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

Muriuki Mureithi mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke
Fri Apr 7 22:23:06 EAT 2006


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-----
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Behalf Of alice at apc.org
Sent: 07 April 2006 18:18
To: mureithi at 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 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. 


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