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by Edith Adera 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

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E-Files management Tool
by wesley kiriinya 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

Ladies, Gentlemen and Geeks, There is a tool which I think might be very useful in many organizations when it comes to file management. It's called SVN which stands for SubVersioN. Probably some people in the list may already be using it or have heard about it. What is it? SVN was initially created to assist software developers manage their source code files. So it is popularly used in small to large scale software development environments and software repositories. It can also be used to manage ordinary electronic files. It's comes with an easy to use Windows application called TortoiseSVN. It's also available for Linux, Unix family of operating systems, etc. What does it do? Have you been in a situtation where: 1. More than 1 person can access a file in a server, make changes to it and save it back, then there is a conflict between changes made by different people and that conflict has to be resolved cleanly? 2. A person makes a change to a file, saves it and overwrites the original version, then latter the person finds out that s/he needs the original? 3. You are fed up with backing up files by making copies? Not only is it tedious but also becomes disorganized as the files increase and leads to using large amounts of disk space (If a paragraph in a 100 page document is edited, and one still needs the original then a new copy of the edited document has to be saved). SVN keeps track of document changes, including changes to folders. So what's the big deal? SVN alerts anyone sharing a document when there is a conflict between the copy they want to save and the one that is already in the server. This conflict can arise when someone opened the same document, made changes and saved it back without the first person knowing about it. So the first person will be presented with a screen showing the changes made and s/he can merge his/her changes with what the second person did. SVN will keep track of document changes by doing a difference analysis on the documents and storing this difference only, instead of a new document. Another great feature is the ability to look at historical versions of the document. All in all SVN gives you a great way to manage your files be they document, images, etc. Where can I find it (or where can I start)? http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ Security SVN supports SSH and SSL for secure file transfers. You can also restict access to folders and files. Extentions If one is building software that requires the SVN functionality to manage the software's content then it can be integrated with SVN. For example: In government you have different departments that might need to fill out certain parts of a form for an individual. A software system might assist in filling out the form e.g. getting the required fields from a database. If all these departments are working on different parts of the form at the same time and they save, the software can use SVN to merge the entire document into 1 result, and highlight to the relevant departments where a conflict in entries exist. It might take some days to get it up and running, but the savings in terms of time, money and more importantly peace of mind are well worth it! And yeah it's free. B~)

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Open position at AfriNIC
by Brian Munyao Longwe 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

FYI - apologies for cross-posting Begin forwarded message: > From: "Kiran Cunniah" <kiran(a)afrinic.net> > Date: July 7, 2008 11:08:07 AM GMT+03:00 > To: <announce(a)afrinic.net> > Subject: [AfriNIC-announce] Open position at AfriNIC > > Dear Colleagues, > > We wish to inform that AfriNIC has a vacancy for the position of > SENIOR > SOFTWARE ENGINEER. This post will be based at our headquarters in > Mauritius. > > More details are available at http://www.afrinic.net/job/job.htm > > For any further queries, do not hesitate to contact us on > jobs(a)afrinic.net. > > Kind Regards, > > Kiran Cunniah > Executive Assistant > AfriNIC > www.afrinic.net > > > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.486 / Virus Database: 269.16.13/1165 - Release Date: > 02/12/2007 > 20:34 > > > _______________________________________________ > announce mailing list > announce(a)afrinic.net > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/announce >

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Free Culture (was Re: eBay hit with £30m fine for sales of fake luxuries)
by Brian Longwe 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

