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ICANN new gTLDs revealed
by Alice Munyua 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-120… 1930 applications, after refunds, for new generic top-level domains. 1846 of those are "standard" applications. 84 are designated as "community-based". Of the 1930, 66 have designated themselves as geographic name applications. 116 applications are Internationalized Domain Names, or IDNs, using non-Latin scripts. Just three applicants seek support through ICANN's Applicant Support Program [that CS fought to get established.] Applications from 60 countries. Using ICANN's definitions of the world's regions: 911 applications came from North America. 675 from Europe. 303 applications are from the Asia-Pacific region. 24 are from Latin America and the Caribbean. 17 from Africa. Some domain names have been applied for by more than one applicant. There are 230 domain names for which at least two applications were submitted, involving a total of 751 applications. --

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Re: [kictanet] ITU Internet Takeover Conspiracy Not real.
by Adam Peake 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

A useful site collecting news items about WCIT and related Internet policy <http://www.scoop.it/t/wcit>. Adam At 7:31 AM +0000 6/13/12, alice(a)apc.org wrote: > > >http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/technology/debunking-rumors-of-an-interne… >_______________________________________________ >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/ajp%40glocom.ac.jp > >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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Internet trolls targeted in new bill to tackle defamation online
by Alice Munyua 12 Jun '12

12 Jun '12

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/jun/12/internet-trolls-bill-defamation-o… <http://t.co/3l5qS8eO> Best Alice --

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Kenya IGF (July 6, 2012)
by Grace Githaiga 12 Jun '12

12 Jun '12

Listers Greetings. Further to my message this morning, I now can confirm that the Kenya IGF will take place on Friday July 6, 2012. KENIC will be supporting this event. Details of the venue will be communicated in due course. As is our tradition and in line with getting ready for the IGF, we propose to have the online debate here on the list for five days starting next week on Wednesday (June 13-20). The proposed topics for discussion are as follows:ITRsIntermediary liabilityTechnology and violence against womenOpen dataInfrastructure.CCK and Network Monitoring Are there other topics that you wish to suggest? Kindly get back to us by Monday close of business with your suggestions. Can listers also suggest a theme? We will need Tuesday to harmonize the suggested topics and prepare for the online discussion. Kind RegardsGrace, Barrack and KENIC.

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Tech & the IEBC Budget
by robert yawe 12 Jun '12

12 Jun '12

Hi Listers, There has been a lot of hue and cry over the IEBC budget for the next elections, it was indicated that the largest component of the budget apart from vehicles was ICT. Is there any chance we can get a copy of the proposed ICT component in the budget so that as an industry we can analyse and make recommendations & proposals? 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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CIO100 2012 - Call for Applications
by Harry Hare 12 Jun '12

12 Jun '12

Dear All, The 3rd annual CIO 100 Awards will celebrate 100 organizations (and the people within them) that are using information technology in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth or improving relationships with customers. Perhaps you took a risk on an emerging technology or deployed the tried-and-true in a new way. Maybe you built a better business process or fostered closer collaboration. Or maybe you found ways to get more from existing customers, to pursue new markets, to save money or to make more. Here¹s your chance to tell your peers about the technology innovations that have enabled or led the way to greater success for your organization. To be selected, applicants must show not only that they have executed their project well but that they have done so in uncommon, innovative ways: pioneering a new technology, applying a familiar technology to a new purpose, setting the bar higher for their competitors. And they must demonstrate business value, not just IT benefits. Note:This is not an award for technology vendors¹ products; however, we will consider the value (revenue) of technology-driven services that leverage a company's nontechnology core competency (banking, health care, moving freight), as long as the service is a natural extension of what the company does. We will accept applications for the 2011 CIO 100 Awards until August 17th 2012. Applications must be submitted online. Honorees will be notified by e-mail and in a letter by late September 2012 and will be included in coverage of the awards on www.cio.co.ke <http://www.cio.co.ke/> and in the CIO100 Special Issue published by CIO East Africa in December 2012. To apply follow this link https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/cio1002012 <https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/cio1002012> For more information visit http://cio100.cio.co.ke <http://cio100.cio.co.ke/> For a complete list of the 2011 honorees visit http://cio100.cio.co.ke/2011-100-list/ <http://cio100.cio.co.ke/2011-100-list/> Kindest Regards Harry Hare Director African eDevelopment Resource Centre PO Box 49475 00100 Nairobi, Kenya Tel +254 20 4041646 Cel +254 725 650044

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IT Training BDM Opening
by Harry Hare 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

