Video recordings of the sessions – http://bambuser.com/channel/isoc-za/broadcast
IRC – for chat and questions – server: atlantis.zanet.org.za (port 6667) – channel: #isoc
Twitter – http://twitter.com/isocza tweet #inetct
Agenda – http://wiki.isoc.org.za/INET All welcome!
Presentations:
Jon McNerney – ISOC welcome
Chris Smith – ISOC access development
Alan Levin – What next?
Stefan Doeblin – Lessons learned
Steve Song – African undersea cables
J Scott Marcus – Regulatory models [...]

We’ve been working on a adding a content management system for our website over the past few years, finally we’ve migrated all old content and moved the new site onto our primary URL – http://www.isoc.org.za.
Please send us any feedback and do please leave a comment on any posts you wish to.

From Lessig

From Lessig

Prof. Lawrence Lessig addressed all members at the SABC auditorium on the freeculture.co.za topic.
It was a super opportunity to be part of the world and hear Prof. Lessig first hand. He delivered a superb life changing presentation.

From Lessig

Hear the audio (part 1 – 18.3MB mp3 – streaming, part 2 – 18.3 [...]

Launched the ISOC-ZA Spammer Bounty Hunter programme. See the press release but most importantly, join the programme and contribute to the website/wiki at http://wiki.isoc.org.za

Welcome to the new, quarterly ISOC-ZA newsletter! With it we aim to keep you up to speed with issues we think are important for Internet users in South Africa, report back regularly on our progress as a society, and offer you the chance to have your say.
Any feedback you have on the newsletter would be [...]

The first Internet Fiesta was held by ISOC-ZA at Belhar Community Centre (Adam Tas Ave) on Saturday-Sunday (March 19-20, through the night) from 11am to 3pm.

In order to share our experiences we have created and share the following useful documentations for others to follow:

The report
Neil Blakeley-Milner’s Blog
The initial project plan (.pdf, 700 KB)
The map (.pdf, [...]

At the Cape Town International Conference Centre, ISOC-ZA facilitated a joint forum between ICANN and the World Blind Union on Internet Accessibility for the blind. The forum was webcast for those that could not attend. The panel consisted of worlwide experts including:
Hein Wagner: International Sales manager for Thawte Consulting, born blind and whose achievements include: [...]

In Cape Town, Karel Rode (Western Cape Security Special Interest Group) and Craig Balfour (CLUG – http://clug.org.za) spoke about more viruses and worms that are worming their way into the majority of desktops.

We were discussing VOIP with a selected panel of industry experts and government decision-makers on this subject. The panel included; Mr. Alan Levin (Renowned African Internet Activist), Envir Fraser from the Department of Communications, Mr. Andre Ferreira (VoIP Networking Specialist) and Richard Heath (Attorney from MWEB and ISPA).

Dimo Calovski from the UNCTAD Electronic Commerce Branch spoke followed by Wendy Seltzer who chatted about the role and transformation of civil society organizations in the information society.
Wendy is a staff attorney with Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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