[governance] Clues for WCIT issues and prospects

[McTim]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
> :)  To be very fair, the history of various Indian tribes was also a history
> of conquest of tribes that were less powerful to them, so much so that three
> major tribes are still known to us by the defeated tribes' word for "enemy"
> .. Sioux, Comanche and Apache (the tribes' own word for themselves was
> typically some variant of "The people" - implying that most others from
> outside their tribe weren't particularly worthy of consideration, and to be
> defeated and plundered as and when the opportunity arose).
>
> Those times were, shall we say, a dog eat dog world, and a history that
> definitely needs to be remembered to avoid repeating mistakes that were made
> in the past.
>
> I fully agree with you that any development and change can and must be
> driven from within Africa

right, and that is the heart of the ISOC efforts at capacity building.

They support AfNOG (which uses an "each one teach one" model),
AfriNIC, which also sees Africans training Africans (they are also supported
by Francophonie in this) and their own IXP training efforts, currently led by 2
Kenyan engineers.


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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