Thanks Gerald for your comments but we are still missing the point. if you read the thread the percentage issue was used in response to a view that seemed to say that we all those who need to be part of the general discussions on policy that will affect them have the means and are just too lazy to join. My view is that there are those sections of our society who for one reason or another might not have access and access does not mean connectivity. it is always easy to to trivialise access down to connectivity but the debate is far bigger. (IGF etc)
Lets get back to the original issues, RCDF etc are totally diferent issues and we can open that debate to show how that has also not happened well since decisions are made by an "elite" who presumably have all the answers. But lets not go there. You are right connectivity is not part of this discussion and there was no reference to it in the original discussion. On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:13:28 +0300 (EAT), Begumisa Gerald M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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. ---------------------------------------
