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Very soon....your handwritting will be readable :-)
by Judy Okite 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

What a life saver!! over the years I have watched my handwritting, deterioriate........its actually reached a point I cant read it anymore......Thank God, for technology.....there is an option!! To our dear Doctors....Am I hearing deep sighs of relief?? .....read below,what guys next door are about to do....... http://www.elearning-africa.com/newsportal/english/news213.php Kind Regards, -- "An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves".Bill Vaughan

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The end of Open Source as we Know it?
by Al Kags 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

http://alkags.com/?p=493 <https://photos.sun.com/thumbnail/400/400/5163> It occurs to me (after a spell of burying my head in some sand) that Oracle has bought Sun Microsystems (who in turn had bought MySQL)It occurs to me (after a spell of burying my head in some sand) that Oracle has bought Sun Microsystems (who in turn had bought MySQL). I have several issues in my head that are struggling to find words: 1) that Jonathan Schwatz, my favorite CEO blogger, is moving on (this is just that sentimentalclinging - "don't go!") but more importantly 2) this buy-out may signify the end of Open Source as we know it. What is Kenya's position on the matter? I imagine that this has been discussed in the technology policy circles?

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educational tourism
by meshack emakunat 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

dear listers i have no doubt how our beloved country (kenya) has invested poorly in the educational tourism. try compairing the number of foreign students in our universities with those who fly out of the country to SA , USA ,UK China etc. first i think the country's education system is slow in adopting the new learning technologies. its about time the kenyan students and the government put some empasise/effort in this issue. a good example is in our own public university like egerton, the ratio of students to lecturer is way out of range yet the same lecturers will stand in the lecturer hall trying teach 300 students with a piece of chalk and a small blackboard(how does a student in the back of the class get anything out of this lecture): what am trying to say is that the administration should adopt technologies like projectors in order to serve even the student standing at the back of the class, otherwise people will preffer having better education in the foreign countries rather than their own country.

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May be of interest: How to stop predatory tendencies by internet service providers
by Victor Gathara 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/-/539546/851482/-/9w03sl/-/index.html DFID, the Department for International Development: leading the UK Government's fight against world poverty. Find out more at http://www.dfid.gov.uk. ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Peapod. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.peapod.co.uk/cleanmail

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Re: [kictanet] Web sites must support IPv6 by 2012, expert warns
by McTim 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

The lead says: Corporations and government agencies must IPv6-enable their public-facing Web sites in the next 24 months or risk upsetting a growing number of visitors with lower-grade connectivity. IPv6 is, if anything a higher grade of connectivity in that it is designed to add features that IPv4 didn't have. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Alex Owiti <alex.owiti(a)cio.co.ke> wrote: > > > Dear listers -Crack your Brains. > > > > > > Web sites must support IPv6 by 2012, expert warns; > http://www.cio.co.ke/index.php/view-all-world-news-stories/528-web-sites-mu… > > > > > > > > > > > > Alex Owiti > Senior Writer > CIO East Africa > eDevelopment House > 604 Limuru Road, Nairobi > PO Box 49475 00100 > Desk: +254 20 3714646 > Cel: +254 714-259942 > Email:[email protected] > > > An IDG/AeRC Publication > > _______________________________________________ > kictanet mailing list > kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke > http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet > > This message was sent to: dogwallah(a)gmail.com > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/dogwallah%40gmail.com > > -- 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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Web sites must support IPv6 by 2012, expert warns
by Alex Owiti 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

Dear listers -Crack your Brains. Web sites must support IPv6 by 2012, expert warns;http://www.cio.co.ke/index.php/view-all-world-news-stories/528-web-sit es-must-support-ipv6-by-2012-expert-warns.html Alex Owiti Senior Writer CIO East Africa eDevelopment House 604 Limuru Road, Nairobi PO Box 49475 00100 Desk: +254 20 3714646 Cel: +254 714-259942 Email:[email protected] An IDG/AeRC Publication

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PARTICIPATION ON CIO EAST AFRICAN MAGAZINE
by Alex Owiti 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

Dear Listers,something interesting for your reading. Uganda telecom regulator to 'name and shame' poor providers:http://www.cio.co.ke/index.php/view-all-main-stories/546-uganda-te lecom-regulator-to-name-and-shame-poor-providers.html Alex Owiti Senior Writer CIO East Africa eDevelopment House 604 Limuru Road, Nairobi PO Box 49475 00100 Desk: +254 20 3714646 Cel: +254 714-259942 Email:[email protected] An IDG/AeRC Publication

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ISOC Next Generation Leaders Programme
by McTim 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

All, I see this as being complementary to the Diplo courses, with a slightly different focus: http://www.isoc.org/leaders/ "The Next Generation Leaders Programme - Preparing young professionals from around the world to become the next generation of Internet technology, policy, and business leaders. In order to be successful, the next generation of Internet leaders will require a wide range of skills in a variety of disciplines as well as the ability and experience to work with people at all levels of society. Through the Next Generation Leaders programme, the Internet Society calls upon talented individuals who are committed to the ongoing expansion of a sustainable Internet that continues to be: * open for business, because its open platform spurs innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship; * based on open governance, because the open, inclusive transparent processes of the Internet model of development allows business, civil society and governments to work together; and * open to the public because a universally accessible Internet empowers citizens and enhances their social development." http://www.isoc.org/leaders/applications.shtml -- 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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World Bank Hails its public Private partnerships in Africa
by Rebecca Wanjiku 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

Read more.. http://bit.ly/9opzHi Tel. 254 720 318 925 blog:http://beckyit.blogspot.com/

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How unique, and trackable, is your browser?
by saidimu apale 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

The good folks at EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) have a cool research project on digital privacy: Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able > to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies. Panopticlick <http://panopticlick.eff.org/> tests your browser to see how > unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits. > Click below and you will be given a uniqueness score, letting you see how > easily identifiable you might be as you surf the web. Reminds me of a question asked in a presentation in a conference on computing and its tremendous impact on human life: - Can we recognize fundamental patterns of human behavior from raw *digital traces <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_traces>*? (Jon Kleinberg video at http://bit.ly/7dbuXm) Kleinberg describes an experiment they conducted using geo-tagged images from Flickr: they placed those images on a blank digital canvas, using latlong as co-ordinates on the canvas. A million or so images later, the images traced a map of the US (complete with canonical images for famous landmarks). All this without human intervention in placement, or annotation, of the maps. Very very very cool. I think the companies that will set themselves apart are the ones who harness the power of all these "human sensors" (passive crowdsourcing<http://www.mobilebehavior.com/2009/11/05/trend-stealth-crowdsourcing/> ). Why ask someone an explicit question if their body language, and related signals, says it all? Saidi

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