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AfrISPA launches a paradigm shift to stimulate Internet growth through CONTENT
by Eric Osiakwan 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

On Thursday 23rd of March 2006 at the keynote session of the Digital Africa Summit in Arebella Sheraton Grand Hotel, Cape Town, the African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA @ www.afrispa.org) launched their first position paper in a series which is focused on strategies for increased Internet growth. A call for a paradigm shift to stimulate Internet growth through content is the first position paper which argues that based on research finding, most African are interested in the value they get out of connecting to the Internet and not just for the sake of having access. Primarily their interest is driven by the value of content that they locate which is relevant to their lives and business. According to Mr. Muriuki Mureithi of Summit Strategies who authored the report on behalf of AfrISPA, it was intriguing to realize that even in the semi-rural areas the interest of most small medium enterprises who could afford the Internet was content; they asked the question would I find relevant material on the Internet which would aid the growth of my business?. For them it was not just enough to use the Internet to communicate but they also wanted to see how it fits into their business processes for growth. Further the position of the lack of African content on the Internet was expressed by some of the constituents interviewed in the study. Launching the report, Mr. William Stucke, Chairman of AfrISPA expressed AfrISPAs interest in identifying other mechanism for stimulating Internet growth on the continent hence the series of position papers being undertaken with support from the Catalysing Access to ICTs in Africa Programme (CATIA @ www.catia.ws) He outlined the ten point recommendations of the study and emphasised the one that asks AfrISPA members and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Africa to give a free webpage or weblog (blog) to all their clients as well as develop simple web publishing tools to help them publish their content. The main objective of this position paper it to make the case for Africans to move from being consumers to producers of content that is relevant to their livelihoods and business. The culture of generating, process and publishing content in Africa is so lacking that if we dont take a strategic step to deal with it, all the Internet pipes that are being built would lack the relevant content for our socio-economic development. Earlier, Mr. Eric M.K Osiakwan secretary of AfrISPA announced in his presentation that Africa now has fifteen Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) and twelve ISP Associations (ISPAs) however current efforts with other regional institutions would result in the establishment of ten more ISPAs and IXPs in 2006 with a projection of that to double in 2007. He emphasised that the growth of these exchanges is based on content and vice versa so the establishment of IXPs and the culture of developing and publishing content must go hand in hand. A copy of the study can be downloaded @ http://www.afrispa.org/PositionPapers/content.pdf NB: Apologise for crossposting. -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA (www.afrispa.org) Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Handle: eosiakwan Snail Mail: Pmb 208, Accra-North Office: BusyInternet - 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html Slang: "Tomorrow Now" --

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ICT Sessional paper
by Muriuki Mureithi 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Hi colleagues ICT is still high in the political agenda .Today at the official opening of parliament, the President mentioned telecommunications as one of the sectors that grew fast and contributed to high overall national growth. He restated the government commitment to the ICT sector and cited the government's approval of the National ICT Policy earlier in the year In the legislative agenda for this session of parliament, he said that the government will present - a Sessional paper on ICT - a ICT bill to repeal Kenya Communications Act of 1998 I did talk a number of MPs and senior officials in the ICT sector who were present and got away with following - there is concern that the well meaning initiative of the government may not be realised simply because of the speed of the parliament to enact laws. In the last year, only 7 bills were enacted against 25 presented for discussions. With this speed of delivery, it is worrying if Parliament can deliver the Sessional paper and the ICT bill before the elections. One thing that comes out in my discussions with some MPs is the need to fast track the Bill - National ICT policy was published by the Ministry of I &C and approved by the Cabinet. Parliament had no role. Sessional paper will be a more forceful national commitment because parliament will discuss it and approve it. Often Sessional papers are more long term and cross cutting. It is significant for the government to develop the Sessional paper to consolidate the gains of the national ICT policy - understandably the bill is in the AG 's office being drafted and barring heavy schedules in AG's office who have to republish the many bills that lapsed, the ICT bill will be out soon. Keep watch. Meanwhile use the draft bill published by the Ministry. Cheers Muriuki --------------------------------------- Summit Strategies Ltd - Strategic information for decision support in infocommunication business ICT Consultancy & Research in Eastern & Central African markets Contacts : Tel +254 (20) 3875824 , Cell + 254 (722) 520090, email: <mailto:[email protected]> mureithi(a)summitstrategies.co.ke

