March 2011 - KICTANet

Progress Report Implementation Of The Mckinsey BPO/ITES STUDY RECOMMENDATIONS
by Edwin Onchari 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

Listers, For the benefit of those that closely follow the outsourcing sector goings on, this progress report was posted on the KICTB website. Access to such information minimizes unnecessary queries by the private sector to the concerned agencies and affords all stakeholders a standard script to read from. As I read this report and while 50% of 70% of the recommendations have been achieved, I feel that the following status points need further clarification: 1. Under the "Launch a go-to market campaign to bring investors" - from the 12 or so targeted international events in 2010, what are the success numbers? How many firms have expressed interest in investing/outsourcing to Kenya? Did they partner/expressed interest to partner with any firm in Kenya? Did they have contacts of these organizations in Kenya? Did Kenyan firms send have their profiles included in any marketing materials by the board at these events? 2. Prioritize large scale operators - Is this strategy working? How many operations that are under this threshold are successfully doing business in Kenya? Is the lack of 250 seat capacity operations as a result of lack of business, limited access to funding or lack of industry knowledge? 3. Government commitment to the industry - are the special economic zones extendable to foreign firms only or has this been applied to local firms that have onshore (Kenyan company outsourcing to a Kenyan firm) work? What is the criteria for special economic zone exemptions? Which agency is responsible for which licenses, exemptions, etc? 4. Improve the international perception of Kenya.as the country awaits for a NASSCOM type body to emerge - Does this report recommend then that the BPO/ITES working group assumes the role of the industry body? Does the board/ working group have guidelines for the industry? 5. Is the BPO syndicate committee in place? Who are the members and what are their roles? Best Regards, Edwin M Onchari 0720755951 eonchari(a)lynxbits.com

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Draft Media Bill 2010 Report
by Grace Githaiga 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Dear Listers Greetings. Please find attached a report of our discussion on the draft media bill 2010. KICTANET had requested for an extension from the Ministry to present the reports by 25th March, 2011. In light of this, it will not be possible to hold a physical meeting to validate. We therefore request you to comment/validate the report online. The dates for this exercise are from today evening March 10 to March 15th. We will then have another five days for the ICCK report. KICTANET appreciates your regard to this matter. Rgds Grace ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have the strength to survive, you have the power to succeed. Life is all about choices we make depending upon the situation we are in. Go forth and rule the World!

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Safaricom launch training facility for mobile applications development
by Andrea Bohnstedt 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

In co-operation with Strathmore. Looks interesting - and for those who had wondered about the digital villages, this project gets a mention, too: http://www.ratio-magazine.com/201103103862/Corporate-Press-Releases/Kenya-P… Regards, Andrea -- Andrea Bohnstedt <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/andreabohnstedt> Publisher +254 720 960 322 www.ratio-magazine.com Find/post East Africa careers<http://www.ratio-magazine.com/careers/index.php> Find/post conferences, workshops, trainings, other business events<http://www.ratio-magazine.com/businessevents/index.php>

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AfTLD takes on .Africa ( EN / FR )
by Joe Kiragu 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

English Wednesday, 8 March 2011 Africa Top Level Domains (AfTLD) organisation has today announced its decision to seek a mandate from the African Union (AU) Commission and to apply to ICANN to manage the .africa registry. AfTLD has listened attentively to many calls in Africa asking AfTLD to play a leading role in developing, managing and running the .africa top level domain for the region. AfTLD has responded by first undertaking a detailed assessment of the new gTLD landscape and making a commitment to work with the AU Commission, ICANN and others to secure a mandate to run .africa. For the full story please go to http://www.aftld.org/html/english/news_dotafrica.html Français Mercredi 8 mars 2011 L'organisation de domaines de niveau supérieur de l'Afrique (AfTLD) a aujourd'hui annoncé sa décision pour chercher un mandat de la Commission africaine des syndicats (AU) et pour s'appliquer à ICANN pour contrôler l'enregistrement de .africa. AfTLD a écouté attentivement beaucoup d'appels en Afrique demandant à AfTLD pour jouer un rôle principal en développant, en contrôlant et en courant le domaine de niveau supérieur de .africa pour la région. AfTLD a répondu par la première entreprise une évaluation détaillée du nouveau paysage et de faire fonctionner de gTLD un engagement avec une Commission, de l'ICANN et les autres pour fixer un mandat pour courir .africa. Veuillez aller à http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home& trurl=http://www.aftld.org/&lp=en_fr&btnTrUrl=Translate pour la nouvelle détaillée Regards, Joe Kiragu for AfTLD -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by KeNIC MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Kenya Network Information Center (KENIC)

