The CANDIS Blog

Well, the thing is, in China, you have to have a licence to have a website, called an ICP. It costs money if you are commercial, even more money if an e-commerce site, as well as a bank deposit with a certain amount of registered capital. For non commercial entities it is free and no capital is required. The whole idea is that it is there to keep things (sites and content) legal. The original intent of this system was that only sites with a ICP would work. Now any site will work and if audited and no ICP is found, you are taken down by order of the government if you don’t acquire one somewhat expediently.

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Well, we came, we championed, we explained, we lobbied and we taught. We laughed, we gathered, we swapped tales and we helped clear up some misconceptions.

The sun was out, the sky was blue(ish – not bad by Beijing’s standards) and the students were happy and eager to learn what was going on and to quench their tech/FOSS thirsts. Tsing Hua got rained on by a heap of tech loving goodness!

Photo gallery after the jump….

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