Hi Nadim,
At 05:25 31-10-2015, Nadim Bundhoo wrote:
>Even if groups operating on an informal basis are more effective, I
>cannot say that MIU have been effective. Simply because we have
>achieved nothing till yet, although many interesting topics have been tossed.
I'll leave Ish to comment about whether he quickly received the
support of the Mauritius Internet Users when he received the
following letter:
http://hacklog.mu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ICTA_reply-Internet-filtering-Mauritius.pdf
There was an interview of Ish last year when in which he commented
about "govmu.org pris pour cible". I made a short comment, as
representative of the Mauritius Internet Users, in L'Express Weekly
about the Facebook issue. Those are based on the views expressed
during discussions on this mailing list. Is the group
effective? You said no. I am okay with that. :-)
>One of the objective of MIU is to have internet with a local
>bandwidth of 100Mbps. No one will take us seriously, unless we have
>a legal entity / association pushing forward this initiative.
Ok.
>Another thing MIU was in was the .mu issue. Where are we with it?
The last meeting of the forum was in June. We have unfortunately not
made any progress.
>BTW, how did MIU get the invite for the Open Data workshop some
>months back? Was MIU that popular then?
I was contacted by an official of the World Bank. I asked whether
other persons on the mailing list would be interested in attending
the Open Data workshop. Either Ish or I requested an invitation for
the people who were interested. It is not a matter of being popular;
a few of us share information on this mailing list so that other
people can also benefit if they are interested.
>The association should be to make internet better in Mauritius. The
>(executive) members should not be affiliated to any political party
>nor should he/she be here to push forward the agenda of a political
>party. He/she should not be here to lobby for a company either.
>He/she should not be here to make money (e.g. get a salary) - he may
>be compensated though (transport, etc). Anyone misusing the funds
>should bear the cost himself/herself.
I agree with what you wrote about politics and lobbying for a
company. It is up to the members to question the executive members
on the use or misuse of funds.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Sat Oct 31 2015 - 17:40:58 PST