On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Badru Ntege wrote: > how about the masses who do not have access to the internet which at > last estimation would be over 90% of our population. "If they have no > bread, then let them eat cake!" That's your position.
With respect, Badru, that sounds alot like a straw man argument. I don't think Noah means "the 90% who do not have Internet access should go to the AfNOG workshops instead". It seems to me he's talking about the 10% who have Internet access. In my personal opinion, "the ways of making the Internet accessible to the other 90% of the population" is another discussion entirely and does not necessarily have much to do with the ccTLD. In fact I dare say it might have more to do with teledensity and the availability of communications infrastructure in the greater part of the country ;-). The last I heard, UCC is already doing something about this - RCDF very easily comes to mind. I personally think that the connectivity issue should be tackled first before a domain name can even begin to make any sense to that 90% of the population who do not know what the Internet is, much less how to access it. At this time in Uganda (where 90% of the population cannot access the Internet), putting effort into designing a new model for the management of the ccTLD is probably putting that effort in the wrong place - if at all that change is beneficial, it will only be beneficial to that 10%. Connectivity comes first. Regards, Gerald. _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
