AFRISPA, More comments on your intrenet report. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John R Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: <alice@apc.org> Cc: "ALAC" <alac@icann.org> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [alac] Africa Position Paper on Internet growth through content
Primarily their interest is driven by the value of content that they locate which is relevant to their lives and business.
That's surprising. Here in the U.S., despite the myth that "content is king" the reality is that what people are willing to pay for is person to person communication. See, for example http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_2/odlyzko/
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.