December 2010 - KICTANet

APC is hiring: Project coordinator, “Internet rights are human rights”
by Alice Munyua 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

Please pass on to anyone you think might be interested.. -------- Original Message -------- APC is hiring: Project coordinator, “Internet rights are human rights” The successful candidate will join the APC policy programme to lead APC’s human rights and internet rights work through coordination of our “Internet rights are human rights” project. The candidate will have a strong background in the human rights and internet policy fields and have significant expertise in advocacy, capacity building and strategic communications. This is a full-time senior project manager position key to APC as we seek to strengthen our position internationally in the area of human rights in the context of the internet and information and communication policy. The project coordinator will: A) Coordinate the overall implementation of the project “Internet rights are human rights: Monitoring and defending freedom of expression and association on the internet”. Deliverables include: - in-depth research and analysis of the trends, violations and impacts on freedom of expression on the internet at national levels; - development of various information products, awareness raising and global and national policy advocacy in specialised spaces and processes; - building capacity and support for rights defenders (particulary women's human rights defenders); - building sustainable networks of human rights defence advocates; - designing and implementing a campaign that promote understanding of 'internet rights' as human rights and the importance of the internet as a tool for furthering human rights B) Manage and supervise contracts with project partners. C) Manage and supervise the “Internet rights are human rights” project team. D) Provide strategic vision and leadership for developing and implementing APC´s human rights and internet rights advocacy and campaigning, capacity building, networking and partnership building, and communication strategies in partnership with APC team. E) Represent the APC and build strategic partnerships in the field. This includes frequent international travel. F) Participate actively in the APC staff team and with members. The person we are looking for will have: - Extensive knowledge of human rights and internet policy and regulations - Sound academic qualifications in a related area - Experience in policy advocacy work in this area - Enthusiasm for networking and be an inclusive network builder - The ability to plan and think strategically - Experience in project management (at least three years) including people and budget management - Experience and background in civil society networking  - Knowledge and contacts with human rights organisations, human rights defenders, democracy activists and internet rights activists is an advantage  Other requirements: - Excellent English writing and oral communication skills, including public speaking experience - Good writing skills and experience in writing reports  - Able to work in a team and under pressure - Able to work independently and to manage people mainly via online communications - Willing to travel frequently  - Competent computer and internet skills and experience in working in an online environment - Ability to communicate in Spanish and/or French is a distinct advantage   Remuneration and duration of contract: This is a full time contract for an initial twelve-month period (renewable depending on performance and availability of funding). Remuneration is based on APC’s salary scale for the position for a high-level project manager. Short-listed candidates will receive specific information on the salary range on request. Location: The incumbent can work from anywhere in the world provided they have excellent internet access. APC provides an equipment allowance but require staff to use their own computers. Extensive international and regional travel will be required. APC is a truly virtual organisation and does not have a physical headquarters. We do our work online. For this position we particularly encourage candidates from the global South. How to apply:  Please send a CV and a covering letter in English that illustrates your interest in the position. You should include the following information: - Your experience with human rights and/or internet rights  - Your experience in advocacy and capacity building - Your experience in networking and partnership building - Your experience in designing, developing and leading campaigns targeting diverse constituencies - Your background in project management and team coordination, specifically in an international and/or online context - Your experience or expectations around building the capacity of activists for whom sometimes the subject area will be relatively new - Your experience around building interaction between human rights actors and actors involved in the access and use of internet for social justice and development - Your ICT policy experience - Your computer skills  - Where you live - Languages you speak and write - Other information you think might be of importance to our assessment of your application - Three references: names, relationship, contact details; at least one of these should be related to project or campaign that you have managed.   Please send this information via email with ‘Internet rights are human rights project coordinator’ in the subject line to: jobs(a)apc.org <mailto:[email protected]> by January 14 2011. Please note only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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US screening new gTLD applicants against US laws
by Alice Munyua 19 Dec '10

19 Dec '10

Dear all, More concerns from the Africa ICANN community on the new gTLD guidebook. best alice ---------------------- Dear AfrICANN's Please read Khaled Fattal's honourable submission at http://forum.icann.org/lists/5gtld-guide/pdfIIMoPfVdQj.pdf and see what an important and disturbing development the "final" new gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook gives us. I must admit that while I was bogged down to the ccNSO and its council's business in Cartagena, this important matter escaped my attention. What is Africa's response to the DAG full granting the US government a right to screen new gTLD applicants against the US (probably more supreme) laws? I really think we can expect non-US people starting to push for alternative DNS root seeing the current DNS is US' and US' alone! So if you're not a US applicant and are from a country the US government considers to be terrorist, then forget about getting your new gTLD! This is what this exactly mean, While I've been usually reserved regarding the ITU advances towards the DNS, if ICANN continues to be a US govt entity as it is doing right now (even when ICANN is supposed to move away from this reality through the Affirmation), then who can blame the ITU or even other "Internet rebels" (or should we not call them "Internet freedom fighters") who have come up with alternative DNSes! I hope subscribers to this list will make their governments aware of this important matter (I believe some already have done so) and that our governments and the AU will not disappoint in withstanding the US monopoly of the currently dominant DNS. It must be fair to expect African governments to express their position even before the ICANN board meets GAC in February 2011. And I hope we won't hear another view that ICANN needs to first build our capacity before we can respond to this straight-forward nonsense from the ICANN DAG. Regards, *Vika Mpisane* ZADNA +27 11 275 0082

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Safaricom Challenges on M-Pesa after Upgrade
by Preston Odera 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

The current challenges consumers are going thru on the M-Pesa after upgrade seem not to have been shared with the consumers. Can the CEO of Safaricom explain what is going on. There are delays on money sent. I sent money and only received the message after six hours. The recepient never received any message. There are cases where the recipient does not receive a message although the money is there they cannot withdraw. Can Safaricom explain how many cases of this nature have been experienced and what are the security implications? Preston Odera Executive Director K-Ninety East Africa Limited Tel +254 20 3544352

