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Censorship in not a new thing for the Information & Communication...
The ICT Authority has done it in the past.On the 8th of November 2007, the ICT Authority asked the Internet Service Providers in Mauritius to block access to facebook.com after a complaint was received...
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Did ICTA change its CSA Internet filter?
I received a tweet from a friend yesterday morning, that showed a screenshot of the whatismyip.com website. My friend was alarmed that instead the website showing him his public IP address, it was...
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ICTA's Consultation Paper prepared by specialists, criticized by many
I read the interview of ICTA's Chairman, Dick Ng Sui Wa, published on lemauricien.com.To a question on errors & contradictions in the paper, the Chairman answered that the paper was prepared by...
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National Computer Board has applied for a license to become a Certification...
The Information & Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA) also acts as the Controller of Certification Authorities. Today, the National Computer Board has applied for a license to become a...
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Requests to bing.com being proxied via ICTA's Internet filtering system in...
A few days ago people reported an anomaly when accessing the whatismyip.com website. I did some troubleshooting and found out it was ICTA's Netsweeper filter that was telling Emtel & Mauritius...
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S. Moonesamy's thoughts on ICTA's proposals
Who is S. Moonesamy?To some of us, in the IT industry, S. Moonesamy is a well-known figure. For the sake of clarity though, I will briefly introduce him in this post.S. Moonesamy is a recognized member...
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Several international NGOs, people affiliated with academia, Google and...
On Wednesday 12th May 2021, Access Now, an international NGO that defends digital rights and fights Internet shutdowns, published a joint statement1 signed by over thirty other NGOs and several...
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What did Mozilla & Google say, what did ICTA understand and what does the...
What did Mozilla & Google say?On Thursday 12th May 2021, Mozilla and Google filed a joint submission1 to the Information and Communications Technologies Authority (ICTA) of Mauritius in response to...
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Writer Ariel Saramandi & ICTA Chairman Dick Ng Sui Wa respond to BBC's...
On Friday 14th May 2021, writer Ariel Saramandi and the ICTA Chairman, Dick Ng Sui Wa, spoke on the BBC Newsday1 programme. They both spoke on ICTA's consultation paper on proposed amendments to the...
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Internet Society and Mauritius IGF react to ICTA's consultation paper
At last, the Internet Society and Mauritius IGF published their response1 to the ICTA consultation paper2 on regulating social media. I was hoping that Mauritian NGOs would react faster and in a more...
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Proof-of-concept proxy shows user account passwords and private photos can be...
Since the publication of ICTA’s consultation paper1 on proposed amendments to the ICT Act in order to regulate social media, there has been an outcry and a lot of criticism on the measures proposed....
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ICTA says it will summarize the comments & suggestions, can we trust?
On the 21st May 2021, the Information and and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA) issued a communique1 to mark the end of the comments submission to their consultation paper2 on proposed...
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We love ❤️ links
While attending today's virtual Code & Coffee by the Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community, I spoke about this online tool, among other things, which is called welovelinks.com.It's a tool that...
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Nigerian government suspends Twitter operations in the country
Cover photo "A teenager using his phone", by Muhammadtaha Ibrahim Ma'aji on Unsplash. Photo location, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna, Nigeria.On the 2nd June 2021, Twitter deleted a post1 by...
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Indian government gives final notice to Twitter to comply with new IT rules
Cover photo, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, by Laurentiu Morariu on Unsplash.The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting jointly...
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Disable "single-click" to open folder in KDE Dolphin
I expected disabling the single-click option in order to open files/folders in Dolphin to be straightforward and under Configure Dolphin, but alas that was not the case. It was not after several Google...
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Insert unicode characters in KDE using Ctrl + Shift + U
Linux users familiar with the GNOME desktop must know this shortcut to insert special characters using code points from the Unicode Standard chart of diacritical marks, i.e as most commonly called,...
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COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V available in Mauritius
Since Monday 12 July 2021, the COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V is available in Mauritius and its first dose is being administered by the Ministry of Health officials at the Central Warehouse in Castel,...
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More than 100 new COVID-19 cases in one day
Mauritius has recorded perhaps the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in just one day so far. The number is at 123.l'express COVID-19 counterLe Mauricien COVID-19 counterThe COVID-19 counters on...
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Set up the latest version of Mozilla Firefox on your Linux distribution
Firefox 90.0 was released on 13th July 2021. It was instantly, at least on the same day, available on flathub.org. Therefore, Linux users running flatpak could enjoy the latest release at once.However,...
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