[kictanet] Fwd: [Internet Policy] Blogpost: A4AI: Who Could Oppose a More Affordable Internet? The Alliance for an Affordable Internet (A4AI) and the Neo-liberal Stealth Campaign to Control the Internet Throughout the Developing World

[Barrack Otieno]

McTim,

Kivuva said, he is overthinking :-), seems there is some sense in the
article as Engineer Kariuki postulates.

Regards
On Mar 23, 2016 9:24 PM, "McTim via kictanet" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
wrote:

> Listers,
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:22 PM, John Kariuki via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Barrack,
>> I must thank you very much for drawing attention to Mike Gursten's
>> comments.For me the most telling clause is the following:
>>
>> 'The A4AI “Best Practices” are a clear attempt to superimpose a
>> neo-liberal market fundamentalism on what would otherwise be a well-meaning
>> attempt to reduce the cost of Internet access for the next billions of
>> users.'
>>
>
>
>
> Michael Gurstein is being disingenous, don't fall for his trolling.  He
> has a hidden agenda that has to do with a long and boring history of the
> Civil society Internet governance Caucus/Best Bits and JustNet Coalition.
>
> Suffice it to say that it is a smear campaign that is unfortunately MGs
> style.
>
> Ask yourself where KE would be without the market forces that brought
> about Safcom and all the other players in fixed and mobile Internet access
> industries.
>
> We would be in the dark ages, a la Addis Ababa.
>
> Regards,
>
> McTim
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> The subject of "neo-liberal market fundamentalism" is at this time
>> globally 'politically incorrect'  despite increasing evidence of its
>> massive failures in a very large number of cases.I would therefore urge
>> listers to take an interest in the comments and discuss them.
>>
>> I would also recommend further reading on the subject in the book 'Market
>> Failure and the Delusions of Privatisation' by Warwick Funnel,Robert Jupe
>> and Jane Andrew.,Pluto Press.
>>
>>
>> John Kariuki
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> *To:* ngethe.kariuki2007 at yahoo.co.uk
>> *Cc:* Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 17:13
>> *Subject:* [kictanet] Fwd: [Internet Policy] Blogpost: A4AI: Who Could
>> Oppose a More Affordable Internet? The Alliance for an Affordable Internet
>> (A4AI) and the Neo-liberal Stealth Campaign to Control the Internet
>> Throughout the Developing World
>>
>> Listers,
>>
>> Might be of interest to some of you.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 14:35:12 -0700
>> Subject: [Internet Policy] Blogpost: A4AI: Who Could Oppose a More
>> Affordable Internet? The Alliance for an Affordable Internet (A4AI)
>> and the Neo-liberal Stealth Campaign to Control the Internet
>> Throughout the Developing World
>> To: Internet Policy External <internetpolicy at elists.isoc.org>
>>
>>
>> <
>> https://gurstein.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/a4ai-who-could-oppose-a-more-affo
>>
>> rdable-internet-the-alliance-for-an-affordable-internet-a4ai-and-the-neo-lib
>>
>> eral-stealth-campaign-to-control-the-internet-throughout-the-developing-worl
>> d-and-make/> A4AI: Who Could Oppose a More Affordable Internet? The
>> Alliance
>> for an Affordable Internet (A4AI) and the Neo-liberal Stealth Campaign to
>> Control the Internet Throughout the Developing World and Make Big Bucks
>> for
>> the Private Sector While Doing So
>>
>> Given the apparent intense interest on this list in the A4AI this blogpost
>> which looks to identify some of the underlying realities of the Initiative
>> might be of interest to some.
>>
>> M
>>
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