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Looking for storage device
by Ohaga JB 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Dear Listers, I know that this is outside the policy debate but I am in a quandary. I am looking to purchase a hard drive/storage device with a capacity of 20 terabytes or more. Any ideas on where I can get this?? Kindest regards, JB.

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EXCITING DIGITAL SECURITY SHORT COURSES AT STRATHMORE UNIVERSITY
by Tirus Wanyoike 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

*Dear ALL, * Kindly review the below information and circulate widely to your network in the IT security docket. Thank You! *1. STRATHMORE-SOFTLOCK DIGITAL SECURITY COURSES* Strathmore University has partnered with Softlock, a leading global digital Security company to offer courses in Digital Security. The Courses will be offered at Strathmore University's ultramodern @iLabAfrica IT Security Centre. See more at : http://www.ilabafrica.ac.ke/index.php/media-news/news/334-digital-security-… This training will lead to Softlock Certified Professional (SCP) *SCP Benefits* • Exposure to modern digital security tools and techniques. • Recognition of your technical knowledge and skills • Official transcripts • Use of SCP logo • Access to the exclusive SCP portal • Invitation to beta exams and classes • Discounted admission to Softlock events • Complimentary Softlock e-Sign Token • Complimentary Softlock Personal Protector with 1year license • Greater opportunities for career advancement *2. CERTIFIED ETHICAL HACKER:* Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) is a professional certification offered by the EC-Council (International Council of E-Commerce Consultants). The course exposes learners to standard hacking practices with the aim of giving them hands-on-experience on identifying, counteracting and preventing these attacks. Upon completion of the certification examination, learners become Certified Ethical Hackers. For more details see: http://www.ilabafrica.ac.ke/index.php/media-news/news/331-certified-ethical… *PS: Online r**egistration is currently on-going and we are targeting a maximum class of 30 qualified students per course.* We look forward to being of service to you and your organisation. Kind Regards, Tirus Wanyoike Business Development Manager - @iLabAfrica Strathmore University M:(+254) (0) 723 885 209 | T: (+254) (0) 703 034 000 | Skype: kamau.tirus Strathmore Student Centre Building (4th Floor), Keri Road, Madaraka Estate, Nairobi, Kenya, Website: www.iLabAfrica.ac.ke <http://www.ilabafrica.ac.ke/> / www.strathmore.edu -- Note: All emails sent from Strathmore University are subject to Strathmore’s Email Terms & Conditions. Please click here<http://www.strathmore.edu/aboutus.php?id=184>to read the policy. "Visit our Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/StrathmoreUniversity>Page and Twitter <https://twitter.com/StrathU>Account".

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Ref: Synology Data Storage Solutions
by Josy Ngatia 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Dear Team, Just to shed more light on Synology Storage Solutions, Currently Synology presents powerful, reliable data storage solutions for both SMB and Enterprise users, Read More<http://www.synology.com/en-us/solution/business_solutions> . Ideally, It's paramount to define the specifications/requirements for the storage but to highlight some business features which are ideal for many organizations, 1. Enterprise File Sharing & Private Cloud. With integration to active Directory or LDAP server and also Synology Private cloud, you can access your files on the go across different devices. Read more<http://www.synology.com/en-us/events/2013_upgrade_to_synology_nas#pc_file_s…> 2. Virtualization & ISCSI storage . Synology supports all major Read More<http://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/business_virtualization_iscsi_virtualizat…> 3. User data backup for Linux, Windows and MAC. With Synology data replicator, Time machine user data backup is made easy Read More<http://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/home_backup_desktop_backup> 4. Offsite Backup. With Synology Network backup, Online replication or scheduled backup can be achieved easily. Read More<http://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/business_data_backup_server_backup> View a demo <https://partners.eblue.co.ke:5000/> Username: admin password: demo --------------------------- Regards Joseph Synology Partner

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WEBINAR: ICANN Strategy Panel on Identifier Technology Innovation
by Bob Omondi 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Dear Listers, You are invited to an update on the activities of the *Strategy Panel on Identifier Technology Innovation*. ICANN Strategy Panels'<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-15jul13-en.htm>work will inform ICANN's new, overarching vision and five-year strategic plan. Date: Wednesday, 22 January 2014 Time: 03:00-04:30 UTC (Time converter: http://tinyurl.com/q3rlt82) Date: Thursday, 23 January 2014 Time: 19:00-20:30 UTC (Time converter: http://tinyurl.com/qcyk5mu) More at: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-17jan14-en.htm Regards Bob.

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Re: [kictanet] 4G status
by ICT Researcher 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

Adam, Sorry if come out so blunt... But I find the tone of some communications striking as "Master to slave" directives.. Not embrasing at all. I just had to say it and won't respond to any fire I may cause here:-) ------------------------------ On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 11:45 AM MSK Adam Nelson wrote: >What's the status with 4G these days in Kenya? Is it totally stalled? > >I just found out that Uganda offers 4G from at least one carrier with 2 or >more on the way shortly. > >Since I can't seem to convince many people on this list to be >Internationalists, maybe I can at least appeal to raw national competition >to spur movement by the Kenyan authorities/telecoms to catch up to Uganda? > >Cheers, >Adam >-- >Kili - Cloud for Africa: kili.io >Musings: twitter.com/varud <https://twitter.com/varud> >More Musings: varud.com >About Adam: www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson

