February 2008 - KICTANet

Alari's mass today @ 2.30
by Rebecca Wanjiku 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hi, The mass is today at 2.30 Holy family Basillica For those who did not know...Alari and his siblings were orphans, having lost their parents some years ago. As far back as I can remember, Alari has been the father and mother of his siblings. With this in mind there are two different groups in Nairobi (that I am aware of ) that are raising funds for his burial and for the upkeep of the siblings he has left behind. There is an ongoing fundraising here at The Standard Group from colleagues and the company itself and another one which i mentioned in an earlier email that involves friends, family etc. I think a bank account may be set up for donations for the upkeep of the siblings. Once this is confirmed we will let you know so that those who wish to make personal donations may do so. Tel. 254 720 318 925 blog:http://beckyit.blogspot.com/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Public Comments Requested on DNS Stability: The Effect of New gTLDs on the Internet Domain Name System]
by alice 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Public Comments Requested on DNS Stability: The Effect of New gTLDs on the Internet Domain Name System 6 February 2008 *DNS Stability: The Effect of New Generic Top Level Domains on the Internet Domain Name System <http://www.icann.org/topics/dns-stability-draft-paper-06feb08.pdf> [PDF, 53K] * The ICANN community has recently completed a policy development process regarding the introduction of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). This effort took place within ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) (see http://gnso.icann.org/) and resulted in a set of recommendations (see http://gnso.icann.org/issues/new-gtlds/pdp-dec05-fr-parta-08aug07.htm#_Toc4…) to guide ICANN in introducing new gTLDs to the namespace. In its recommendations, the GNSO concluded that "ICANN must implement a process that allows the introduction of new top-level domains," and called for a procedure respecting the principles of fairness, transparency and non-discrimination. In preparing for the expected implementation of the gTLD policy recommendations, staff is conducting some review and analysis of the technical issues involved in this development. The addition of gTLDs to the namespace is an expansion of the DNS on a potentially large scale, to include many more names at the top level. One of the policy recommendations developed in relation to the introduction of new gTLDs included the requirement that "Strings must not cause any technical instability." ICANN is publishing this paper to solicit informed input on the technical issues relevant to the addition of new gTLDs, and to provide transparency toward how it will interpret and implement this recommendation. The goal is a clear set of rules that will be available to potential new gTLD applicants; so that it is known from the outset what tests will be applied to each application. ICANN is seeking feedback on the proposed approach as a step in its implementation planning for the introduction of new gTLDs. Comments may be submitted to new-gtlds-dns-stability(a)icann.org <mailto:new-gtlds-dns-stability@icann.org> by March 7 2008. Comments can be viewed at http://forum.icann.org/lists/new-gtlds-dns-stability/. For more information about the New gTLD Program, please go to http://www.icann.org/topics/new-gtld-program.htm. -- Anne-Rachel Inne _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list AfrICANN(a)afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann

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Open Positions at AfriNIC
by brian 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Dear Colleagues, The following positions are opened at AfriNIC: 1. Finance and Administration Area Manager http://www.afrinic.net/job/jobs2008/afjob_cfo200802_Advert.htm 2. Technical Operations Area Manager http://www.afrinic.net/job/jobs2008/afjob_cto200801_Advert.htm Both positions will be based at our headquarters in Mauritius. For any further queries, do not hesitate to contact us on jobs(a)afrinic.net. Kind Regards, Kiran Cunniah Executive Assistant AfriNIC

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Implementation of a Unified Licensing Framework & New, Market Structure
by alice 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