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Safaricom data bundles
by robert yawe 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Hi, I am like many of you a peculiar Kenyan in that I can quickly find 10 new ways to use a product that the provider/manufacture could never have though about. When Safaricom introduced the monthly data bundles I quickly took advantage of the service to roll out remote data capture terminals as I had a new that the 999/- unlimited monthly bundle would meet my requirements without any problems and at a predictable cost. So after rolling out the device somewhere in the middle of nowhere, its a security device so I will not give you the GPS coordinates, where no man need go again. I loaded the initial 999/- and off went the device, little did I know that the place that no man needed to go would need to be visited at least once a month. Why, because safaricom's unlimited monthly bundle cannot be purchased remotely, one needs to physically get to the sim card, my device is credit card sized and runs some proprietary software. I appreciate the fact that I am doing with the service what Safaricom did not think could or even would be done. I have talked to the customer service persons, they are now more script driven than before, and all I got was ". . the 450 service cannot be activated from another line, please put the sim card in a phone and send a sms message to 450 with the bundle size, thank you for calling Safaricom and have a good day". This what I had asked for in a call centre operator but suddenly my needs have now surpassed the standard script can Safaricom please implement an escalation procedure in the script so that when peculiar Kenyans like myself call with peculiar requirements we can get assistance. For now there goes my weekend as I need to travel to the top of a hill somewhere in Kenya, report to the local police station to avoid being shot down, climb up a 12 meter mast, remove a sim card, insert it into my phone, send an sms to 450, remove the sim card, place it back into the device, climb down the mast then drive back to Nairobi. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

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BBC Article on Kenya Outsourcing
by Paul Kukubo 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Listers <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12004815 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/>[image: BBC News]OLOGY<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/> 16 December 2010 Last updated at 23:40 GMT Kenya's ambitions for an outsourced futureBy Jonathan FildesTechnology reporter, BBC News Stare out of the office windows at Park Towers and - if you are lucky - you may spot a zebra or a giraffe. The sleek, glass building on the edge of Nairobi National park belongs to Horizon Contact Centers, one of a handful of emerging Kenyan firms that hope to grab a large slice of the global outsourcing market and establish the country as a leading provider of the call centres and back offices of the world. Inside, there is little time for safaris. The sleek offices are packed with rows and rows of blue cubicles staffed by young graduates, all calmly talking into headsets and typing into identical PCs. The rhythmical conversations are polite and familiar to anyone who has called a customer support line or has picked up a cold call from an insurance firm. "Kenya is very well known for its runners and wildlife, but when people talk about IT services there is a question mark," says Sanjay Sikka, chief executive of the year-and-a-half-old firm. Now that is all set to change, he says. Net effect Four years ago, the Kenyan government unveiled its Vision 2030 plan to develop the country<http://www.nesc.go.ke/News&Events/KenyaVision2030Intro.htm> . Central to its goals were the use of technology and a desire to emulate the success of countries such as India, South Africa and the Philippines. "It is not about taking India's business away from them," explains Paul Kukubo of the government's ICT board, in charge of promoting Kenya as an outsourcing destination for foreign firms. "The market is so big globally that the issue isn't about competition. The source markets - the US and the UK - are still looking for high quality, low cost destinations to do business." Until recently, Kenya was not in a position to go after the business. Its digital infrastructure - and particularly its satellite communications links with other countries - was prohibitively expensive for firms that rely on instant communication. That changed in 2009, when the first of three undersea internet cables arrived in the country. "I travel around the world trying to make the case for international investment in outsourcing," says Mr Kukubo. "Before the cables came it wasn't even a discussion. Now we have seen a huge interest with companies saying 'you have the basic ingredients'." Mr Sikka, who's firm initially used a grant from the World Bank to help pay for the expensive satellite links, agrees. "It's had a huge impact on cost," he says. "It's made Kenya competitive with the rest of the world." Perception problem Down the road from Horizon's sleek headquarters is Kencall, Kenya's first outsourcing firm, started in 2005. Before the cables arrived it had to use voice compression technology to ensure that customers did not pick up on the lags in conversations as the calls were beamed thousands of miles up via the satellite "When you calculate that distance to go up to that satellite and back down again at the speed of light, it would mean that for a word to be heard in England it would take about 6-700 milliseconds," says its founder Nik Nesbitt. "That delay makes calls horrible." Now, there is no need for the technology. This has brought other benefits, says Mr Nesbitt. "Our bandwidth costs have dropped about 90%. However, the part that is most exciting to us is that we are able to go out and get higher value more attractive work because we have the fibre optic capability, which pays us more." He says the cables "offer a perception of reliability" to potential customers. "Previously, the satellites offered that reliability, but not the perception," he says. But reliable cheap bandwidth is not the only selling points for Kenya, says Mr Sikka. He highlights the country's "abundant talent pool" and its "neutral accent". "India invests a lot in so-called accent neutralisation, where the agents are taken through a course," says Mr Sikka, himself a veteran of the Indian outsourcing scene. Kenya, he says, does not have that problem. It's a mantra repeated by everyone pushing Kenya as an outsourcing destination. Mr Sikka also emphasises the population's "cultural affinity" with countries such as the US and the UK. "Cultural affinity to the UK is very important," he says. "It is very important to show an empathy and understanding of the culture. It can't be someone calling up from an alien world with no understanding about what it means to live there." He says young Kenyans consume the same TV shows and music as their counterparts in the US and the UK, and they follow the same sports teams. The legacy of the British schooling system in Kenya is also an advantage, he says. "The main thing when you are talking on the phone is getting into the customer's shoes." Price point Kenya is not just targeting call centre work. Horizon offers data processing. Nearby, in a conspicuous four-storey red building, Ken-Tech data offers other services such as image tagging. For example, the firm does processing work for an unnamed smartphone application that allows users to take a picture of a product to find the best prices online. The pictures are sent to a team of people in their offices, who analyse the images and tag them with descriptive words that can be used to find the best prices on the web. "The results are sent back to the phone within 30 seconds," says Lakshmanan Manickam, general manager of the firm, and another person who has moved from India to kick-start the industry. This work requires a "highly-skilled workforce", he says, who are able to describe objects accurately. The firm also creates content for websites and audits transcriptions and translations for US companies. He says it is much easier - and cheaper - to set up these projects in Kenya; factors that will make it "the next outsourcing destination". But not everyone is so optimistic about Kenya's chances. "I'm more conservative about what it can do," says Erik Hersman, an entrepreneur and a major figure in the local technology start-up community. "If you are just trying to bid against your Indian counterparts, I think it is a hard thing to do, particularly when they have so much experience." He believes that rather than offering similar services to other countries, Kenya needs to find its own niche if it is to be successful. "I think it is a little bit more of a difficult space than people make it out to be." In addition, he says, the country should not try to compete with other countries on price. 'Lone voice' It is a view echoed by Mark Hillary, author of Who Moved my Job. "If your basic offering is, 'it is cheaper to work here than India', than that is a pretty poor sales pitch," he says. Instead, he says, firms and government should look at the kinds of graduates that are coming out of the country's universities and offer services based on their skills. This has worked for countries such as Bangladesh, he says, which has developed a concentration of animation firms. He says Kenya's historical ties with the UK, which means it has similar accountancy and legal systems, offers opportunities for outsourcing firms. However, Mr Hillary says his studies conducted with the United Nations suggest the country may face other challenges. "We found the biggest inhibitor was people's sense of corruption," he says. "But, it's more about the perception of doing business than the reality." A spate of violence following the disputed 2007 presidential elections also damaged the country's reputation. But the government's Mr Kukubo remains optimistic. "One has to be candid about these things," he says. "[The 2007 violence] was one of those things that was incidental and rare in Kenya's history. "Out of that crisis was born a new Kenya, really. Bad as it may have been, I think we learnt out lessons." In the next year, he says, there will be an "explosion of interest" from firms wanting to set up in Kenya. It has already invested in a new business park on the Mombasa Road, a stone's throw from Kencall, Horizon and Ken-Tech data. The 500,000sq ft (46,450sq m) of empty office space, primed for an influx of local and India firms, is an indication of its conviction. And it is a validation for Kencall's Mr Nesbitt. "When we started Kencall, we were really a voice in the wilderness talking about outsourcing. I think everyone sat there with one raised eyebrow waiting to see what could happen. "But people have now begun to see that this can actually work in Kenya." [image: BBC] BBC © MMX The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read more. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/help/web/links/> Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke personal contacts _______________ Cell: + 254 717 180001 skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo ____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment

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Re: [kictanet] Safaricom data bundles
by Betty Mwangi 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Thanks Washington On your iSsue with Bonga I believe a member of my team is in touch to investigate the problem you are experiencing so that we can sort this out Rgds BlackBerry® powered by Safaricom ________________________________ From: Odhiambo Washington To: Betty Mwangi Cc: kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke Sent: Fri Dec 17 09:04:18 2010 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Safaricom data bundles On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Betty Mwangi <bmwangi1(a)safaricom.co.ke> wrote: Robert Thanks for your comments and the inconvenience is highly regretted. I assure you you are not peculiar in any way and as a matter of fact Safaricom will be availing an on line top up service for data early in the New Year that Will assist with situations similar to yours. We assure you of our committment to continue to ensure that we meet customers needs. Hi Betty, Such a solution will be very welcome, especially in the face of the many "sonkos" brandishing iPads. At the moment the process of buying a bundle for an iPad user is hell, thanks to the microsim. That you have to face a process of powering down the iPad, removing the microsim, place on a holder, get some phone to be powered down to take the "sim", load credit, buy data via sms, wait for confirmation, then follow the reverse of this process.... You just see the hassle that product will save many from! PS: In the meantime, would you be kind enough to mobilize "the team" to revive Bonga points query/redemption system? It's been down for a while. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Damn!! ##################################################################################### NOTE: All emails sent from Safaricom Limited are subject to Safaricom�s Email Terms & Conditions. Please click here to read the policy. #####################################################################################

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AU Joins the .africa & .afrique Fray
by Muchiri Nyaggah 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

"The African Union (AU) has expressed interest in playing a key role in selecting the operator for the .africa and .afrique generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs)." See the rest of the story here http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=EFAAA1C0-1A64-6A71-CE3979187410031B Kind regards, *Muchiri* Nyaggah Director @muchiri +254 722 506400 Semacraft.com

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Re: [kictanet] Safaricom data bundles
by Betty Mwangi 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Robert Thanks for your comments and the inconvenience is highly regretted. I assure you you are not peculiar in any way and as a matter of fact Safaricom will be availing an on line top up service for data early in the New Year that Will assist with situations similar to yours. We assure you of our committment to continue to ensure that we meet customers needs. Best rgds Betty Chief officer - New Products Safaricom BlackBerry® powered by Safaricom ________________________________ From: kictanet-bounces+bmwangi1=safaricom.co.ke(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke To: Betty Mwangi Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Sent: Fri Dec 17 08:17:33 2010 Subject: [kictanet] Safaricom data bundles Hi, I am like many of you a peculiar Kenyan in that I can quickly find 10 new ways to use a product that the provider/manufacture could never have though about. When Safaricom introduced the monthly data bundles I quickly took advantage of the service to roll out remote data capture terminals as I had a new that the 999/- unlimited monthly bundle would meet my requirements without any problems and at a predictable cost. So after rolling out the device somewhere in the middle of nowhere, its a security device so I will not give you the GPS coordinates, where no man need go again. I loaded the initial 999/- and off went the device, little did I know that the place that no man needed to go would need to be visited at least once a month. Why, because safaricom's unlimited monthly bundle cannot be purchased remotely, one needs to physically get to the sim card, my device is credit card sized and runs some proprietary software. I appreciate the fact that I am doing with the service what Safaricom did not think could or even would be done. I have talked to the customer service persons, they are now more script driven than before, and all I got was ". . the 450 service cannot be activated from another line, please put the sim card in a phone and send a sms message to 450 with the bundle size, thank you for calling Safaricom and have a good day". This what I had asked for in a call centre operator but suddenly my needs have now surpassed the standard script can Safaricom please implement an escalation procedure in the script so that when peculiar Kenyans like myself call with peculiar requirements we can get assistance. For now there goes my weekend as I need to travel to the top of a hill somewhere in Kenya, report to the local police station to avoid being shot down, climb up a 12 meter mast, remove a sim card, insert it into my phone, send an sms to 450, remove the sim card, place it back into the device, climb down the mast then drive back to Nairobi. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ##################################################################################### NOTE: All emails sent from Safaricom Limited are subject to Safaricom�s Email Terms & Conditions. Please click here to read the policy. #####################################################################################

