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Re: [kictanet] Twitter Experience...
by John Walubengo 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

I have heard about blogs, but now there is this new buzz about Twitter. Anybody locally using twitter and finding it useful? I just registered and am following some chap called arsenal_mania and frankly speaking it is informative while being entertaining (addictive?). Which brings me to the question - are there instances of local "handles" that are worth following and are having an impact within our local socio-economic context? plse share. walu. btw: some guys i dont know are already "stalking me" on twitter ;-)

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Mobile thieves using mobile money transfer ...
by wesley kiriinya 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

A thief stole a mobile phone and called the owner's close relatives saying the owner had been involved in a road accident and was in critical condition. The hospital required money before admitting the patient so the thief was asking for 4,000 to be sent by M-PESA to the owner's mobile. The bigger question is, have people discovered loop holes to withdrawing money from mobile transfer solutions like M-PESA without the owner's ID document? I wonder how the thief could have withdrawn the money. O_O

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FW: [OPENMRS] OpenMRS proudly announces summer internships
by Edith Adera 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

This may be of interest. From: announce(a)openmrs.org [mailto:announce@openmrs.org] On Behalf Of Burke Mamlin Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 5:17 PM To: openmrs-announce-l(a)LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU Subject: [OPENMRS] OpenMRS proudly announces summer internships [cid:image001.png@01C9C1DD.D5FE0F20]OpenMRS is proud to announce our summer internships for 2009<http://soc2009.openmrs.org>. We are once again participating in Google Summer of Code. We are also mentoring projects this summer as part of our IDRC-funded OpenMRS Internship Program (OIP), which focuses on mentoring and capacity building in developing countries. This summer's interns come from nine different countries: Jaoa Portela from Portugal will be building a WYSIWYG form designer for the HTML form entry module. As many in the OpenMRS community know, we can use all the alternatives for data collection we can find. Darius made a great module for crafting HTML-based forms as an alternative to InfoPath and Jaoa will make form building even easier. Primary mentor: Darius Jazayeri, Backup mentor: Daniel Futerman. Dilupa Munindradasa from India will be integrating a Quartz scheduler into OpenMRS. Justin created our current scheduler that's responsible for running and managing all of the background processes for OpenMRS. Quartz<http://www.opensymphony.com/quartz/> is an open-source enterprise-level job scheduler that can further enhance our background job processing capabilities. We've wanted to adopt Quartz for a while, but just haven't had the time. Dilupa will be able to bring enterprise level job scheduling to all of our OpenMRS implementations. Primary mentor: Justin Miranda, Backup mentor: Vibha Anand. Lu Zhuang Wei from China will be building a serialization service for OpenMRS. Web services and some of our core reporting tools depend on the ability to efficiently transform OpenMRS "objects" into other formats. To date, we have been using various and sometimes redundant methods to do this work throughout OpenMRS. By introducing a new core service into OpenMRS, Lu will help us consolidate and improve our core code. Primary mentor: Ben Wolfe, Backup mentor: Daniel Kayiwa. Omar Verduga from Mexico will be building a longitudinal data review (flowsheet) module for OpenMRS. Providers, data managers, and researchers often depend on quick and intuitive access to historic patient data. Omar will help us build the first version of a cutting-edge clinical data viewing tool for OpenMRS. Primary mentor: Paul Biondich, Backup mentor: Maros Cunderlik. Pavel Konnikov from Russia will be adding global Property types to OpenMRS. Many different parts of OpenMRS, from modules to portlets to general features depend on global property settings to fine-tune them to fit an implementation's needs. Currently, managing various settings is fairly clumsy within OpenMRS. Pavel will pave the way for much more sophisticated handling of global property settings within OpenMRS. Primary mentor: Dave Thomas, Backup mentor: Justin Miranda. Antoine Nzeyimana from Rwanda will be enhancing data synchronization by improving the process needed to create a new node. Partners In Health has been field-testing data synchronization, which allows multiple OpenMRS servers to share data. As the OpenMRS team works to make this a core feature available to all implementations, one of the challenges is improving the addition of a new server to the network. Antoine, who helped with synchronization last year, will be joining us again to improve this critical piece of the synchronization puzzle. Primary mentor: Maros Cunderlik, Backup mentor: Ben Wolfe. Harshini Gudiwada from India will be adding role-based home page support to OpenMRS. Several implementations have asked for the ability to have different people see a different starting screen when logging into OpenMRS. Harshini will make this possible under the mentorship of Saptarshi, one of last year's Google Summer of Code students. Primary