March 2015 - KICTANet

Safaricom halves its internet bundles pricing
by Ali Hussein 05 Mar '15

05 Mar '15

Listers Safaricom has basically halved the price of its internet bundles. http://safaricom.com/bundles/ Predatory Pricing or meeting a market demand? Who benefits and who looses? These are the questions that we must ask. From where I'm sitting I can tell you one thing for sure - I'm not complaining about these new prices. I'm even willing to forgive them for capping my bundles to one month... Although it does raise pertinent issues on Net Neutrality. Let's look at it this way:- I used to buy 1k worth of bundles which got me 1.5GB plus a 750MB bonus exclusively for night use (between 10.00pm - 10.00am) Now for the same 1k I get:- 2GB plus 2GB bonus for night use. Predatory pricing or consumer based pricing? The answer depends on whether you are a consumer or Competitor. :) One thing is for sure. These prices can come down further. (We Kenyans are never satisfied, right?) :) Weekly Internet Bundle (Please Select One) 4MB + 4MB (Ksh 5) 10MB + 10 MB (Ksh 10) 30MB + 30 MB (Ksh 25) 65MB + 65 MB (Ksh 50) Monthly Internet Bundle: (Please Select One) 100MB + 100MB (Ksh.100) 300MB + 300MB (Ksh.250) 650MB + 650MB (Ksh.500) 2GB + 2GB (Ksh 1000) 5GB + 5GB (Ksh 2000) 10GB +10GB (Ksh 3000) 25GB + 25GB (Ksh 5750) 50GB + 50GB (Ksh 6750) Activate Internet At 2/= a Minute Subscribe Unsubscribe 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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Hillary Clinton Comments for First Time on Email Controversy | TheBlaze.com
by S.M. Muraya 05 Mar '15

05 Mar '15

Lesson for Kenya.. Transparency forces Leaders perform.. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/03/05/hillary-clinton-comments-for-fir… Hillary Clinton Comments for First Time on Email Controversy Mar. 5, 2015 12:02am Oliver Darcy Hillary Clinton said in a tweet Wednesday night that she has asked the State Department to release all of her email. “I want the public to see my email,” she tweeted. “I asked State to review them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.” On Monday, the New York Times reported that Clinton may have violated federal rules by exclusively using a personal email address to conduct all official government business while serving as secretary of state. According to the Times, she never had an official government email address. —Follow Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy)

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Re: [kictanet] PayPal Workshop
by Bernard Kioko 05 Mar '15

05 Mar '15

Tomorrow. Apologies. On Mar 4, 2015 3:58 PM, "Emmanuel Khisa" <oloo.khisa(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Which date! > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Bernard Kioko via kictanet < > kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: > >> Further to the earlier email I did send. Members of this list have been >> invited to attend the PayPal Workshop for free. >> >> Venue: Sarova Panafric >> Time: 8.30am to 1pm >> >> Kind regards >> >> Bernard >> >> * ------------------------------ * >> >> >> >> This e-mail and any attachments may contain information that is >> confidential, legally privileged and protected by law and is intended for >> the sole use of the named recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, or >> disclosure or distribution is prohibited. Any liability (in negligence or >> otherwise) arising from any third party acting, or refraining from acting >> on any information contained in this email is hereby excluded. If you are >> not the intended recipient, please delete the contents and notify the >> sender immediately; do not disclose the contents to any other person, use >> it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. Whilst >> our e-mails are checked for viruses, we cannot guarantee that this message >> or any attachment is virus free, does not contain malicious code or is >> incompatible with your electronic system and the Company does not accept >> liability in respect of viruses, malicious code or any related problems >> that you might experience. For further information about us, please contact >> us at the address indicated below. >> >> >> Bernsoft Interactive Limited - P O Box 15177-00100 Nairobi - Tel: +254 >> 722 929192 Email: admin(a)bernsoft.com Web: www.bernsoft.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/oloo.khisa%40gmail.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. >> > > > > -- > ‎"Service to Mankind is the greatest form of service"... > > > > > > *Oloo KhisaP.O. Box > 24324-00100Nairobi0721321086/0731849128http://ke.linkedin.com/in/olookhisa > <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/olookhisa>* > -- * ------------------------------ * This e-mail and any attachments may contain information that is confidential, legally privileged and protected by law and is intended for the sole use of the named recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, or disclosure or distribution is prohibited. Any liability (in negligence or otherwise) arising from any third party acting, or refraining from acting on any information contained in this email is hereby excluded. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the contents and notify the sender immediately; do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. Whilst our e-mails are checked for viruses, we cannot guarantee that this message or any attachment is virus free, does not contain malicious code or is incompatible with your electronic system and the Company does not accept liability in respect of viruses, malicious code or any related problems that you might experience. For further information about us, please contact us at the address indicated below. Bernsoft Interactive Limited - P O Box 15177-00100 Nairobi - Tel: +254 722 929192 Email: admin(a)bernsoft.com Web: www.bernsoft.com

