Hi Ish,
At 00:27 16-04-2017, Ish Sookun wrote:
I was referring to the tweet you sent to the alleged president of ISOC MU.
I gather that you noticed the issue of which of the two local ISOCs
is the local chapter. One of them has links to a political party.
Yes, there are several issues related to the internet like:
- the price difference of broadband 1M vs 10M in different parts of the
country
- the exorbitant price of broadband for business (except that Mauritius
Telecom has recently reviewed some of the packages)
Promoting the development of the internet also entails discussing
about those two issues. In doing that, Afrinic may have to work
against the interests of one of its members to do what is in the
interests of users.
The price of internet access is a significant concern in the region
as the high cost acts as a barrier to access. I pointed out to the
government that it makes local small businesses uncompetitive in
comparison with small businesses from another country; I'll mention
that it was an issue for one of my local customers.
- what if the government shuts down access to a newspaper website?
Did the newspaper consider that it could happen and take measures against that?
- the government is still helpless over gov.mu
Please see http://www.elandsys.com/~sm/govmu-org-domain-name-issues2.html
- the .mu multi-stakeholder forum failed
A COO of Afrinic advised the government about the forum. I don't
know what was said. I pointed out that the costs for the initial
proposal [1] were too expensive and that it would not look good when
the press takes a look at it. I put in a significant amount of time
and effort to bring that down to one-third of the initial cost. The
forum failed because the government assumed that everyone on the
"committee" would rubber-stamp whatever it said.
- the ICT Act of Mauritius has an Internet Management Committee which is
worrying
According to the Act, the minister appoints its members. There isn't
any information about the members of that committee on the
regulator's web site. Are you worried because the committee will do
the bidding of the government?
- the ICT Authority is smeared in scandals
Yes.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
1. It was drafted after the proposal which was described as "clumsy".
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