April 2018 - KICTANet

Blow to CA court blocks plan to snoop into mobile phones conversations
by Barrack Otieno 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Listers, Read more https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001277499/blow-to-ca-court-blocks-… Regards -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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Data Fellowships Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi
by Steph Muchai 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Dear Listers, School of Data is inviting journalists, data scientists, civil society advocates and anyone interested in advancing data literacy to apply for its 2018 Fellowship Programme, which will run from May 2018 to January 2019. *8* positions are open, 1 in each of the following countries: Bolivia, Guatemala, Ghana, Indonesia, *Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania*, The Philippines. The application deadline is *Sunday, May 6th of 2018. * *Find out more about the Fellowship <https://schoolofdata.org/2018/04/16/apply-now-school-of-datas-2018-fellowsh…>* <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekJ1dCVPKs731v56F4GqdUWqPQcjoN5It…> *Apply for the Fellowship Program <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekJ1dCVPKs731v56F4GqdUWqPQcjoN5It…>* If you would like to sponsor a fellowship, please get in touch with *School of Data <https://schoolofdata.org/contact/>.* Kind Regards, Steph Muchai Country Engagement Developer - Open Contracting <https://hivos.org/focal-area/open-contracting> [image: Hivos People Unlimited] ACS Plaza, Lenana Road |P.O. Box 19875| Nairobi|Kenya T + 254 725 451 729|E smuchai(a)hivos.org <https://mail.hivos.org/smuchai@hivos.org>|Skype steph.muchai| www.east-africa.hivos.org

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Lawyers reject automation
by Ali Hussein 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Listers I think this headline by a leading business newspaper is misleading. The lawyers have a point. I don't think they are against Automation per se. I think they are fighting an animal that we need to kill in this country. And that animal is lack of adequate public participation and total disregard of our constitution when it comes to this matter. This sort of attitude by our leaders will take us nowhere. Progress will come. But let it come while carrying stakeholders with it. https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/economy/Lawyers-reject-automation-of-la… Regards *Ali Hussein* *Principal* *AHK & 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.

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FYI- ARTICLE 19 Legal Analysis of Kenya Cyber Bill 2017
by Ephraim Percy Kenyanito 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Dear colleagues, Our Kenyan cyber bill legal analysis is now online here: https://www.article19.org/resources/kenya-computer-cybercrimes-bill-2017/ Please feel free to reach me with any questions/ ideas on the advocacy strategy. -- Best Regards, Ephraim Percy Kenyanito Digital Programme Officer *ARTICLE 19 EASTERN AFRICA * *DEFENDING FREEDOM **OF EXPRESSION AND INFORMATION* W https://www.article19.org/regional-office/eastern-africa/ Tw @article19eafric Fa facebook.com/article19org <http://facebook.com/article19org> PGP Fingerprint: B0FA394AF73DEB7AA1FDC7360CFED26DE6BA8DC1

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Job Vacancies in Regional ICT Bodies
by Gimode, Chiimbiru 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

Dear Listers, Kindly see the attached vacancies in regional ICT bodies as advertised by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA).The two have appeared in today’s My.Gov newspaper on pages 11 and 13. You can access the pull out in the Standard newspaper. This is for your information and noting. Best Regards, Chiimbiru Gimode, CMRP, MPRSK. Communications Officer Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) CA Centre,Waiyaki Way,Westlands, Nairobi I P.O Box 14448 Nairobi 00800. Office Line : 0703-042-524 I Website : www.ca.go.ke I Twitter : @CA_Kenya Facebook : Communications Authority of Kenya I YouTube : CA Kenya Flickr : https://www.flickr.com/photos/cck-kenya CA Core Values: Integrity | Transparency| Accountability | Diligence | Results Focus I Team work We are all bound together in ways that are invisible to the eye.There is a oneness to humanity.We achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others and caring for those around us-Barack Obama. [cid:64E3708E-AE0F-4C65-9FF0-F5215ED07049] Please be responsible, consider the environment before printing this e-mail. DISCLAIMER:- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use by the individual(s) or entity to whom it is addressed to. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Additionally, if you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately by a reply e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. From: TIMOTHY CHIIMBIRU GIMODE <gimode(a)ca.go.ke<mailto:gimode@ca.go.ke>> Date: Monday, 16 April 2018 at 09:17 To: Joel Anyona <Joel.Anyona(a)wpp-scangroup.com<mailto:Joel.Anyona@wpp-scangroup.com>> Cc: Anne Njeri <Anne.Njeri(a)squaddigital.com<mailto:Anne.Njeri@squaddigital.com>>, "CPA(a)ca.go.ke<mailto:CPA@ca.go.ke>" <CPA(a)ca.go.ke<mailto:CPA@ca.go.ke>> Subject: Website Uploads-Job Vacancies Dear Joel, Kindly upload the attached on this link: http://www.ca.go.ke/index.php/career-opportunities with the below deadlines 1. Executive Secretary ARICEA-Deadline 20th April 2018 2. EACO Liaison Managers-Deadline 24th April 2018 Also remove the current job advert as it is now time barred. Your promptness will be highly appreciated. Best Regards, Chiimbiru Gimode, CMRP, MPRSK. Communications Officer Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) CA Centre,Waiyaki Way,Westlands, Nairobi I P.O Box 14448 Nairobi 00800. Office Line : 0703-042-524 I Website : www.ca.go.ke I Twitter : @CA_Kenya Facebook : Communications Authority of Kenya I YouTube : CA Kenya Flickr : https://www.flickr.com/photos/cck-kenya CA Core Values: Integrity | Transparency| Accountability | Diligence | Results Focus I Team work We are all bound together in ways that are invisible to the eye.There is a oneness to humanity.We achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others and caring for those around us-Barack Obama. [cid:90A009A9-11E2-4C30-A8E9-10D3E8E99ED2] Please be responsible, consider the environment before printing this e-mail. DISCLAIMER:- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use by the individual(s) or entity to whom it is addressed to. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Additionally, if you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately by a reply e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.

