Fw: [alac] Africa Position Paper on Internet growth through 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.
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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