mentor: Saptashi Purkayastha, Backup mentor: Darius Jazayeri. Nimantha Baranasuriya from Sri Lanka will be building an audit module for OpenMRS. Any one managing large amounts of clinical data knows that quality data requires not only safeguards to ensure data errors are avoided wherever possible, but also tools to monitor the data for inconsistencies or errors. Nimantha will be creating a tool that can be used by any OpenMRS implementation to facilitate data quality monitoring. Primary mentor: Brian McKown, Backup mentor: Mike Seaton. Katherin Kuan from the U.S. will be building video upload capabality for Moca<http://www.mocamobile.org/> mobile devices load ultrasound and other video media into OpenMRS. Moca has built mobile tools that integrate with OpenMRS. Katherine will help add clinical video uploading to the list of mobile possibilities. Primary mentor: Gari Clifford, Backup mentors: Zack Anderson and RJ Ryan. Jenny Liu from the U.S. will be building authentication and registration capabilities for Moca<http://www.mocamobile.org/> mobile devices integrated with OpenMRS. Several mobile solutions are being built around OpenMRS and they all need a way to authenticate and register patients. While working on a solution for Moca mobile devices, Jenny will help create a standard model for mobile authorization/registration in OpenMRS for other mobile solutions to use as well. Primary mentor: Zack Anderson, Backup mentors: Gari Clifford and RJ Ryan. Upul Godage from Sri Lanka will be adding active lists support to OpenMRS. Some of the key data elements for any electronic medical record system are problem lists and allergy lists. Upul will help make these a core part of OpenMRS. Primary mentor: Burke Mamlin, Backup mentor: Dave Thomas. Robert O'Connor from the U.S. will be creating aggregate data entry tools for OpenMRS. While OpenMRS strives to build reports from high quality patient-level data, sometimes reports depend on aggregate data from external systems. Robert will allow implementations to enter and manage these data within OpenMRS so they can be used by reporting tools. Primary mentor: Mike Seaton, backup mentor: Darius Jazayeri. Amogha Gundavaram from India will be integrating the OpenEMPI Master Patient Index with OpenMRS. OpenEMPI<https://openhie.projects.openhealthtools.org/> is an open-source master patient index system. As organizations grow, they often need to move control of the master patient list from the electronic medical record system to a centralized system, such as OpenEMPI. Amogha will help create a module or messaging solution to integrate OpenMRS with OpenEMPI. Primary mentor: Odysseas Pentakalos, Backup mentor: Shaun Grannis. Saketh Bhamidipati from the U.S. will be enhancing the patient de-duplication workflow in the OpenMRS patient matching module. As implementations grow, ending up with duplicate patient records is a common problem. Shaun is a leader in the field of patient matching and mentored a student last year in creating a patient matching module for OpenMRS. This summer, Saketh will improve the interface so that patient de-duplication will become a tool in every OpenMRS implementation's arsenal. Primary mentor: Shaun Grannis, Backup mentor: James Egg. Moses Mugisha from Uganda will be integrating FrontlineSMS with OpenMRS. FrontlineSMS<http://www.frontlinesms.com/> is an innovative solution for gathering data via SMS messages, even allowing simple forms to be sent to devices and responses collected over SMS. Moses will integrate FrontlineSMS with OpenMRS, allowing simple form data using OpenMRS concepts to be collected from mobile phones over SMS. Primary mentor: Daniel Kayiwa, Backup mentor: Paul Biondich. Felicia Rosemond from the U.S. will be adding global caching support to the OpenMRS decision support engine. We have created a logic engine to support complex decision support rules at a low level within OpenMRS. One of the critical improvements needed for this service to become widely used is improved caching of derived results. Felicia will replace the existing rudimentary caching in the logic service with a high quality open-source caching library. Primary mentor: Tammy Dugan, Backup mentor: Burke Mamlin. [cid:image002.png@01C9C1DD.D5FE0F20]OpenMRS is also excited to announce that, thanks to the generosity of the team at Verio.com<http://verio.com/>, each of our summer interns will have access to their own public hosted server running OpenMRS within which they can load, debug, and demonstrate real-time project progress to the rest of the community. This will not only provide a great resource for the interns, but will facilitate getting valuable feedback from end users. Thank you Verio! We're honored by the excellent interns listed above as well as the many others who applied and we couldn't accommodate this summer. We're also thankful for a great (and growing) group of OpenMRS mentors and we're looking forward to the best summer of coding yet! - The OpenMRS Team ________________________________ Click here to unsubscribe<mailto:LISTSERV@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-announce-l> from OpenMRS Announcements mailing list (note: if you are subscribed to any OpenMRS mailing list, you will continue to receive announcements) ________________________________ Click here to unsubscribe<mailto:LISTSERV@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-announce-l> from OpenMRS Announcements mailing list (note: if you are subscribed to any OpenMRS mailing list, you will continue to receive announcements)

