May 2014 - KICTANet

Power firm seeks CCK nod to lease out fibre network
by Grace Githaiga 02 May '14

02 May '14

The Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) is seeking a portion of the growing data business — filing an application to the telecommunications regulator for a licence to lease its fibre optic cable network to Internet service providers. In response to the application, the Communications Corporation of Kenya has published a notice calling for comments from the public before making the final decision. The public has 30 days from last Friday. http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Power-firm-seeks-CCK-nod-to-lease-out-fibr…

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Re: [kictanet] What is the Kenyan position on global Internet governance?
by meshack emakunat 01 May '14

01 May '14

------------------------------ On Thu, May 1, 2014 12:29 PM PDT meshack emakunat wrote: > > >Hello. In my view the internet should be free but this does not imply non regulation. it could be true that ICANN owns the internet in the sense that it has influence and decision making capabilities. When viewing it from the aspect that the internet should be free then i think its only when such qualities are 'civil' and can be affected by social, cultural and economic forces rather than political. To be more direct to the point, all i mean is the internet should never be a resource that is under any government's management. We should let the internet take on a laissez faire nature if the internet really is a factor for positive development. > > >------------------------------ >On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 11:36 PM PDT Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet wrote: > >>On 29/04/2014, Grace Githaiga via kictanet >><kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: >> The Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance, >> dubbed NETmundial, was held on 23 -24th April 2014 in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The >> meeting was triggered by the Snowden Effect, in which the former CIA agent >> leaked damning evidence of how the US government spies on all citizens - >> including heads of states from friendly nations. One of the victims of the >> US spying operations, Dilma Rousseff, the President of Brazil, felt >> motivated enough to mobilise other nations to discuss the governance >> structures of the Internet and how this should evolve going forward. >> http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/walubengo/-/2274560/2296320/-/12dql… >> >> >> >>-- >>______________________ >>Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya >>twitter.com/lordmwesh >> >>_______________________________________________ >>kictanet mailing list >>kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke >>https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet >> >>Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/memakunat%40yahoo.com >> >>The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. >> >>KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications. >

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The status of telco regulation in kenya
by Ali Hussein 01 May '14

01 May '14

Listers The yumobile CEO is crying foul regarding the 'stringent' conditions put forward by the CAK to enable Safaricom (who now say they have pulled out of the deal) and Airtel divide up the moribund telco among themselves. To quote him:- “We have been fighting to get the regulator to enforce infrastructure sharing in the industry for years. This never happened until yuMobile announced an acquisition deal and we don’t understand why. If these conditions were enforced earlier, we wouldn’t have contemplated leaving the market in the first place,” the CEO noted. http://www.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/smartcompany/Regulator-on-the-spot-as-yuM… Is the CAK justified in putting such conditions on a commercial transaction? Besides the infrastructure and spectrum which of course is public property leased out to the telcos how about the condition that Safaricom must share its Mpesa agent network? Isn't this akin to the CBK forcing banks to share their branch networks with other less branch endowed players? Is this even within the framework of regulation? By now I think the mobile money networks should been seamlessly interoperable and this in my humble opinion is what CAK should have forced the telcos to have done. So now yumobile is caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place. I hope this situation gets resolved fairly quickly because there are several thousand Kenyans who will be adversely affected if it doesn't. Ali Hussein +254 770 906375 / 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim Blog: www.alyhussein.com "I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". ~ Albert Einstein Sent from my iPad

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Fw: Fwd: FW: MWALIMU NYERERE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR GIRLS - BOURSES D'ETUDES DE MWALIMU NYERERE POUR LES FILLES
by Network of non- formal Educational institutions 01 May '14

01 May '14

For Information Jane On , Network of non- formal Educational institutions <nnfeischools(a)yahoo.com> wrote: For Information Jane On Monday, April 28, 2014 7:07 AM, Magdaline Kerubo <magdalinekerubo(a)elimuyetu.net> wrote: Dear EYC members, Find MSc and PhD scholarship opportunities for your consideration, action and/or please share within your networks for potential beneficiaries. Regards, -- Magdaline Kerubo, Administration Assistant, Elimu Yetu Coalition. 0715 242 644

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Fw: Welcome to the "AIS14-Fellows" mailing list
by Network of non- formal Educational institutions 01 May '14

01 May '14

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