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ICANN president admits security issue could have been handled better
by Rebecca Wanjiku 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

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Re: [kictanet] Nothing like free dinner
by S.Murigi Muraya 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

One could easily get into (registered for) an ICANN session by providing a Business Card. That said, how do college students get in when ICANN attendants are required to produce Job ID cards? What about unemployed techies or technocrats seeking to learn more about Internet Governance but are not Tech Entreprenuers? Must say the Kenya IGF meeting really opened my mind as to how the Internet Community thinks & functions. -----Original Message----- From: waudo siganga <emailsignet(a)mailcan.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 18:02 To: murigi.muraya(a)gmail.com Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Nothing like free dinner Hi all - after attending this ICANN meetings for some years I can add that those who want to make contributions and influence the decision makers have both the formal sessions and the informal social functions. The social functions are justa as important to get close one-on-one with the decision makers. For example at yesterday's cross-constituency (free) breakfast with the ICANN Board the 5 Kenyans who were present were requested to make addresses and Evelyn Rono, Robert Yawe, Doris Ofisi, Anthony Karanja and Harry Hare made full use of the opportunity to make impressive points directly to the Board members. Waudo Since flew to Mombasa On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:29 -0800, "Walubengo J" <jwalu(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Wamuyu, I want to believe you and Tim are both right about Kenyan involvement in the ICANN process. You could be right in that very few KENYAN voices are being heard and this could be because for most Kenyans this is their 1st ICANN Meeting - and one must learn their environment before engaging their mouths. However, Tim is also right in that the ICANN meeting has many parallel programs (away from the main hall) that are technical and very engaging. I have found many Kenyans enjoying their time in these other forums that are equally important but less visible (glamorous?) That said, it may be good that next time(maybe it was done), the core Kenyan team (KENIC, CCK, Gov?) would elicit Kenyan positions on various issues and strategically plant some Kenyans in the "crowd" to present those views when the ICANN board/councils open the floor for discussions. Methinks that that is what other countries, business communities and other stakeholders do. Like today I was shocked to hear a verbal submission from the guys who want to run something called the dot.gay domain...Needless to say I couldnt contribute because I was simply undergoing some cultural-shock just by staring at THIS guy and not hearing what he was saying (but that's a story for another day ;-) Yeah, looks like the internet is not just about wires and cables... walu. walu. --- On Wed, 3/10/10, Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyulearn(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: From: Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyulearn(a)yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Nothing like free dinner To: jwalu(a)yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 12:41 PM Tim, please substantiate. Yesterday I was at the county code NSO meeting, than later at the commercial actors meeting and finally at the GAC/ICANN board meetings. No Kenyan spoke at the first two meetings (if they were present). Alice and Michael (CCK) made an important intervention on the distraction and unfairness to Kenya of the security hollabalu - but no one else was around to support them in defending Kenya. Note also that this was the meeting where the ICANN board was trying once more to conclude the EOI issue on generic TLDs - businesses from developed countries can barely wait for this decision to be made. Actually, I think the weak Kenyan engagement is genuine and not one that we should necessarily be defensive about. Am new to ICANN and if I had not made the decision to attend the meeting a little while ago, I would never have understood its agenda and whats at stake. Those who have been involved in ICANN longer may have points to contribute on increasing Kenya's involvement. regards, Wamuyu From: McTim <dogwallah(a)gmail.com> To: Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyulearn(a)yahoo.co.uk> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Tue, 9 March, 2010 23:30:56 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Nothing like free dinner On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyulearn(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > nothing to do with Kenya. There must be good reasons why European, American, > Asian and Australian businesspeople and their governments have hyper > involvement while their Kenyan hosts are minding their shugulis...? Are we attending different meetings? I've been in a dozen meetings, and their have always been Kenyans in each one, many of them actively participating. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." 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ICANN: Africa must work hard too...
by alice＠apc.org 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

