broken promises 2024
Two years of broken promises, now a campaign for internet access to launch on Human Rights Day PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 15 MARCH 2024Sunday 17 March marks the second…
Thief Launch
Join us for the launch of our Stop Thief campaign Sunday 17 March 2024 marked the second anniversary of the historic ICASA spectrum auction when the government gave R14.4 billion worth…
Cape Town R Pi Jam ’23
Learn about the new R Pi 5 & more. All welcome! Saturday 2 Dec 2023, 10:00 to 14:00CTV Training CentreLower Scott Rd industrial park (last entrance on right before the…
FoFI submission on planned 2nd spectrum auction
Friends of a Free Internet has submitted a response to ICASA's intention to hold a second spectrum auction calling for spectrum to be used to expand the communication commons. See…
Podcast: Challenges of Connectivity in SA today
The Bench Marks Foundation August 2022 podcast involves a discussion with Hassen Lorgat (Bench Marks Foundation) and community monitors Francina Nkosi and Thokozile Mntambo. Francina Nkosi is a member of…
We need a full public service internet – state-owned infrastructure is just the start
by Christian Fuchs in the Conversation on 2 December 2019. The UK Labour Party’s 2019 election manifesto contains plans to bring BT’s internet infrastructure business into public ownership by creating British Broadband and to…
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…
DAILY MAVERICK: ‘Liberty, Equality, Connectivity’ — the fight for a free internet in SA is Launched
Published by Maru Attwood in the Daily Maverick here. In the face of this digital divide, the campaign led by Yetu Infotech Collective and the People’s Media Consortium is agitating for “a communication commons that…
Friends of a #Freeinternet on The Watchdog
Responding to Government's promises Watch Mark Weinberg & Tshiamo Malatji discuss government's #FreeInternet promises on SABC's the Watchdog https://youtu.be/XmB9T-uttME