They Want to Ban Facebook

Rumor has it that the Government in Namibia plans to Ban Facebook. The namibian sun reported 'T'here is speculation that the Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Joel Ka-paanda, had submitted a proposal to Cabinet to block the social network throughout the country.

Now this has sparked a heavy debate as to the impact facebook has on Namibian socioeconomic paradigm. Firstly i am confident that very few people earn an income directly from using facebook, i know many companies in namibia use Facebook as socila media marketing tool so there are people in Namibia that essentialy get paid to use facebook.

On the other hand many parents can argue that Facebook distracts their kids, in terms of consuming time and accessing negative information and possibly engage with harmful people i.e peaodophiles and all sort of creeps!!

I think Facebook can be used by the ministry as a tool to engage ICT use in every day life in Namibia with relation to NDP4 objectives. Study have shown that Namibia has more active cell phone users than its population and majority of users access the internet via mobile.