March 2017 - KICTANet

Re: [kictanet] WikiLeaks CIA Leaks
by simiyu mse 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Of manufacturers and liability, Tesla chose to go it a different way. Sort of crowd sourcing the RnD with a hacking contest. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/04/28/tesla-opening-car-to… I think this was a very transparent move and in retrospect would absolve such a manufacturer. ./ken On Mar 9, 2017 08:25, "Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet" < kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: On Mar 9, 2017 11:00 AM, "Mark Kipyegon via kictanet" < kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: If the locking mechanism makes the theft easier to accomplish, that is definitely a defect. And at a minimum the manufacturer has a responsibility to develop a stronger lock. The simplest rebuttal for your argument is accusing a lock manufacturer that a hacksaw can cut the lock _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/ Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/ mailman/options/kictanet/kensimiyu%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.

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Re: [kictanet] WikiLeaks CIA Leaks
by Mark Kipyegon 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

If the locking mechanism makes the theft easier to accomplish, that is definitely a defect. And at a minimum the manufacturer has a responsibility to develop a stronger lock. On 9 Mar 2017, at 10:42, "kictanet-request(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke" <kictanet-request(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: > > If I steal petrol from your car, is that a defect? Is the car > manufacturer liable? > > > > On 09/03/2017, alex watila via kictanet <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: >> is vulnerability really a defect? >

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Invitation to Nairobi Innovation Week 2017
by Mwololo Waema Tim 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Dear Listers, You are most welcome to the Nairobi Innovation Week being held next week from 6th to 10th March. More details can be found on: http://innovationweek.co.ke/ I am specifically also inviting you to a panel discussion on the National Innovation Policy on Thursday 9th at 11.40 am, for which I am the moderator. Details of this panel are shown below. *Panel 4: Kenya’s Innovation Policy* There is an STI policy which is still in draft form and which was the basis of the STI Act. The Act created the necessary institutional framework and almost all the institutions are operational. There is also visible innovation work going on in various ministries. What are the key elements of the policy framework that we need to create? How do we create this policy framework? How do we re-arrange the existing institutional framework for more effective coordination, while ensuring collaboration and exploitation of synergies? *Moderator * - Prof. Timothy Waema, UoN *Panelists* - Julius Korir, PS, State Department for Investment and Industr <http://www.industrialization.go.ke/index.php/top-management/principal-secre…> y - Eng. Victor Kyalo – PS, ICT and Innovation - Dr. Salome Gachu – Ag. CEO KENIA - Dr. Jemimah Onsare – Ag. CEO NRF - Nicholas Nesbitt, Country General Manager, IBM East Africa - Louis Otieno – Microsoft Africa Kind regards, T. Mwololo Waema | Professor of Information Systems | School of Computing & Informatics | University of Nairobi | PO Box 30197-00100, Nairobi | @timwololo

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Invitation to Online Speech and Social Change Event, 16 March 2017
by Grace Githaiga 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Listers Facebook, in partnership with KICTAnet,would like to invite you to a conversation about hate speech and using social media to advocate for positive social change, on Thursday 16 March from 11.30am. We will host an interactive, Chatham House rules discussion about hate speech on social media platforms and using social media to advocate for positive social change. It will address platform community standards, privacy tips and reporting, as well as using social media platforms to counter hate speech. The event will take place at Dusit D2, 14 Riverside Park – Riverside Woods (off Riverside Drive), Nairobi. FB will also be soliciting feedback about its platforms, and highlighting local examples of counter speech, as well as identifying possibilities for collaboration. To attend, please register here: https:// onlinespeechandsocialchangenai .splashthat.com [1] We look forward to seeing you on the 16th March! Best regards Githaiga, Grace Co-Convenor Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) Twitter:@ggithaiga Tel: 254722701495 Skype: gracegithaiga Alternate email: ggithaiga(a)hotmail.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gracegithaiga www.kictanet.or.ke "Change only happens when ordinary people get involved, get engaged and come together to demand it. I am asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change – but in yours"---Barrack Obama. Links: ------ [1] https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__onlinespeechandsocialc…

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Re: [kictanet] WikiLeaks CIA Leaks
by Mark Kipyegon 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

