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MONTEVIDEO (APC for LACTLD) - The
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) condemns the
precipitated and unilateral decision of the coup government in Honduras
to take over management of the .hn domain and affirms our solidarity
with the long-time domain administrators, RDS, a pioneer provider of
internet services especially oriented to civil society networks in
Central America. APC calls for immediate dialogue with all stakeholders
towards a positive solution for the Honduran people, prioritising the
stability of the domain name system and the stability of the internet.
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CALGARY (LC for APCNews) For twenty days in
July, land-locked Niger was without internet connection owing to damage
to the undersea cable which goes through neighbouring Benin, and on
which Niger depends for 70% of its bandwidth. This
APC investigation seeks to understand why this West African country is
almost exclusively reliant on Beninese infrastructures, when an
alternative satellite solution could have minimised the severity of the
situation. More
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JOHANNESBURG (John Mireny for APCNews) - By
most standards, Tanzania’s information and communications technology
(ICT) policy looks ambitious. In just six years, it wants to make the
country a hub of telecommunications infrastructure to help build the
economy and end poverty. But John Mireny argues that when it comes to
broadband, this vision lacks practical application, and is out of step
with the real limitations on the ground. More
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JOHANNESBURG (Alice Munyua for APCNews) - The East Africa Internet Governance Forum
(EA-IGF), which first convened in 2008, aims at creating a community of
practice that will, in the long term, become a sustaining foundation
for meaningful participation of East African stakeholders in
internet public policy debates at the national, regional and
international level. This year’s EA-IGF was held in Nairobi
Kenya, with over 200 participants from varying sectors, from fifteen
different countries. This year’s forum focused on cyber-crime, policy
regulatory needs consumer issues, critical internet resources, and
access to broadband. More
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