Hello All, My apologies for cross posting. There is an opening for a Business Development Manager in a Training and Services company. Anyone interested please DM me. Requirements are below: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Business Development Manager IT Training Job Location: Nairobi, Kenya Job Description: Position : Business Development Manager - Training No of positions: 1 Experience: 3 to 6 years of IT Services / Hardware Selling Reporting to : Director, Training Education: Graduate from any stream with an MBA degree Key Competency Areas: 1. Should be number driven 2. Effective communication and interpersonal skills 3. Business Expertise and knowledge of sales process & the business nuances in large enterprise accounts. 4. Should have the flair to understand Technology and keep abreast with the changes in them. 5. Commercial orientation & Relationship orientation with Good negotiation skills, problem solving skills and analytical skills. 6. Work collaboratively and co-operatively across the whole organization and with key stakeholders and has to be a team player. 7. Should have the will to try new things and initiatives. 8. Should have exhibited persistence and patience in fighting deals. 9. Should have handled large accounts (enterprise) and gone thru the full cycle of pre sales-sales-post sales-sustenance 10. Should have a good presence on the field. Should have the skills for hunting for new opportunities Roles and Responsibilities: 1. Accountable for growing a new line of training business in Kenya and East African with end to end responsibility of revenue with the targeted gross margin 2. Is responsible to proactively identify training needs and opportunities in the region. 3. To act as the liaison between clients and the organisation, and responsible to see that the clients are maximizing the value of training services provided. 4. It is the duty to maintain, retain, and up sell to the training portfolio 5. Has to serve as a single point of contact for all presales, sales and after sales engagements. Is the face of the customer for the internal teams and responsible to leverage resources from divisions and verticals for customer requirements and ensure that the LOBs fair interests in the account is taken care. 6. Develop and grow strategic relationship with the accounts, which is mutually beneficial at all levels. +++++++++++++++++ Harry Hare Director African eDevelopment Resource Centre PO Box 49475 00100 Nairobi, Kenya Tel +254 20 4041646 Cel +254 725 650044

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Fwd: Tholons Top 100 2012 Report - Complimentary Copy
by waudo siganga 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

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Australia backs UN telco treaty changes
by alice＠apc.org 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

