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		<title>ICASA and DoC Succumb to Incumbents &#8211; Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.isoc.org.za/?p=198</link>
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		<title>INET Cape Town &#8211; May 24 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Video recordings of the sessions &#8211; http://bambuser.com/channel/isoc-za/broadcast
IRC &#8211; for chat and questions &#8211; server: atlantis.zanet.org.za (port 6667) &#8211; channel: #isoc
Twitter &#8211; http://twitter.com/isocza tweet #inetct
Agenda &#8211; http://wiki.isoc.org.za/INET All welcome!
Presentations:
Jon McNerney &#8211; ISOC welcome
Chris Smith &#8211; ISOC access development
Alan Levin &#8211; What next?
Stefan Doeblin &#8211; Lessons learned
Steve Song &#8211; African undersea cables
J Scott Marcus &#8211; Regulatory models [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.isoc.org.za/?p=184</link>
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		<title>INET conference &#8211; Cape Town &#8211; Monday 24 May</title>
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The Internet Society is pleased to announce INET Cape Town 2010, where experts and laymen will examine just what it will take to enable Internet access at much lower costs and at much higher speeds.
Since 1994, the Internet Society has organized INET conferences around the world. Originally staged as annual global conferences, over time it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.isoc.org.za/?p=158</link>
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		<title>New website launched today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been working on a adding a content management system for our website over the past few years, finally we&#8217;ve migrated all old content and moved the new site onto our primary URL &#8211; http://www.isoc.org.za.
Please send us any feedback and do please leave a comment on any posts you wish to.
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		<link>http://www.isoc.org.za/?p=141</link>
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		<title>Submission on .ZA Domain Name Authority Regulations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.isoc.org.za/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Committee plans for 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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:
INET 2010
ISOC-ZA has proposed to once again host an INET [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.isoc.org.za/?p=16</link>
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		<title>2010 Committee Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new 2009/2010 ISOC-ZA committee was elected at the ISOC-ZA Annual General Meeting on the 27th October 2009 in terms of the new  ISOC-ZA Constitution. They are:

Communications and Youth: Bronwen Kausch
Treasurer: Saul Stein
Policy: Paul Esselaar
Gauteng: Mohammed Ebrahim
Immediate past chair: Naresh Dajee
Chair: Alan Levin

The committee hopes to revitalise ISOC-ZA and has several exciting projects in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.isoc.org.za/?p=14</link>
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		<title>Proposed update to constitution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 9 years ISOC-ZA have recognised the strengths and pitfalls of our founding constitution. Now with over 800 members we have to make a few changes and enhancements in order to position to organisation for the future. Please see proposed changes to the constitution (download pdf-272kB, odt-32kB, doc-132kB) 
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		<link>http://www.isoc.org.za/?p=8</link>
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		<title>AGM &#8211; 2007</title>
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Location: The Extreme hotel &#8211; New Church &#38; Victoria Street, Tamboerskloof
Time: 17h30 &#8211; 19h00
Date: October 8, 2007
See website: http://www.proteahotels.com/extreme-hotel-cape-town.html (click on location for map).
 
 Download the list of Nominees here      
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		<link>http://www.isoc.org.za/?p=7</link>
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		<title>freeculture.co.za</title>
		<description><![CDATA[




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 &#8211; 18.3MB mp3 &#8211; streaming, part 2 &#8211; 18.3 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.isoc.org.za/?p=6</link>
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