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Changing BPO landscape favours Kenya call centres
by Margaret Gichuki 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Is this really true given the cost? Wams http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14054&Ite…

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Jobs in the US without matata
by Preston Odera 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Wanted: Computer hackers ... to help government WASHINGTON – Wanted: Computer hackers. Federal authorities aren't looking to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation's networks. General Dynamics Information Technology put out an ad last month on behalf of the Homeland Security Department seeking someone who could "think like the bad guy." Applicants, it said, must understand hackers' tools and tactics and be able to analyze Internet traffic and identify vulnerabilities in the federal systems. In the Pentagon's budget request submitted last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Pentagon will increase the number of cyberexperts it can train each year from 80 to 250 by 2011. With warnings that the U.S. is ill-prepared for a cyberattack, the White House conducted a 60-day study of how the government can better manage and use technology to protect everything from the electrical grid and stock markets to tax data, airline flight systems, and nuclear launch codes. President Barack Obama appointed a former Bush administration aide, Melissa Hathaway, to head the effort, and her report was delivered Friday, the White House said. While the country had detailed plans for floods, fires or errant planes drifting into protected airspace, there is no similar response etched out for a major computer attack. David Powner, director of technology issues for the Government Accountability Office, told Congress last month that the U.S. has no recovery plan for a digital disaster. "We're clearly not as prepared as we should be," he said. Administration officials says the U.S. has not kept pace with technological innovations needed to protect its computer networks against emerging threats from hackers, criminals or other nations looking for national security secrets. U.S. computer networks, including those at the Pentagon and other federal agencies, are under persistent attack, ranging from nuisance hacking to more nefarious assaults, possibly from other nations, such as China. Industry leaders told Congress during a recent hearing that law enforcement and other protections are too outdated to fend off threats from criminals, terrorists and unfriendly foreign nations. Just last week, a former government official revealed that spies had hacked into the U.S. electric grid and left behind computer programs that would let them disrupt service. The intrusions were discovered after electric companies gave the government permission to audit their systems, said the ex-official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity. Cyberthreats are also included as a key potential national security risk outlined in a classified report put together by Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Pentagon officials say they spent more than $100 million in the last six months responding to and repairing damage from cyberattacks and other computer network problems. Nadia Short, vice president at General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, said the job posting for ethical hackers fills a critical need for the government. The analysts keep constant watch on the government networks as part of a surveillance programs called Einstein that was initiated by the Bush administration under the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team. US-CERT is a partnership of the Homeland Security Department, other public agencies and private companies. The Einstein program is an automated process for collecting and sharing security information. Short said the $60 million, four-year contract with US-CERT uses the ethical hackers to analyze threats to the government's computer systems and develop ways to reduce vulnerabilities. Faced with such cyberchallenges, Obama ordered the 60-day review to examine how federal agencies manage and protect their massive amounts of data and what the government's role should be in guarding the vast networks that control the country's vital utilities and infrastructure. Over the past two months, Hathaway met with hundreds of industry leaders, Capitol Hill staff and other experts, seeking guidance on what the federal government's role should be in protecting information networks against an attack. She sought recommendations on how officials should define and report cyberincidents and attacks; how the government should structure its cyberoversight; and how the nation can increase security without stifling innovation. A task force of technology giants, including representatives from General Dynamics, IBM, Lockheed Martin and Hewlett-Packard Co. urged the administration to establish a White House-level official to lead cyberefforts and to develop ways to share information on problems more quickly with the private sector. The administration has struggled with the basics, such as who should control the nation's cyberspace programs. There appears to be some agreement now that the White House should coordinate the overall effort, rejecting suggestions that the National Security Agency take it on — a plan that triggered protests on Capitol Hill and from civil liberties groups worried about giving such control to spy agencies. ___ On the Net: White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems: http://www.gd-ais.com/ U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team: http://www.us-cert.gov/ GAO report: http://tinyurl.com/aczgk6 Jobs in the US without matata. Our graduates should take the opportunity. Preston Odera Executive Director K-Ninety East Africa Limited Kenya School for the Blind Complex Mai Mahiu Road off Langata Road P.O Box 3894-00100 Nairobi Kenya Tel +254 20 608316 Tel +254 20 3544352 Fax + 254 20 608318 Cell +254 722 771 478 Email; info(a)k90ea.com

