[Community-Discuss] [AFRINIC-Announce] Common Statement By AF* on Internet Shutdowns in Africa

[Chevalier du Borg]

2017-06-10 0:28 GMT+04:00 Sunday Folayan <sfolayan at skannet.com>:

> Just for the records: AfriNIC Ltd did organize these at AIS '17:
>
> 1. https://www.internetsummitafrica.org/daily-recap/158-ais17-daily-
> recap-2
> The AfGWG-16 Meeting saw several government officials, regulators and law
> enforcement agencies gather on Monday 29 May from 10:00 am to 3.00 pm. It
> was a closed session.
>
> 2. https://www.internetsummitafrica.org/daily-recap/161-ais-17-daily-
> recap-3-30-may
> Panel on Internet Shutdown
> This session was held with the objective to demystify Internet Shutdown in
> Africa and view it with the lens of different stakeholders in the region.
> Panelists representing various stakeholder groups (Technical Community,
> Business Community, Civil Society, and Government) discussed the topic.
> The panel consisted of:
>     1. Moderator and Academia: Prof Nii Quaynor - Ghana
>     2. AFRINIC and Technical representative and Business, Mr Sunday
> Folayan - Nigeria
>     3. Dr Chérif Diallo, Ministry of ICT - Senegal
>     4. Government ARPCE, Luc Missidimbazi - Congo
>     5. KICTANET & Civil Society, Grace Githaiga - Kenya
>     6. Civil Society, Kathleen Ndongmo - Cameroon
>     7. Communication Authority of Kenya, Mr Vincent Ngundi - Kenya
>
> Watch the video of this session at : https://www.internetsummitafrica.org/
> participate-remotely/internet-shutdown
>


Will any of this have happen if there was no anti-shutdown proposal? We
only have to look at history of shutdowns and agenda of all past AfriNIC
meeting and we will likely reach same conclusion.


-- 
Borg le Chevalier
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"Common sense is what tells us the world is flat"
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