Digital colonialism under the Western model of technology
Big Tech is reinventing colonialism in the digital era says Michael Kwet in discussing centralized control of the Internet at the root of current problems like privacy and monopoly power…
National Infrastructure Plan (NIP) 2050
The government's SA Connect aimed to deliver widespread broadband access to 90% of the country by 2020 but the 2016 targets have not yet been met. The new National Infrastructure…
Universal Service Obligations for spectrum to be auctioned
ICASA has published the Universal Service Obligations fo the successful bidders in the upcoming spectrum auction in the Government Gazette of 10 December 2021. According to the Overview (1.7) government…
FES’s Making ICT Policy in Africa: An Introductory Handbook
The Making ICT Policy in Africa: An Introductory Handbook was developed for fesmedia Africa by Altadvisory.africa to facilitate and contribute to ongoing efforts towards the development of ICT policies in Africa and it…
Competition in the Global Economy
The Competition Commission of South Africa's 2020 report on Competition in the Global Economy. According to Webber Wentzel: The Competition Commission (Commission) has called for comments by 5 October 2020,…
R2K’s Alternatives to Privatised Telecommunication
In South Africa, as in much of the rest of the world, telecommunication services are concentrated in a handful of monopolistic private companies that reap massive profits at the expense…
The Internet and Monopoly Capitalism
from the Monthly Review by Daniel Auerbach and Brett Clark Without question, the Internet has had a profound influence on the world. As with most technologies, debates rage over whether this development has…
Feminist Principles of the internet
The Feminist Principles of the Internet are a series of statements that offer a gender and sexual rights lens on critical internet-related rights. Find the Principles and relate resources here:…
Zenzeleni: Do it Yourself (An Introduction to Community Telecoms Networks)
The booklet tells the story of Zenzeleni Networks Mankosi, a village co-operative that came together to build and maintain its own telecommunications network and offer affordable communications to the people in rural…
R2K’s Activist Guide to the Right2Communicate
This Activist Guide covers the following: The history of the right to communicate in South Africa: why does the communications landscape look the way it does?The current state of the right to…