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Re: [kictanet] [AfrICANN-discuss] NRO-NC appointment at AfriNIC
by Brian Munyao Longwe 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Congratulations Alan! You are the right man for the job! On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Adiel A. Akplogan <adiel(a)afrinic.net>wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > We are please to announce that the AfriNIC Board has appointed Alan P. > Barrett as AfriNIC's region representative to the NRO Number Council > for one year (01-Jnauary-2011 to 31-December-2011). > > We would like to congratulate Alan for his appointment and wish him > success. > > Sincerely. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Adiel A. Akplogan Tel. +230 403 51 00 > Chief Executive Officer, AfriNIC Fax: +230 466 67 58 > adiel(a)afrinic.net - www.afrinic.net sip: adiel(a)voip.afrinic.net > > _______________________________________________ > AfrICANN mailing list > AfrICANN(a)afrinic.net > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann > -- Brian Munyao Longwe e-mail: blongwe(a)gmail.com cell: + 254 722 518 744 blog : http://zinjlog.blogspot.com meta-blog: http://mashilingi.blogspot.com

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Reloaded: Yawe for post master general
by Francis Hook 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

Maybe Robert Yawe will realise his dream seeing how the current PMG made it onto "the list" -- Francis Hook +254 733 504561

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Fwd: Media Advisory: Silicon Valley entrepreneur visit Kenya
by Paul Kukubo ICT Board 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

Of interest. Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > From: Kenya ICT Board <kkobia(a)ict.go.ke> > Date: 14 December 2010 10:10:06 GMT+03:00 > To: pkukubo(a)ict.go.ke > Subject: Media Advisory: Silicon Valley entrepreneur visit Kenya > Reply-To: kkobia(a)ict.go.ke > > > Paul > > The Kenya ICT Board will host a group of entrepreneur including Russel Simmons (co-founder of paypal) and Jawed Karim (co-founder of youtube) at an event at the iHub on Tuesday Decemeber 14 at 3:00pm. > > You are invited to cover the event, which will also feature some Kenya's top tech entrepreneur . > Tandaa Tech Talk > Featuring members of i/o ventures including co-founder of paypal, co-founder of youtube and co-founder of yelp.com > Venue > iHub, Bishop Magua Center, 4th Floor, Ngong Road, Opposite Uchumi Hyper > Date > December 14, 2010 > Time > 15:00 - 18:00 > Host > Kenya ICT Board > > Members of the media interested in booking interviews with special guests should contact Kaburo Kobia kkobia(a)ict.go.ke or call 0729466260 > > For more information: > Background > > Profiles for i/o ventures team > > About Kenya ICT Board > > Contact info > > Background > > i/o ventures is an early stage start up program that focuses heavily on mentorship. Their network of entrepreneurs have started multi-billion dollar internet companies including paypal, youtube, myspace, hi5 and yelp, many of which have over 100 million users visiting their websites monthly. > The mentors have visited a number of countries including Singapore, Brazil, Russia, and mostly recently Tanzania. During their visits the mentors travel participate in a variety of events which usually include speaking at top universities, meeting with upcoming entrepreneurs, top business leaders and a meeting or dinner with top government officials including the President or Prime Minister. The end goal is to spread ICT entrepreneurship, build a bridge into Silicon Valley and encourage the growth of the local "tech ecosystem". > > i/o ventures are making their first trip to Kenya from December 13 - 14. During their Kenya trip they would like to focus on mentorship based on their extensive experience in incubating start-up entrepreneurs. Their most recent graduating class included six companies in the internet space, they were exposed to 120 Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors and all got funded. Half are already profitable, one has been acquired. > Profiles > Russel Simmons: early employee/lead technical architect at paypal, former CTO and co-founder of Yelp.com > Jawed Karim: cofounder of Youtube, early employee at Paypal and angel investor > Paul Bragel: partner at i/o ventures, co-founder of Leforum (online forums), co-founder/CEO of Meetro (location based social networking) and former CEO of Paragon Five (game development > Mbwana Alliy: associate at i/o ventures, co-founder of Yellow Masai, Board Member at Envaya > About Kenya ICT Board > > The Kenya ICT Board was established by HE President Mwai Kibaki, as a state corporation under the State Corporations Act Cap. 446 on 19th February 2007. > > The Kenya ICT Board's mission is to champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment. > > Its vision is that Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub by 2030. > > The Kenya ICT Board mandate is to: > Market: Positioning and promoting Kenya as an ICT destination (locally and internationally), especially promoting Business process Outsourcing (BPO) and Offshoring. > Advise: Advise the government on all relevant matters pertaining to the development and promotion of ICT industries in the country > Build Capacity: Providing government and other stakeholders with skills, capacity and funding for anchor implementation of ICT projects for development. > Manage Projects: Coordinating, directing and implementing anchor ICT projects in development. > > Contact > For more information or to book interviews please contact: > Kaburo Kobia > 0729466260 > > > Sincerely, > > > Kaburo Kobia > Project Manager, Local Digital Content > Kenya ICT Board > > This email was sent to pkukubo(a)ict.go.ke by kkobia(a)ict.go.ke. > Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy. > Email Marketing by > > Kenya ICT Board | Telposta Towers, 12th Floor | Kenyatta Ave | P.o. box 27150-00100 | Nairobi | Kenya >