For the full document please see: http://www.cck.go.ke/current_consultations/ Implementation of a Unified Licensing Framework & New Market Structure 1. Preamble In 2004 the Commission announced its intention to implement a unified licensing framework as a mechanism of harnessing the emerging technological opportunities as well as address the attendant regulatory challenges. The intention came about as a result of the realisation that technological convergence within the ICT sub-sector had rendered the long held technological oriented licensing approach untenable. Consequently the Commission adopted the principle of technology neutrality in the licensing framework and allowed any form of communications infrastructure to be used to provide any type of communications service that it is technically capable of providing including VoIP. The Commission further adopted in principle a unified licensing and regulatory model with the following as the main segments of the future market structure: • Network Facilities Provider (NFP) – who shall own and operate any form of communications infrastructure (based on satellite, terrestrial, mobile or fixed) • Applications Service Provider (ASP) – to provide all forms of services to end users using the network services of a facilities provider • Contents Services Provider (CSP) – to provide contents services such as broadcast (TV& Radio) material, and other information services and data processing services etc. Having taken this important matter through the initial consultation phase, the Commission has drawn up a new market structure herewith attached as Annex 1 as well as develop a set of principles and guidelines which it intents to use in the implementation of this new framework. The said principles and guidelines are presented in section 2a below. The Commission envisages that the implementation of this framework shall have a positive impact and draw benefits to the existing operators, consumers as well as the whole economy at large. 2. Consultation Process The 1st phase of the consultative process on this important subject matter was carried out both within the industry as well as with other stakeholders. Analysis of the responses received as well as the Commission’s views is presented in Annex 2 & Annex 3. see http://www.cck.go.ke/current_consultations/ The Commission now wishes to invite comments/contributions on the proposed market structure as well as the said set of principles and guidelines ( http://www.cck.go.ke/current_consultations/) on the subject matter. Respondents are required to ensure that their written submissions reach the Commission on or before 29th February 2008.

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Internet Mzee? DNS Turns 25
by brian 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

DNS - no not a musician (DNA or DNG whatever) - Domain Name Service - turned 25 last week. http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nsm/2008/0204nsm2.html?nlhtnsm=ts_0… Internet inazeeka ama ni mimi? Mblayo

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ICT Africa Updates
by Robert Alai 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

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Problems with Five Undersea Fiber Optic Cables
by brian 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Problems with Five Undersea Fiber Optic Cables February 6th, 2008 Via: Mena Report: http://www.menareport.com/en/business/221875 A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each. These are SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia, the FLAG Europe-Asia near Alexandria, FLAG near the Dubai coast, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran and SeaMeWe-4, also near Alexandria.

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End of Discussion-Impact of Post-Election Violence on ICT organisation
by John Walubengo 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

On behalf of the KICTAnet Secretariat, I wish to thank all those who spared the time and effort to contribute in last weeks discussion. The contributions are being compiled into a report for distribution within two weeks. Thanks alot and we hope you can be available for other discussions on contemporary national, regional and internatioal ICT issues affecting our community. Keep the Faith and Hope alive, walu. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