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State firms to place adverts on digital outlets
by GG 05 Mar '15

05 Mar '15

http://www.nation.co.ke/business/State-firms-to-place-all-their-adverts-on-…

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PayPal Workshop
by Bernard Kioko 04 Mar '15

04 Mar '15

Further to the earlier email I did send. Members of this list have been invited to attend the PayPal Workshop for free. Venue: Sarova Panafric Time: 8.30am to 1pm Kind regards Bernard -- * ------------------------------ * This e-mail and any attachments may contain information that is confidential, legally privileged and protected by law and is intended for the sole use of the named recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, or disclosure or distribution is prohibited. Any liability (in negligence or otherwise) arising from any third party acting, or refraining from acting on any information contained in this email is hereby excluded. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the contents and notify the sender immediately; do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. Whilst our e-mails are checked for viruses, we cannot guarantee that this message or any attachment is virus free, does not contain malicious code or is incompatible with your electronic system and the Company does not accept liability in respect of viruses, malicious code or any related problems that you might experience. For further information about us, please contact us at the address indicated below. Bernsoft Interactive Limited - P O Box 15177-00100 Nairobi - Tel: +254 722 929192 Email: admin(a)bernsoft.com Web: www.bernsoft.com

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Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email Account at State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules
by S.M. Muraya 03 Mar '15

03 Mar '15

The Kenya ICT Authority has an tender for E-Mail Management Services (for all Ministries). It does not seem limited to firms owned and controlled by Kenyans, factoring the sensitivity involved in handling e-mail records (archives). Electronic (e-mail, video, audio) records might be factored in the National Archives and Documentation Service Act (Revised 2012) by these words ... “records” includes not only written records, but records conveying information by any means whatsoever; ... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clintons-use-of-priva… *Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email Account at State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules* By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDTMARCH 2, 2015 WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record. Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act. It was only two months ago, in response to a new State Department effort to comply with federal record-keeping practices, that Mrs. Clinton’s advisers reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal emails and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department. All told, 55,000 pages of emails were given to the department. Mrs. Clinton stepped down from the secretary’s post in early 2013. Her expansive use of the private account was alarming to current and former National Archives and Records Administration officials and government watchdogs, who called it a serious breach. “It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario — short of nuclear winter — where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business,” said Jason R. Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle & Reath who is a former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration. A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, Nick Merrill, defended her use of the personal email account and said she has been complying with the “letter and spirit of the rules.” Under federal law, however, letters and emails written and received by federal officials, such as the secretary of state, are considered government records and are supposed to be retained so that congressional committees, historians and members of the news media can find them. There are exceptions to the law for certain classified and sensitive materials. Mrs. Clinton is not the first government official — or first secretary of state — to use a personal email account on which to conduct official business. But her exclusive use of her private email, for all of her work, appears unusual, Mr. Baron said. The use of private email accounts is supposed to be limited to emergencies, experts said, such as when an agency’s computer server is not working. “I can recall no instance in my time at the National Archives when a high-ranking official at an executive branch agency solely used a personal email account for the transaction of government business,” said Mr. Baron, who worked at the agency from 2000 to 2013. Regulations from the National Archives and Records Administration at the time required that any emails sent or received from personal accounts be preserved as part of the agency’s records. But Mrs. Clinton and her aides failed to do so. How many emails were in Mrs. Clinton’s account is not clear, and neither is the process her advisers used to determine which ones related to her work at the State Department before turning them over. “It’s a shame it didn’t take place automatically when she was secretary of state as it should have,” said Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive, a group based at George Washington University that advocates government transparency. “Someone in the State Department deserves credit for taking the initiative to ask for the records back. Most of the time it takes the threat of litigation and embarrassment.” Mr. Blanton said high-level officials should operate as President Obama does, emailing from a secure government account, with every record preserved for historical purposes. “Personal emails are not secure,” he said. “Senior officials should not be using them.” Penalties for not complying with federal record-keeping requirements are rare, because the National Archives has few enforcement abilities. Mr. Merrill, the spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, declined to detail why she had chosen to conduct State Department business from her personal account. He said that because Mrs. Clinton had been sending emails to other State Department officials at their government accounts, she had “every expectation they would be retained.” He did not address emails that Mrs. Clinton may have sent to foreign leaders, people in the private sector or government officials outside the State Department. The revelation about the private email account echoes longstanding criticisms directed at both the former secretary and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, for a lack of transparency and inclination toward secrecy. And others who, like Mrs. Clinton, are eyeing a candidacy for the White House are stressing a very different approach. Jeb Bush, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president, released a trove of emails in December from his eight years as governor of Florida. It is not clear whether Mrs. Clinton’s private email account included encryption or other security measures, given the sensitivity of her diplomatic activity. Mrs. Clinton’s successor, Secretary of State John Kerry, has used a government email account since taking over the role, and his correspondence is being preserved contemporaneously as part of State Department records, according to his aides. Before the current regulations went into effect, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who served from 2001 to 2005, used personal email to communicate with American officials and ambassadors and foreign leaders. Last October, the State Department, as part of the effort to improve its record keeping, asked all previous secretaries of state dating back to Madeleine K. Albright to provide it with any records, like emails, from their time in office for preservation. “These steps include regularly archiving all of Secretary Kerry’s emails to ensure that we are capturing all federal records,” said a department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki. The existence of Mrs. Clinton’s personal email account was discovered by a House committee investigating the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi as it sought correspondence between Mrs. Clinton and her aides about the attack. Two weeks ago, the State Department, after reviewing Mrs. Clinton’s emails, provided the committee with about 300 emails — amounting to roughly 900 pages — about the Benghazi attacks. Mrs. Clinton and the committee declined to comment on the contents of the emails or whether they will be made public. The State Department, Ms. Psaki said, “has been proactively and consistently engaged in responding to the committee’s many requests in a timely manner, providing more than 40,000 pages of documents, scheduling more than 20 transcribed interviews and participating in several briefings and each of the committee’s hearings.” A version of this article appears in print on March 3, 2015, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Clinton Used Personal Email at State Dept.. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe