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Can Kenyans Watch Internet TV?
by waudo siganga 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

I wanted to subscribe to an Internet TV Service at [1]http://livestreamdirect.com/11/ but on the list of countries given at the subscription site Kenya is conspicuously missing, although Uganda and Tanzania are there. Are there any official constraints to Kenyans watching Internet TV? Waudo References 1. http://livestreamdirect.com/11/

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Local content in broadcast material
by Ngũgĩ Kĩmani 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

@Wamuyu: I just noted that in your email below, the TV programmes you refer to are all aired on Citizen TV. Makes me remember that there was a [proposed] directive that CCK would require broadcasters to have 40 percent of local content in their broadcast material: http://www.cck.go.ke/regulations/downloads/xBroadcastingx_Regulationsx_2009… . I wonder if this has been effected yet, and if other TV/FM stations are complying. -- Ngũgĩ Kĩmani | Fundi wa Mitambo | 0772 576846 | http://www.mafundi.co.ke/home On 6 March 2011 14:50, Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyu(a)soko-id.co.ke> wrote: > > If however, he does want to be a local, besides eating in Njuguna's and > visiting Kiamaiko, he can watch our great soaps. Actually, I recommend these > for Kenyans who could be loosing touch with the mass culture. To catch up > with what the kids are up to listen to 97.1 FM (one FM), watch Machachari, > Sakata (great dancing) and Tahidi High. For all age groups watch Papa > Shirandula, Mother in Law, the Wedding Show and the energised evangelical > programmes on Sunday morning. So without getting too dusty in Kiamaiko, Bob > can catch the Kenyan drift. > > regards, > Wamuyu > > > -- > Soko ID Co. Ltd > Tel: +254 (0)721 468699 > http://www.soko-id.co.ke/ > > Soko ID is an innovative company that supports public organisations and > promotes the Kenyan heritage on the internet. >

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African mobile space force to reckon
by Harry Hare 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Dear All, Some very interesting stats here http://bit.ly/hAi2ea according to admob Africa's mobile ad impressions have overtaken Western Europe while Nokia is still the leading mobile handset manufacturer in Kenya despite a slip in market-share. Happy reading. Kindest Regards Harry Hare Director eDevelopment House : : 604 Limuru Road Old Muthaiga : : P O Box 49475 00100 Nairobi : : Kenya T +254 20 3741646/7 : : C +254 725 650044 Training : : Research: :Consultancy: : Publishing

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2011 IGF dates 27 to 30 September
by Alice Munyua 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Dear all, Dates for the sixth 2011 United Nations Internet Governance Forum (UN-IGF) have now been confirmed. The IGF will take place on 27th to 30 September 2011 in Nairobi at the UN Gigiri. We wish to have strong participation of all stakeholders and would particularly like to encourage industry, civil society and policy makers and who would bring to it expertise, partnerships, and best practices. We hope to leverage, build upon, and enrich the 2011 IGF, by extending the benefits of the IGF programming to begin to build a foundation for young people within the context of the East African Internet Governance Forum (EA-IGF) which will prepare them to participate meaningfully and constructively as IGF youth Ambassadors. Best Alice //

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Fwd: [Afpif] Peering Coordinators Day - Call for Presentations
by Michuki Mwangi 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

