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

[alice at apc.org]

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 at iecc.com>
To: <shahshah at irnic.ir>
Cc: <alice at apc.org>; "ALAC" <alac at 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 at 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.