Very interesting article: covers issues of zero rated services with clear examples how the people crave the whole Internet. Wikimedia and Facebook have given Angolans free access to their websites, but not to the rest of the internet. So, naturally, Angolans have started hiding pirated movies and music in Wikipedia articles and linking to them on closed Facebook groups, creating a totally free and clandestine file sharing network in a country where mobile internet data is extremely expensive. But people in developing countries have always had to be more creative than those for whom access to information has always been a given. In Cuba, for instance, movies, music, news, and games are traded on USB drives <http://motherboard.vice.com/read/cubas-black-market-is-a-website-that-exists-primarily-offline> that are smuggled into the country every week. A 20-year-old developer in Paraguay found a vulnerability in Facebook Messenger <http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-app-lets-you-piggyback-facebooks-free-internet-to-access-any-site> that allowed people to use Free Basics to tunnel through to the “real” internet. Legal questions aside (Angola has more lax copyright laws than much of the world <https://www.copyright-watch.org/files/Angola.pdf>), Angola’s pirates are furthering Wikipedia’s mission of spreading information in a real and substantial way. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikipedia-zero-facebook-free-basics-angola-... Simply make the internet cheaper for all, that's the intervention that will work in the longer term. -- Warm Regards, Phares Kariuki *E*: [email protected] | *Twitter*: kaboro | _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/kivuva%40transworldafr... The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.