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Fwd: East Africa Technology Information Project Receives Association f or Computing Machinery Humanitarian Award
by Florence Etta 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

FYI Sorry for cross posting. FE --- Anthony.MUSUNJI(a)cec.eu.int wrote: > From: Anthony.MUSUNJI(a)cec.eu.int > To: "KIPlist" <kiplist-cl(a)lyris.idrc.ca> > Subject: East Africa Technology Information Project > Receives Association f > or Computing Machinery Humanitarian Award > Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:26:08 +0100 > > BM_253778East Africa Technology Information Project > Receives Association for > Computing Machinery Humanitarian Award > AScribe Newswire (03/16/06) > > ACM has named the project leaders of the Nakuru > Local Urban Observatory > (LUO) in Kenya as the winners of the 2005 Lawler > Award for Humanitarian > Contributions. Albrecht Ehrensperger of the Center > for Development and > Environment of the University of Berne, Switzerland, > and Solomon Mbuguah and > Ernest Siva of the Municipal Council of Nakuru will > receive the Eugene L. > Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions Within > Computer Science and > Informatics during the annual ACM Awards Banquet, > May 20, 2006, in San > Francisco. Through user-friendly software, the > Nakuru LUO project has > provided its Kenyan community with a spatial > information tool that is able > to store, retrieve, map, and analyze geographic > data. The community, which > has never had data on sanitation, water supply, and > other public facilities > before, is now able to use a global information > system (GIS) for town > planning initiatives. The geographical information > database, which can be > assessed at libraries, schools, and non-governmental > agencies, also serves > as a tool for obtaining local news and other > services. ACM introduced the > award, which includes a $5,000 prize, in 2000, and > it is given every two > years. For more information on the ACM Lawler Award > and this year's > recipients, visit > http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/3_2006/lawler.cfm > <http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/3_2006/lawler.cfm> > < > br> Click Here to View Full Article > <http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20060316.141511&tim > e=16%2010%20PST&year=2006&public=0> > to the top > > > > > > Anthony Musunji > European Commission - Delegation Kenya > * +254-2-2713020 (pilot line) > * +254-2-2802013 (direct line) > * +254-2-2711954 (fax) > *anthony.musunji(a)cec.eu.int > * website: <http://www.delken.cec.eu.int/> > http://www.delken.cec.eu.int > P.O. Box 45119, 00100 - Nairobi, Kenya > Union Insurance House, Ragati Road > Upper Hill > > This email, and any files transmitted with it, is > confidential and intended > solely for the use of the individual or entity to > whom it is addressed. The > views expressed are purely those of the sender and > may not in any > circumstances be regarded as stating an official > position of the European > Commission. If you have received this email in error > please notify the > sender and delete the message. > > > > > > > > --- > Submitted by: Anthony.MUSUNJI(a)cec.eu.int 2006-03-21 > 00:35:06 EST5 > (Please reply to original submitter for private > communication) > --- > You are currently subscribed to kiplist-cl as: > [feanywhere(a)yahoo.co.uk] > To unsubscribe, forward this message to > leave-kiplist-cl-98821H(a)lyris.idrc.ca > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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Re: Fiber - Why not Over the land?
by Bill Woodcock 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

> I was chatting with a colleague of mine about the EASSy cable. And > he was asking, if our intention is to connect with the SAT3 cable at > S.Africa why cant we do it over the terrestial landscape. I am told > fiber laid side-by-side with Electricity cables can be installed in > record time with minimal costs... > Must we bury the fiber in the Ocean for it to work (;-). There are three ways, practically speaking, of doing it over land: you can bury it in conduit, you can wrap it around power lines, or you can put it through existing pipelines. Burying it in its own conduit achieves no great cost synergy, and provides no great protection. Wrapping it around existing high-voltage power lines is very fast, very cheap, gets the fiber up where people don't want to touch it, and is only medium-difficult to repair. But you typically don't have high-voltage power lines everywhere you want to run fiber. Pushing it through existing gas or oil or water pipelines provides good protection, is medium fast and cheap, but the pipelines are even rarer than power lines, and it's very difficult to add taps after the fact, and so on. In all cases, over-land is cheaper and less equipment-intensive than a real deep-water submarine fiber lay. Disadvantages to running over-land relative to submarine are that the fiber is much more likely to be damaged accidentally or through vandalism, and that it's much more difficult to achieve consensus among all of the (many many) parties across whose land it needs to run (particularly since the vast majority of them will receive no direct benefit from it, since it won't be exposed everywhere). -Bill

