AfriNIC Community Discuss - Gratitude!
Gratitude. This is the title of the email thread that started a debate over privacy & data protection within the AFRINIC community. The email was sent on the "community discuss" mailing list of AfriNIC.
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Somalia plans to block social media ahead of national high school exams
The Minister of Education of Somalia, Hon. Abdullahi Godah Barre, announced on the 13th of May 2019 that social media networks will not be accessible during the national high school exams that have been postponed for the end of May.
A talk about concurrency by Renghen
One of the sessions that I was able to shoot the whole of it during the Developers Conference 2019, is that of Renghen Pajanalingum aka Thanos. He spoke about the different techniques to attain concurrency when writing software.
Internet shutdown in Benin
Benin's government blocked access to the internet ahead of the general elections on Sunday 28 April 2019. Initially only social networks were blocked and users turned to VPNs to be able to access services such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, and Instagram.
Post-DevCon Code & Coffee meetup
Yesterday, I attended the MSCC Code & Coffee meetup at Mugg & Bean. It reminded me of the good old days of being a frequent meetup attendee and all those geek talks that happened around those Mugg & Bean tables with long hours drinking coffee.
Cannot insert 'vboxdrv' into the kernel
I installed VirtualBox on Ubuntu 17.10 running on a machine that has Secure Boot enabled. The installation finished with a warning. WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Workshop on Model Law Access to Information
It's the second workshop around the subject "Freedom of Information" that I attended within less than six months. The first being last December by the United States Embassy.
Freedom of Information Act. When?
Last Friday the U.S Embassy organized a workshop on "what would a model of Freedom of Information Act look like for Mauritius". I attended as a member of the Mauritius Internet Users, and introduced myself as a System Administrator at La Sentinelle and a member of the ICT Advisory Council.