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ICANN gets "securitized": What would this mean for the Internet Governance and ICANN?]
by alice 20 Apr '09

20 Apr '09

Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:03:48 +0200 From: Soenke Zehle Subject: Mueller, Securitization of ICANN To: incom-l ICANN gets "securitized" by Milton Mueller on Thu 02 Apr 2009 12:58 PM EDT <http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2009/4/2/4141451.html> <http://cdt.org/security/CYBERSEC4.pdf> This is no April Fool's joke: here is a bill that is almost a caricature of what the rest of the world fears about U.S. control of the Internet DNS root and ICANN. Legislation unveiled today by Senate Commerce Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller and Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, would require a Presidentially appointed cybersecurity advisory panel to ensure that national security would not be compromised before approving the renewal or modification of the contract between the U.S. government and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. According to a summary of the bill, it would "make sure that ICANN does not succumb to foreign pressure" to end its relationship with the U.S. government. ICANN is only one part of a comprehensive and authoritarian approach to cybersecurity. According to the Center for Democracy and Technology, "The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 would...give the President unfettered power to shut down Internet traffic in emergencies or disconnect any critical infrastructure system or network on national security grounds." Read the proposed Cybersecurity Act of 2009. -- Regards. -------------------------- Fouad Bajwa @skBajwa Answering all your technology questions http://www.askbajwa.com http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: governance(a)lists.cpsr.org To be removed from the list, send any message to: governance-unsubscribe(a)lists.cpsr.org For all list information and functions, see: http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance

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Revealing Security Holes vrs "The Rogue Tracker" type of stories
by wesley kiriinya 20 Apr '09

20 Apr '09

I believe that the ICT bill makes it illegal for someone to reveal security holes in IT systems. However doesn't investigative journalism stories like the recent "The Rogue Tracker" reveal 'security holes'? So what makes that legal? If one was to discover a security hole in a system, then one can do their own investigative journalism then reveal everything about the security hole. I believe the tracking system is an IT system. And it seems a security hole was revealed. It's like saying half of the companies that claim to have installed a particular firewall might not really have the firewall installed. Revealing security holes might be a necessary evil. Just like how some people might have lived with the false security about their cars, some people might be living with false security about their personal info in IT systems. Just the other day someone posted that s/he had bought something which was wrapped by paper containing security authentication credentials from a bank. Another post showed the lack of experience of a local bank's website programmers that allowed anyone to get the password of one of the subjects in their database system. Now all the funky possible stuff is left to the hacker's imagination who might be sitting in the middle of Migingo, sorry, Mijinjo. o_O?

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Re: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT on polls
by Evans J. Nyagah 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

