[kictanet] Introducing Facebook Africa Public Policy Team to KICTANet

Tue Jan 12 11:47:43 EAT 2016

Found this article which holds a rare view of Internet.org interesting.

Claiming that Internet.org is a thinly veiled for-profit initiative
masquerading as a philanthropic organization is a misguided notion

http://www.iafrikan.com/2015/08/21/defending-internet-org/

On Monday, 11 January 2016, Ebele Okobi via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Good morning!
> What exactly do you mean when you say community initiatives? And when you
> say region, do you mean all of Africa, or East Africa, or Kenya?
> I’ve previously described the Continent-wide plans related to connectivity
> (not Free Basics-the ones related to infrastructure connectivity)-is that
> what you mean?
> Or are you talking about things like child online safety, developer
> engagement, online violence against women, our politics and government
> trainings, our SMB engagement, the Africa Innovation Challenge—all
> described/announced on earlier threads-or are referring to something else?
> And when you say impact, it’s hard to know what you mean, given that
> everything we are doing across Africa is brand new or scoped for 2016. We
> launched our first ever office in an African country in June of 2015, and
> the head of the office started in September.
>
> Perhaps the best thing for me to ask is-do you have any
> thoughts/recommendations? Happy to hear about them!
>
> I will say, however, that I strongly believe that the best way that a
> company contributes to a community is by offering a product that is useful,
> by being an ethical business that upholds human rights standards, by
> treating employees fairly, etc. And I think every company can always get
> better at those things, including Facebook. That said, I do think that
> Facebook provides an unparalleled platform to connect people to ideas and
> people they care about, and I also think that the potential Facebook has to
> support community values like political engagement, transparency,
> education, health, good governance, and economic empowerment for small
> business across all of our respective countries is truly revolutionary.
>
> But grateful for specifics, per questions above!
> Best, Ebele
>
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>
> Ebele Okobi | Head of Public Policy, Africa
>
> m. +44 (0) 771 156 1315
>
> 2 Stephen St | London | W1T 1AN
>
> ebeleokobi at fb.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ebeleokobi at fb.com');>
>
>
>
> From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','otieno.barrack at gmail.com');>>
> Date: Monday, January 11, 2016 at 4:41 PM
> To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke');>>
> Cc: Ebele Okobi <ebeleokobi at fb.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ebeleokobi at fb.com');>>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Introducing Facebook Africa Public Policy Team to
> KICTANet
>
> Interesting to hear the other side of the coin. Ebele, would you mind
> sharing any ongoing Community iniatives conducted by facebook  in our
> region and the impact?
>
> Thank you
> On Jan 11, 2016 6:12 PM, "Ebele Okobi via kictanet" <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke');>> wrote:
>
>> Hello, All!!!
>>
>> I’m back from annual leave, which I spent running after (and barely
>> keeping up with) the three active, insatiably curious and insanely
>> opinionated small people that my husband I made.  I’m happy to be back at
>> work to have easier conversations. ;-)
>>
>> So-I think that reasonable people can absolutely differ on how they feel
>> about Facebook’s campaign to get Indian users to engage in the policy
>> conversation about Free Basics and zero rating. From Facebook’s
>> perspective, it was an attempt to engage the very people who would be most
>> affected in the debate, and to get them to participate. Again, I certainly
>> think that people can disagree on whether/how people should have been
>> directly engaged.
>>
>> BUT. Facebook did NOT orchestrate a distributed denial of service attack
>> against TRAI, and insinuating that this is the case, per the original
>> article posted here means the writer doesn’t have an understanding of what
>> DDOS attacks actually are. For info, please see here-
>> http://www.digitalattackmap.com/understanding-ddos
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.digitalattackmap.com_understanding-2Dddos&d=CwMFaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=ArvepG4_wcNu_X9xi3nb_Xa9WsGLVfmK6mwPdVONOTE&m=GR2D5B3xjkNTPICmNLI-A81qbfL1zkq8fWzS36z-7-A&s=ed7K58EJ32Xx4WmB2sDk-qXhWwms8m9Bieb8DK0ojK4&e=>/
>>  or here-
>> https://www.stateoftheinternet.com/faq-what-is-ddos-denial-of-service-attacks-definition.html
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.stateoftheinternet.com_faq-2Dwhat-2Dis-2Dddos-2Ddenial-2Dof-2Dservice-2Dattacks-2Ddefinition.html&d=CwMFaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=ArvepG4_wcNu_X9xi3nb_Xa9WsGLVfmK6mwPdVONOTE&m=GR2D5B3xjkNTPICmNLI-A81qbfL1zkq8fWzS36z-7-A&s=iuGHSfh-gLJljejH0L61KoKlx83Gp9rBREY_DfElfXI&e=>
>> .
>>
>> DDOS attacks are technical attacks that overwhelm a target by building
>> networks of infected computers, known as ‘botnets’ and then spreading
