Would be interesting to know what mistake 'they' made in North America in 1960s and how this addressed it. The desire by AfrISPA is not just more bandwidth but use-value for internet, relevant content addresses the use-value of the internet as illustrated in the paper Muriuki Mureithi -----Original Message----- From: kictanet-bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke@kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke@kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of alice@apc.org Sent: 07 April 2006 18:18 To: mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke Subject: [Kictanet] Fw: [alac] Africa Position Paper on Internet growththrough content Hi All, especially AFRISPA folks, Comments on your "strategies for increased internet growth" report from ALAC ICANN members alice ----- Original Message ----- From: "John L" <johnl@iecc.com> To: <shahshah@irnic.ir> Cc: <alice@apc.org>; "ALAC" <alac@icann.org> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [alac] Africa Position Paper on Internet growth through content
Well it isn't so clear that a statistical study was done. This seems to be a call by African ISPs for what they consider important. They may be advocating more use of Internet for educating and informing, or a call for 'content' may just mean a desire for more 'bandwidth'. Further, because so much of email is web-based, it is hard to differentiate.
I can't tell from the report what they consider important either.
I just hope they're not repeating the mistakes we made here in North America in the 1990s.
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.
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