dr Nii


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Le jeu. 18 oct. 2012 22:21 HAEC, Nii Narku Quaynor a écrit :

>Ack. Africa should focus and build its Internet industries
>
>On Oct 18, 2012, at 16:01, SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote:
>
>> The image at http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/8/2/1343919312614/Internet-map-008.jpg could be used as input to answer the question in the subject line.  Africa is a quarter the size of South America in terms of addressability.  The most visible ccTLD in Africa is .za which is 0.3% of the web.  The total international bandwidth for Africa is 1 Tbps.  It was mentioned that Africa has less international bandwidth than Austria.
>>
>> In other news a well-known search engine has threatened to exclude some sites in a country from search results if the country goes ahead with plans to make search engines pay for content.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -sm
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:36:12 +0300
From: Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com>
Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Who controls the internet?
To: africann at afrinic.net
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SM, its obvious we need to pull up our socks, although those
statistics are a bit biased. I know for a fact that there are more
gTLDs registered by Africans for Africa than there are ccTLD. If
current and future generations start registering domaisn from their
respective country registries, we will see a shift from those
statistics. The same with addressability, most of Africa's content is
hosted abroad for reasons that have been discussed in other threads.

Maybe it's time we started consuming our own dog food. In Germany for
example, there ccTLD is the second largest in the world after .com.
Its something us industrial players should pursue.

On 18/10/2012, SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote:
> The image at
> http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/8/2/1343919312614/Internet-map-008.jpg
>
> could be used as input to answer the question in the subject
> line.  Africa is a quarter the size of South America in terms of
> addressability.  The most visible ccTLD in Africa is .za which is
> 0.3% of the web.  The total international bandwidth for Africa is 1
> Tbps.  It was mentioned that Africa has less international bandwidth
> than Austria.
>
> In other news a well-known search engine has threatened to exclude
> some sites in a country from search results if the country goes ahead
> with plans to make search engines pay for content.
>
> Regards,
> -sm
>
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:42:03 +0000
From: Y Mshana2003 <ymshana2003 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Who controls the internet?
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My brains is burning on How, when ,who, where and what?

I have a small answer for Who?: It is me, you and him/her all in Africa! We have the potential since we have very few challenges to keep us awake - only if we value what we naturally have.:-):-)

We should think out of the Box but We should acknowledge what we have in our Box. To begin with, we have equity: land is the biggest assert. Next is Talent ! We naturally have it all. 
No one will tell you how to make ur household better than Theirs!

Lets control the Content which is rich of knowkedge...

>From Yassin . Sent from samsung mobile. On O2.

Nii Narku Quaynor <quaynor at ghana.com> wrote:

Ack. Africa should focus and build its Internet industries

On Oct 18, 2012, at 16:01, SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote:

> The image at http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/8/2/1343919312614/Internet-map-008.jpg could be used as input to answer the question in the subject line.  Africa is a quarter the size of South America in terms of addressability.  The most visible ccTLD in Africa is .za which is 0.3% of the web.  The total international bandwidth for Africa is 1 Tbps.  It was mentioned that Africa has less international bandwidth than Austria.
>
> In other news a well-known search engine has threatened to exclude some sites in a country from search results if the country goes ahead with plans to make search engines pay for content.
>
> Regards,
> -sm
>
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