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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Welcome Mohab. It is great to see people in Egypt trying to prevent another internet shutdown!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Perhaps the best way is through constitutional protections that would establish political speech as a protected sphere, and deny your head of state the right to arbitrarily shut down the Internet or other media of communication. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Another important step is to promote liberalization and competition in the telecommunication industry, so that the licensees are not subject to the direct orders of the government, and there is a more diverse environment among suppliers of service. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Of course, these steps have to be institutionalized by Egyptians mainly, although much can be learned from other countries’ experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> NCSG-NCUC [mailto:NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mohab Altlaity<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 17, 2011 3:19 AM<br><b>To:</b> NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<br><b>Subject:</b> [NCSG-NCUC-DISCUSS] Internet Freedom<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hello Everyone;<br>This is Mohab Altlaity from Egypt .. <br>I'm new to this mailing list ... i have just joined :) .. <br><br>I'm not sure if you discussed this topic before or not .. <br>It is about the Internet freedom ... how to prevent any country from stopping the Internet in their countries ..<br>I wanna find a way to prevent what happened before "and can be done again" in some countries against the Internet activists ...<br><br>Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00007F'>Mohab Mohammad Altlaity</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00007F'><br>Embedded SW Engineer,<br>VIAS Egypt -Valeo Interbranch Automotive Software.<br><a href="http://www.valeo.com" target="_blank">http://www.valeo.com</a><br><br>Mobile: 0106938463</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>