>> malicious software through emails, websites and social media. Once
>>  infected, these machines can be controlled remotely, without their owners'
>> knowledge, and used like an army to launch an attack against any target.
>> Some botnets are millions of machines strong. Botnets  generate huge floods
>> of traffic, by sending more connection requests than a server can handle,
>> or having computers send the victim huge amounts of random data to use up
>> the target’s bandwidth.
>>
>> That is not, at all, what happened in India, and the fact that citizens
>> sent both pro and con messages to policy makers seems, to me, to be exactly
>> what we want citizens to do-engage with policy makers. In my view, even if
>> they sent messages to TRAI saying no to Free Basics, that’s a win, because
>> it’s citizens engaging in policy issues, and making their views known.
>> Using the Interwebs and social media. ;-)
>>
>> So, again-fine to disagree with FB asking citizens to engage, but
>> completely factually incorrect to say that TRAI was DDOSed. Words mean
>> things, and that’s not what DDOS means.
>>
>> Happy new year, all-we really look forward to engaging with and learning
>> more from this community in 2016!!
>>
>> Best, Ebele
>>
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>>
>>
>> Ebele Okobi | Head of Public Policy, Africa
>>
>> m. +44 (0) 771 156 1315
>>
>> 2 Stephen St | London | W1T 1AN
>>
>> ebeleokobi at fb.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ebeleokobi at fb.com');>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: kictanet <kictanet-bounces+ebeleokobi=fb.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kictanet-bounces%2Bebeleokobi%5Cx3dfb.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke');>>
>> on behalf of Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke');>>
>> Reply-To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke');>>
>> Date: Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 12:25 PM
>> To: Ebele Okobi <ebeleokobi at fb.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ebeleokobi at fb.com');>>
>> Cc: Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ali at hussein.me.ke');>>
>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Introducing Facebook Africa Public Policy Team
>> to KICTANet
>>
>> Even more important are the serious allegations of how Facebook is
>> influencing public participation. One of these being a deliberate DDOS
>> attack on the regulators website.
>>
>> *Ali Hussein*
>> *Principal*
>> *Hussein & Associates*
>> +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375
>>
>> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>>
>> Skype: abu-jomo
>>
>> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
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>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ke.linkedin.com_in_alihkassim&d=CwMFaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=ArvepG4_wcNu_X9xi3nb_Xa9WsGLVfmK6mwPdVONOTE&m=X5jGnb8ciKQV_7MhlV7WiX9LVsPm_uvdbcY38tRwRds&s=xwlLOdIblQQIc_KYDNwDlGBBrYAKdcUvsZ_-ENs_04M&e=>
>>
>> Blog: www.alyhussein.com
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>>
>> "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking
>> what no one else has thought".  ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On 10 Jan 2016, at 2:08 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke');>> wrote:
>>
>> In December the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India suspended Free
>> Basics in India pending the results of its public consultation.
>>
>> Will free basics be allowed in India? We will know the verdict at the end
>> of the month.
>>
>>
>> http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21685292-critics-argue-mark-zuckerbergs-generosity-cover-landgrab-facebooks-free-internet?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/facebooksfreeinternetprogrammehitsaroadblockinindia
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.economist.com_news_business-2Dand-2Dfinance_21685292-2Dcritics-2Dargue-2Dmark-2Dzuckerbergs-2Dgenerosity-2Dcover-2Dlandgrab-2Dfacebooks-2Dfree-2Dinternet-3Ffsrc-3Dscn_tw_te_bl_ed_facebooksfreeinternetprogrammehitsaroadblockinindia&d=CwMFaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=ArvepG4_wcNu_X9xi3nb_Xa9WsGLVfmK6mwPdVONOTE&m=X5jGnb8ciKQV_7MhlV7WiX9LVsPm_uvdbcY38tRwRds&s=7lHadaJGLaQl7-IHj5OUtsBYRnbcqKR8K2b_ulYXQm4&e=>
>> On Dec 4, 2015 6:20 PM, "Mwendwa Kivuva" <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Kivuva at transworldafrica.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 4, 2015 3:25 PM, "waudo siganga via kictanet" <
>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke');>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > This looks useful. Kivuva/Hussein please comment. Looks like schools
>>> can be able to access useful content without what the Bamba people call
>>> "kunyanyaswa na kukatwakatwa kila mwezi"
>>>
>>> Dr. Waudo, I'm between travels and responding is a little bit difficult,
>>> but I will at the next opportune time. I only want to appreciate the great
>>> work FB team in Africa has done, especially with community outreach and
>>> communication like this.  It is very commendable.
>>>
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