If a manufacturer in any other industry sold a defective item they would rightly have a case to answer. Why should the tech firms be held to a lower standard? On 09/03/2017 06:18, kictanet-request(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke wrote: > > Wangare, we cannot hold any manufacturer liable for any vulnerability. > Indeed, most are not even aware of the Zero Day vulnerabilities that > CIA is exploiting. >

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Ring of bank hackers busted - Daily Nation
by Admin CampusCiti 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Listers Today we get a glimpse of the magnitude of cyber crime in the country. Kenya Revenue Authority, several blue-chip banks, a parastatal and a supermarket chain are some of the institutions penetrated by an international cybercrime syndicate that took off with hundreds of millions of shillings – before they were all seized on Monday and Tuesday. Read on:- http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Police-bust-ring-of-hackers/1056-3842558-11h7q… Ali Hussein Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim Blog: www.alyhussein.com "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi Sent from my iPad

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Fwd: [Internet Policy] Shine The Light on March 8th!
by Barrack Otieno 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lia Kiessling <kiessling(a)isoc.org> Date: Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 1:56 PM Subject: [Internet Policy] Shine The Light on March 8th! To: "internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org" <internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org> Dear All Happy International Women's Day! It seemed like yesterday we launched our #ShineTheLight campaign dedicated to closing tech's gender gap. The UN's theme for IWD2017 is Be Bold for Change - so we've chosen to celebrate women who are, sometimes in the face of great adversity, working to make the Internet a safer, more trusted place for all. We've got loads of content going out for this campaign - starting with a great piece in the Huffington Post Blog from our Senior Director of Global Internet Policy, Constance Bommelaer. It gives great context to the issue. · Not Backing Down: Women Across The Globe Fighting To Make The Internet Safe Here are some more posts you can share · Medium · Twitter · Facebook And over the course of the day, we'll be posting on our social media accounts sharing stories and tweets of these women and the women people around the world chose to tag as part of this campaign. If you have someone you'd like to #ShineTheLight on please do! We are using the hashtag #ShineTheLight and #ShePersisted alongside the #IWD2017 tag. See you all on the Internet and have a great International Women's Day! Lia _______________________________________________ To manage your ISOC subscriptions or unsubscribe, please log into the ISOC Member Portal: https://portal.isoc.org/ Then choose Interests & Subscriptions from the My Account menu. -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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Re: [kictanet] YALI Design Challenge
by Gakiria 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Dear Listers, Greetings from Young African Leaders Initiative Regional Leadership Center for East Africa. (YALI RLC) The Young African Leaders Initiative <http://www.yali.state.gov/> (YALI) was launched as a signature effort to invest in the next generation of African leaders through Regional Leadership Centers (RLCs). There are three other RLCs across the continent in Ghana, Senegal and South Africa. All the Centers provide training in three distinct tracks - (1) Business & Entrepreneurship, (2) Civic Leadership and (3) Public Management. Nairobi hosts the YALI RLC in East Africa and works with young leaders from 14 East and Central African countries. As part of our program, participants from the 14 countries around East and Central Africa work on a project that solves a challenge or problem that is provided to them by an innovative organization that is challenging the status quo in their particular sector. We call this a *Design Challenge*. Typically it involves a problem statement from an organization that allows the participants to go out into the field and interview potential clients/stakeholders and then come up with possible solutions. We are inviting you to come on board and provide our participants with a Design Challenge - an opportunity to apply the tools they learn to come up with a solution to some of the areas of difficulty or areas where you would like a fresh perspective and new insight not only from a Kenyan perspective but from a greater East, Central and Horn of Africa perspective. Attached find a guiding document that will assist you in structuring your presentation and coming up with a design challenge based on the unique needs of your organization. Please feel free to get back to me in case of any query or clarification. You are also welcome to visit our center at Kenyatta University for further consultations as you prepare your design challenge. Kindly note that there is NO financial implication for presenting a design challenge to our participants. Best Regards -- *Gakiria Andrew *