Hi all, I've made a small change in the subject because now we are talking about much more than just Ebay and looking at *Principles*, *values* and a number of other intangibles (yes, Alex including Intellectual Property). In 1999, David Pogue said: "Unlike actual law, Internet software has no capacity to punish. It doesn't affect people who aren't onlin (and on a tiny minority of the world population is). And if you don't like the Internet's system, you can always flip off the modem. Prof. Lawrence Lessig - another renown author - challenges this point of view and asserts that today the battles that rage online dearly affect "people who aren't online". He says that there is no swith that will insulate us from the Internet's effect. He then proceeds to elaborate on what he calls a "Free Culture" and I quote: ...we come from a tradition of 'free culture' .... A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain *as free* *as possible* from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property.it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid...a free culture, like a free market, is filled with property. It is filled with rules of property and contract that get enforced by the state. But just as a free market is perverted if its property becomes feudal, so too can a free culture be queered by extremism in the property rights that define it. In my view, the incidents and circumstances surrounding the ebay saga are evidence that extremism is beginning to show, and that those who can afford it are manipulating the 'system' to protect themselves and their property regardless of the fact/extent that they are infringing on the rights of the *individual consumer* - who is largely innocent. Regards, Brian On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Alex Gakuru <alex.gakuru(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- On Mon, 7/7/08, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > From: Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe(a)gmail.com> > > > So, I still come back to my earlier point. If I want to > > sell my Toyota > > AE-100 - I have a right to 'identify' it using the > > brand (though the > > brand does not in itself belong to me) - but I have a > > 'transient' > > ownership as far as it relates to 'my' toyota. > > People even refer to it > > as Bryo's toyota. Of course once it is sold, it now > > belongs to someone > > else. > > > > July 7, 2008. Intellectual Property Regime Stifles Science and Innovation, > Nobel Laureates Say > > By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch MANCHESTER, UK - The > basic framework of the intellectual property (IP) regime aims to "close down > access to knowledge" rather than allowing its dissemination, Professor > Joseph Stiglitz said at a 5 July lecture on "Who Owns Science?" Stiglitz, a > 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, and Professor John Sulston, a 2002 Nobel > Laureate in Physiology/Medicine, launched Manchester University's new > Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation. Both were highly critical of > today's patent system, saying it stifles science and innovation. > > Link to the article: <http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1129> > > > > -- Brian Munyao Longwe e-mail: blongwe(a)gmail.com cell: + 254 722 518 744 blog : http://zinjlog.blogspot.com meta-blog: http://mashilingi.blogspot.com

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by Brian Munyao Longwe 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

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eBay hit with £30m fine for sales of fake luxuries
by alice 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

Hi all, interesting ruling by French courts on 30th June....of E-commerce and brand protection, advertisement consumer protection and so many other issues. best alice http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jul/01/ebay.hitechcrime eBay hit with £30m fine for sales of fake luxuries The world's biggest online auctioneer, eBay, was ordered by a French court yesterday to pay €38.6m euros in damages to the luxury goods group LVMH for negligence in allowing the sale of fake bags, lipsticks and designer clothes. The fine of more than £30m is the biggest eBay has faced in Europe and is the latest episode in a series of long-running legal battles it has fought with fashion and cosmetic giants. The site immediately appealed against the ruling and said luxury goods giants were using the issue of fakes as a "stalking horse" to attack online commerce and keep a stranglehold of sales outlets to the detriment of consumers. The confrontation has implications for the access of online shoppers to luxury brands through auction sites and also for eBay's business model as it faces the issue of how to police its platform of global sites, which at any one time have about 100m items for sale across the world. The issue has particular resonance in France - the base for some of the world's biggest luxury goods companies, who have placed themselves at the forefront of fighting counterfeit. The French company LVMH, the world's leading luxury brand, went to the Paris commercial courts demanding €50m in damages over two issues: first it argued that eBay had committed "serious errors" by not doing enough to prevent the sales of fake goods in 2006, including Louis Vuitton bags and Christian Dior products; it also argued that eBay had allowed unauthorised sales of perfume brands owned by the group: Christian Dior, Kenzo, Givenchy and Guerlain. It said that even if the perfumes were real and not fake, their sale on the site violated Christian Dior's distribution network which only allowed sales through specialist dealers. The court ordered eBay to stop selling the perfumes or running ads for the brands, or face a fine of €50,000 a day. The ruling ordered eBay to pay €19.28m to Louis Vuitton Malletier and €17.3m to its sister company Christian Dior Couture for damage to their brand images and causing moral harm. It must also pay €3.25m to the four perfume brands for sales in violation of its authorised network. Pierre Gode, an aide to Bernard Arnault, the LVMH president and France's richest man, told AFP: "It is a major first, because of the principles that it recognises and the amount sought." He said the decision was crucial for the creative industry and "protected brands by considering them an important part of French heritage". The ruling comes a month after another French court ordered eBay to pay the fashion house Hermes €20,000 for allowing the sale of counterfeit handbags. The site said it had stepped up its measures to prevent counterfeiting since 2006 and now spends $20m (£10m) a year keeping the site "clean", using programmes to analyse suspicious sales and working with the owners of brand rights. Last year, 2m items suspected of being counterfeit were removed from the site and 50,000 sales stopped. Vanessa Canzini, an eBay spokeswoman in Europe said: "The big issue here doesn't seem to be to do with counterfeiting - if it was, they would have gone after the counterfeiters. It's about saying we are a luxury brand, we don't want others selling our goods, even if they are real. That's why we will appeal this decision." In a statement, eBay said big luxury goods labels had a hidden agenda and were using fakes as a "stalking horse". "It is clear that eBay has become a focal point for certain brand owners' desire to exact ever greater control over e-commerce. We view these decisions as a step backwards for the consumers and businesses whom we empower every day." The group, which saw around $60bn worth of goods sold across its platforms last year, says that as a host for independent vendors, it has a limited responsibility and capacity to regulate what is sold. But luxury goods groups have accused eBay, which earns a commission on sales, of facilitating forgeries and fakes by providing a marketplace for vendors who knowingly sell counterfeit items. The site is also facing other lawsuits worldwide: the New York jeweller Tiffany & Co has sued the site for turning a blind eye to sales of counterfeits, describing it as a "rat's nest" of fake goods. It also faces action from L'Oreal in the UK and five other European countries.

