[kictanet] Syria shuts down Internet? How can we stop this from happening again?-application to Kenya?

[Warigia Bowman]

Thank you walu, for your insightful comments.

What do the kictanet listers think about turning off twitter, TV and radio
if there is a repeat of election violence?

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Rigia,
>
> You paper/analysis does cover the the policy and technical aspects for a
> redundant (always on) interent service in a given economy. Basically a
> liberalized internet market with multiple points of connection to the
> Internet Backbone (read the North and increasingly Asia Pacific region)
> should be enough to ensure that once and as soon as one international link
> goes down another one takes over.
>
> But over and above the technical redundancy above, one must have the
> political redundancy to allow for these redundant links to exchange
> information.  China for example does have multiple redundant links to the
> Internet Backbone but can decide within a minute to block incoming and
> outgoing data. And they can do it in a very clever, sophisticated way
> (using software that provides limited/filtered internet ) as opposed to the
> crude way (switch off power or just vandalize the ISPs) approach that is
> common in African/Arabic economies.
>
> In a seperate example, you will find that even where there is political
> redundancy (read democracy) the temptation to switch off the internet is
> never far away (ref: US vs Wikileaks?).  So I think the quest for an
> Internet that can never be switched off is one that can never be achieved.
> Someone, somewhere will always be able to switch off the Net.
>
> And beneath the ongoing ITU/WCIT negotiations (what negotiators wont put
> on the table, the hidden cards :-)  you just have to decide whether that
> someone is the UN, the Government, the Private Sector, the Civil Society,
> the Academia or some hybrid of the above :-)
>
> walu.
>
> *From:* Warigia Bowman <warigia at gmail.com>
> *To:* jwalu at yahoo.com
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *Sent:* Friday, November 30, 2012 5:54 AM
> *Subject:* [kictanet] Syria shuts down Internet? How can we stop this
> from happening again?
>
> Dear Kictanet List,
>
> Please see the work by Jean Camp and Warigia Bowman on how to "Protect the
> Internet from Dictators: Technical and Policy Solutions to Ensure Online
> Freedoms. This paper is particularly timely given today's events, since
> Syria is one of the countries we analyze. Can you please help us to figure
> out what technology we missed, or in what areas our analysis could be
> improved? Many thanks.
> *
> You can find and download our work here*
>
> *http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2101677*
> *
> Here is the permalink *
>
> *http://ssrn.com/abstract=2101677
>
>
> ***************************************************************************************
> *
> Please see ISOC's statement below.
>
>
> http://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society-syria%E2%80%99s-internet-shutdown
>
> Sincerely, Rigia
>
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Dr. Warigia Bowman
Assistant Professor
Clinton School of Public Service
University of Arkansas
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