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Re: [kictanet] 4G status
by Alice Munyua 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Future of LTE in Africa: http://manypossibilities.net/2014/01/africas-lte-future/ Looking forward to voice over LTE. As Steve notes, it will "present interesting new challenges for voice quality" Best Alice On 20/01/2014 13:51, Adam Nelson wrote: > @James, thanks for the info. > @Mark, LTE is not just about higher bandwidth, it's also about lower latency and lower per-MB costs in the future. > @ICT Researcher, your point is well taken and it's the type of thing that I think about whenever I write to this list. It's the same reason that you'll notice no Europeans or Americans ever respond to notes complaining about the state of ICT in Kenya (even though the list has many of them) - they're afraid they'll be accused of racism. I personally think that there is no fundamental reason that the Kenyan ICT sector can't compete with those of other countries so I try to just say it like I see it. The lack of 4G being on the roadmap is bad for the country's ICT future, the lack of ability to hire foreign workers is bad for the entire corporate sector, etc... and if people don't complain, nothing will change. And if you reduce the number of people allowed to complain to only those who were born here - then even less will happen. > -- > Kili - Cloud for Africa: kili.io > Musings: twitter.com/varud > More Musings: varud.com > About Adam: www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:26 PM, James Mbugua <jgmbugua(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Adam, > Because of the limited spectrum, CCK had sought a joint approach, a consortium of sorts similar to TEAMS to rollout LTE. But some of the players are apprehensive about this and want to go it alone. Ericsson had also offered to build it with no payment upfront but I don't know what came of that. > I tend to suspect that the fiber rollout by Safaricom is meant to anticipate its rollout of an LTE network backhauled by this cable it is rolling out across the country. But that's just my guess. > James > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:09 PM, ICT Researcher <ict.researcher(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Adam, > > Sorry if come out so blunt... > > But I find the tone of some communications striking as "Master to slave" directives.. > > Not embrasing at all. I just had to say > it and won't respond to any fire I may cause here:-) > > > > ------------------------------ > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 11:45 AM MSK Adam Nelson wrote: > > >What's the status with 4G these days in Kenya? Is it totally stalled? > > > >I just found out that Uganda offers 4G from at least one carrier with 2 or > >more on the way shortly. > > > >Since I can't seem to convince many people on this list to be > >Internationalists, maybe I can at least appeal to raw national competition > >to spur movement by the Kenyan authorities/telecoms to catch up to Uganda? > > > >Cheers, > >Adam > >-- > >Kili - Cloud for Africa: kili.io > >Musings: twitter.com/varud <https://twitter.com/varud> > >More Musings: varud.com > >About Adam: www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson > > _______________________________________________ > 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/jgmbugua%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. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/adam%40varud.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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/alice%40apc.org > > 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] Paypal has arrived
by elusega＠gmail.com 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

---------- Sent from my Nokia ------Original message------ From: Adam Nelson <adam(a)varud.com> To: "Edward" <elusega(a)gmail.com> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Monday, January 20, 2014 4:09:27 PM GMT+0300 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Paypal has arrived This has been available for some time but apparently is a pretty terrible implementation with long delays, bad fee structure, etc... The money has to go through South Africa because of anti-terrorism laws in place against Kenyan banks apparently (other people on this list and Skunkworks have detailed the issues before). -- Kili - Cloud for Africa: kili.io Musings: twitter.com/varud <https://twitter.com/varud> More Musings: varud.com About Adam: www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:03 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Listers, > > I received the following message last week from Paypal > > We have some great news for you! You can now withdraw your money from your > PayPal balance to your Kenyan Equity Bank account. > > To help you withdraw funds from your PayPal account to your Kenyan bank > account, we have partnered with Equity Bank and created Equity Bank’s > PayPal withdraw service. This requires you to hold a bank account with > Equity Bank. > > Regards > > > > Robert Yawe > KAY System Technologies Ltd > Phoenix House, 6th Floor > P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 > Kenya > > > Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 > > _______________________________________________ > 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/adam%40varud.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. > _______________________________________________ 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/elusega%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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Paypal has arrived
by robert yawe 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Hi Listers, I received the following message last week from Paypal We have some great news for you! You can now withdraw your money from your PayPal balance to your Kenyan Equity Bank account. To help you withdraw funds from your PayPal account to your Kenyan bank account, we have partnered with Equity Bank and created Equity Bank’s PayPal withdraw service. This requires you to hold a bank account with Equity Bank. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696

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Business Process Management Automation
by Ngigi Waithaka 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Listers, If any of you is interested in Business Process Management (BPM) automation and especially how to work with a BPM Engine, we have a new product that is currently in Beta, and I would like your input as we soon share this with the world. The link on how to access the online demo is here<https://docs.google.com/a/at.co.ke/document/d/1W3EWAY10-8calbG1XR-_p8EYIfQ7…>, you can share this with those in your circles. If you need more details, get intouch with me. -- *Regards,* *Wait**haka Ngigi* Chief Executive Officer | Alliance Technologies | MCK Nairobi Synod Building T + 254 (0) 20 2333 471 |Office Mobile: +254 786 28 28 28 | M + 254 737 811 000 www.at.co.ke

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4G status
by Adam Nelson 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

What's the status with 4G these days in Kenya? Is it totally stalled? I just found out that Uganda offers 4G from at least one carrier with 2 or more on the way shortly. Since I can't seem to convince many people on this list to be Internationalists, maybe I can at least appeal to raw national competition to spur movement by the Kenyan authorities/telecoms to catch up to Uganda? Cheers, Adam -- Kili - Cloud for Africa: kili.io Musings: twitter.com/varud <https://twitter.com/varud> More Musings: varud.com About Adam: www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson

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