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Analogue 3 go digital, ADN got it's license
by cdohnio 03 Mar '15

03 Mar '15

Broadcasters to come back on air as standoff ends: http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Broadcasters-to-come-back-on-air-as-stan… All the best, princelySid *Twitter:* @princelySid | *Website: *cdohnio.blogspot.com

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MEDIA COUNCIL AND PROPAGANDA EDITORS?
by James Mbugua 03 Mar '15

03 Mar '15

Listers, As the Media Owners and CAK battle over the migration issue, it is disconcerting to see the number of senior editors and columnists at these media houses using their pen to deliberately misrepresent to readers the digital migration story. Some of the more irking statements include, "When CAK forcibly shut us down...." They were not forcibly shut down, they took themselves of air why should they be airing such lies? Some of the senior editors keep talking about the number of frequencies disproportionately given to PANG. But frequencies are given according to the number of sites you have erected and these guys know this. As it is they have only 11 sites countrywide and they have been sitting on the analogue frequencies which they need to free up for allocation. That government is favouring foreigners....These editors are yet to acknowledge that their media houses took part in a tender and their bid lost. They went to PPOA and lost. They are busy splashing Anglo Leasing stories on the front pages, how would it have looked if they, with their shoddy bid, won the tender? Why can't they say they are asking to be corruptly allocated a national asset contrary to Public Procurement Law? THe Media Council instead of going after small journalists should take on these Editors and hold them to account on the accuracy of their stories. Regards, JG

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Goodyear to pay Sh1 billion for bribery in Kenya and Angola - News - nation.co.ke
by S.M. Muraya 01 Mar '15

01 Mar '15

How can we increase transparency & reduce bribery (manual transactions) in our society? #InnovKe http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Goodyear-Sh1-billion-fine-bribery-Kenya-Angola…

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Safaricom enforces a 20MB cap on Data Bundles Sambaza
by Odhiambo Washington 01 Mar '15

01 Mar '15

[Sorry for cross-posting] I think Safaricom should consult her customers and know what they want. I also think Safaricom shouldn't bully it's customers. I have just realized that Sambaza Bundle has been capped to 20MB per day, and you can only sambaza 10MB in a single transaction - do that twice and the day is closed! Now, I have close to 1GB on my modem and I wanted to sambaza about 200MB to my phone. Three attempts and I am getting this strange error, only to call Safaricom CC and be shocked with the news. Here is the big question: If I go into a supermarket and buy 10Kgs of Sugar and pay for it, what business does the supermarket have in deciding what I can do with the Sugar? Once I buy 1,5GiB data bundle from Safaricom, what business does it still have in deciding whether I can use it on that SIM card or Sambaza it to others? Well, looks like Sambaza was a privilege that Safaricom could withdraw at any time? I did not read the T&Cs, but it doesn't seem right, even if people have been doing business with data bundles. Once you've paid for the bundles, you should be left alone, no? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler."

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