April 2012 - KICTANet

Fw: [AfriNIC-rpd] AfriNIC-16 Fellows/Scholarships
by Walubengo J 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Looks like one of our own is one of the succesfull chaps who got a scholarship to attend the upcoming AfriNIC-16 meeting in Gambia. Congrats are in order for Kivuva Mwendwa. Hope u learn something to keep the internet fire burning in Africa. walu. --- On Tue, 4/10/12, Babusha Radhakissoon <babusha(a)afrinic.net> wrote: From: Babusha Radhakissoon <babusha(a)afrinic.net> Subject: [AfriNIC-rpd] AfriNIC 16 Fellows To: rpd(a)afrinic.net Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 9:00 AM Dear Colleagues, AfriNIC is pleased to announce that the fellowship selection process is now complete and the following applicants (from 67 applications received) were selected to receive a fellowship to attend the AfriNIC-16 Public Policy Meeting which will be held from 12 to 18 May 2012, The Gambia. The fellows are: 1. Rising Osazuwa from Nigeria 2. Mathias Hougbo from Benin 3. Mwendwa Kivuva from Kenya 4. Alex Kisakye from Uganda 5. Towela Jere from Malawi Congratulations to the winners and we look forward to collaborating with you in Internet development initiatives in the African Region. We wish to thank you all for your applications and interest in attending AfriNIC events and we look forward to your participation! Please be advised that fellowships will also be offered for AfriNIC-17 and the community will be informed when the application period opens. There will be remote participation for those who will not be able to join us in The Gambia, further details will be available on our website shortly. Additional information regarding the meeting is available on the following URL:https://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic-16/ Regards, AfriNIC Meeting Team _______________________________________________ rpd mailing list rpd(a)afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd

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Censorship & Independence
by robert yawe 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Hi listers, I have noticed that sometimes posts do not appear but when someone responds you notice that their are posts one did not get. My response to Brian Longwe did not appear on the list but when he responded I noticed that he had received it most likely because I had copied the mail directly to him. This issue has come up before and I believe it needs to be put to rest, is there censorship of posts being done and if so how independent then is KICTANET? 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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VoIP Legal Question-set-Assistance please
by Musya Michael 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

I am appealing for help in answering the Attached questions based on our(Kenya) regulations. -- Regards, Michael Musya. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

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Bye bye SOPA/PIPA, welcome CISPA
by Odhiambo Washington 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/322396 -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Re: [kictanet] [Skunkworks] Even Safaricom these days thinks KIXP is non-existent!
by Brian Munyao Longwe 08 Apr '12

