<div dir="auto">Well said @Wisdom. Government keep exploring ways to stiffing access to the internet. The frustration could lead to users lost of interest. The government new discovery either internet shutdown or internet frustration will continue to be relevant until the discovery of internet community to reduce the impact of government on the internet.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards.</div><div dir="auto">Peter.<br><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 11, 2017 5:13 PM, "Mamadou LO" <<a href="mailto:alfamamadou@hotmail.com">alfamamadou@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><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></p>
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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 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
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/social-media-bingeing-as-bad-as-junk-food-parents-warned-childrens-commissioner-anne-longfield-a7879066.html" target="_blank">
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 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 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 href="http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profiles/blogs/ig-weekly-brief-brazil-s-ig-reform-project-africa-south-america" class="m_6384933418591310908OWAAutoLink" id="m_6384933418591310908LPlnk384106" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>diplointernetgovernance.org/<wbr>profiles/blogs/ig-weekly-<wbr>brief-brazil-s-ig-reform-<wbr>project-africa-south-america</a><br>
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