January 2016 - KICTANet

Sh17bn laptops tender bid to start on Friday
by Grace Githaiga 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

The Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Authority will on Friday open tenders to kick-start the process of acquiring 983,271 laptops for Standard One learners under the Digital Literacy Program. http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Sh17bn-laptops-tender-bid-to-start-on-Friday/-…

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Migration of KeNIC Servers
by Eric Ndungu 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Dear All, KeNIC will be moving its primary servers to EADC (East Africa Data Centre) during the weekend of 16th/17th January 2016. Some disruption in services may be experienced during the migration. We are requesting our registrars to do handle all their urgent transactions before the midnight of 15th January 2016. Thank you Eric M. Ndungu: Marketing & Communications Manager [E] eric(a)kenic.or.ke <mailto:paul@kenic.or.ke>/[W] www.kenic.or.ke <http://www.kenic.or.ke/>/[TW] twitter.com/kenictld <http://twitter.com/kenictld>/ [Blog]kenic.or.ke/blog [F] 4450087 /[M] +254 733 790 073, +254 715 275 483/[T] +254 20 2324686, 4450057/8/ Box 1461 - 00606, Nairobi

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CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos [feedly]
by Sidney Ochieng 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Listers, Would love to hear your thoughts on this. More worrying than losing the powers to declare dominance, which in my view is a problem, is the transfer of regulatory powers back to the ministry of ICT. The CA has been rendered effectively toothless... ---- CA loses power to regulate dominant telcos // Business Daily The Communications Authority of Kenya has lost powers to independently monitor dominance and act against its abuse – leaving it with a narrow mandate of licensing new players and allocating frequencies. ---- Shared via my feedly reader Regards, Sidney Touched not typed

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New CAK Internet Regulations are problematic.
by Brian Muhia 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

How do we communicate the problems with the new Internet regulations coming from CAK?

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Fwd: [aisi-ig-l] Fwd: [IGFmaglist] Call for Nominations - 2016 MAG
by Barrack Otieno 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Listers, FYI Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Makane Faye <mfaye(a)uneca.org> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 06:31:17 GMT Subject: [aisi-ig-l] Fwd: [IGFmaglist] Call for Nominations - 2016 MAG To: Discussion List on African Internet Governance Forum <aisi-ig-l(a)dgroups.org> Dear Colleagues, For your information and action. Best regards, ---- Makane Faye (Mr.) President, Federation of United Nations Staff Unions and Associations (FUNSA) --- Chief, Knowledge Services Section --- United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) --- P.O. Box 3001 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tel: +251 11 5443563; Ext. 33563 Fax: +251 11 5514416 / +251 11 54411458 Email: mfaye(a)uneca.org; faymakane(a)gmail.com facebook.com/makane.faye.eca twitter: @thianar2 or @makaneeca Skype: makaneaddis Begin forwarded message: > From: Chengetai Masango <cmasango(a)unog.ch> > Date: January 4, 2016 at 21:39:05 GMT+3 > To: MAG-public <Igfmaglist(a)intgovforum.org> > Subject: [IGFmaglist] Call for Nominations - 2016 MAG > > Dear All, > > Happy New Year and I hope you had a good holiday period. > > The call for nominations for the IGF 2016 MAG has been posted on the IGF website: > > http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/magabout/mag-renewal-announcement > > The deadline for submission of nominations through the nomination form is 1 February 2016. > > I would be grateful if you could spread the information through your respective stakeholder groups. > > Best regards, > > Chengetai > > _______________________________________________ > Igfmaglist mailing list > Igfmaglist(a)intgovforum.org > http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/igfmaglist_intgovforum.org __________ You are receiving this message because you're a member of the community Discussion List on African Internet Governance Forum. View this contribution on the web site https://dgroups.org/_/1a2a7ya2 A reply to this message will be sent to all members of Discussion List on African Internet Governance Forum. To reply to sender, send a message to mfaye(a)uneca.org. To unsubscribe, send an email to leave.aisi-ig-l(a)dgroups.org -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/

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