There is no doubt that the South African ICT industry has won several very important battles to bring meaningful Internet connectivity to our citizens. However they were often made despite the Minister of Communications and ICASA rather than because of them. A shining example of this is the Altech court case, which ruled against the [...]

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 [...]

On 01 February 2010 ISOC-ZA submitted its recommendations to the .ZA Domain Name Authority (.ZA DNA) on its recently published draft Registry and Registrar Regulations. These draft regulations set out the rules by which potential domain name registries and registrars will be governed.
Thank you to all of those ISOC-ZA policy list members who assisted with [...]

ISOC-ZA has a number of initiatives planned for 2010. The aim of the new committee is to encourage the public to become more active in the organisation and take responsibility for protecting their rights as Internet users. Read on for some initiatives that may interest you:

We recognise the urgent need for good Frequency Spectrum regulations and welcomed the opportunity to make a submission to ICASA on the frequency band allocation. Download the PDF (74kB).

ISOC-ZA established the African RALO together with ISOC Morrocco and ISOC Sudan at ICANN in Marrakech.

As agreed at the July 5 forum, anyone may assist us to a obtain multi-stakeholder support. Please see our short statement for endorsement by as many organisations as possible: First draft for comment.

Paul Esselaar, Internet Society South African Chapter (ISOC-ZA) talks during the policy day at iweek 2005.

We delivered oral presentations (powerpoint , and speech) to the Parliamentary Communications Committee regarding the pending Convergence Bill.

Oral response to ICASA question document released in January regarding the regulation of adsl.