[Chapter-delegates] Indian startups are pulling out of Facebook's Internet.org to protect net neutrality

[Winifred Kula Amini]

Thank you Joly and Faisal on the discussion about Facebooks Internet.org
and Net neutrality.

Sorry about my ignorance but I only learnt about Facebooks Internet.org
last month in New York during a UN Women meeting/presentation.  I had the
privilege to represent Papua New Guinea(PNG), Pacific under an exchange
program titled "Women and Entrepreneurship".

After learning about Facebooks Internet.org I am very concerned about the
impact it will have to our local PNG IT startups as I am an IT Entrepreneur
in software development and continue to struggle every day with high
Internet costs and also competition with big players in our industry.

Just like Faisal, I would like to learn more about the issue of net
neutrality  and the ISOC statement or policies for protection on this
subject.  It's still not clear.

Winifred Amini
Pacific Islands Chapter of ISOC
 On 13/05/2015 2:51 AM, "Faisal Hasan" <hasansf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Joly,
>
> Thanks a lot for bringing this important issue. While I have been
> following closely how India is dealing with this issue, to my surprise I
> found that internet.org campaign has been given green signal in
> Bangladesh. From May 10 Bangladesh became the 10th country to enable this
> service.
>
> I believe even though the chapters are raising awareness about this, the
> issue needs a much bigger campaign as we are fighting against some big
> players with lots of money. This has been a huge thing for the government
> as they are trying to get public praise by saying they have enabled free
> Internet for all. Not to mention that there is insufficient awareness about
> net neutrality in the developing world.
>
> I am surprised to see very little highlight on this issue on ISOC as a
> whole. Is there any statement from ISOC about this? It is true that
> internet.org will do more harm than good.
>
> Thanks
> Faisal Hasan
> ISOC Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Have any of our India Chapters taken a position on this? Or any elsewhere?
>>
>>
>> http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/15/8423075/indian-startups-leave-facebook-internet-org-net-neutrality
>>
>> This morning Cleartrip, an Indian startup focused on travel, pulled out
>> of Internet.org
>> <http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/04/15/internetorg-withdrawal_n_7071532.html?utm_hp_ref=india>,
>> the charity spearheaded by Facebook to help spread internet access to parts
>> of the world where many people lack connectivity. Three other members of
>> the original coalition — NDTV, Newshunt, and the Times Group — also
>> declared that they were pulling some or all of their services from
>> Internet.org due to concerns over net neutrality.
>>
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