http://wanjiku.co.ke/ ICANN: Africa must work hard too... 08 03 2010 Comments: 3 Available in: English There are many African governments and citizens who do not understand the role of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. For some, ICANN should operate in the bottom later ensuring that we have internet access and that the pipes are faster. Others think that ICANN should be involved in the running of domain registries, which are in shambles and in some cases fighting over petty issues. Others think that ICANN is there to fund them; talk of reliance on aid. Of course ICANN has no role in all these things and what it points is that more outreach is needed and maybe ICANN should have an office in Africa. But how? According to Rod Beckstrom, 90 percent of ICANN contributions come from North America, so that may be the reason why we have 3 offices in the US and none in Africa. That makes sense; if Africa does not contribute anything, how will the office be supported? So, for Africa to be on level terms, then we must also be willing to contribute, but am not sure how when our registry operations are still manual. I was chatting with Rafik Dammak, who accuses me of complaining or whining too much but then, what do I do? Rafik told me of how the various constituencies within ICANN are always looking for participants but what do you do when they dont contribute to those meetings and in some cases stay outside within the coffee houses instead of meeting rooms? Yes, its good to have geographical representations but we also need to start bringing something on the table and contributing to the debate more than we do currently. Regarding the financial contributions, I have no words; will leave it for the others. Ends

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Africa TLD registries discuss take-up of domains
by muriuki mureithi 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hi listers For more visit http://www.thestandard.com/news/2010/03/09/africa-tld-registries-discuss-tak e-domains Cheers Muriuki Mureithi ---------------------------------- Summit Strategies Ltd ICT consulting and research Land mark Plaza 13th floor P O Box 62454 - 00200 Nairobi Kenya tel + 254-20- 3673925 Cell +254 722 520090 email - mureithi(a)summitstrategies.co.ke www.summitstrategies.co.ke

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Weekly unlimited internet connectivity
by Harry Delano 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Listers, The decision by Safaricom to offer weekly unlimited internet connectivity, - as an alternative to Ksh 1,000 Per 300MB pricing model should be hailed as a step in the right direction,as we work towards bringing Broadband access prices down. It is laudable and other service providers should consider this worth emulating, and from all of them, we expect more. With reseach ( an earlier post from Alice Best), showing that usage is increasing, and especially the fact that there is a huge potential for growth in this market, should motivate service providers to re-look at their overall strategy in reaching out to the "untapped" mass market and increase their sales volumes. Ultimately, pricing will be a key factor here as well as investing in the best technology available to serve savvy Technobile Kenyans.. Harry

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nancy bosire invites you to use Boxbe
by nancy bosire 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

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Power Instability
by waudo siganga 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

I am staying in a so-called "5-star hotel" in Mombasa but there are unpedictable power outages that keep plunging the tourists in darkness before the back-up generators come on. I understand this is a common, alas daily, occurence. Why can't this power issue be addressed once and for all and how do industries like BPO and ITES cope? Will we really become an ICT hub of choice with this basic instability? Waudo

