Policies that:
* Promote infrastructure sharing, instead of every network operator
building their own backbone on the same routes.
* Encourage operators to deploy infrastructure in poor, rural areas,
and not concentrate on the urban towns.
* Create tangible relationships with neighboring countries that
transit Uganda's Internet traffic, with preference toward making it
more cost-effective to do so.
* Make affordable access to the Internet a priority for public and
private schools.
* Incentivize network operators who deliver affordable, high-quality
Internet access to the most number of people.
* Focus on getting more homes connected to the Internet.
* Migrate all government public services to the Internet.
* e.t.c.
Along those lines...
Mark.
On 16/Mar/17 14:18, Angello Obel wrote:
> We can't just claim the problem is policy. If the problem is policy
> and regulation? What policy and regulations are missing? If we cannot
> figure out what policy is bad or what policy should be implemented or
> changed then how do we expect our non technical gov't to do otherwise.
> If the problem is policy what policy is missing or hindering ICT
> development.
>
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 at 14:57 Mark Tinka <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
> p
>
> On 16/Mar/17 11:07, Joe Willrich Lutalo wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks for contributing to the debate positively, but I would not
>> advise us to steer the ship in that direction - leadership for
>> the sake of serving corporations. That's the ill eating at such
>> giants as the US. You can be loyal to your bosses, and still be
>> ethical.
>>
>> Definitely, money rules the world, but, as some clever minds have
>> noted, it's possible for those acting purely from positions of
>> greed, such as the die-hard capitalist, to still benefit their
>> society while doing so. In the past, such ideas would be
>> considered slaves of the Christian Ethic, but in this day and
>> age, the lessons humanity has gained from exploring Game Theory -
>> which is indifferent to creed, give credible support to this as
>> well.
>>
>> Like the Ouroboros, those exhausting the ecosystem of vitality
>> and resources can continue to do so, apparently unscathed and
>> without anyone bold enough to point a finger, but the laws of
>> nature - especially the possibility we live in a closed system,
>> will eventually cause them to bite their own tail. This, again,
>> is independent of any ideological bias.
>
> I have to be honest, I'm not quite sure I understood all of what
> you said :-). But I get your gist.
>
> All I am saying is that the reasons for the state of the current
> Internet in Uganda are structural. There has to be policy (and
> compliance incentive, to that policy) for any change to occur.
>
> I know of some new projects that are starting up in Uganda, in the
> telecommunications space, that are not going to do anything for
> the country other than to get another "me too" added to the status
> quo.
>
> Competition, one would argue, would help fix these irregularities.
> But the environment is not one that fosters this in a healthy way.
> And the areas that require most competition are the ones with the
> fewest actors.
>
>
> Mark.
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