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Cartagena Statement of the African ICANN community about the Support for new gTLD applicants
by Alice Munyua 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Dear all, As you are aware ICANN is meant to introduce new gTLDs, however, during the just ended meeting in Cartegna, various stakeholders continued to raise a number of controversial aspects of the new gTLDs programme, which include but not limited to geographic names, root zone, scaling, economic analysis, malicious conduct, etc. The ICANN board resolved to provide more time to stakeholders to discuss and work through the remaining issues. Africa ICANN representatives remain very concerned about thehigh costs for applications/process, which is likely to exclude those without the level of financial resources required, e.g cultural and other non-commercial groups, among others from benefiting from the opportunities the new gTLDs will offer. Please see Draft Applicant Guide (DAG) book: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/draft-rfp-clean-12nov10-en.pdfand send in comments. See Africa ICANN statement below. best Alice ----------------------------------------------------------- Following ICANN Board's resolution 20 in Nairobi meeting whereby "The Board requests stakeholders to work through their SOs and ACs, and form a Working Group to develop a sustainable approach to providing support to applicants requiring assistance in applying and operating new gTLDs ." . We, members of the African Community, consisting of AFRALO and AfrICANN, at the ICANN meeting in Brussels, jointly welcomed the Board resolution 20 and expressed our gratitude to the Board members for their consideration of the community concerns about the cost of applying for new gTLDs that might hinder applicants, especially those from developing countries. . We adopted a statement in which we expressed the expectations of the African Community from the so-called resolution 20, which statement was sent to the ICANN Board and the JAS Working Group which was formed for the purpose. In its retreat in Trondheim (Norway), the ICANN Board decided late September 2010 that Support to applicants will generally include outreach and education to encourage participation across all regions, but any direct financial support for applicant fees must come from sources outside of ICANN. It also decided that the fee levels currently in the Applicant Guidebook will be maintained for all applicants. . While we welcome the decision of providing outreach and education support to applicants who require assistance, we, members of the African Community, in Cartagena express our deep concern regarding the non- consideration of the fee reduction that we, and the JAS Working Group, proposed. . We consider that without application cost reduction, the developing countries, and especially those of the African region, as well as the disadvantaged communities willing to apply for a cultural, linguistic or ethnic gTLD will be excluded from this new gTLD program, that the resolution 20 wanted it to be inclusive. . We strongly believe that assistance should be provided to the needy applicants at the upcoming first round of application, and not at some possible future round, because: o Without assistance for applicants needing support, all of the most obvious names, including IDNs, will be taken by rich investors, leaving little opportunity to local community institutions and developing country entrepreneurs o Even if it is intended to open a second round, its date is at best uncertain regarding the experience of the 2001's round. . We strongly support the milestone report of the JAS Working Group, and look forward to the consideration of its recommendations by the ICANN Board. . We are supportive of all on-going work as per the recommendations of the JAS WG Charter. --

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Africa @ICANN: Cartagena Statement of the African ICANN community about the support for African participation
by Alice Munyua 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Dear Listers, Here's a statement from the Africa ICANN community during the just ended ICANN meeting in Cartegena: ----------------------------------------------------- The African community through AFRALO and AFRICANN is concerned about its lack of effective participation in the main activities of ICANN as internet users. The commitment and the participation of the different parts of the community require knowledge of the issues being discussed. In order to improve the quality of the participation, it is important to explain the meaning and the limits of ICANN’s mandate, the stakes and the impact sought for. A major awareness campaign at local and regional levels would be a first step towards a due capacity building program for a meaningful participation Participation can be done by many and different means. They include email discussion lists, teleconferences, fora, videoconferences, electronic votes, wikis, blogs as well as face‐to‐face meetings in respective languages For online participation, it is important to have a calendar that establishes the timing for community input. This calendar would allow more effective planning and optimal engagement of the community. Even as we celebrate the diverse methods and tools available, we recognize that many challenges remain to be overcome for effective participation of users at the edge. Some are entirely technical and will improve with time. Others, however, will require means and commitment to improvement in interactions from all stakeholders, users included. Volunteered work is not very sustainable in Africa due to the necessity to make a living and institutions are unwilling to continue to cover the cost of their staff on volunteer assignments. The challenge is to have many motivated African experts to participate in a regular and effective way. Therefore, we, AFRALO and AFRICANN members, recommend to call for support from development agencies, private sector and other potential actors to facilitate African participation to ICANN policy development processes. We acknowledge that the ICANN fellowship program is supporting the participation from developing economies. Henceforth we urge the ICANN Board consider the following: • The number of fellowships from African Regions should be increased   Recognizing that the present form of capacity building has not produced the desired outcome, a more proactive approach needs to be adopted:   • Policy advocates and students’ needs to be identified and recruited in a manner that is sustainable. • Advocates should be situated and employed on a part-time basis in existing policy institutions or think tanks that are already engaged in local and global internet policy. • In their capacity as staff, they will be responsible for policy making locally, nationally and regionally and will engage internationally in policy making fora such as the IGF, ICANN, ISOC and other global policy arena. • This function requires support from development agencies who are concerned about the dearth of African policy makers locally and in the international arena. Support for this sort of initiative must be protracted and sustained over a period of time rather than the current approach of facilitating developing country participation at conferences and international policy for a travel support. • Policy advocates must act as bridges between their countries/regions and the international policy forum. Their host institutions must act as bridging institutions in the same capacity as the advocates. • This dual policy vehicle of person and institution will ensure sustained policy development if it is developed and deployed in the different regions in the continent. For institutions such as ICANN, they provide value and leverage where engagement, direct and immediate responses are required for certain policy situations. • If this model gathers the support of ICANN, it can seek the partnership and support from other institutions such as APC, KICTANet, IISD or AfriNIC to host policy advocates for a period using an internship framework. Policy advocates can also spend certain periods at places like ICANN or the IGF secretariat. --