08 Apr '12

Well Peter, As mentioned, about 7 or 8 years ago, when I was still on the board of directors of TESPOK, I suggested a governance structure that gave KIXP independence from TESPOK, it's 'mother' institution. The main rationale here was to ensure that KIXP maintains a separate, independent existence, regardless of what happened to TESPOK. This was during a TESPOK strategy meeting where the key message was "The African ISP is dead, long live the African ISP" based on a paper by Russell Southwood of Balancing Act Africa. The essence of which was that with the onslaught of mobile operators going into internet access provision, the only way that ISPs would survive would be through consolidation via mergers/acquisition or a complete redefinition of business focus and strategy. What was evident to me (but seemingly not to others) was that as the ISP industry transformed, there would be fewer players, and thus, less democracy - especially with regards to governance issues. At the same time, KIXP was attracting plenty of interest from non-ISPs and already had non-ISP members such as KENIC, KRA and others - it was evident that the interest would continue, especially as the sector evolved with greater participation from content creators, hosting companies, data-centres etc... KIXP would become the de-facto facility for providing industry actors with data interconnection and interchange. For those of you unfamiliar with KIXP's history - we had to register a company KIXP Ltd, and file for an IXP license from CCK, in order to become operational after the forced closure of the IXP in 2000. My proposal was that KIXP be given full autonomy, have a board of directors appointed by members in full standing, and be run as a business, similar to LINX in the UK, and other successful IXPs around the world. As part of my proposals I shared the attached diagram (which I have just found in my archives). The Board would identify and appoint a CEO, who would then identify suitable staff to meet organisational growth. Being a business, some implied issues were self-sustainability, a business plan with clear growth, and social or financial returns for the 'shareholders'. My proposals fell upon deaf ears and it is sad for me now to see a frail and seemingly weak KIXP that cannot seem to consistently engage newcomers to the industry with the benefits of local traffic exchange. A simple question - how many of the TEAMs/SEACOM/EASSY bandwidth-holders are peering at KIXP? As mentioned by someone else, some of our traffic is being exchanged in exotic places like Mumbai, London etc... So, I continue shaking my head... Brian On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu(a)gmail.com> wrote: > @Brian, would you mind sharing these recommendations? It doesn't hurt to > know :-) > > > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> I had a conversation a couple of weeks ago with some folk about the >> governance of KIXP. I made some recommendations about 8yrs ago regarding >> the setup of a structure that would allow for the unfettered growth and >> resilience of the exchange. It is sad that individuals at that time who >> wanted to control the exchange resisted these. Now, when we are faced with >> these, and other symptoms of the root cause, some of us can only shake our >> heads. (Yes, I am doing a lot of that lately) >> >> Pole kwetu, >> >> Mblayo >> >> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Kinuthia Ngugi <kinuthia.ngugi(a)gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> I think this is problem is recent and serious! all this easter weekend >>> i've been having timeouts while browsing local sites, yet sites outside .ke >>> are loading normally.... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo(a)gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Okay. In the same breath, would you be able to fix the routing of the >>>> 197.x.x.x towards 196.200.26.x, please?? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 19:49, John Gitau <jgitau(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I think we can easily fix this. >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPad >>>>> >>>>> On 7 Apr 2012, at 18:41, Brian Ngure <brian(a)pixie.co.ke> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I think I mentioned this some time ago. Kenyan ISPs don't know KIXP >>>>> exists. >>>>> >>>>> Or maybe they get more $$ by not using KIXP somehow? >>>>> >>>>> Regard's >>>>> >>>>> Brian Ngure >>>>> >>>>> On 7 Apr 2012 14:14, "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> WAN Configuration Type >>>>>> Connection Type 3G/UMTS >>>>>> Login Status Connected >>>>>> Signal Status -40 DBm >>>>>> Connection Uptime 17:19:48 >>>>>> IP Address* 41.81.20.209 * >>>>>> Subnet Mask 255.255.255.255 >>>>>> Gateway 10.64.64.64 >>>>>> DNS 1 196.201.208.2 >>>>>> DNS 2 209.244.0.3 >>>>>> DNS 3 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> C:\Users\Washington>tracert 196.200.26.114 >>>>>> >>>>>> Tracing route to 196.200.26.114.accesskenya.com [196.200.26.114] >>>>>> over a maximum of 30 hops: >>>>>> >>>>>> 1 <1 ms <1 ms 2 ms DD-WRT [192.168.1.1] >>>>>> 2 * * * Request timed out. >>>>>> 3 66 ms 78 ms 68 ms 196.201.217.2 >>>>>> 4 66 ms 78 ms 108 ms 196.201.217.3 >>>>>> 5 107 ms 68 ms 78 ms 192.168.161.110 >>>>>> 6 137 ms 229 ms 138 ms 192.168.128.134 >>>>>> 7 108 ms 70 ms 77 ms 192.168.128.5 >>>>>> 8 145 ms 78 ms 78 ms 192.168.128.5 >>>>>> 9 159 ms 78 ms 78 ms 192.168.153.13 >>>>>> 10 78 ms 78 ms 78 ms 192.168.128.77 >>>>>> 11 158 ms 158 ms 148 ms if-4-2-2.core1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net >>>>>> [209.58.105.25] >>>>>> 12 98 ms 128 ms 168 ms 196.201.208.43 >>>>>> 13 158 ms 148 ms 148 ms TenGE-2-1-BP_CORE01.accesskenya.com[196.207.31.146] >>>>>> 14 210 ms 217 ms 218 ms ix-4-1-1.core1.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net[209.58.105.142] >>>>>> 15 1178 ms 196 ms 158 ms 196.200.26.114.accesskenya.com[196.200.26.114] >>>>>> >>>>>> Trace complete. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Best regards, >>>>>> Odhiambo WASHINGTON, >>>>>> Nairobi,KE >>>>>> +254733744121/+254722743223 >>>>>> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ >>>>>> I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. >>>>>> <image001.png>Please consider the environment before printing this >>>>>> email. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Skunkworks mailing list >>>>>> Skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke >>>>>> ------------ >>>>>> List info, subscribe/unsubscribe >>>>>> http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks >>>>>> ------------ >>>>>> >>>>>> Skunkworks Rules >>>>>> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 >>>>>> ------------ >>>>>> Other services @ http://my.co.ke >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Skunkworks mailing list >>>>> Skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke >>>>> ------------ >>>>> List info, subscribe/unsubscribe >>>>> http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks >>>>> ------------ >>>>> >>>>> Skunkworks Rules >>>>> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 >>>>> ------------ >>>>> Other services @ http://my.co.ke >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Skunkworks mailing list >>>>> Skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke >>>>> ------------ >>>>> List info, subscribe/unsubscribe >>>>> http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks >>>>> ------------ >>>>> >>>>> Skunkworks Rules >>>>> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 >>>>> ------------ >>>>> Other services @ http://my.co.ke >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Best regards, >>>> Odhiambo WASHINGTON, >>>> Nairobi,KE >>>> +254733744121/+254722743223 >>>> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ >>>> I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. >>>> Please consider the environment before printing this email. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Skunkworks mailing list >>>> Skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke >>>> ------------ >>>> List info, subscribe/unsubscribe >>>> http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks >>>> ------------ >>>> >>>> Skunkworks Rules >>>> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 >>>> ------------ >>>> Other services @ http://my.co.ke >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Skunkworks mailing list >>> Skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke >>> ------------ >>> List info, subscribe/unsubscribe >>> http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks >>> ------------ >>> >>> Skunkworks Rules >>> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 >>> ------------ >>> Other services @ http://my.co.ke >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Brian Munyao Longwe >> e-mail: blongwe(a)gmail.com >> cell: +254715964281 >> blog : http://zinjlog.blogspot.com >> meta-blog: http://mashilingi.blogspot.com >> >> "Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand >> for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything." >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Skunkworks mailing list >> Skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke >> ------------ >> List info, subscribe/unsubscribe >> http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks >> ------------ >> >> Skunkworks Rules >> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 >> ------------ >> Other services @ http://my.co.ke >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Peter Karunyu > ------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Skunkworks mailing list > Skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke > ------------ > List info, subscribe/unsubscribe > http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > ------------ > > Skunkworks Rules > http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 > ------------ > Other services @ http://my.co.ke > -- Brian Munyao Longwe e-mail: blongwe(a)gmail.com cell: +254715964281 blog : http://zinjlog.blogspot.com meta-blog: http://mashilingi.blogspot.com "Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything."

