[governance] Internet blackout in Egypt

[Lee W McKnight]

Hi,

Another similar report, without the tables, from Network World:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/012811-internet-blackout-egypt.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2011-01-28
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From: governance-request at lists.cpsr.org [governance-request at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of Walid Al-Saqaf [admin at alkasir.com]
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 4:58 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Norbert Bollow
Subject: Re: [governance] Internet blackout in Egypt

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<mailto:walid.al-saqaf@oru.se>


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