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[Fwd: Re: Kenya: The Media is Not Innocent]
by alice 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya: The Media is Not Innocent Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:15:12 +0300 (EAT) From: Silverscreen Pictures <ssp(a)silverscreen.co.ke> To: alice <alice(a)apc.org> I totally agree on the fact that the Media was culpable in inciting people to violence. Specifically Vernacular stations which were sadly set up on the premise of "propagating and posturing a community's position and interests". This is in total regard of the fact that any region in this country, is a melting pot of the varied communities that form the Kenyan nation. Even some of the mainstream FM stations, their inclination was obvious, leading to their lack of objectivity in their broadcasts. Some of the Newspaper columnists, depending on what communities they belonged, subjectively belaboured the virtues of their kinsmen or affiliates, and at times showing the kind of infatuation and Hero worship these writers carried to pen their stories/columns. We know there is a strong lobby from the Media Owners that resist any suggestion or policy that calls for regulations, however harmless to democracy. REMEMBER THE MINISTERIAL DIRECTIVE IN 2003 CALLING FOR A MERE 20% LOCAL CONTENT?????. I have no prescriptions, but I sadly think that if we are not careful, we may be creating a MEDIA MONSTER, If the tenets and principles of responsible and objective journalism are not embraced. Ingolo ----- Original Message ----- From: "alice" <alice(a)apc.org> To: ssp(a)silverscreen.co.ke Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Monday, February 4, 2008 10:58:54 PM (GMT+0300) Asia/Kuwait Subject: [kictanet] Kenya: The Media is Not Innocent http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=41049 KENYA: The Media Is Not Innocent Kwamboka Oyaro *NAIROBI, Feb 2 (IPS) - The media was partly blamed for the Rwandan genocide 14 years ago which left nearly one million people dead in 100 days. "Kill the Inkotanyi [cockroaches]!" a local radio station urged its listeners at the time. * "30 Days in Words and Pictures: Media Response in Kenya During the Election Crisis" -- a workshop organised here last week by California-based media advocacy group Internews -- enabled media professionals to conduct a "self-audit" of the role local media played in the post-election violence. The audit revealed that media -- especially vernacular radio stations -- might be partly to blame for the on-going violence sparked off by the announcement of Mwai Kibaki as winner of the Dec. 27 elections. The violence has reportedly claimed over 1,000 lives and displaced some 250,000 people since the December election. David Ochami, a commissioner with the Media Council of Kenya, told IPS that long before the elections were held, vernacular radio stations had ignited ethnic consciousness among the listeners "making them support leaders from their own tribe and harbour bad feelings about people from other communities." "The ethnic hate our radio station was propagating about those from outside the community was unbelievable. I can’t repeat any of those expressions at this forum," said a journalist with a vernacular radio station. "The unfortunate thing is we let these callers speak vile and laughed about it." "We took sides in the issue and we became subjective, forgetting our professional tenet of objectivity and neutrality. In fact, this polarization was so bad in the newsrooms that some broadcast journalists refused to cover or read news that wasn’t favourable to the candidate or party they supported," said a journalist. In fact, leading up to the elections the local media conveyed inflammatory campaign messages as advertisers’ announcements. "Both print and broadcast media put money ahead of responsibility by accepting and conveying paid-for hate material," Mildred Baraza, a Nairobi- based journalist told IPS. "This could have incited the audience, and when they got a chance they avenged as a result of the pre-election messages," she said. Redemtor Atieno, another Nairobi-based journalist who also helped to organise the workshop, is confident that the media’s biased reporting contributed to the mayhem in the country. "Professionalism was thrown to the dogs as tribe and partisanship carried the day. We failed our audience by conveying interests of politicians without questioning the impact of our stories," Atieno told IPS. Participants at the workshop also blamed media owners for playing a major role in encouraging the violence. "They had vested interests in either camp of the political divide," a reporter with Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) said, adding that he and his colleagues wanted to tell the real story but they couldn’t because the stories could portray the government in a bad light. "We had beautiful clips and stories from the field, but we went back to the newsroom knowing that the story would never be used," he said. Even privately owned media owners who backed different political parties had a hand in the stories that were carried. If it was about the party they supported, they exaggerated the story and generally depicted the opponents in negative ways. "The media organizations refrained from telling the world the truth about what was happening," Ochami told IPS. "There has been a tendency of portraying the Kenyan crisis as a problem between two ethnic groups -- where one [Kibaki’s Kikuyu] is victimized by another [opposition leader Raila Odinga’s Luo]. Any other story on the contrary is downplayed or ignored," Ochami explained. There are those who believe the media is innocent and the violence currently rocking the country was bound to happen anyway -- that historical economic inequalities among the Kenyan communities had to boil over at some point in time. "The public vented long bottled-up anger. It was meant to explode whether the media encouraged it or not," said a journalist at the workshop. "Many people voted last year for change and it was a protest vote against years of inequalities. When they realized this would not happen when Kibaki was declared winner, they exploded." Mitch Odera the moderator of the workshop and media consultant said one of the causes of Kenya’s unrest is the immaturity of its democracy. "There hasn’t been competitive democracy in our country. That is our problem," Odera told the participants at the workshop. The government was also blamed for the chaos because it slapped a blanket ban on live broadcasters soon after violence broke out in the country. "The ban did not extend to international media including the Internet which many Kenyans accessed and spread the word. This led to skewed information and hence panic and more destruction and deaths," said one journalist from the electronic media. The Editors Guild -- an organization of editors from all media organizations -- went to court this week to challenge the ban on broadcasters. Participants at the workshop also heard the first hand experiences of journalists who covered the post election violence. Practioners complained about threats to their lives and complained that they felt segregated from the rest of the country. As the workshop was taking place participants were well aware that several political writers and analysts had received death threats for writing stories that were viewed as unfavourable towards the government. (END/2008) _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: ssp(a)silverscreen.co.ke Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ssp%40silverscreen.co.…

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FW: Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme 2008
by Wanjira, Alice Munyua 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