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DOMAIN NAMES AND COPYRIGHT
by Moses Muya 07 Apr '12

07 Apr '12

All, Do we have any provisions in our laws that allow for copyrighting of domain names. I know domains like facebook.com or amazon.com are protected by copyright. Is it possible to register a company that is primarily based on a domain name - like in the case where there is only an online store and no 'Brick and Mortar' shop? -- Kind Regards, Moses Muya.

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by alice＠apc.org 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

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Connected.Go.Ke - Appreciation & Questions
by S.M. Muraya 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

Anyone who tried to communicate with the Kenyan government in the 90's or earlier will appreciate what connected.go.ke is trying to do. Some questions under #connectedke went unanswered. Here are two. (i) Can IT firms which win go.ke automation tenders, report, without losing out, bad public officials who obstruct go.ke automation? The late John Michuki prove, you will have quicker implementation of solutions where less corruption & more ethics are practiced. ERP's may improve revenue collection, but without CRM's, poor citizen service will continue. ERP's / CRM's will help gauge organizational performance - who or what is promoting or hindering integrity, efficiency, liquidity, courtesy, etc. (ii) How much $$ do we need on average, per annum, per police station, to provide working transport & technology to make Kenyan police more accessible? With increasing threats to national security, this is no doubt a pressing issue. For a Peaceful Easter Weekend.

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An Easter weekend read
by robert yawe 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

Hi, The following is a good read for the forthcoming long weekend http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html#f4n 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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Voice over Internet Protocol Re-defined!
by Edith Wanjiku 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

The Kenyan corporate world needs a telecommunications company like Enterprise Data Freedom Limited to revolutinalise the way business communicate. Read http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgrassroots.co.ke%2Fbusiness%2F…

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