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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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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:feanywhere@yahoo.co.uk ___________________________________________________________ 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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Fundraising Meeting moved to Monday morning, 9am at Jacaranda
by Wainaina Mungai 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

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.

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Fund raising proposal development for the network Wedneasday 15 2006
by alice＠apc.org 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

Dear all The Embassy of Finland in Kenya is interested in funding our networks activities. They have requested for a full proposal, including work plan and budget to be submitted to them by tomorrow (Wednesday 15th 2006)noon. This message is to invite network members who have the space and time to attend an urgent breakfast meeting tomorrow at 8.30 a.m. to develop the proposal, work plan etc. Please let me know how many of you will be able to attend. Apologies for the late announcement I received another phone call from the embassy today enquiring after the proposal. kind regards alice

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Re: [Kictanet] Fund raising proposal development for the network Wedneasday 15 2006
by Wainaina Mungai 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '06

Confirmed.... I presume the meeting will be at "the office" @ Jacaranda ;-) --- 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. > -------Original Message------- > From: Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni(a)kenet.or.ke> > Subject: Re: [Kictanet] Fund raising proposal development for the network Wedneasday 15 2006 > Sent: 14 Mar '06 17:07 > > My apologies, i > > This is a good development. > > Muthoni > > alice(a)apc.org wrote: > > > Dear all > > > > The Embassy of Finland in Kenya is interested in funding our networks > > activities. They have requested for a full proposal, including work > > plan and budget to be submitted to them by tomorrow (Wednesday 15th > > 2006)noon. > > > > This message is to invite network members who have the space and time > > to attend an urgent breakfast meeting tomorrow at 8.30 a.m. to develop > > the proposal, work plan etc. > > > > Please let me know how many of you will be able to attend. > > > > Apologies for the late announcement I received another phone call from > > the embassy today enquiring after the proposal. > > > > kind regards > > > > alice > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/dmuthoni%40kenet.or.ke > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/wainaina%40madeinkenya.org

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