January 2018 - KICTANet

UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2018: Registration and Call for Proposals Open
by Du Toit, Jaco 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

Dear KICTANET Members, UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2018 will take place from 26 to 30 March 2018. Expression of interest and submissions of papers have been extended to 26 January 2018. If you are interested in presenting ICT in education or mobile learning projects, you can submit your proposals online<https://en.unesco.org/mlw/2018>. Please find attached the MLW 2018 Concept Note in six UN official languages for your ease of reference. The 2018 event of Mobile Learning Week is organized in official partnership with ITU at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Under the theme of "Skills for a connected world", MLW2018 seeks to: * Define and mainstream digital skills in education; * Innovate skills provision for jobs in the digital economy; * Close inequalities and gender divides in digital skills; and * Map and anticipate the changing needs for digital skills. Best regards Jaco [cid:image001.png@01D39156.16870A00] Jaco du Toit Adviser for Communication & Information UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization United Nations Avenue, UNON, Gigiri (Room 209) P.O. Box 30592-00100, Nairobi, Kenya Tel.: +254 (0)20 762 2346/2566 Mobile: +254 (0) 728 610 912 http://www.unesco.org/new/en/nairobi

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KeNIC's OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION ON .KE DOMAINS SERVICE DISRUPTION EXPERIENCED ON FRIDAY 19TH JANUARY 2018
by Senior System Administrator 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

Dear Listeners, Kindly find attached the official communication from KeNIC offering apology and explanation on the cause and status of the .KE domains services disruption. Thank you. Kind Regards, ................................................... Elly Kadenyo Senior System Administrator snrsysadmin(a)kenic.or.ke +254 0720062293

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2017 ICT Review - Survey
by Liz Orembo 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

Listers, Greetings, KICTANet is conducting a short survey to get stakeholders feedback on the development of ICT over the last two years. The survey was developed from the community driven 100 days wishlist <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WG3JvLkOETkzd1y74Ue0-D5NtfqavYrkOf7jOKQ…> engagement program carried out in Dec 2015 and is divided along the four issues that emerged: 1. Policy and legal issues 2. Access 3. Infrastructure 4. Human capital/skills force *We request you to fill out this survey (preferably by Friday next week), it will only take 10 mins or less. * *Here's the link *https://goo.gl/forms/RQs5GPechBstzpLX2 As always, we highly appreciate your time and contribution. Your responses will be completely anonymous in the report that KICTANet will produce. Asanteni sana. -- Best regards. Liz. PGP ID: 0x1F3488BF

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CYBERnyama, a new podcast discussing tech, policy, economics, society and culture
by Alex Comninos 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

Hi Listers, I have started a new podcast (https://CYBERnyama.net) dealing with the intersection of cyberspace, and the offline world of "meatspace" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_life) Episode 3 is a discussion with Paradigm Initiative about digital rights and the Digital Rights in Africa 2017 report - https://cybernyama.net/2018/01/17/episode-3-digital-rights-in-africa/. Check out the podcast at https://CYBERnyama.net, and @CYBERnyama on Twitter. If you are interested, and if you enjoy it, please do share. I would also love feedback on the podcast. I'm looking for more hosts for the podcast, if you are interested, and fancy yourself a podcaster, then please contact me . I'm also looking for guests. If any of the above interest you, make contact with alex (at) cybernyama (dot) net Happy listening, Alex -- ... Alex Comninos http://comninos.org

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And then there was the marriage of IP and blockchain/bitcoin
by Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

Kodak’s plan is to use the Ethereum blockchain to build a digital rights management platform for photographs. Photographers will register their photos on the KodakOne platform and buyers will purchase rights using the KodakCoin cryptocurrency. The platform will provide cryptographic proof of ownership and monitor the web for infringement, offering an easy payment system for infringers to legitimise their use of photographs. https://theconversation.com/kodakone-could-be-the-start-of-a-new-kind-of-in…

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by Sidney Ochieng 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

Wangusi’s woes may be about big bucks, giant projects at CA http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/opinion/Wangusi-woes-may-be-about-big-bucks-gi… Listers this is worrying. There must be transparency at the CA. Who spends almost half a billion on laptops every year for so few staff? Touched not typed, excuse typos

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Re: [kictanet] Government going for blockchain technology
by Ali Hussein 17 Jan '18

17 Jan '18

Indeed it is. A step in the right direction. Regards *Ali Hussein* *Principal* *Hussein & Associates* Tel: +254 713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim> 13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing, Chiromo Road, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya. Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with. 2018-01-17 7:08 GMT+03:00 Bernard Kioko via kictanet < kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke>: > This is good > > http://kenyanwallstreet.com/kenya-govt-sets-blockchain- > artificial-intelligence-taskforce > > _______________________________________________ > 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/info%40alyhussein.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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Congratulations CS Mucheru
by Grace Githaiga 17 Jan '18

17 Jan '18

Dear CS Mucheru Greetings! Congratulations on your reappointment as the Cabinet Secretary in charge of ICTs. We look forward to a better working relationship between KICTANet and the Ministry. We endeavor to keep the Ministry on its toes (tough love) by demanding the best out of you- as has always been the case. Looking forward to a progressive ICT future. 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.

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Fwd: [afren] IoT School at ICTP — grants available
by Barrack Otieno 16 Jan '18

16 Jan '18

Listers, Might be of interest to some. Best Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <mzennaro(a)ictp.it> Date: Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 1:13 PM Subject: [afren] IoT School at ICTP — grants available To: afren(a)afnog.org Joint ICTP-IAEA School on LoRa Enabled Radiation and Environmental Monitoring Sensors Date: 23 April to 11 May 2018 Venue: ICTP, Trieste, Italy LoRa is a long range, low power networking solution recently developed for the Internet of Things (IoT). In the workshop we will learn about the underlying technology and protocols and we will develop scientific instrumentation with LoRa chips. A LoRa network can connect a plethora of tiny battery powered LoRa sensors and devices within a few kilometers and even up to 150 km with line of sight. With complete LoRa modules available from $5 USD the cost of instrumenting huge areas and cities with real-time environmental sensor networks has diminished substantially. In this school the participants will develop and construct instrumentation and sensors equipped or embedded with LoRa chip and they will deploy and analyse the data from a LoRa enabled sensor network across the ICTP campus and in Trieste. The power of the technology to rely on long distance, low power (battery or rechargeable/ renewable) technologies is of considerable interest to the environmental monitoring of cities and agricultural environments. Topics: • LoRa and LoRaWAN protocols; • Prototyping of sensor boards; • Coding of LoRa sensors; • Planning and deployment of a LoRa network; • Collection, analysis and the visualization of the data. A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from Developing Countries. Additional grants for students from Developing Countries formally enrolled in a PhD programme are available thanks to Sigcomm’s support. Online application: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8298/ Application deadline: February 26, 2018 Best, Marco Marco Zennaro, PhD // Research Officer // T/ICT4D Lab // ICTP // wireless.ictp.it _______________________________________________ afren mailing list afren(a)afnog.org https://www.afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afren -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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Social Media and Hate Crime. Can what we saw online against or for others have an effect offline?
by Ali Hussein 16 Jan '18

16 Jan '18

Social Media and Hate Crime. Can what we saw online against or for others have an effect offline? According to the The Economist, there is some correlation. A new paper finds a strong association between anti-refugee sentiment on social media and violent crimes against refugees. For every four additional Facebook posts critical of refugees on the page of Germany’s AfD party, there was one additional anti-refugee incident. Read on:- http://ow.ly/5efz30hNqJ3 Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle Sent from my iPad

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