[governance] Internet blackout in Egypt

[Walid Al-Saqaf]

Hello all,

I'd like to share a link that explains what appears to have happened in
Egypt. I got it from the Liberation Tech mailing list, to which some of you
may have subscribed already:
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml

Unlike what was claimed about a cut of the cable, it appears to have been
instructions by the government.

Sincerely,

Walid

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Walid Al-Saqaf
Founder & Administrator
alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship
https://alkasir.com <walid.al-saqaf at oru.se>


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

> Parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
> > > This is all one reason while, though I think policy and Internet
> > > Governance moves are critical, we need to support the continuing
> > > development of technology that stays ahead of any government's
> > > ability to shut if off or block it.
> >
> > Or any corporate's ability to take illegitimate rent by squatting over a
> > commons - and also to choose what political development - including
> > revolutions - it will support or not .
> >
> > What is the way to support the continuing development of 'such
> > technology' that prevents such inappropriate controls?
>
> Step 1: Systems theoretic analysis to determine what aspects of
> today's internet-related technological and sociopolitical systems
> make the inappropriate controls possible.
>
> Step 2: Figure out appropriate technical and political solutions
> to these challenges.
>
> Step 3: Inform about the potential solutions that have been
> determined, and convince a sufficient "critical mass" of individuals
> and decision-makers of organizations to commit resources to the
> implementation of these ideas.
>
> Step 4: Implement the plan, hopefully creating solutions to the
> problems that have been identified.
>
> Step 5: Market what has been developed and stay engaged also during
> the deployment phase, seeking to identify, understand and correct
> any shortcomings of the proposed solutions as quickly as possible.
>
> > >   This is one reason also for protecting the notion of non
> > >   centralized services and furthering their development.
> >
> > The question as to how do we support the development of non centralized
> > services is really one of the most important IG issues, because all
> > empirical evidence today points to the fact that we are moving towards
> > more and more centralized and monopolistic Internet services.
>
> Right now the situation is that those people who have made it their
> goal to become rich are well-organized with venture capitalists,
> lobbyists and everything, while those who care strongly about matters
> of freedom are much less well-organized.
>
> We need to develop ways to work together and support each other
> effectively.
>
> Then, jointly, we will be strong enough to be able to reverse the
> trend towards centralized and monopolistic Internet services.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
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