Dear S,
Apologies for taking so long to reply.
The ICT Advisory Council advises the Minister of ICT and Innovation and
consists of various people who have been chosen by the Minister. Naturally,
there is Ish, Logan and myself but also a bunch of other people.
The matter of Internet filtering was raised by some members, added to our
agenda and, after discussion during a meeting, we agreed that anyone who
requires additional details can contact the ICTA directly (because they are
the ones who did the implementation).
Now, for any other matter related to ICT, I would invite you to send a
formal correspondence to the Secretary of the ICT Advisory Council. The
latter will then share this correspondence with all members of the Council
and if any member of the Council (including myself) wants to add it to our
agenda for our next meeting then that's fine...
Thanks,
Avinash
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden_at_gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:42 AM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
> > Hi Avinash,
> >
> > I am contacting you as you are the Chair of the ICT Advisory Council.
> >
> > I usually look into the issues affecting the internet in Mauritius. I
> wrote
> > to the Ministry of Technology, Communication and Information about the
> > security risk to .mu on 23 March (
> >
> http://lists.elandnews.com/archive/mauritius/internet-users/2015/03/0424.html
> > ). I did not receive any reply from the Ministry. The National Internet
> > Filtering System issue is still unresolved.
> >
> > I assumed that the Information and Communication Technologies Advisory
> > Council would be interested in those issues. However, Mr Sookun
> requested
> > that I communicate with the Ministry of Technology, Communication and
> > Information instead of discussing about issues related to the internet in
> > Mauritius with the Information and Communication Technologies Advisory
> > Council (
> >
> http://lists.elandnews.com/archive/mauritius/internet-users/2015/06/2611.html
> > ). Such an approach is a disincentive to any constructive discussion of
> the
> > issues.
> >
> > What is the use of having an Information and Communication Technologies
> > Advisory Council if all communication about internet-related issues have
> to
> > be directed to the Ministry?
> >
>
>
> Due to the allegations made against me and Ish Sookun, I will refrain
> from talking too much about the ICT Advisory Council. Instead, I will
> write what I feel needs to be discussed on my blog, while carefully
> avoiding raising those issues at the ICT Advisory Council.
>
> I am deeply disturbed that " I [Content filtering owner] was impressed
> with how willing the ISP industry in Mauritius was to get involved
> with this project as well as the transparency and broad consultation
> undertaken by the ICTA. ”", as there was never a broad consultation by
> ICTA.
>
> [Press release:
>
> http://www.watchdoginternational.net/index.php/press-releases/52-press-releases-external/158-watchdog-installsn-internet-filter-in-mauritius
> ]
>
> I am only interested in buying milk from New Zealand. I do not want
> black boxes that spy on me from New Zealand.
>
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