[governance] Your support is needed: Internet in Yemen is under assault

[ymshana2003]

Yaa Walid,
Thank you for this update as to what a political conflict has touched everything in your country. 

We are following news through the common media houses about the actions taken by friends of Yemeni to stabilise the situation ..soon.

As it is during  wars, infrastructure is the first target and its seizure saves double-purpose. These days,communication infrastructure suffers first hence the capturing of major ISPs and other service providers. I am not a technical person but my thought is to use the expensive satellite link perioducally in order to access the Internet.?
That is my feable and maybe useless suggestion. Do you have anything like Imarsat equipment somewhere?

A common wish is for your health and safety while the defence and security are doing their best to solve the situation.
Kind regards
Yassin



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From: Walid Al-Saqaf <admin at alkasir.com> 
Date:27/03/2015  13:06  (GMT+02:00) 
To: governance <governance at lists.igcaucus.org> 
Subject: [governance] Your support is needed: Internet in Yemen is under assault 

/*** Apologies for cross-posting ***/

Dear friends and colleagues,

Those of you who followed the news lately may have heard about the intensifying conflict in Yemen, which has led to the blocking of of many news and dissident websites. 

Here's a story reflecting some of what happened:
http://www.albawaba.com/news/anti-houthi-websites-blocked-yemen-674404

This is unprecedented and unacceptable. It obliged us as ISOC-Yemen to formally launch a campaign starting with the below statement (both in English and Arabic), which is to be widely circulated and published on our Facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/isoc.ye/photos/a.366179743512967.1073741827.183351058462504/641852185945720/

I'd appreciate your support by sharing, liking, commenting or take any other actions you can to help our campaign. You can also re-publish the text freely on your platforms.

Our intention is to stress that Internet access should not tampered with by those involved in the conflict because it severely affects the confidence of end-users in the Internet as a whole and their ability to use it effectively.

Thanks in advance for your support during those very difficult times in Yemen.

Sincerely,

Walid Al-Saqaf
Chair, ISOC-Yemen

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