NEPAD aims to streamline broadband laws

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Broadband/1287.html

 

[XCentricdave]

The protocol itself provides for the formation of Special Purpose Vehicles to own, operate, and maintain the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy).

A Special Purpose Vehicle, what exactly like say a Hummer:
- Overly expensive, only the corrupt elite can afford one;
- No one really wants one;
- Ugly and inefficient.

And there was me thinking that SA's insistence that NEPAD own and control EASSy was what had torpedoed the whole thing. Silly me.

 

[lenosb]

NEPAD will host a regional workshop......

Here we go again, another paid-for holiday in some luxury bush lodge where everyone sits around smiling and laughing and then anouncing some or other mechanism that will be put in place after another workshop in another country which will then be discussed and blah blah blah......

 

[Nutcracker]

The NEPAD e-Africa Commission will be involved in working out a mechanism to harmonise legal and regulatory frameworks with the Kigali Protocol in Johannesburg on Friday and Saturday.

This will be done in conjunction with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO).

I wonder if they can make a turn by the DoC and teach them how telecoms work around the world.

 

[LifelongGamer]

African Time

This is in line with the Kigali Protocol, signed by Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Ministers in these regions in August 2006, committing their nations to building and running the NEPAD ICT Broadband Infrastructure Network.

The adoption of the National Communication Act of 2005 ...
However, Mr Padayachie said the Act was gradually impacting on these prices.

I know things cannot realistically improve overnight but WHY must every single step forwards take at least a YEAR or more?? Come on people, either it's blatant incompetence, ignorance in the extreme or corruption ... none of which should be tolerated in this day and age, let alone accepted as it seems the 'Managed Liberalism PR' wants us to do

 

[emmanuel]

President Thabo Mbeki, speaking at the Seventh Presidential International Advisory Council on Information Society and Development in August said improving ICT infrastructure was only part of the process.

He said such infrastructure developments would be futile if people did not possess the necessary skills and knowledge to use the technology.

The former is likely to boost the latter.

 

[Juice]

the Act was gradually impacting on these prices

Pull the other one, Mr Padayachie. It has bells on.

Such a lovely vague statement. It would have been so much more useful with some quantified figures.

 

[Tns]

He didn't say anything, just lots of words to form a useless sentence.

 

[zambussi]

Incompetence (and being a buddy of Mbeki) seems to be a pre-requisite for any high paying, completely unproductive job.

Nepad ? What do they do exactly ? - other than party on in each other's country round the year, complaining about the caviar not being quite as rare as they like, or the champagne quite as chilled as at the last party, and then decrying the capitalist swine, and promising to put things right for the masses (they mean the other party goers, and not the public).

 

[dominic]

The adoption of the National Communication Act of 2005 provides a regulatory framework for the convergence of broadcasting, broadcasting signal distribution and the telecommunications sectors.

it would be comforting if we could get the name of the Act right - Electronic Communications Act Roy


or was that a Freudian slip and you meant to say the "Nationalised Communications Act"?