[UAH] George Okello@Govt To Set Up Social Media Monitoring Unit to punish UAHs and facebookers
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George Okello,
Govt is looking at this from a very narrow technical prism. This is at the crux of Telecom Economics and the inter-related trade offs. MTN,AIRTEL, UTL & various Satelite Service Providers are purchasing Bandwidth connections(an expensive commodity by the way) from Internet Bandwidth Providers(IBPs) like HUGHES Networks, AT&T or British Telecom for retail in a BUSINESS MODEL value chain reason Telecos are the larget tax payers in Uganda's economy.
Govt cannot afford to be the middle-man with IBPs to filter social media traffic before BW is passed on to Local ISPs. This would mean Govt is a WHOLESALER of INTERNET BW from the "Big Boys" and dictates what traffic Telecoms companies in Kampala can pass on to subscribers. It would have to ensure it reverses the liberalization of the Telecommunications Sector through legislation in a competitive and market driven sector and by default become an industry player/trader rather than a regulator. We are also making a grave assumption that all people on social media are anti-government. The people who would be depressed by a shutdown of social media are Govt supporters also.
Government being a TRANSPORTER of internet traffic, filtering "unwanted" means poor quality Service Level Agreements with Local ISPs and thus killing the whole industry.ISPs know why subscribers are hooked to their networks thus the many options and applications pushed through to the mobile hand-sets. Govt needs the money more than the so called threat from social media activists.
The other option is to compel ISPs to cut off social media traffic on their perimeter routers of firewalls. But ISPs know why data services are now vital to their business model. The customer(demand) dictates supply. All filtration comes with latency and poor quality of service and an increased cost of business that would result into over-heads digging deep into ISP shareholders equity as well reduced profits and taxes in that order. Many trade offs I tell you.
The other problem for Govt whichever way are those Ugandans and stakeholders who operate outside geographical Uganda where the Govt has full jurisdiction. And Ugandans with in Uganda who procure satelite services from corporations outside Uganda. It is a massive infrastructure that would take Uganda 30 years OF AN OIL BONANZA to accomplish and harmonize the intricate economics involved other than the technical deployment of hardware and wiz-kids!! And the OPPORTUNITY COST???? FIGHTING POVERTY!!
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Govt is looking at this from a very narrow technical prism. This is at the crux of Telecom Economics and the inter-related trade offs. MTN,AIRTEL, UTL & various Satelite Service Providers are purchasing Bandwidth connections(an expensive commodity by the way) from Internet Bandwidth Providers(IBPs) like HUGHES Networks, AT&T or British Telecom for retail in a BUSINESS MODEL value chain reason Telecos are the larget tax payers in Uganda's economy.
Govt cannot afford to be the middle-man with IBPs to filter social media traffic before BW is passed on to Local ISPs. This would mean Govt is a WHOLESALER of INTERNET BW from the "Big Boys" and dictates what traffic Telecoms companies in Kampala can pass on to subscribers. It would have to ensure it reverses the liberalization of the Telecommunications Sector through legislation in a competitive and market driven sector and by default become an industry player/trader rather than a regulator. We are also making a grave assumption that all people on social media are anti-government. The people who would be depressed by a shutdown of social media are Govt supporters also.
Government being a TRANSPORTER of internet traffic, filtering "unwanted" means poor quality Service Level Agreements with Local ISPs and thus killing the whole industry.ISPs know why subscribers are hooked to their networks thus the many options and applications pushed through to the mobile hand-sets. Govt needs the money more than the so called threat from social media activists.
The other option is to compel ISPs to cut off social media traffic on their perimeter routers of firewalls. But ISPs know why data services are now vital to their business model. The customer(demand) dictates supply. All filtration comes with latency and poor quality of service and an increased cost of business that would result into over-heads digging deep into ISP shareholders equity as well reduced profits and taxes in that order. Many trade offs I tell you.
The other problem for Govt whichever way are those Ugandans and stakeholders who operate outside geographical Uganda where the Govt has full jurisdiction. And Ugandans with in Uganda who procure satelite services from corporations outside Uganda. It is a massive infrastructure that would take Uganda 30 years OF AN OIL BONANZA to accomplish and harmonize the intricate economics involved other than the technical deployment of hardware and wiz-kids!! And the OPPORTUNITY COST???? FIGHTING POVERTY!!
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:58 PM, George Okello <opallog@gmail.com> wrote:
Now I get so scared. I am planning to go to Uganda openly, but I think I will have second thoughts. I am better off going to the Philippines than to Uganda Atleast there the peoples army will protect me, NOBODY WILL ARREST ME OR MOLEST ME . I dont hope such protection will be given to me, despite the best wishes of Pammie Ankunda to pick me up herself from the airport and to host me and my children for the duration of my stay. I dont think Pammie Ankunda understands how the Ugandan security system works.I think I will go to Uganda anonymously by travelling to South Sudan and then walking across the border to Arua and then onwards to Dokolo. I am not going to trust promises by Pamella Ankunda and Nina Mbabazi because I don't want them to feel guilty if something dastardly happens to me. I want to be author of my own fortune or misfortune. I have already suffered so much from the actions of violent dictators.I am not going to take the risk.George OkelloOn Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Rehema Uganda <rehemass@googlemail.com> wrote:
Govt To Set Up Social Media Monitoring Unit
Posted about 1 hour ago by Alex Masereka | 0 commentUganda's Security Minister Muruli Mukasa has revealed government plans to build a social media monitoring center "to weed out those who use it to damage the government and people's reputations."
Muruli made the revelation that has sparked apprehension on social media platforms Facebook and Twitter during at the UCC Annual Broadcasters' Conference held on Thursday at Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala.The minister in his address said "offences committed on social media will have to be penalized."
Security Minister Muruli Mukasa
This revelation comes on the heels of a government crackdown on the media that saw The Monitor and Pepper Publications closed over a letter published by the Daily Monitor allegedly written by the coordinator of intelligence services General David Sejjusa.
In the letter, Sejjusa directed the head of the Internal Security Organization to investigate claims of a plot to eliminate top shots in the military and government opposed to the so called 'Project Muhoozi'.
The Muhoozi Project is a loose translation of an alleged plan by the President to have his son Brigadier Kainerugaba Muhoozi succeed him as president. Muhoozi is the head of the Special Forces Group, an elite unit in the military charged with offering protection to the President
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Rehema
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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
---Theodore Roosevelt
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