<div dir="auto">Hi !<div dir="auto">+1 @Wisdom.</div><div dir="auto">It's certainly a frustration. When it's shutdown, it doesn't work at all. But in this case, the Internet will properly work in text mode thank in graphic one.</div><div dir="auto">My 2 cents.</div><div dir="auto">Olévié</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">Le 12 août 2017 14:31, "Wisdom Donkor" <<a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I will call the slowing down of internet as "internet frustration". <div>One will frustrate the internet to make it look as if there is an issue with it. </div><div><span style="font-size:15px">Government or institution deliberately are tightening the internet pipe to frustrate the flow of data.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px">The shift is now moving away from internet shutdown to internet frustration where it doesn't seem like the internet is been shut down deliberately.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px">Cheers,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span><br>On Saturday, August 12, 2017, Yazid AKANHO <<a href="mailto:000005822b0a832e-dmarc-request@listserv.syr.edu" target="_blank">000005822b0a832e-dmarc-<wbr>request@listserv.syr.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>Thanks Mamadou for your report, keep it up.</div><div dir="ltr">I have a question regarding <span><span><span>DRC officials who ordered telecom companies to slowdown internet capacity for social media
contents such as images and videos: isn't it also a form of Internet shutdown?</span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span><span>Moreover, can slowing down internet access be treated as another form of internet shutdown?</span></span></span><span><span><span> As soon as it is particularly difficult for end users to proof that bandwidth has been considerably reduced.<br></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span><span><br></span></span></span></div><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div>-- Prenez soin de vous car chaque jour est une vie.
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<div><span><span>This week, Brazilian telecom authorities reportedly launched a public consultation on potential updates and modernization of the country's internet governance framework with strong opposition from Civil Society.</span></span></div>
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<div>On securtiy, Marcus Hutchins<em></em>, who found a 'kill switch' for the WannaCry ransomeware, arrested
<span>in Las Vegas airport last week <span>has now been accused <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edwi/pr/man-charged-his-role-creating-kronos-banking-trojan" target="_blank">
of helping to create and distribute the Kronos banking Trojan</a> that was designed to steal funds from online bank accounts between July 2014 and July 2015.<br>
On infrastructure, the project of deploying the first submarine telecommunication cable in the Sourh Atlantic linking Africa to South America has been launched in Angola's capital Luanda. The project is
<span>expected to be completed by the middle of 2018</span>.<br>
<span>On access, Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have ordered telecom companies to slowdown internet capacity for social media contents such as images and videos.</span><br>
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<span>On e-commerce, Russia's largest lender Sberbank and Internet company Yandex signed a non-binding contract to form a joint venture to develop an e-commerce ecosystem, the companies said in a statement Wednesday.</span><br>
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<span></span>On censorship, <span>China has launched an internet crackdown to stop users bypassing the country's "Great Firewall", "a sophisticated censorship system that blocks
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Facebook, Twitter and YouTube</a>, among other sites". <span>Also, China’s online watchdog has launched an investigation into reports of multiple violations at news services run by Tencent; Baidu and Weibo, as the government continues to tighten scrutiny over
internet content</span>. </span><span></span><span></span><span><span></span></span><br>
On data protection, <span><span>The British government has published its statement of intent regarding the country’s data protection laws wich
</span><span>will align with the EU's forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation.
</span></span><span>Otherwise, TalkTalk has been issued with another fine for failing to look after customers’ data, 10 months after being hit with a
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450400451/TalkTalk-hit-by-record-400000-fine-over-data-breach" target="_blank">
record fine of £400,000</a>.<br>
On Internet of Things, <span>new survey by Cisco found that <a rel="nofollow" href="https://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1847422" target="_blank">
one-third of all completed IoT projects were not considered a success</a>. </span>
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As for event, we note the Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy.<br>
Below, informations on those subjects and events as well as documents on Cyber geopolitics, domain name, net neutrality..<br>
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See review here<br>
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/ig-weekly-brief-brazil-s-ig-reform-project-africa-south-america" target="_blank">http://www.diplointernetgovern<wbr>ance.org/profiles/blogs/ig-<wbr>weekly-brief-brazil-s-ig-<wbr>reform-project-africa-south-<wbr>america</a><br>
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