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Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world (was Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion – December 21-23rd, 2010)
by Shem Ochuodho 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Madada Philo na Betty, Ahsanteni for the pongezi's. It was re-freshening to know the CTO (Commonwealth Telecom Organization www.cto.int) domiciled in London, with current CEO being Ghana's former Minister for Communication (Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah) could remember some of Africa's Unsung Heroes. I am working on a book with that name to catalogue the evolution of Internet in Africa - perhaps we should look for royalties from FaceBook, Google, mPesa, YouTube, SEACOM, etc! But the efforts could not have borne fruit without the inputs of several other people, including the techies who alongside Randy Bush burnt mid-night oil (Dr Martin Koyabe - now with British Telecoms, Paul Olendo now @UN, Alfred Orimbo, etc) - for several nights - to get it all work on Kenya's/indeed Africa's then real terrible phone lines. In the same vein, without Steve Goldstein of the US National Science Foundation (who provided the boxes and technology) and Peter Sutherland of UK's Overseas Development Agency (ODA now DfID) who took up the initial leased line phone bills - used to cost US$ 16,000 (yes, 16k) per month for just a mere 64KBps pipe - it wouldn't have happened. When in 2000 CSK (Computer Society of Kenya) felt I deserved 'Father of Internet in Kenya' title, I dedicated the award to three people: Amb. Dr Benjamin Kipkorir (then Kenya's Ambassador in Washington), Micah Cheserem (then Governor, Central Bank), Brig. (Rtd) Wilson Boinnett (then DG, NSIS aka Special Branch). Without these guys' intervention, the KANU regime of the time wouldn't have allowed Internet to happen. Not that they didn't try to block it - the then Head of Public Service wrote a letter (I have a souvenir copy) to all PS's, Heads of Military, Special Branch, etc warning them not to connect to ARCC/Internet/UNEP without direct approval from his office. That partly explains why these three Kenyan Wazalendo's perhaps deserve these awards more than I. Last but not least, Jeddy and the kids who allowed me to use one of the family bedrooms for initial tests when sections of the University felt by staying late in the labs night, we had 'lots of idle time and needed to be given more teaching load' had denied us space to do the experiments. But all the Glory must always go to God the Almighty, Allah - the One and Only! For those who missed the story (courtesy Visioner Augustine Oduor), you can access it on: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/news/InsidePage.php?id=2000024440&cid=159&st…. Best rgrds, Shem 2010 CTO/GoSS African Internaut (Internet Pioneer) Award Recipient ________________________________ From: Philo Ikonya <philonikonya(a)yahoo.com> To: NVK-Mageuzi(a)yahoogroups.com Sent: Sat, 11 December, 2010 18:51:39 Subject: Re: [NVK-Mageuzi] Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion – December 21-23rd, 2010 Adhiambo, thanks very much for letting me know.. I did not know.. Congrats Shem. You did not say it even as I was telling you of my little works?\ Philo Aung San Suu Kyi cannot be silenced because she speaks the truth and because her words reflect basic Burmese and universal concepts - Vaclav Havel --- On Fri, 12/10/10, Betty Otieno <betty.otieno(a)gmail.com> wrote: >From: Betty Otieno <betty.otieno(a)gmail.com> >Subject: Re: [NVK-Mageuzi] Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion – December >21-23rd, 2010 >To: NVK-Mageuzi(a)yahoogroups.com >Date: Friday, December 10, 2010, 11:01 PM > > > >Congratulations Shem on the honor you received the other day, pioneer internet >related Kenya. > >Adhiambo > >

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Tanadaa Tech Talk with I/O venture
by Twahir Mohamed 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Dear Listers, Below is alive stream on the above eventes I/O ventures are techprenures based at the silcon valley,giving enteprenures and techie's advice .The event is at the ihub . http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tandaa-tech-talk -- Twahir

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Google CR-48 trials
by robert yawe 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Hi, I am sure we have staff from Google in this list, how can I participate in the Google notebook trials? Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

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Liberia creates Special Purpose Vehicle for landing station and national fibre backbone
by Eric M.K Osiakwan 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Liberia probably has one of the smallest bandwidth markets in Africa but it has recently created a Special Purpose Vehicle consortium that has signed up as a member of the France Telecom-driven ACE cable. Russell Southwood spoke to Angelique Weeks, the Chairperson of the Board of Commissioners of the regulator, the Liberian Telecommunications Authority about how it was possible to do this. The Special Purpose Vehicle consortium currently has four shareholders: the Government of Liberia (60%); Libtelco, formerly LTC, the Government incumbent (20%); Lonestar, the MTN subsidiary (10%); and Cellcom, the Israeli-owned mobile operator (10%). The Government and Libtelco shareholdings have been paid for by the World Bank. Currently, this leaves the other two mobile operators (Comium and Libercell, now owned by HITS) out in the cold but according to Chairperson Angelique Weeks, the Government will sell part of its shareholding to them:”Comium and Libercell were not in a position financially to come in (when we started the SPV). But both have expressed interest and we plan to bring them in very soon, some time in 2011. We have consultants to help us sort through the various models and they don’t start until January so some after their work is complete.” In terms of governance, any shareholder needs at least 10% to have a seat on the Board. According to Weeks:”We’re trying to decide whether to have a co-operative, a private entity or a hybrid of the two.” By co-operative she means that the SPV will have no staff but devolve operational tasks to its shareholder parties. By private entity, she means that the SPV would contract a management partner or employ its own staff. The aim is to recycle the money put in by the World Bank into the task of building a national fibre backbone in the country. So the shareholdings sold to the new parties (Comium and Libercell) will generate money that will go into this task. The aim is to take this money with further contributions from the World Bank and to start a fibre roll-out. This is ambitious in a country that has only a modest electricity grid but offers a number of economic benefits for the country. What has not been settled is whether this task will be managed by a separate Private-Public Partnership (PPP) or simply run through the cable landing station SPV. So what will be the extent of the network?:”Ideally it will provide a loop that covers the limits of the country and connects up its major community centres. Then we can use microwave to extend beyond the fibre backbone.” Will it create cross-border links?:”We talked to Guinea and Sierra Leone at the ACE signing and suggested a loop to them connecting the three of us. Arguably, Cote d’Ivoire could be part of the same network. It would provide some redundancy as we might be vulnerable with a single landing station. It’s a good idea but it will come further down the road.” But how will a country with as small an economy as Liberia absorb all this new bandwidth?:” I think there are two areas that we have to focus on to create growth. The operators need to create content that will encourage users to use more bandwidth. For example, in Ghana they were able to watch the World Cup on their mobile handsets. We need to implement e-Government, e-health and e-schools and all of these things will be facilitated by better bandwidth”. “Potentially shareholders can sell capacity across borders. This is allowed within the scope of the ACE agreement but it places some restrictions on doing this. I think currently we could only sell to other ACE consortium members but this may change in the long run. We hope the future’s bright and we understand the economic growth and development that will be spin-offs from the cable. We can’t afford not to have the cable. Open access is the way we should go. We need to protect consumers and investors. Credit: Balancing Act NB: Sorry for crossposting. Eric M.K Osiakwan Director Internet Research www.internetresearch.com.gh emko(a)internetresearch.com.gh 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North Tel: +233.30.2258800 ext 7031 Fax: +233.30.2258811 Cell: +233.24.4386792