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Re: [kictanet] 3G My foot
by robert yawe 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hi, Thanks for the information, we requested KDN to carry out a survey for the laying of a fibre node within the estate over 6 months ago, I was notified that this was done and what was remaining was a business case which it seems the responsible representative was unable to present to your management. I will go the extra distance and provide a solution for you to present to us, there are 42 houses and the estate has been fully ducted for low voltage services from the main gate all the way into the lounge. This would mean no overhead cabling or digging is required. The Izzy talk service would provide an ideal intercom system this we can have part of the installation cost covered from service charge. If you could then include 3 or 4 IP cameras that would allow us to view activities going on within the estate and the periphery then we can through in a bit more from the security kitty towards the monthly charge as it enhances security and piece of mind as the parents can monitor their kids remotely. Provide a blackbox to do content filtering and monitoring (the neighbours can visit those sites from the office), install a vlan that will give us an internal network so that the kids can connect their PS-2/3 and PCs and play network games and I can raid the kitchen budget for part of the monthly fee. With such a bundle you will be able to convert 100% of the households all 42 in a single location should justify your waiving the setup fee also because I have provided you with free consultancy and offered you a test site. Balls in your court. "Stop thinking out of the box, get out of the box" Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: Joseph Njogu <joseph.njogu(a)kdn.co.ke> To: robertyawe(a)yahoo.co.uk Cc: Eric Khamasi <eric.khamasi(a)kdn.co.ke>; kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke Sent: Mon, 8 March, 2010 16:47:43 Subject: Re: [kictanet] 3G My foot Dear Mr. Yawe, Thak you for the info. Kindly see the attached on what we are offering. Best regards, Joseph Njogu, ----- Original Message ----- > >From: Eric > Khamasi >To: 'Joseph Njogu' >Sent: Monday, March > 08, 2010 9:09 AM >Subject: FW: > [kictanet] 3G My foot > > >Joseph, > >Please deal with this >client. > >Eric > > ________________________________ >From:Kai Wulff > [mailto: kai.wulff(a)kdn.co.ke ] > >Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 > 8:36 AM >To: 'Eric > Khamasi' >Subject: Fw: > [kictanet] 3G My foot > >Sell to > him >----- Original > Message ----- >From:robert > yawe >To:kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke >Cc:KICTAnet ICT Policy > Discussions >Sent:Monday, > March 08, 2010 8:29 AM >Subject:> [kictanet] 3G My foot > >Hi, > >I had another horrible > experience trying to work from home again this weekend after Safaricoms the 3G > services was was unavailable in the South C and the edge service is literally > the edge of the service I could not even refresh a yahoo mail > page. > >Just out of curiosity was don't the mobile companies outsource > their network optimization business to the level of having providers invest in > the equipment in exchange for a share of revenue from the traffic that they > pass through. > >As consumers we are charged based on utilisation > so the mobile companies don't need to change their tariff structures to > accommodate the booster and repeater providers. Hopefully after > they have tested this model in the urban areas they can use the same model to > better cover the rural areas. > >On the other front is the excessive > advertising spend my Telkom on the issue of wired services, when are they > likely to make this available outside the CBD as their are no copper cables in > the residential areas or does Orange think that all our Nyumbas are in the > CBD? > >Have a bandwidth available > week > >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 >http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet > >This > message was sent to: > kai.wulff(a)kdn.co.ke >Unsubscribe or change your > options at > http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/kai.wulff%40kdn.co.ke

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dot mobi to visit iHub
by Rebecca Wanjiku 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

If you would like to know more about dot mobi or opportunities for developers, registrars and marketers, please come to the iHub tomorrow at 4pm read more www.ihub.co.ke Tel. 254 720 318 925 www.wanjiku.co.ke

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Re: [kictanet] Nothing like free dinner
by S.Murigi Muraya 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Wamuyu, Believe it or not was turned away from the ICANN yesterday. Did not expect to be asked for proof that am part of the Kenyan IT industry. Only had a Kenyan ID & accent that could not convince those at the registration desk otherwise. Doubt that I will return. -----Original Message----- From: Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyulearn(a)yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 11:41 To: murigi.muraya(a)gmail.com Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Nothing like free dinner Tim, please substantiate. Yesterday I was at the county code NSO meeting, than later at the commercial actors meeting and finally at the GAC/ICANN board meetings. No Kenyan spoke at the first two meetings (if they were present). Alice and Michael (CCK) made an important intervention on the distraction and unfairness to Kenya of the security hollabalu - but no one else was around to support them in defending Kenya. Note also that this was the meeting where the ICANN board was trying once more to conclude the EOI issue on generic TLDs - businesses from developed countries can barely wait for this decision to be made. Actually, I think the weak Kenyan engagement is genuine and not one that we should necessarily be defensive about. Am new to ICANN and if I had not made the decision to attend the meeting a little while ago, I would never have understood its agenda and whats at stake. Those who have been involved in ICANN longer may have points to contribute on increasing Kenya's involvement. regards, Wamuyu From: McTim <dogwallah(a)gmail.com> To: Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyulearn(a)yahoo.co.uk> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Tue, 9 March, 2010 23:30:56 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Nothing like free dinner On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Wamuyu Gatheru <wamuyulearn(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > nothing to do with Kenya. There must be good reasons why European, American, > Asian and Australian businesspeople and their governments have hyper > involvement while their Kenyan hosts are minding their shugulis...? Are we attending different meetings? I've been in a dozen meetings, and their have always been Kenyans in each one, many of them actively participating. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel

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