Give this Borg a pint on me! The AFRINIC board (whose members are domiciled in different parts of the continent) is already strategically positioned to drive some of the hand-holding and lobbying that is needed.
Can we update the Terms of Reference for board members to reflect same and measure impact on a fairly regular basis? Just to make sure it is acted on. Regards, Dewole 🤠(wearing no hats at all) Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse typos and autocorrect strangeness. > On 14 Apr 2017, at 6:15 PM, Chevalier du Borg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2017-04-13 13:21 GMT+04:00 Seun Ojedeji <[email protected]>: >> I wonder how AFRINIC can futher leverage on this to drive down the point >> about why government needs to stop considering a shutdown of internet or >> certain service as an option. > > > You think this logic will make sense to the brain of a dictator? - not sure, > unless there is legal system in place to stop that. Therefore AfriNIC may > consider a longtime plan to make sure right laws exist in each country to > prohibit shutdown. Yes, it will take long time and lot of > > -- capacity building > -- lobbying (more work for board) > -- hand-holding like writing draft bills or policy paper for lawmakers. > -- have many regular conferences in Africa about this shutdowns > > >> One other thing that comes to mind is whether AFRINIC can be pro-active >> instead of re-active i.e they are made aware of the planned act and issue >> strong statement against it hoping that it will get to the ears of relevant >> authorities and get them to reconsider. This may also be effective if the >> relationship between AFRINIC and the AU (and regional bodies like ECOWAS, >> EAC, COMESA etc) is strengthened as that can serve as a channel of >> communication to the respective governments. > > > These body are key, including other like Mo Ibrahim Foundation. They know the > politique better than AfriNIC can. What AfriNIC can do better than all of > them is provide fact/measure/data to back up shutdowns, then work with > organisation like UNECA or World Bank to quantitate cost of these shutdown. > > > This must be War, not battle and let see board show some leadership here that > is strategic. AfriNIC cannot just be like IBM that sell computers to Hitler > and claim "we are not getting involve in politics" > > > -- > Borg le Chevalier > ___________________________________ > "Common sense is what tells us the world is flat" > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
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