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How to Test COTS Applications
by Roland Omoresemi 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Just a quick invitation to those of you that are interested in learning how to Test Commercial Off-The-Shelf COTS applications; if you know anyone that can benefit from these courses, please send them our way: Attached please find our 2011 Course Catalog plus the brochures for our upcoming courses in January: January 17 - 19 | 830 AM - 500 PM: Software Quality Assurance & Testing Boot camp (ISTQB Certification class) January 20 - 21 | 830 AM - 500 PM: How to Test Commercial Off-The-Shelf Applications We also have Testers who can assist you during your next project implementation - we offer Staff Augmentation services (either for UAT, System or Integration Testing or Test Automation and do System Integration work as well. Thank you, ----------------------------------------------- Roland Omoresemi | CEO tezza business solutions Ltd KENYA OFFICE PLOT 87 RHAPTA ROAD P.O. BOX 14068 - 00800 WESTLANDS, NAIROBI M: +254 719.616.900 | 0: +254 20 816 4341 | 0: +254 20 816 4340 ------------------------- UGANDA Plot 9 Martyrs Road P.O. Box 5871 Ntinda P: +256 312 108 322 | M: +256 772 583 788 ------------------------ TANZANIA Learnit Institute of Business and Technology 1st Floor, Lumumba Complex, P.O.Box 20032, Dar es Salaam ------------- USA OFFICE 9530 Oswald Lane Charlotte NC 28277 M: 704.604.4668 p: 913.961.2234 e: roland(a)tezzasolutions.com w: http://www.softwaretestingafrica.com w: http://www.tezzasolutions.com/technology.php ------------------------------------------------- UPCOMING TRAINING: January 10-14: In-House Training - KENYA AIRWAYS - Kenya January 17-19: Software QA & Testing Boot Camp - Kenya January 20-21: Testing Commercial Off-The-Shelf Applications - Kenya

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Insurance Software Expert - 10 years experience - Kenya
by Matunda Nyanchama 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

A friend is looking for a Kenyan resource as per spec below. If you know anyone, please let me know. ------------------------------- Please get me a senior IT expert (Kenyan) with the following skills: * A postgraduate degree in an area relevant to the assignment such as Information Technology, Business Processes Re engineering or relevant ICT Certification; * Hands on experience in design and implementation of software for insurance firm/s especially trade and political risk insurance; * At least 10 years experience in the relevant areas suitable for the assignment as outlined above * Knowledge of accounting will be an added advantage * Project management knowledge * Fluency in English ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matunda Nyanchama, mnyanchama(a)aganoconsulting.com Agano Consulting Inc.; www.aganoconsulting.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”- George Bernard Shaw ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including attachments, may be privileged and may contain confidential or proprietary information intended only for the addressee(s). Any other distribution, copying, use, or disclosure is unauthorized and strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and permanently delete the message, including any attachments, without making a copy. Thank you.

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A stand for WikiLeaks is a stand for freedom of information online
by alice＠apc.org 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

APC says, A stand for WikiLeaks is a stand for freedom of information online JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA TUESDAY DECEMBER 7 The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is deeply concerned about recent attempts by governments to limit access to online content recently published by whistleblower website WikiLeaks. APC is also troubled by actions taken by private companies such as EveryDNS.net which disabled the domain name system services for WikiLeaks.org, Amazon which repealed web hosting services and Paypal which restricted access to WikiLeaks' account to prevent supporters from donating money. APC believes that the ability to share information and communicate freely using the internet is vital to the realisation of human rights and to efforts to use the internet to contribute more accountable and transparent governance at global and national levels. A site like WikiLeaks can also play a vital role in aiding the fight against corruption in governments and corporations. The APC Internet Rights Charter clearly states that: *The internet must be protected from all attempts to silence critical voices and to censor social and political content or debate. *Organisations, communities and individuals should be free to use the internet to organise and engage in protest. *All information, including scientific and social research, that is produced with the support of public funds should be freely available to all. As the world's longest-running online progressive network founded in 1990, APC has been troubled by trends over the last decade that show that such rights are increasingly violated and believes that the recent attempts to censor WikiLeaks provide additional reasons for concern. The US government has been unable to provide evidence that lives have been put at risk by WikiLeaks disclosures. APC appeals to all governments and the internet community to explicitly reject any form of online content control that limits freedom of expression and information, particularly information that contributes to more transparent governance, and that empowers citizens to hold their governments accountable. We urge them to assure the uninterrupted online presence of the WikiLeaks website. A stand for WikiLeaks is a stand for freedom of information on the internet. END