Australia backs UN telco treaty changes http://www.itnews.com.au/News/304210,australia-backs-un-telco-treaty-change… James Hutchinson on Jun 8, 2012 1:38 PM (1 day 13 hours ago)Filed under Telco/ISPGlobal governments consider internet regulation. The Federal Government has issued public support for a contentious plan to revise the international treaty underpinning global telecommunications regulation. The International Telecommunications Regulations (ITR) treaty, governed by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and last revised in 1988, will introduce provisions specific to potential regulation of the internet for the first time in a revision expected to be voted on in December this year. The revisions would require global governments acceding to the treaty to undertake the proposals. Though no documents relating to the proposals have been officially released by the ITU, claims of closed-door negotiations between countries on the revised treaty have led to a concerted effort by the US chapter of the Internet Society, along with founder and ordained "father of the internet" Vint Cerf, to rally against the treaty. They claimed the revised treaty would allow the United Nations, which oversees the ITU, and individual governments to more carefully regulate the internet. A spokesman for the Department of Broadband told iTnews this week that the Federal Government "supports updating the [regulations]". "In doing so, the Government aims to ensure that the revisions do not undermine the useful purpose the ITRs have had since their adoption," they said. The composition of Australia's delegation to the conference – to be held in Dubai in December – is yet to be determined. However, it is believed any local delegation is likely to be led by key Department of Broadband personnel. Internet control? Concerns around the treaty have grown in recent months, particularly as the ITU working group charged with drafting the proposed regulations prepares to finalise a revised treaty in Geneva at the end of the month. But ITU secretary-general, Dr Hamadoun Touré, blasted claims over attempts to control internet governance as "frankly ridiculous" in a speech to agency staff this week. "We are not going to send in the blue helmets of the UN peacekeepers to police IxPs! And we are certainly not ready to make a grab for global domination," he said. "I always compare this to roads, and cars and trucks. It is not because you own the roads that you own the traffic. And you may not be able to make the traffic flow smoothly. You need to know the height, and weight and breadth and be involved in designing some of the features so the bridges don't collapse ... we need to find a way to have a meaningful debate about this, without one taking over the other. "So the real issue on the table here is not at all about who 'runs' the Internet ... the issue instead is on how best to cooperate to ensure the free flow of information, the continued development of broadband, continued investment, and continuing innovation." Documents leaked from the working group ( pdf) claimed the new regulations would aim to support a "new IP interconnection ecosystem", including measures dictating global governments to closely negotiate terms on facilities and quality of service mechanisms. Key provisions are also being negotiated between countries on revisions to portions of the treaty that dictate financial settlement on termination of internet traffic between countries, a measure APNIC chief scientist Geoff Huston said was "unenforceable" if based on existing telecommunications provisions. Political drive Touré said the ITU was not a "politically oriented organisation" and that a decision to re-negotiate terms was driven by its membership, rather than the secretariat. However, sources close to stakeholders claimed the renegotiations were highly politically charged and focused around a desire by some – particularly those in Asia and some in Europe – to wrest control over internet systems away from the US and minimise the potential effect US-based legislation such as SOPA and PIPA could have on worldwide networks. Though the ITU has continued to enshrine access to the internet as a basic human right, some have claimed the revised treaty could lead to the restructuring of ICANN – the global domain name registration body – away from US control, and cement government-level regulation and control over the internet. Specifically, leaked documents show countries debating over a treaty proposal that would allow member states to "suspend the international telecommunication service" in that country at their will, provided it notifies other members. Cerf, chief internet evangelist at Google, said a successful renegotiation of the treaty would create "significant barriers to civil society participation", allowing governments to more easily regulate access to the internet at a country level. "Such proposals raise the prospect of policies that enable government controls but greatly diminish the 'permissionless innovation' that underlies extraordinary Internet-based economic growth to say nothing of trampling human rights," he said. In Australia, some have suggested the treaty could more easily allow the Federal Government to implement data retention and internet filtering mechanisms. Net fundamentals Major equipment vendors are also thought to oppose the treaty but none besides Google, through Cerf, have come out against it. A source told iTnews that organisations opposed the treaty "on the basis that they'll leave things in or allow governments to do things that will threaten the fundamental, underlying design of the internet". APNIC's Huston argued that the treaty would not necessarily change plans for greater regulation that weren't already planned by governments, but warned the polarity of the debate surrounding the treaty could lead to future issues for interconnection between countries."Almost everything we do, we never quite get it right all over the world; we always seem to stuff it up," Huston said. "Weirdly, almost by accident, the internet got it right – one technology across the world, coherent. The concern that I have is that we have just a disparity of opinion when the ITRs come up that we end fragmenting ourselves ... we end up with less than one internet; we end up with many private networks, national networks and we're back to a far worse world. "It's not that the ITRs will destroy the internet in terms of regulatory impost ... [the US] aren't going to sign anything too repressive, [but] on the other hand other governments might want a different world. If that's the case, the world's networks will break apart." Copyright © iTnews.com.au . All rights reserved.

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Cybercrime 'much bigger than al Qaeda' - US DHS
by Matunda Nyanchama 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