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Amend the law to enable end-to-end land transactions
by S.M. Muraya 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

Noted well @walu The discussion the Lands ministry should have been having with the lawyers is about how to amend the law to enable end-to-end land transactions rather than how to protect the lawyers from the inevitable disruption that technology is bringing. https://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/walubengo/2274560-4380642-lfxopw/i…

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IEA position on CA's Analysys Mason Dominance Report
by Consumers Federation of Kenya (Cofek) 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

Dear All, Greetings from the Cofek team! We are requesting your kind response to the article below as carried by "The Standard" today. Your response would inform our view on the State of Consumer Protection Report on ICT sector in regard to this specific issue.We also hope that Mr Matano Ndaro, CA Director of Competition can also give us his take. By the way - should CA license and "regulate"" on competition" at the same time? Could it present a conflict of interest that the licensee of MNOs is also prescribing and enforcing competition? Kindly give us your feedback asap. You could soon pay higher costs for mobile services if the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) follows through with plans to introduce price controls in the sector, economists have warned. The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) said yesterday the recommendations by UK-based consultancy firm Analysys Mason, especially on price controls in its study on market dominance laid the basis for tariff hikes. "Price controls are not effective and inconsistent with 20 years of industry liberalisation and most national economic policy," said IEA Executive Director Kwame Owino during a media briefing on analysis of the CA report on competition in the telecommunications sector in the country in Nairobi. "Reintroduction of price controls would be a major policy reversal." The study presented early this year by Analysys Mason concluded that Safaricom has dominant market share currently standing at 70 per cent and 80 per cent in the mobile communications and mobile money market respectively and called for regulatory interventions. Among the recommendations was for Safaricom to share part of its tower infrastructure with other service providers for a period of five years at tariffs prescribed by CA. "Our analysis shows this dominance has been achieved because of the risk that firms have taken to invest in tower infrastructure," said Mr Owino. "Firms have different appetites for investment and compelling one firm to share infrastructure they've invested in at fixed prices is not defensible on economic grounds." The report had initially recommended Safaricom share its tower infrastructure with Airtel and Telkom in 14 counties where telecommunications infrastructure is lacking that were then halved to seven. Forcing infrastructure sharing among providers has also been criticised as only useful in redistributing income among existing players but stopping short of bringing costs down or improving product experience for consumers. The IEA boss further explained that some of the recommendations in the report could see the CA overreach its mandate as a regulator, stifling innovation and product differentiation among operators. "There is no policy justification to restrict the freedom of firms to engage in lawful marketing in any format," said Mr Owino. "This is the most unreasonable proposal with no benefit to aid market competition but would harm consumers." Analysys Mason had recommended the CA enforce a policy to limit Safaricom from promotions and loyalty schemes that can be replicated by other operators. Kind regards, Onesmus Mutungi Program Assistant Consumers Federation of Kenya (Cofek) Rehema Place, Block F Suite 45 P.O Box 28053-00200, City Square Tel. +2540202615496, 3861718 Mobile: 0715555550, 0733180008 Email : <mailto:hotline@cofek.co.ke> hotline(a)cofek.co.ke Web : <http://www.cofek.co.ke/> www.cofek.co.ke COFEK - Restoring Consumer Confidence and Pride SUBSCRIBE to #CofekBreakingNews Send "Cofek On" to 40408 Description: 3rdTraining

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Fwd: Internet Society (ISOC)Policy development Process framework
by Alice Munyua 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

Dear Colleagues, Please find attached the ISOC policy development framework document approved by the ISOC Board of Trustees. ISOC is committed to an open, transparent and inclusive process in constructing its policy positions, as a result the board of trustees approved the attached Policy Development Framework. This framework will serve as a guideline for community engagement in developing ISOC's policy positions. We welcome any comments and questions you may have. very best regards Alice

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The Education of Zuckerberg
by Ali Hussein 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

Not since Microsoft was taken to task for its monopolistic behaviour in the 1990s has there been such intense public scrutiny of the technology sector. #FAMGA (Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google & Apple). The poster child of this negative scrutiny is Facebook. Read on:- https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6389986176740261889 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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#من_نیستم
by WANGARI KABIRU 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

Some Bristle At Iran's Offer Of Unfiltered Internet To A Select Few | | | | | | | | | | | Some Bristle At Iran's Offer Of Unfiltered Internet To A Select Few Iranian journalists have criticized a government offer to provide 100 of them with free Internet, saying they'd ... | | | "The governmental Working Group to Determine Instances of Criminal Content issued the call for applications from journalists for the 100 spots following a request by the press office of the Culture Ministry, the semiofficial ISNA news agency reported on April 4. Journalists could apply by sending their name, ID number, contact information, and the name of their media organization to the Office of Press and Domestic News Agencies by April 20, the report said....." Kenyan journalists gain a glimpse of neighbors far of.... Be blessed. Regards/Wangari --- 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". https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-unfiltered-internet-select-few-journalists/291…

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