Assuming Netsweeper came into play in 2020. The CSA was also updated to a
cloud system in 2014. It could be that Netsweeper was implemented then and
they either won the 2020 bid again or the ICTA did not go forward with the
procurement and did not award any contract in 2020. I see no difficulty in
implementing this in a short time period given highly skilled people are
working on it.
On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 10:20 AM Ish Sookun <ish_at_lsl.digital> wrote:
> Yes. I saw the tender document [1] but I was not aware that Netsweeper
> was already in place. The tender was launched on April 2020, during the
> first lockdown in Mauritius.
>
> Then, if in November 2020, in the parliament the Prime Minister mentions
> Netsweeper, it means the whole bidding process, awarding the tender,
> testing & implementation was done in approximately 6 months?
>
> Regards,
>
> Ish Sookun
>
> [1] https://www.icta.mu/documents/tender/2020/CSA_Bidding_Doc_AP20.doc
>
> On 03/05/2021 10:05, Ajay R Ramjatan wrote:
> > I recall NetClean was the original supplier for the filtering service in
> > 2011. In April 2020 the ICTA ran a procurement in regards to the CSA.
> >
> > https://www.icta.mu/mediaoffice/tender.htm
> > <https://www.icta.mu/mediaoffice/tender.htm>
> > Given the national assembly hansard of november 2020 says the CSA is ran
> > by Netsweeper, I'm going to assume that at some point between 2011 and
> > now, the system was updated to be run by Netsweeper. Either in 2014 when
> > the CSA was upgraded to a Cloud-based mechanism, or in 2020 if
> > Netsweeper won the procurement.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 9:42 AM Ish Sookun <ish_at_lsl.digital> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ajay,
> >
> > On 03/05/2021 09:19, Ajay R Ramjatan wrote:
> > > Netsweeper is the current provider of the ICTA's Child Sexual
> > Abuse filter.
> > > https://www.icta.mu/csa_faq.html <
> https://www.icta.mu/csa_faq.html>
> > > <https://www.icta.mu/csa_faq.html <
> https://www.icta.mu/csa_faq.html>>
> >
> > Item 10 in the ICTA F.A.Q mentions Netclean Whitebox though. I quote:
> >
> > « The NetClean WhiteBox solution uses a URL black list
> > containing the
> > addresses of sites that are to be filtered. This URL filtering
> > list
> > emanates from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a non profit
> > organisation that is widely recognised as one of the best in
> the
> > world at managing a URL list of CSA sites coupled with the
> > Interpol
> > blacklist. »
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ish Sookun
> >
>
>
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