<apologies for cross posting> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Afpif] Peering Coordinators Day - Call for Presentations Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:30:59 +0300 From: Michuki Mwangi <mwangi(a)isoc.org> Reply-To: mwangi(a)isoc.org Organization: ISOC To: afpif(a)afpif.org <Please distribute widely> Dear Colleagues, This is a Call for Presentations and Tutorials for the APIF Peering Coordinators Day meeting to be held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 10th June 2011. The Peering Coordinators day is a one-day event capacity building event and a precursor to the main AfPIF event scheduled for August, 2011 in Accra, Ghana. The objective of the peering coordinators day is to develop the technical & business capacity of African Peering managers involved in establishing and implementing peering relationships and agreements. Further, it will also seek to identify the technical challenges as well as the solutions for regional interconnection, including Internet Exchange Points. The event is open and will be of particular interest to Peering Coordinators, Business development Managers, Internet providers and operators, telecommunications regulators, content providers, Internet Exchange Point (IXP) Operators, infrastructure providers, Data Center Managers, National Research and Education Networks, Carriers and Transit providers. The AfNOG 12 and AfriNIC 14 meetings will precede the event - please see www.afnog.org. This is an open call to present at the event on technical issues related to regional Interconnection, Peering and Traffic Exchange. If you are interested in presenting: Please submit proposals online at: http://www.isoc.org/openconf/afpif/ * Submission Deadline is 10th April 2011 * Notification of Acceptance is 18th April 2011 * AfPIF Peering Coordinators Day 10th June 2011 Guidelines: The following topic and presentation areas are under consideration for the event. - Peering and Transit Essentials - Peering Architecture and Technical Requirements - Peering Commercials and Contract negotiations - Traffic Flow Analysis for Large Networks - Content Deployment and Caching Techniques in Africa - Technical Peering Configurations and Best Practices - African Cross-border Interconnection - Regional Carrier Technical Solutions - Internet Exchange Points & Research and Education Networks Best Practices and Updates - Building Carrier Neutral Data Centers Tutorials are usually 1 to 2 hour sessions, while presentations may last between ten (10) and thirty (30) minutes with room for Q&A. The Internet Society will facilitate the necessary logistics. The Internet Society’s staff and a select panel of community experts will make selection decisions. Selected presenters will be contacted by the Internet Society to coordinate the logistics. *** Presentations that contain any sort of marketing and commercial content are usually not encouraged at such meetings. For any further queries, please contact mwangi(a)isoc.org We look forward to your contribution and participation. Best regards, Michuki Mwangi Africa Bureau - Regional Development Manager Internet Society www.InternetSociety.org _______________________________________________ Afpif mailing list Afpif(a)afpif.org http://lists.afpif.org/mailman/listinfo/afpif

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Re: [kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive
by Betty Mwangi 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Mark what problem are you experiencing exactly - the system is not down Please contact me directly on 0722 514780 Rgds Betty Sent from my iPad On Mar 7, 2011, at 10:24 AM, "Mark Okuttah" <mokuttah(a)ke.nationmedia.com> wrote: > M-PESA is down again . > > Okuttah > > From: kictanet-bounces+mokuttah=nation.co.ke(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+mokuttah=nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Betty Mwangi > Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 9:51 AM > To: Mark Okuttah > Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions > Subject: Re: [kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive > > Gentlemen, > > Just to clarify the MPESA platform is the Vodafone money transfer platform you may have seen historically. There are many benefits from having the system centrally hosted but we do continue to review the pros and cons to ensure that the platform remains on the cutting edge of technology and also benefits from economies of scale through sharing resources with the other countries in which MPESA has been rolled out to. > > Best rgds > > Sent from my iPad > > On Mar 5, 2011, at 12:18 PM, "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:07, Michuki Mwangi <michuki(a)swiftkenya.com> wrote: >> >> Betty, >> >> On 3/5/11 7:38 AM, Betty Mwangi wrote: >> > Thanks Solomon >> > >> > Indeed there was an outage on M-PESA last evening whereby the >> > connectivity between the local servers and the database in Germany >> > temporarily failed. This was resolved last evening and apologies for the >> > inconvenience >> > >> >> <rant> >> >> From a technical stand-point the statement above can be easily >> interpreted as a technically flawed design IMHO. It almost states that >> the M-PESA services are "entirely" dependent on connectivity to Germany. >> >> I doubt if this is the case and you may want to clarify. If it is the >> case - i have to say its quite a challenge on your hands to provide an >> efficient service for a local service that depends on international >> connectivity. >> >> </rant> >> >> Michuki. >> >> >> I was going to rant about this too, but I decided not to, because something hit my mind: Since I have a Safaricom WiMax link which I use only for Int'l VoIP, them having to rely on DB servers in Germany is a good thing for me (perhaps) - that they will ensure my Int'l link never goes down:-))) >> >> The negative side to what Betty said is simply something about Kenya's IT infrastructure. That Safaricom does NOT have faith in having their servers hosted locally, since they don't trust having their servers in Kenya. Now, that is another minus for Safaricom! >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Odhiambo WASHINGTON, >> Nairobi,KE >> +254733744121/+254722743223 >> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ >> Damn!! >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> kictanet mailing list >> kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke >> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet >> >> This message was sent to: bmwangi1(a)safaricom.co.ke >> Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/bmwangi1%40safaricom.c… > Note: > All emails sent from Safaricom Limited are subject to Safaricoms Email Terms & Conditions. Please click here to read the policy. > > DISCLAIMER: The information contained in or accompanying this e-mail is intended for the use of the stated recipient only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. > > Any views or opinions presented herein are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Nation Media Group. > > To get all breaking news alerts send the word BREAK to 6667 or visit http://mobile.nation.co.ke to read news on your mobile phone. ##################################################################################### 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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