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Re: Fiber - Why not Over the land?
by John Walubengo 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

I was chatting with a colleague of mine about the EASSy cable. And he was asking, if our intention is to connect with the SAT3 cable at S.Africa why cant we do it over the terrestial landscape. I am told fiber laid side-by-side with Electricity cables can be installed in record time with minimal costs... Must we bury the fiber in the Ocean for it to work (;-). walu. >>> "waudo siganga" <emailsignet(a)mailcan.com> 02/23/06 09:16AM >>> My hunch is that this cables face problems from (particularly) shipping traffic and the river depths would be inadequate toprotect them. My memory of the geograpgy of the Nile is that it is not even navigable over long distances due to waterfalls, rapids, places where it "disappears' in marshes (Bar El Ghazal), etc) and so it would not even offer a consistent medium. The other thing is that international fibre optic cables have to follow a route where they maximize the tap off points. In the Case of Egypt to E.A. there would be less countries served along the way than going round the coastline... (not expert views but my hunch) Kind Regards Waudo On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:08:22 +0300, "Michuki Mwangi" <michuki(a)kenic.or.ke> said: > Excuse my ignorance on the logistics related to submarine fiber cable > installations;. However, am interested to know if considerations were > given to having a cable run on the River Nile all the way from Egypt/Red > Sea to Lake Victoria. If so what were the challenges encountered. > > In my opinion that would have served E.A pretty well if possible > > Regards, > > -- > Michuki Mwangi > KENIC > > --- > Submitted by: Michuki Mwangi <michuki(a)kenic.or.ke> 2006-02-22 12:17:06 > EST5 > (Please reply to original submitter for private communication) > --- > You are currently subscribed to kiplist-cl as: [emailsignet(a)mailcan.com] > To unsubscribe, forward this message to > %%email.unsub%% -- waudo siganga emailsignet(a)mailcan.com -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different* --- Submitted by: Waudo Siganga - (Int. address) <emailsignet(a)mailcan.com> 2006-02-23 01:24:25 EST5 (Please reply to original submitter for private communication) --- You are currently subscribed to kiplist-cl as: [jwalubengo(a)kcct.ac.ke] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-kiplist-cl-102682Q(a)lyris.idrc.ca

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Agenda Ugent KICTAnet planning meeting 20 March 2006 from 9.00 am
by alice＠apc.org 19 Mar '06

19 Mar '06

Dear all Below tentative agenda for the urgent KICTANet planning meeting to be held on Monday 20, March 2006. The meeting is taking place at the jacaranda hotel room 201. I have attached the agenda for the meeting as well as the last meeting minutes thank you ----------------------------------------------------- Agenda 1.. Review of last meeting minutes 2.. Matters arising 3.. Presentation of proposal to the embassy of Finland 4.. Plan of action/activities and budget 5.. Approval of Plan of action 6.. Presentation of secretariat staff plan 7.. Approval of Secretariat plan 8.. AOB

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ICANN Outlines Plan for Testing Non-English Domain Names
by alice＠apc.org 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

ICANN Outlines Plan for Testing Non-English Domain Names > The Internet's key oversight agency has outlined a plan for testing > domain names entirely in non-English characters, bringing closer to > reality a change highly sought by Asian and Arabic Internet users. The > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced a tentative > timetable that calls for tests to begin in the second half of the year. > The tests would help ensure that introducing non-English suffixes wouldn't > wreck a global addressing system that millions of Internet users rely upon > every day. > Read more: > http://www.gigalaw.com/newsarchives/2006_03_16_index2.html#1142543893876088…