-----Original Message----- From: Njiraini, Mwende Sent: Fri 01/02/2008 17:08 To: Wanjira, Alice Munyua Subject: Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme 2008 Call for Applications Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme 2008 DiploFoundation is currently accepting applications for the 2008 Internet Governance Capacity Building Training Programme (IG CBP). This online programme is designed to improve Internet governance (IG) related knowledge and skills for participants mainly from developing countries. The Programme also facilitates community-building among individuals with different national, cultural, and professional backgrounds. The Programme The programme offers 120 places for young professionals from diverse stakeholder backgrounds in IG-related fields and is open to individuals from around the world. The programme is conducted entirely online. The programme includes three phases, which take place over eight months during 2008: I. The online training phase consists of § an 8-week long Foundation Course, introducing IG policy, process, and actors, and covering 5 thematic baskets: Infrastructure and Standardisation Basket, Legal Basket, Economic Basket, Socio-Cultural Basket, Development Basket; § two 4-week long modules of the Advanced Course, covering two advanced topics chosen by each participant from: e-Commerce, e-Voting, Intellectual Property Rights, Infrastructure and Economic Models of Interconnectivity, Privacy, and Security. Learning activities take place in an online classroom and include the analysis of course materials, interactive group discussions using a variety of communication tools, assignments, and exams. Successful participants will receive a certificate of completion of the programme. II. The online policy research phase is an optional 3-month period of supervised, collaborative online work focused on IG policy issues of highest relevance to developing countries, and is closely linked to training activities. III. The policy immersion phase includes capacity-building fellowships awarded to a number of successful participants in the programme, such as internships with partner organisations and attendance at IG-related meetings, including the Internet Governance Forum later in the year. Languages Programme materials and platform are fully in English. Besides English-speaking groups, several bilingual groups will be formed for the foundation course, having English as the primary language, and either Arabic, French, Portuguese, or Spanish as the secondary language for communication and interaction. Target Audience The training programme seeks applications from the following categories of individuals from both developed and developing countries: § officials in government ministries and departments dealing with IG-related issues (e.g., telecommunications, education, foreign affairs, justice); § postgraduate students and researchers in the IG field (e.g., in telecommunications, electrical engineering, law, economics, development studies); § civil society activists in the IG field; § journalists covering IG issues; § individuals in Internet-business fields (e.g., ISPs, software developers). Participants from developing countries are eligible to receive full scholarship support for the foundation course, while for the advanced phase, a number of scholarships will be offered to the most successful participants. Timeline § 3 March-29 April 2008 - Foundation Course on Internet Governance § 5 May-29 June 2008 - Advanced Course on Internet Governance § September-November 2008 - Policy Research Phase (optional) § July 2008 through 2009 - Policy Immersion (fellowships) Fee 1) Foundation course Applicants from developing countries: full scholarships are available for all selected applicants to cover the course tuition. Applicants from developed* countries: Euro 550. 2) Advanced course Applicants from developing countries: Euro 150. A number of scholarships will be offered to the most successful participants of the foundation course from developing countries. Applicants from developed* countries: Euro 400. 3) Research phase Full scholarships are available for all successful participants of the online training phase to cover the research phase tuition. * OECD members <http://www.oecd.org/document/58/0,3343,en_2649_201185_1889402_1_1_1_1,00.ht…> Requirements The applicants are required to have: § Basic awareness and interest in IG issues § Knowledge and/or experience of the multistakeholder approach in international affairs § Fluency in English, as well as fluency in the second language for the applicants to any of bilingual groups § Good writing skills, ability to summarize information and focus on details § Regular access to the Internet (dial-up connection is sufficient) § Minimum of 8 hours commitment per week during the programme § Participation in online consultations (once a week at specified times) Deadline The deadline for applications is 14 February 2008, by midnight UTC/GMT. How to Apply For further information and to apply, please visit: http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig/ <http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig/> Do not hesitate to contact us at ig(a)diplomacy.edu <mailto:ig@diplomacy.edu> . Please circulate widely. Thank you, Mwende Njiraini Engineer II/New Technologies Communications Commission of Tel: 254 - 020 - 4242419/000 P.O Box 14448, Nairobi 00800 Nairobi KENYA Email: njiraini(a)cck.go.ke Website:http://www.cck.go.ke Disclaimer: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use by the individual(s) or entity to whom it is addressed to. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Additionally, if you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately by a reply e-mail.

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