Cybercrime 'much bigger than al Qaeda' Does that mean that we are at war with cyberterrorists? 6/8/2012 3:16:00 PM by Antone Gonsalves It is unlikely that Americans will ever again see commercial jets crashing into skyscrapers, piloted by terrorists. ButDepartment of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano believes that malicious computer code generated by groups like al Qaeda are just as big a threat to the security and stability of the nation. Does that mean that we are at war with cyberterrorists? Napolitano doesn't go that far -- she uses the term "cybercrime," as do a number of cybersecurity experts. Still, the damage worldwide is headed toward a half-trillion dollars a year. Napolitano, in a speech May 30 to business leaders and government officials, said that besides "al Qaeda and al Qaeda-related groups," cybercrime is, "the greatest threat and actual activity that we have seen aimed at the west and at the United States. Unfortunately, it is a growth arena." "Our cybersecurity as a country is inextricably linked to our economic capability," she said. "The systems we use are interdependent, interconnected and critical to daily life in the United States. Communication, travel, powering our homes, running our banking systems -- these are all interconnected systems." Napolitano cited a study by Symantec's Norton that estimated the cost of cybercrime worldwide at $388 billion -- more than the global market for heroin, cocaine and marijuana combined, and said, "I think those are conservative numbers, based on the things that come into DHS." But the U.S. is not just on the defensive. Napolitano's speech came just two days before The New York Times, citing anonymous sources in the Obama administration, reported that the president had secretly ordered the use of the Stuxnet worm to attack the computers that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities. The Times reported that this was in collaboration with Israel, and was the continuation of a program code-named Olympic Games, started under President George W. Bush. The attack is estimated to have set back the Iranian nuclear program by as much as two years. Attacking another nation-state's potential military capability may sound like an act of war to some. Joel Harding, a former military intelligence officer and now a communication and public diplomacy information operations expert and consultant, wrote in a blog post shortly after The Times' story, "It's official. The United States of America was the first to use an atomic bomb against an enemy and now the United States is the first to have acknowledged using a cyber weapon against another country. We are now certified bad guys to the rest of the world." "To whoever leaked the information from the Obama administration, for whatever purpose, you have now doomed the United States to a terrible legacy forever," he wrote. David Jeffers, writing for PCWorld, called malware such as Flame "the Internet equivalent of biological warfare." But Harding told CSO he does not think this means the U.S. has started a cyberwar. "There will never be a pure cyberwar in my opinion," he said. "There will be operations in cyberspace but they will always be in support of other actions. By itself warfare in cyberspace cannot conquer an enemy. The effects will normally be temporary and probably not physical in nature." Still, he said the admission taints the U.S. in the eyes of the rest of the world. "It is a challenge to maintain a high moral position if we are the first to acknowledge the use of such a weapon," he said. Other security experts also say that "war" is the wrong term. Bruce Schneier, chief security technology officer at BT and an author, said that "throughout history, the definition of a 'major war' has involved casualties in the hundreds of thousands. That means dead people." Marc Zwillinger, of the Washington, D.C. law firm ZwillGen and a specialist in cyber conflict calls them "cyberattacks," and said he doubts the U.S. was the first nation to use them. "Our government, government contractors, and ISPs have been pummeled for years," he said. Whatever the semantics, there is unanimous agreement that the attacks are doing enormous damage. "Cybercrime is a really big deal," Schneier said. "Much bigger than al Qaeda, which has basically been a fairy scare story since 9/11." Zwillinger said: "It's something to take very seriously. It's not that hard to undermine our economy and cause lasting effects. How long was the Facebook trading glitch that is being blamed for a lot of uncertainty and panic in the trading of one stock?" "United States corporations lose billions of dollars in research to cybercrime and espionage every year," Harding said. "Now imagine these efforts [aimed at] national security products. Not only do we lose intellectual property and de facto our investment dollars, but we may have a national security problem." Another problem with cyberweapons, as a number of articles have pointed out since the discovery of the Flame virus in the Middle East (an espionage tool mainly targeting Iran) and the revelations about Stuxnet, is that they can boomerang, unlike bullets or bombs. Richard Lardner reports for The Associated Press that "a cyberweapon that spreads across the Internet may circle back accidentally to infect computers it was never supposed to target. It's one of the unusual challenges facing the programmers who build such weapons, and presidents who must decide when to launch them." [See also: U.S. companies, government not likely burned by Flame] Finally, whether it is cybercrime, cyberattacks or cyberwar, the U.S. seems woefully unprepared for it at some levels. The Washington Post's Robert O'Harrow wrote earlier this week of stunning vulnerabilities U.S. infrastructure. He profiled programmer John Matherly, now 28, who as a teen developed a search engine he called Shodan, and by 2009 discovered "an astonishing fact: Uncounted numbers of industrial control computers, the systems that automate such things as water plants and power grids, were linked in, and in some cases they were wide open to exploitation by even moderately talented hackers." "Over the past two years, Shodan has gathered data on nearly 100 million devices, recording their exact locations and the software systems that run them. 'Expose online devices,' the Web site says. 'Webcams. Routers. Power Plants. iPhones. Wind Turbines. Refrigerators. VoIP Phones,'" O'Harrow wrote. The story also told of a 22-year-old hacker from somewhere overseas who was able to hack a Siemens S7 controller and gain control of a water plant serving 16,000 people in South Houston. Harding said he doesn't know the status of most critical infrastructure. But he said he's "certain that many, if not most are not fully updated, do not have adequate monitoring or protections, have inadequate contingency plans and are unnecessarily exposed to the Internet, and are therefore vulnerable." "It is too expensive to unhook completely from the Internet, but that decision must be accompanied by diligent efforts to mitigate any vulnerabilities," he said. Zwillinger said, however, that most nation-states will likely limit their attacks because they still fear the military might of the U.S. "While our critical infrastructure is vulnerable, would-be attackers are hesitant to launch a full scale attack knowing that the U.S. would respond, 'using all instruments of national power,'" Zwillnger said, citing a line from Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency, a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matunda Nyanchama, PhD, CISSP; mnyanchama(a)aganoconsulting.com Agano Consulting Inc.; www.aganoconsulting.com; Twitter: nmatunda; Skype: okiambe ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Be prepared for ICT security failures & know how to respond when they happen! 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