[AfrICANN-discuss] Internet Fragmentation

[Mukom Akong T.]

So in the spirit of constructive debate, Pierre, could  you paint for us a
model of how this alternative countrinets (Internet within a country) will
operate AND help drive economic development?



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>  *From: *Pierre Lotis NANKEP <lnankep at yahoo.fr>
> *Subject: **Re: _[AfrICANN-discuss]_Fadi_Chehadé:_If_We_Fra
> gment_The_Internet, _'It_Will_Not_Be_The_Interne
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> *Date: *February 2, 2014 at 2:21:34 PM GMT+4
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> NSA in the U.S. and other intelligence services or espionages (Western
> countries, Chinese, ...) will eventually convince Nations / Sovereign
> State to have their own Internet.
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Actually not. If you are General Keith Alexander (guy who runs NSA), the
first logical deduction you get to make (if you can't, you shouldn't even
have that job) is that - the PRISM program's success depends on the having
one large source of data to mine and gather intelligence from. While from
the perspective of securing borders, you suggestion might make sense, from
the perspective of intelligence gathering, it doesn't and the spy agencies
everywhere know surely get that.


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> Africa will lose nothing, let's not be alarmist,
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Why not ask the African entrepreneurs who have built global companies based
upon the Internet what it would mean to them if a large part of the world
could not access their service because they happen to be in an Internet
block that is not friendly with theirs? Or actually go talk to the aspiring
tech-entrepreneurs trying to build Internet startups (I think there's one
such space in Cameroon - Activespaces based in Buea/Douala)




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> According to their different strategic interests, Nations / Sovereign
> States will interconnect their Internet (p2p, multilateral peering, etc
> ...)
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And so long as those strategic interest are driven by basic economics and
the need to use the Internet as platform for economic development and
education, those multilateral interconnections you speak of will ultimately
end up in the open and free Internet.


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> The wars in Libya, Syria, Egypt, Sudan, CAR, ... reinforce our position with
> regard to the future of Internet architecture.
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Who is 'our' here? Is this the position of the Cameroon IT regulator
(ANTIC) and thus the gov't of Cameroon?  That would be good to know.

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> In addition, political unrest manipulated by the major world powers (eg,
> Ukraine, Thailand, etc ...) are alsodrawing our attention to the precautions
> for the benefit of our peoples.
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> We must stop playing activists just to please our former colonial masters
> ...
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> Globalization has not only the positive effects ...
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I agree 100% with you here. In fact, I'll recommend the "Globalisation and
its Discontents" by Joseph Stiglitz, former World Bank chief economist and
Nobel laureate. Globalisation - which is well aided by an Open Internet is
a weapon - those that master how to wield it will benefit from it, those
that don't will suffer but they will suffer not because of the
globalisation or the Internet, but because they have failed as persons,
organisations, countries or continents to build the capabilities that
enable them to produce (not just dig from the ground) and sell products and
services to other countries  AND make money.





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Mukom Akong T.

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