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E-Files management Tool
by smwangi＠kencall.com 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

Can I get more information on this subject matter. Thank you Stephen Mwangi IS/AD Manager Kencall EPZ Ltd (O) 254-6602000 (D)020-2387010 (C) 254-733226793 -----Original Message----- From: kictanet-request(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke Subj: kictanet Digest, Vol 14, Issue 16 Date: Mon 7 Jul 2008 9:27 am Size: 1K To: Stephen Mwangi <smwangi(a)kencall.com> Send kictanet mailing list submissions to kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to kictanet-request(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke You can reach the person managing the list at kictanet-owner(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of kictanet digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Legislation and Regulation for e-Commerce in Kenya (Gakuru , Alex) 2. Fwd: [afnog] Google launches official blog for Africa (Dorcas Muthoni) 3. E-Files management Tool (wesley kiriinya) 4. Re: eBay hit with ?30m fine for sales of fake luxuries (Sylvester Kisonzo) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:36:14 +0300 From: "Gakuru , Alex" <alexgakuru.lists(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Legislation and Regulation for e-Commerce in Kenya To: "Marcel Werner" <marcelcwerner(a)gmail.com> Cc: kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke Message-ID: <1981f3fd0807060936s27390b95tb1ae167bfab5e554(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Marcel Werner <marcelcwerner(a)gmail.com> wrote: > KIF has studied drafts currently circulating in the public domain, the > Information and Communications Bill, 2008, Where did you get this one from? I've sought a copy from the Ministry --- message truncated --- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fwd: [afnog] Google launches official blog for Africa
by Dorcas Muthoni 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Divon Lan <divon(a)google.com> Date: Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 12:46 PM Subject: [afnog] Google launches official blog for Africa To: afnog(a)afnog.org Greetings, I thought it might be worth while letting you know that we (Google) launched our official blog for Sub Saharan Africa this week. You can view it here: http://google-africa.blogspot.com We have also launched a new discussion forum open to all, for discussing topics related to Google and the Internet in Africa: http://groups.google.com/group/google-africa-community I hope you find these useful and interesting. Divon Lan Product Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa, Google _______________________________________________ afnog mailing list http://afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog -- Muthoni My Blog: http://rugongo.blogspot.com/ -------------------------------------------- Mahatma Gandhi once said:- First they ignore you, Then they laugh at you, Then they fight you, AND THEN YOU WIN!!!

