September 2012 - KICTANet

CCK delays call rate cuts ‘to avoid clash with Kibaki’
by Grace Githaiga 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

IN SUMMARYThe research firm’s draft report seen by the Business Daily indicated that lower tariffs have had a positive effect on revenues of the four telecom operators, their traffic, subscriber numbers as well as mobile penetration.The downward review in of MTR 2010 from Sh4.42 to Sh2.21 gave the operators room to cut tariffs by more than half, but the telcos have ruled out lower call rates should the rate fall further and will instead absorb the cost savings to boost earnings that had been hit by price wars. http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/CCK+delays+call+rate+cuts…

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October 1st, Locking out fake phones and unregistered numbers
by Kivuva 30 Sep '12

30 Sep '12

October 1st, 2012 was the deadline for locking out of the networks phones that are allegedly fake, and also locking out phone numbers that have not been registered by the owners. Has anybody had their services disrupted? I am keen to see if Operators will pull the switch on their "loyal" customers. -- ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva For Business Development Transworld Computer Channels Cel: 0722402248 twitter.com/lordmwesh transworldAfrica.com | Fluent in computing kenya.or.ke | The Kenya we know

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Road design issues
by Dennis Kioko 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Hi all, Anyone with contacts of the Roads permanent secretary, or the in charge at Kenya National Highway Authority? Would like to follow up with them on the lack of pedestrian inclusion on Mombasa Road, where more than one person is knocked down daily. There's also a blind roundabout on the Eastern bypass, near Windsor which has led to a number of accidents and deaths. That should at least have rumbles to warn user.

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Conflict of Interest
by S.M. Muraya 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

German envoy protests over Kenya bias towards Chinese firms http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/German+envoy+protests+ove… Chinese advantage -- cheaper credit for their businesses! In Kenya / for Kenyans: Borrowers avoid new loans over high interest rates http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Borrowers+avoid+new+loans+over+high+inte… Problem (in simple terms): We are importing too much - not producing enough goods / services. This causes of inflation. Conflict of "interest": Increase the interests rates -- consequently disabling Kenyans seeking to import goods / equipment to produce more goods & services in Kenya? We need a solution [?][?][?]

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Silicon Valley is stupid (which is why it works)
by Dennis Kioko 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

A nice article on why Silicon Valley works. Many will be surprised by the fact that government doesn't involve itself with small businesses . http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/KQNBo6r7K2Q/

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French Prime Minister opts for technology freedom
by Evans Ikua 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

French government to use PostgreSQL and LibreOffice in free software adoption push The plan could see up to 10 percent of money saved on proprietary software licenses reinvested in improving free software By Peter Sayer | IDG News Service | Published 16:05, 25 September 12 French government agencies could become more active participants in free software projects, under an action plan sent by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault in a letter to ministers, while software giants Microsoft and Oracle might lose out as the government pushes free software such as LibreOffice<http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/security/3377046/libreoffice-tackle-cri…>or PostgreSQL in some areas. Ayrault wants different branches of the French administration to use the same free software as one another when possible, so as to share experience and cut support costs. Until now, each ministry or agency has been left to pursue its own strategy. He also wants them to reinvest between 5 percent and 10 percent of the money they save through not paying for proprietary software licenses, spending it instead on contributing to the development of the free software. The administration already submits patches and bug fixes for the applications it uses, but Ayrault wants to go beyond that, contributing to or paying for the addition of new functionality to the software. Please click this link for more details<http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/open-source/3400404/french-govt-use-pos…> -- *---------------------------------------------------- Kind Regards, Evans Ikua,* lanetconsulting.com, lpi-eastafrica.org, ict-innovation.fossfa.net, Skype: @ikuae Cell: +254-722-955831

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Looking for a Blogger?:-Ministry of Information & Comm.
by Walubengo J 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Just came across this... http://careers.n-soko.com/jobs/detail/51608434?jobId=51608434 It looks like Dr. Ndemo is shopping around for Bloggers and I wondered if I could alert my friend @RobertAlai to apply or maybe his colleague Dennis Itubi @OleItubi has better experience :-) But on a serious note, you do need a hacker to catch a hacker. Am told in the US, the FBI attends black hacker competitions and recruits chaps from there and then scrubs them into white hackers... walu.

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Article 19 to launch report on access to information and internally displaced persons in Kenya
by Victor bwire 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

you are invited

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Man fined Sh100,000 for using Mwazo’s name
by Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Not comprehensively written but a good indicator of the changing times in ICT related crimes. Tuesday, September 25, 2012 - 00:00 -- BY ALPHONCE MUN A man was yesterday ordered to pay a fine of Sh100,000 or 10 months imprisonment for impersonating Voi MP Danson Mwazo and creating Facebook account of him. Liverson Alama Mwashube who appeared before Nairobi senior principal magistrate Paul Biwott admitted the offence of creating Facebook account with intent to defraud. He however denied another charge of Electronic Fraud contrary to section 84B Kenya Information and Communication Act 1998. Reading the facts of the case, chief inspector Robert Kyaa, told the court that on diverse dates between May 2012, and September 2012 at Voi Distrtict within Taita Taveta County, with intent to defraud, the accused created a facebook account of Mwazo thereby impersonating to be him. The court also heard that on the same months, the accused created facebook account of Mr Mwazo where he used to defraud one Diana Mwachofi of Sh2,600. The prosecutor told the court that the matter was investigated where the MP denied having created such facebook account. He said that the facebook also shown M-Pesa account at Equity bank account. The prosecutor said the facebook was created for purpose of impersonation the MP. Mwazo denied having operated such account. The accused was arrested and charged with the offence. http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-166/man-fined-sh100000-using-mwazos-… -- Grace L.N. Mutung'u (Bomu) Kenya Skype: gracebomu Twitter: @Bomu Website: http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu

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eGov services how much have we spent?
by Paul Kukubo 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Alice and listers Kenya Government IT expenditure summary. (Extracted from the Shared Services Masterplan presented to Directorate of Egovernment and prepared by the Kenya ICT Board under the Ministry of Information and Communications and Accenture in June 2010). These stastitics were collected through research, visits and analysis of public sector documents over several months. The team collected IT budget, spending workfoce asset and project information from 42 ministries and 4 entities. They further assessed detailed application data and infrastructure for 8 ministries.There is also a report for the local government that is similar. 1. There are currently 80+ technology enabled projects in the public sector across 39 ministries worth over Kshs 35 billion. Divided into Digitization, Appilications and Infrastructure. 2. Key among them core projects undertaken by various entities include are: a. The proposed National Lands information management system b. High court registry digitization and application c. Digitization of company registry d. Kenya Government unified communications and messaging e. Education management system f. Integrated Financial Management System (IFMIS) g. Many other applications that are ministry specific. h. KENET bandwidth capacity purchase for universities i. Government data centre j. Government’s core communications network k. Bandwith support to government l. Various other infrastructure projects 3. Above figures exclude some major state corporations projects that were not on the radar at the time of the research. There are many more requirements for digitzation a. Automation of National Social Security Fund b. Digitization and automation of Kenyatta National Hospital 4. The Masterplan proposed the establishment of a shared services centre. The consolidation of IT supports functions from several departments or agencies into a single, stand-alone organization entity whose only mission is to provide services as efficiently and effectively as possible. 5. Government of Kenya spends 0.3% on IT as a percentage of overall spending. This is 20 times less than government industry average of 6.5% . (based on Gartner benchmarks). a. Most of the spending is on hardware at 65% compared to global benchmark of 18%. IT spending on staff is significantly lower 18% as opposed to 38% for global benchmark. 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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