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BPO and ITES a wider view of the opportunity
by Paul Kukubo 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Listers Just leafing through an extract of the IDC's World Wide Software Forecast 2010-14 Summary report. www.idc.com The Worldwide Packaged Software Market was USD 273 Billiion in 2009. Made up of 1. Application development and deployment 64,575 Million USD 2. Applications 129,838 Million USD 3. Systems Infrastructure software 78,068 Million USD Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Symantec, HP, CA. EMC Adobe and Fujistu are the leading vendors. Conclusion from our reading this report: - Certain global company technologies dominate and the ability to develop and deploy solutions on top of these technologies can greatly enhance a country's overall ICT competitiveness. - Most global enterprises run some of their critical operations on the back of these. Indeed the biggest ICT projects in the private sector here relate to deployment of solutions. e.g in CRM at Safaricom and Kenya Airways, in ERP at EABL, BIDCO, SHELL, and indeed in Financial Management in Government. - The consultancy, project management and deployment of these platforms is a huge business opportunity. Indeed many shared services and outsourcing functions include supporting or using these platforms as part of wider business operation or process. Many successful ICT firms in Kenya are in this space. Some of the venture capitalists / and private equity managers in Kenya have asked us to encourage more ICT entrepreneurs to operate their businesses around established platforms.They would be willing to fund more Oracle or Cisco certified firms. As an example, Infosys the large technology services and outsourcing provider has 20,000 certified oracle consultants on their payroll according to their CEO speaking at this year's Oracle World in California. Part of any effort to develop a country's ICT sector includes aligning capacity building efforts to global demand. asante and Happy Jamhuri weekend. Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke personal contacts _______________ Cell: + 254 717 180001 skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo ____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment

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Fw: CRM-Software Engineer needed
by Walubengo J 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

been asked to float this, plse forward to whoever... walu. --- On Fri, 12/10/10, Benson Mbugua <benmbugz(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Benson Mbugua <benmbugz(a)gmail.com> Subject: CRM-Software Engineer needed To: jwalu(a)yahoo.com Date: Friday, December 10, 2010, 2:14 PM Hey Walu, Could you urgently please post this job-ad on kictanet ? Regards, B. Mbugua

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How (NOT) to use UA Funds
by McTim 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

FYI, an audacious proposal: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/news/InsidePage.php?id=2000024188&cid=159&st… or http://tinyurl.com/24ka4pa -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel

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Kenic seems to be down
by robert yawe 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

Hi, Any body know why those of us on Orange cannot reach Kenic. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

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Re: [kictanet] [i-network] Internet IP Addresses running out?
by Walubengo J 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Am glad that Uganda has picked this up. Indeed the current IPv4 numbers are so depleted that estimates show that the last bunch (slash /8s of IPv4) numbers from IANA (or ICANN) will be distributed some time in Q1, 2011. You can check this some of these Statistics on the AfriNIC or other sites below: http://www.afrinic.net/statistics http://ipv6.he.net/statistics/ @Ronald, Yes we have no reason to panic in as far as what to do next is concerned i.e. adopt IPv6 the next generation internet protocol. BUT we have EVERY REASON to worry because the adoption in Africa is extremely poor. What these means is that as the developed economies adopt IPv6, at time will come when they may opt to run IPv6 ONLY services and then African Users will begin to wonder why they are unable to access services (e.g. youtube, cnn.com, twitter etc) @ Wire, IPv4 depletion and assosciated challenges are as real as u and me. This is no Y2k hype - even though I trust that the Y2k hype did help stimulate some action that historians are left to judge whether that indeed is what saved the world ;-) walu. --- On Sun, 12/5/10, Ronald Kato <katoronald(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Ronald Kato <katoronald(a)gmail.com> Subject: [i-network] Internet IP Addresses running out? To: "I-Network Uganda" <i-network(a)dgroups.org> Date: Sunday, December 5, 2010, 1:44 PM Yes it it is true that IPv4 addresses are getting depleted so fast but steps are being taken to embrace IPv6 and this is through emerging technologies being able to support IPv6. Right from new new laptops and other network devices to new versions of applications and operating systems, they are all now built to support IPv6. It is up to the ISP,government and all relevant bodies to inform the public about the need to adopt IPv6. Many are still are still unaware about the existence of IPv6 let alone how it is used and assigned. Lastly, with IPv4 to IPv6 tunneling, we will have both addressing schemes able to communicate with one another. Ronald, you shouldn't worry as steps have already been taken to cover the IPv4 depletion. R Ronald On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Fred Bbaale <bbaale(a)gmail.com> wrote: James, Augment yr reasoning. It would be self defeating for you to just wish away the problem. Fred. On 12/5/10, James Wire <lunghabo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Ronald > > I consider that FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt). It is the same scare > tactics that were used by large IT corporates to make money when the > countdown to the year 2000 started in the last decade. Alot was blown > out of proportion and when the Y2k arrived, everything passed incident > free. I am sure Eng Elisha who has the head of the Ugandan Y2k task > force can agree with me on this. > > Wire > > > On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 07:41 +0100, Ronald Wejuli wrote: > >> Hi Folks >> >> ARIN has stated that Internet IP addresses are at critical levels. The >> numbers are shockingly low and ARIN has stated that there is only >> 2.73% left out of the millions of IP addresses currently in use. >> >> http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion >> >> With so little IPv4 address space left in the global free pool, ARIN >> continues to emphasize the need for all Internet stakeholders to adopt >> the next generation of Internet Protocol, IPv6. However, with slow >> IPv6 adoption rates amongst ISPs and private industries, we may run >> into a serious problem next year if the remaining IP addresses are >> depleted. >> >> >> RW >> >> >> >> Visit the I-Network website - www.i-network.or.ug Follow I-Network on >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/inetwork The I-Network Dgroup is a >> platform for ICT Knowledge Sharing >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> >> Visit web site >> Click here to unsubscribe >> The email is intended only for the recipients. 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