{"id":2954,"date":"2012-03-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fpisani.wpengine.com\/ontornet-against-lebanons-snail-paced-interne\/"},"modified":"2012-03-15T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T08:00:00","slug":"ontornet-against-lebanons-snail-paced-interne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francispisani.net\/en\/ontornet-against-lebanons-snail-paced-interne\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontornet against Lebanon\u2019s snail-paced internet &#8211; Francis Pisani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ob-sections\">\n<div class=\"ob-section ob-section-html\">\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lebanon Ontornet against Lebanons snail paced internet\" height=\"123\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.over-blog-kiwi.com\/0\/73\/87\/12\/2012\/03\/15\/ob_474b90_lebanon.jpg?resize=300%2C123\" title=\"lebanon\" width=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>Internet connections in Beirut are so bad that people can only laugh \u2026 before protesting. About a year ago, one Lebanese wrote a an acerbic post in English saying, \u201cOh My God, Lebanon you\u2019re number one\u201d on the global download-speed list \u2026 if you start from the end of the list.<\/p>\n<p>I found the Ookla\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netindex.com\/download\/allcountries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NetIndex<\/a>\u00a0raking for Lebanon. A year ago, it was ranked 172nd, the worst-ranked country, behind Zambia, Swaziland and Bolivia. The high-speed cable running underground between Europe and India made things better for awhile. Lebanon rose to 160, sitting between Lesotho and Uganda. But according to activist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/LilianeAssaf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liliane Assaf<\/a>, a member of\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ontornet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ontornet.org<\/a>, a group fighting to improve conditions, \u201cThe situation got better briefly, and then the poor connections returned.\u201d It\u2019s what another person I spoke with called \u201cprogress with hiccups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ontornet is a play-on-words: \u201cOntor\u201d means \u201cwait for\u201d the net<\/strong>. And to make things more clear, its logo, \u201c@Y,\u201d represents a snail. Assaf, a search-engine marketer, has a simple motivation. \u201cWe need good connections,\u201d she says. \u201cThe ones we have right now are terrible. Working is such conditions is exhausting, and we\u2019re losing clients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ontornet\u2019s secret is \u201cnot to lie,\u201d says\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/abirghattas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abir Ghattas<\/a>, another of the group\u2019s 6 active members (4 are women). The group has a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ontornet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube channel<\/a>, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/OntorNet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter account<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OntorNet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve published articles, studies, serious investigations, and price comparisons, which has given us credibility. In fact, we had sources inside the ministry and in one of the telecom operators, who helped us verify the quality of our information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forced to see the group as someone to listen to, the government has met with them, and they are invited on TV programs to discuss the subject. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time that a group of normal (apolitical) people\u00a0 have been able to meet the Minister of Communication of two successive governments,\u201d Ghattas said. \u201cAnd we didn\u2019t soften our stance when we were before him. We recorded the conversations and put them online. The same with the operators. This shows people in Lebanon that internet tools are useful for real causes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s also a strategy for bypassing political parties<\/strong>\u00a0and traditional powers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were really careful to show that we were not political, that we didn\u2019t want to align with one party or another,\u201d Assaf says. \u201cWe say \u2018the minister\u2019 without saying which one, because when you attack someone you attack their party, and we want this to be a cause for all Lebanese. We don\u2019t accuse anyone in particular, and we don\u2019t name anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As always happens with this type of initiative, the movement which served to sway a portion of public opinion, ministers and media is \u201cmuch less active today than in the beginning,\u201d Assaf says.<\/p>\n<p>But I wonder if this isn\u2019t a good thing, if the main importance of movements that refuse to play \u201cpoliticians\u2019 politics\u201d is successfully uniting disparate interests and advancing causes that the traditional powers willingly ignore.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s another way of doing politics, which Ghattas recognizes when she confides to me: \u201cI\u2019m jealous of all the uprisings happening in the Arab world. I\u2019m envious of my friends in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain and elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Internet connections in Beirut are so bad that people can only laugh \u2026 before protesting. 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