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[Fwd: Kenya Diaspora Roadshow - Sep 2008 - Call for Participation]
by alice 05 Jul '08

05 Jul '08

Following our successful tour of Silicon Valley in September 2007, ICTvillage.com is organizing the Kenya Diaspora Roadshow in September 2008 to engage with Kenyans living and working abroad. We shall visit the following cities to meet with Kenyans in the Diaspora: * London - Sunday 31 Aug to Tuesday 2 Sep; * New York - Thursday 4 Sep to Saturday 6 Sep; * Chicago - Tuesday 9 Sep to Thursday 11 Sep; * Los Angeles - Sunday 14 Sep to Tuesday 16 Sep; * Atlanta - Thursday 18 Sep to Saturday 20 Sep. The Kenyan diaspora remits over US$ 2 billion to Kenya every year through formal and informal channels making remittances the largest source of external capital. Through these remittances, our diaspora contribute to national development in the following ways: * supporting relatives and friends all over the country; * purchasing Kenyan products and services; * building residential and commercial property; * investing in capital markets and enterprises; * philanthropy and other social contributions; * promoting tourism and Kenyan culture. We invite organizations in Government, public, private and civil society sectors to participate in the Kenya Diaspora Roadshow to (1) establish relationships with Kenyans abroad; (2) showcase products and services; (3) boost online interactions and transactions. If your organization is interested in participating in this Roadshow, please contact the undersigned for more information. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to radically transform Kenya's economy, society and politics. We look forward to your favorable response! Best Regards, Njoki Mumira, Tour Coordinator. www.ictvillage.com <http://www.ictvillage.com/> Idea Factory Limited, The Office Park, Riverside Drive, P.O Box 12 - 00606, Nairobi, Kenya. Tel: 254-20-444 9277, 254-20-444 7655, Fax: 254-20-444 9210.

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[Fwd: "Criticism in Leadership (Passive, Active and Self), July 16th Leadership Forum]
by alice 05 Jul '08

05 Jul '08

A good workshop to attend in view of the last "e-fracases...slight e-flare ups" best alice *‘Criticism in Leadership** -** Passive, Active and Self’* *Criticism that works. What is its place in personal development and leadership?* · * When and how to give* · * Receiving* · * Applying it to self –self criticism* *‘The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route’. – Source Unknown* *The British Council Leadership Forum invites you: * * ** ** Date:* Wednesday 16^th July 2008 *Presenter:* * Mr* Wafula Nabutola–*/ Chairman NCBDA/* /Nabutola is a land and environmental economist with over 20 years progressive experience in general management operations, investment appraisals, banking, wildlife conservation and supervision of real estate projects and programmes in the private and public sectors. He also has an extensive experience in project management, market analysis, corporate governance, quality customer care, budgeting & financial planning, strategic planning and change management. / *Venue:* The Stanley Hotel- Ball Room *Time:* * 6.00pm to 8.00pm* *Charges:* Leadership Forum members – Free Non-Leadership Forum Members – Kshs 3,000 membership or Kshs 500 per session Please confirm your attendance by Tuesday 15^th July to facilitate planning. Please visit the Leadership Forum blog _http://britishcouncilkenyalead.blogspot.com/_ for the June presentation. Attached is Nabutola’s bio data. <<Nabutola'S Bio data.doc>> Regards, *Linet Otibine* Projects & Communications Officer British Council | PO Box 40751, 00100, Nairobi, Kenya Phone +254 (0)20 2836000 (Pilot) Fax +254 (0)20 2836500 */Organisational change for less than you think./* _www.britishcouncil.org/africa_ <http://www.britishcouncil.org/africa> This message is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it. The British Council accepts no liability for loss or damage caused by software viruses and you are advised to carry out a virus check on any attachments contained in this message. The British Council is a registered charity 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland). Our purpose is to build mutually beneficial relationships between people in the UK and other countries and to increase appreciation of the UK's creative ideas and achievements.

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