Did you notice that the cost of fibre is going up and the speeds are too, whether you like it not. Do you use fibre or want to use fibre for your internet?Is your fibre fast?Is it reliable?Is it affordable? If these questions are important to you, you should join our group. We, the Internet […]

Yesterday we submitted the following response to the budget advertised by the zaDNA last month. We will be following and hope to engage further with their new board of directors. The following are key points: Income has flattened, this is the first time that there has been a decrease in the number of .za domain […]

If any members are interested to learn how the Internet is governed (i.e. not by ‘governments’ like the old telephone system was in the ITU) then those of us in Joburg have a fortunate once in a lifetime (free) opportunity to attend the 59th global ICANN meeting. ICANN meetings are held three times each year […]

The Human Rights Council, guided by the Charter of the United Nations, reaffirms the human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and relevant international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Noting that the […]

ZADNA invited its members, the local Internet industry & South Africa public to provide comments to the proposed Charters of NET.ZA, ORG.ZA and WEB.ZA. See their Background to NET-ZA ORG-ZA WEB-ZA charters, Call for comment NET-ZA ORG-ZA WEB-ZA Aug-2013, NET.ZA Charter for public comment, ORG.ZA Charter for public comment and WEB.ZA Charter for public comment. […]

In two weeks time (14-18 July 2013) the global Internet governance organisation ICANN will be meeting for the second time in South Africa, at the Durban conference centre. Everyone is welcome and anyone interested in global policy making must attend (only thing needed is your brain, bring that and get free coffee and beer and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: