1. PRESENTATION ON THE ONLINE GAMBLING - REGULATION 2 March 2012

2. What is online gambling?
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3. What do we regulate when we regulate online gambling?
REGULATION
What do we regulate when we
regulate online gambling?
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4. ONLINE TRANSACTION Internet access & service providers
Hosting, data processing & content delivery
Internet search
engines & portals
Networked Content
development platform
E-Commerce
Intermediaries
Payment systems
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5. Internet access & service providers
Provide backbone ICT infrastructure
ISP’s provide local, national internet services
Governing legislation
ICASA Act
Electronic Communications Act
Electronic and Transaction Act
Industry code of conduct
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6. Hosting, data processing & content delivery
Entities that provide infrastructure for web hosting services and data processing including domain registrars “cloud computing”
No legislation that govern this industry.
Hosting could be outside legal jurisdiction of SA.
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7. Internet search engines & portals
Aid in navigation on the internet e.g. yahoo, Google
Search engines and portals provide free services to their users, at huge cost.
Investment and operating costs often funded from advertising.
Online gambling does and will continue to impact this industry.
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8. E-Commerce
Connect buyers and suppliers and enable internet transaction e.g. Amazon, eBay, Kalahari etc.
Governed by the ECT Act-objective among others to provide for the facilitation and regulation of electronic communications and transactions.
ECT Act under review.
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9. Internet access and service providers?
Conclusion
When we talk about regulating online gambling, what is it that we intend regulating?
Internet access and service providers?
Web hosting, data processing “the cloud”?
Internet search engines & Portals?
E-Commerce intermediaries?
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