Re: [alac] Africa Position Marrakech

[Annette Muehlberg <annette.muehlberg@xxxxxx>]

Would be good to know, if we could address some specific issues and 
interests by the african community on ICANN issues in Marrakech meeting. 
Proposals?

Also, it would be nice if at least some member of african ALSes could 
join us there and give inputs in advance.

Annette

alice@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Would be interesting to know what mistakes  made in North America in 
> 1960s and how they were addressed. 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
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John L" <johnl@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <shahshah@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <alice@xxxxxxx>; "ALAC" <alac@xxxxxxxxx>
> 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@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for 
> > Dummies",
> > Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor
> > "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.