It’s hard to see commitment to projects especially in emerging markets like Africa. Africa has been long identified as a new frontier location for investors looking to put great projects that mostly focus on ICT. More recently there has been an increase of the number of mega-proposals and plans to build smart cities. More than …
. Is Africa falling to another trap of group mentality and uninformed choices? Traditionally nations and especially when taken as continents have been known to take collective decisions. Just recently in the WCIT Dubai, there was mass failure of the delegates to agree on a treaty that had been crafted to replace the existing International …
The U.N. has no power to force the United States to adopt any Internet regulation, and the U.S. refused to sign the December treaty, along with 55 others countries. But if a large number of countries agree on regulations, the Internet could become fragmented, with very different rules applying in different regions of the world.Read …
This hearing will be held jointly with the Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade and the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations read more
On one hand they support UN takeover of Internet, on another they are participating as key players in the new gTLD process. Africa has been known as a continent of paradoxes however, many developments are being experienced as a result of direct and indirect decisions made by countries as well as top advisers and professionals …
A petition to de-fund the U.N.’s telecom arm emerges just as the ITU readies to hammer out internet governance plans at the World Telecommunication Information and Communication Technology Policy Forum meetings in February and May 2013. read more
We already noted this morning that the US, a bunch of European countries, and a sprinkling of other nations around the globe have refused to sign the new ITR agreement put together at the ITU’s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), read more
SOUTH Africa has signed up to a controversial treaty that has internet companies and free speech advocates up in arms. Among the major issues raised at the ITU’s global conference on international telecommunications, held over the past two weeks in the United Arab Emirate of Dubai, was the insertion of a resolution on the internet. …
Even as the Internet keeps growing and evolving, the fallout from major regulations expected in 2013 threaten to change its very nature. The dust has yet to settle in the wake of the contentious International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) conference in Dubai, but its repercussions could spit the Internet into two parts: read more
WCIT has got off to a quick and effective start. Having spent much of the past year preparing for the conference and notwithstanding a number of last-minute contributions, the governments of the world are ready for what will be a contentious conference. read more