<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I’d like to refer some articles, these are just a few that has been noted. However please have a look at the brookings report as well:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/intenet-shutdowns-v-3.pdf" class="">https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/intenet-shutdowns-v-3.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is actually good to look at stats and reality. Again as i said before the philosophy of the policy brought forward is a fact that we cannot turn our back from, but we as the community need to see what and how best interest we can support ourselves and not let governments decide on what we as a right to information get through the internet or not. We are all reasonable people who understand challenges. Since the UN classifies Internet as a human right we should act but i would not necessarily act and use the heavy duty artillery in the policy but am sure we can collectively find something that can work in the right way.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Egypt:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/28/egypt_vodafone_shuts/" class="">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/28/egypt_vodafone_shuts/</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://dyn.com/blog/egypts-net-on-life-support/" class="">http://dyn.com/blog/egypts-net-on-life-support/</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/28/egypt_internet_switchoff/" class="">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/28/egypt_internet_switchoff/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/01/egypt_last_net_lost/" class="">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/01/egypt_last_net_lost/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/08dbe398-2abb-11e0-a2f3-00144feab49a" class="">https://www.ft.com/content/08dbe398-2abb-11e0-a2f3-00144feab49a</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cameroon:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/03/africa/internet-shutdown-cameroon/" class="">http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/03/africa/internet-shutdown-cameroon/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://qz.com/942879/an-internet-shutdown-in-cameroon-has-forced-startups-to-create-an-internet-refugee-camp-in-bonako-village/" class="">https://qz.com/942879/an-internet-shutdown-in-cameroon-has-forced-startups-to-create-an-internet-refugee-camp-in-bonako-village/</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38895541" class="">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38895541</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://africanarguments.org/2017/03/10/cameroon-sabotages-own-digital-economy-plan-with-internet-shutdown/" class="">http://africanarguments.org/2017/03/10/cameroon-sabotages-own-digital-economy-plan-with-internet-shutdown/</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.africanews.com/2017/02/18/cameroon-internet-shutdown-costs-139m//" class="">http://www.africanews.com/2017/02/18/cameroon-internet-shutdown-costs-139m//</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21165&LangID=E" class="">http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21165&LangID=E</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.africanews.com/2017/02/14/cameroon-must-urgently-free-the-internet-in-anglophone-regions-un-expert//" class="">http://www.africanews.com/2017/02/14/cameroon-must-urgently-free-the-internet-in-anglophone-regions-un-expert//</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/01/cameroon-actively-blocking-internet-access-english-speaking-parts-country/" class="">https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/01/cameroon-actively-blocking-internet-access-english-speaking-parts-country/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bangladesh:</div><div class=""><a href="https://advox.globalvoices.org/2016/08/05/bangladesh-shuts-down-the-internet-then-orders-blocking-of-35-news-websites/" class="">https://advox.globalvoices.org/2016/08/05/bangladesh-shuts-down-the-internet-then-orders-blocking-of-35-news-websites/</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.gulf-times.com/story/519071/Internet-shutdowns-for-25-days-cost-Bangladesh-70m" class="">http://www.gulf-times.com/story/519071/Internet-shutdowns-for-25-days-cost-Bangladesh-70m</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Turkey:</div><div class=""><a href="https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/10/27/new-internet-shutdown-turkey-southeast-offline-diyarbakir-unrest/" class="">https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/10/27/new-internet-shutdown-turkey-southeast-offline-diyarbakir-unrest/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/09/11/internet-shutdown-turkey-southeast/" class="">https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/09/11/internet-shutdown-turkey-southeast/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/27/turkey-internet-shutdown-kurdish-cities/" class="">https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/27/turkey-internet-shutdown-kurdish-cities/</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/11/03/turkey-shuts-down-social-media-detains-elected-lawmakers-from-leftist-pro-kurdish-party/" class="">http://www.salon.com/2016/11/03/turkey-shuts-down-social-media-detains-elected-lawmakers-from-leftist-pro-kurdish-party/</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/turkey-uses-emergency-decree-shut-down-internet-11-kurdish-cities-amid-widespread-protests-1588701" class="">http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/turkey-uses-emergency-decree-shut-down-internet-11-kurdish-cities-amid-widespread-protests-1588701</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">DRC:</div><div class=""><a href="https://qz.com/864617/dr-congo-calls-for-social-media-networks-to-be-blocked-from-midnight-sunday-ahead-of-anti-kabila-protests/" class="">https://qz.com/864617/dr-congo-calls-for-social-media-networks-to-be-blocked-from-midnight-sunday-ahead-of-anti-kabila-protests/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.accessnow.org/ways-circumvent-internet-shutdown-democratic-republic-congo/" class="">https://www.accessnow.org/ways-circumvent-internet-shutdown-democratic-republic-congo/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/12/drc-must-rescind-order-to-block-social-media-sites/" class="">https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/12/drc-must-rescind-order-to-block-social-media-sites/</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://punchng.com/internet-shutdown-dr-congo-kabila-elongates-tenure-alarms-un/" class="">http://punchng.com/internet-shutdown-dr-congo-kabila-elongates-tenure-alarms-un/</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/congo-blocks-internet-access-amid-protests-against-president-kabila-1421938042" class="">https://www.wsj.com/articles/congo-blocks-internet-access-amid-protests-against-president-kabila-1421938042</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://cpj.org/2015/01/drc-halts-internet-access-and-cellphone-services-a.php" class="">https://cpj.org/2015/01/drc-halts-internet-access-and-cellphone-services-a.php</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.africareview.com/news/DR-Congo-orders-social-networks-shut-as-Kabila-term-expires/979180-3487916-format-xhtml-mux74h/index.html" class="">http://www.africareview.com/news/DR-Congo-orders-social-networks-shut-as-Kabila-term-expires/979180-3487916-format-xhtml-mux74h/index.html</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201612190934.html" class="">http://allafrica.com/stories/201612190934.html</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=55827#.WO873FOGPnU" class="">http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=55827#.WO873FOGPnU</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 13, 2017, at 12:20 PM, Mukom Akong T. <<a href="mailto:mukom.tamon@gmail.com" class="">mukom.tamon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra">**no hats**<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 April 2017 at 11:56, Arnaud AMELINA <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:amelnaud@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">amelnaud@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Hmmm!</span> <span class="m_-4349822491652120999gmail-">Very
bad observation, do you want to confirm us through this observation
that Afrinic has no system of redundancy and did not foresee in the case
just where the Internet was cut in Mauritius.</span> <span class="m_-4349822491652120999gmail-">It
is dangerous that, I then call Afrinic technical staff to kindly from
this day put himself in condition to set up a backup in case of this has not been
done yet.</span></blockquote></div><br class=""><br class="">- technical (infrastructure, server) redundancy *is not equal to* human resource redundancy. </div><div class="gmail_extra">- infrastructure redundancy has HR redundancy as it's bottle neck</div><div class="gmail_extra">- no organization I know of has double of each staff in different countries for the purpose of redundancy. Reality is that in the event of a shutdown, even with technical redundancy - capacity will be diminished. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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