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Fw: [Kictanet] Fundraising Meeting moved to Monday morning, 9am at Jacaranda
by alice＠apc.org 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Dear Edith I would like to invite you to the KICTANet planning meeting to be held on Monday 20th March 2006 We will distribute the draft work plan and budget tomorrow the list. thank you and kind regards alice For network members please, could you kindly confirm attendance by tomorrow Friday 17th March 2006. See message below from Wainaina Mumgai thank you ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wainaina Mungai" <wainaina(a)madeinkenya.org> To: <alice(a)apc.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:39 AM Subject: [Kictanet] Fundraising Meeting moved to Monday morning,9am at Jacaranda > Dear all, > > Given that the short notice may have denied most an opportunity to > participate, Alice will be asking the funders for an extension of the > deadline to next Wednesday. This means KICTAnet members will need to work > on a detailed workplan that they will approve on Monday. > > A special planning meeting is therefore scheduled for Monday morning, 9am > at Jacaranda. Please confirm your attendance as you send your input. The > activities in the proposal will mainly be the activities KICTANet has > discussed in previous meetings. > > Regards, > > --- > Wainaina Mungai > http://www.madeinkenya.org > > SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT is development that meets the needs of the present > without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own > needs. > > _______________________________________________ > kictanet mailing list > kictanet(a)kictanet.or.ke > http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet > > Please unsubscribe or change your options at > http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/alice%40apc.org

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by Webmaster Tendencia 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

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Fwd: UNESCO opens online platform for planning multi-stakeholder implementation of WSIS Plan of Action
by Florence Etta 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

fyi --- Waudo Siganga <csk(a)nbi.ispkenya.com> wrote: > Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:11:37 -0800 > To: "KIPlist" <kiplist-cl(a)lyris.idrc.ca> > From: Waudo Siganga <csk(a)nbi.ispkenya.com> > Subject: Fwd: UNESCO opens online platform for > planning > multi-stakeholder implementation of WSIS Plan of > Action > --------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, For your information, and in case you would like to participate: X-From_: ci(a)unesco.org Tue Mar 1419:14:01 2006 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-IronPort-AV: i="4.02,191,1139180400"; d="scan'208,217";a="7139732:sNHT24908332" Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:51:08 +0100 To: csk(a)nbi.ispkenya.com From: CI News <ci(a)unesco.org> Subject: UNESCO opens online platform for planning multi-stakeholderimplementation of WSIS Plan of Action X-mid: Y3NrQG5iaS5pc3BrZW55YS5jb20gLCA0MTE= UNESCO opens online platform for planning multi-stakeholderimplementation of WSIS Plan of Action UNESCO has now opened anonlineplatform to facilitate initial contacts among stakeholdersand to launch activities under the Action Lines of the Geneva Plan ofAction that are in the area of competence of the Organization. This includes the following action lines: C3: Access to information and knowledge C7: E-learning and E-science C8:Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local contentC9: Media C10: Ethical dimensions of the Information Society Link toonlineplatform --------------------------------- This is a one-off mail that is being sent toyou as you have earlier expressed interest in matters related to theWorld Summit on the Information Society. Should you like to be regularly be informed on UNESCOs activities in thearea of communication and information, please register athttp://www.unesco.org/webworld/newsletter Plate-forme en ligne de lUNESCO pour préparer la mise en uvremulti-parties prenantes du Plan daction du SMSI LUNESCOvient douvrir uneplate-formeen ligne pour faciliter les premiers contacts entre lesdifférentes parties prenantes et entreprendre des activités concernantles grandes orientations du Plan daction de Genève qui relèvent de lacompétence de lOrganisation. Il sagit des grandes orientations suivantes : C3: Laccès à linformation et au savoir C7: Télé-enseignement etCyberscience C8: Diversité et identité culturelles, diversitélinguistique et contenus locaux C9: Médias C10: Dimensions éthiques de lasociété de linformation lien vers laplate-formeen ligne --------------------------------- Ce message est le dernier qui vous sera envoyéfaisant suite à lintérêt que vous avez exprimé pour le Sommet mondialsur la société de linformation. Si vous souhaitez être régulièrement informé(e) des activités de lUNESCOdans le domaine de la communication et de linformation, veuillez vousenregistrer en utilisant lURL suivante :http://www.unesco.org/webworld/newsletter > --- > Submitted by: csk(a)nbi.ispkenya.com 2006-03-15 > 03:22:32 EST5 > (Please reply to original submitter for private > communication) > --- > You are currently subscribed to kiplist-cl as: > [feanywhere(a)yahoo.co.uk] > To unsubscribe, forward this message to > leave-kiplist-cl-98821H(a)lyris.idrc.ca > Florence Etta Tel: + 254-733-621851 (Mobile)/254-20-7121506 Fax: + 254-20-7121506 Emailto:[email protected] ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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