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

[John L <johnl@xxxxxxxx>]

> 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@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor
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