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China International Strategy of Cooperation on Cyberspace
by WANGARI KABIRU 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2017-03/01/c_136094371.htm Blessed Wednesday! Happy International Women's Day! You will enjoy this read simply exploring China on cyberspace and IG. Must be relevant with the UN, ICANN, MAG etc. Anyone with more details on Kenya IG message at ICANN 58th Copenhagen, please share. Read on. Blessed day. Regards/Wangari "Cyberspace is the common space of activities for mankind. The future of cyberspace should be in the hands of all countries. Countries should step up communications, broaden consensus and deepen cooperation to jointly build a community of shared future in cyberspace." —Remarks by H.E. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, 2015/12/16 "....3. Promoting Fair Internet Governance China believes that a multilateral, democratic and transparent global Internet governance system should be built through equal participation and joint decision-making of the international community. Countries are entitled to participate in Internet governance on an equal footing. It is important to ensure equitable distribution of basic resources of the Internet and joint management of critical information infrastructure such as root servers. Relevant international processes should be open and inclusive with greater representations and voice of developing countries. China calls for enhanced communication and cooperation among all stakeholders including governments, international organizations, Internet companies, technological communities, non-governmental institutions and citizens. Relevant efforts should reflect broad participation, sound management and democratic decision-making, with all stakeholders contributing in their share based on their capacity and governments taking the leading in Internet governance particularly public policies and security...." "... 6.Protection of Citizens’ Rights and Interests Including Privacy China supports discussion on privacy protection at the UN General Assembly and the Human Rights Council, and calls for establishing relevant principles for protecting individual privacy in cyberspace. China encourage countries to take measures to curb Internet-enabled infringement of individual privacy, and pursue dialogue on the practices and efforts on respecting and protecting individual privacy in cyberspace. China will urge businesses to increase awareness of data protection and will support their effort to strengthen self-discipline and discuss best practices of individual information protection in cyberspace. Efforts will be made to facilitate cooperation between the government and businesses to safeguard individual privacy in cyberspace..." --- Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth". -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 7/3/17, Ephraim Percy Kenyanito via kictanet <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: Subject: [kictanet] Invitation to report Launch on Internet Freedom/ Digital Rights- March 17, 2017 To: wangarikabiru(a)yahoo.co.uk Cc: "Ephraim Percy Kenyanito" <ekenyanito(a)gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, 7 March, 2017, 14:36 Dear Colleague, I am excited to invite you and your friends to the launch of a report titled, "Supercharging Human Rights Defenders in East Africa". The vent will be held on Friday, March 17, 2017 as from 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM EAT at Strathmore University, Kenya. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-security-challenges-for-civil-society-… Over the past year, Small Media has been working in partnership with The Collaboration on International Policy for East and Southern Africa, The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (Defend Defenders), and Strathmore University Centre for IP and IT Law (CIPIT) to produce a new report evaluating the digital threats facing civil society organisations working across East Africa – in Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania. At this session, Small Media and its partners will present the findings of its latest report Supercharging Human Rights Defenders in East Africa, and then engage in a discussion with a range of stakeholders about how to best support regional civil society organisations to overcome the multitude of digital security challenges they face. The schedule for the session is as follows: 14:00-15:00 – Report Presentation and Q&A 15:00-15:30 – Coffee break 15:30-16:30 – Break-out sessions based around key themes and research findings 16:30-17:00 – Discussion around recommendations and next steps 17:00-18:00 – Networking and drinks Please feel free to share with your colleagues and to register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-security-challenges-for-civil-society-… -- Best Regards, *Ephraim Percy Kenyanito* Legal Researcher/ Policy Analyst Website: https://ephraimkenyanito.com/ Twitter: @ekenyanito <https://twitter.com/ekenyanito> PGP Fingerprint: B0FA394AF73DEB7AA1FDC7360CFED26DE6BA8DC1 [image: --] Ephraim Percy Kenyanito [image: https://]about.me/ekenyanito <https://about.me/ekenyanito?promo=email_sig&utm_source=email_sig&utm_medium…> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/ Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/wangarikabiru%40yahoo… 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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Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team Draft Report of Recommendations For New gTLDs Available for Public Comment
by Barrack Otieno 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Dear Listers, This is for your information and attention. Best Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bob Omondi <omondibob(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:20 AM Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team Draft Report of Recommendations For New gTLDs Available for Public Comment To: AfrICANN list <africann(a)afrinic.net> LOS ANGELES – 7 March 2017 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced the publication of the Draft Report from the Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice (CCT) Review Team with its recommendations for the New gTLD Program More details: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2017-03-07-en Regards B. _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list AfrICANN(a)afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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