[Chapter-delegates] Shutdown of Skype on our Mobile Broadband Internet Access

[Edwin A. Opare]

Is it possible for someone on the elist to author  a "Network Neutrality
Advocacy & Legislation 101" paper to help countries looking at embarking on
such campaigns and passage of legislation in that area to follow?

Best,

EAO

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Christian de Larrinaga
<cdel at firsthand.net>wrote:

>
> Both approaches are important in my view.
>
> On one hand there is a need for a dialogue to explain and establish
> principles of open communications infrastructure  as the bedrock for level
> playing fields for all services and applications even economies.
>
> On the other hand the world does not enjoy open communications
> infrastructure today and so this is a "sell" task. It is not enough to say
> the world is round when people's day to day horizons are flat.  So with
> telecoms if people expect voice service to pay for infrastructure and to
> pay into the world's exchequers and continue to do so they will need some
> comfort that the extinguishing of such services will continue to provide
> revenue stream. Even better if that stream can be shown to be significantly
> expanded.
>
> Evidence based policy requires evidence. No?
>
>
> Christian
>
> Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch wrote:
>
> It seems to me that the level of the discussion to be undertaken in Ghana and the Gambia does not depend on a filigree of economic and other studies as much as on clear, solid arguments on basic Internet principles that these Chapters and their members can use both educating the regulators/governments, debating with the telcos, raising awareness in their community, and starting massive, viral campaigns should they choose so.
>
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