Staying with this issue, kenya has the next big opportunity to anticipate inclusion of ICT in electoral process, this will be realized when the electoral body yet to be formed revises the electorate registers- which should include contacts such as mobile and emails. Further a mechanism to have those in the diaspora oncluded will epitomize our development in ICT. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 18, 2009, at 12:08 PM, "kictanet-request(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke" <kictanet-request(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke > wrote: > 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: South Africa embraces ICT in polls (bitange(a)jambo.co.ke) > 2. Re: South Africa embraces ICT in polls (Gakuru Alex) > 3. Re: South Africa embraces ICT in polls (Solomon Mburu) > 4. Re: South Africa embraces ICT in polls (Gakuru Alex) > 5. Court jails Pirate Bay founders...Worlds most high profile > file sharing website (alice) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:09:17 +0300 (EAT) > From: bitange(a)jambo.co.ke > Subject: Re: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls > To: "Wainaina Mungai" <wainaina(a)madeinkenya.org> > Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> > Message-ID: > <ed68a29c670ed4c654ab14de0670e33e.squirrel(a)mail.jambo.co.ke> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > Wainaina, > Indeed we have made progress in this end. The Lands, Judiciary, Motor > Vhicle, and Pension Dept registries are being prepared for > digitization. > It takes time to go through the procurement process and fighting > resistance from staff. It is not all that easy as I once thought. We > shall not give up though. Parliament has to pass the FOI for all the > digitization to stimulate enterprise. > > Regards > > Ndemo. > > >> A few years back at the Safaricom offices, President Kibaki tasked >> former Info & Comm Minister with implementing such "Digitization" in >> government. What ever happened to that? >> >> **Is PS Ndemo still tasked with implementing digitization? >> >> Regards, >> Wainaina >> >> >> On 4/16/09, wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Well our census is up in a few months. Let's see if technology >>> will be >>> used >>> to verify the truth of the collected data. >>> >>> I believe in a system where everything works like it's supposed >>> to, data >>> from deaths, births, immigration (and whatever affects population >>> size) >>> can >>> be used to update the population statistics, and a census only >>> conducted >>> in >>> areas where there seems to be an abnormal population size change >>> (small-scale census). Technology can go a long way into making >>> this a >>> reality. I believe the cost of maintaining the technology and doing >>> small-scale census would be cheaper than doing an entire census >>> every >>> decade. >>> >>> O_O >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --- On Thu, 4/16/09, John Walubengo <jwalu(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> From: John Walubengo <jwalu(a)yahoo.com> >>> Subject: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls >>> To: kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com >>> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" >>> <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> >>> Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 11:04 AM >>> >>> >>> >>> Not sure if our next "Kivuitu" wants to hear things like below ;-) >>> >>> walu. >>> ~~~~~~ >>> By CHARLES OMOND IPosted Thursday, April 16 2009 at 10:41 >>> >>> In Summary >>> >>> As the rest of the continent dithers, use of information >>> communication >>> technology in South Africa's political processes has enabled >>> thousands >>> of >>> its citizens overseas to vote, a whole week ahead of their home- >>> based >>> compatriots. >>> >>> JOHANNESBURG, Thursday >>> As the rest of Africa dithers, South Africa has moved fast to >>> embrace >>> information communication technology as part of its political >>> processes. >>> And >>> as a result of the revolutionary move, thousands of eligible >>> voters have >>> already cast their ballots away from home and a whole week ahead of >>> their >>> home-based compatriots. >>> >>> Rest of the story... >>> http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/560768/-/13ph0aiz/-/index.html >>> >>> walu. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> kictanet mailing list >>> kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke >>> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet >>> >>> This message was sent to: kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com >>> Unsubscribe or change your options at >>> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/kiriinya2000%40yahoo.c… >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> --- >> http://www.bungesms.com >> >> http://www.madeinkenya.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> kictanet mailing list >> kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke >> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet >> >> This message was sent to: bitange(a)jambo.co.ke >> Unsubscribe or change your options at >> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/bitange%40jambo.co.ke >> >> ---------------------------------------------- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> --------------------------------------------- >> "easy access to the world" >> >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > --------------------------------------------- > "easy access to the world" > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:37:59 +0300 > From: Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls > To: bitange(a)jambo.co.ke > Cc: kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke > Message-ID: > <1981f3fd0904170837r681702c3w684930526a644a02(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:09 PM, <bitange(a)jambo.co.ke> wrote: > >> resistance from staff. ?It is not all that easy as I once thought. ? >> We >> shall not give up though. ?Parliament has to pass the FOI for all the >> digitization to stimulate enterprise. >> > > The Media: > > Please help in exposing more Civil Servants frustrating openness in > government. How does FOI threaten their interests? Why is the > Official Secrets Act their continued corruption cover-up. What > corruption perpetuating networks and cartels exist? Tally which MPs > declare their support for FOI if tabled in parliament today? > > regards, > > Alex > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:03:40 -0230 > From: Solomon Mburu <solo.mburu(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls > To: Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists(a)gmail.com> > Cc: kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke > Message-ID: > <98099ee50904170933j7df14631l7c7ae19e2e185480(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dakitari, I believe no matter how much pressure and resistance is > coming from some civil servants, they will have to give in, only when > proper mechanisms and laws are put in place. > > On 17/04/2009, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:09 PM, <bitange(a)jambo.co.ke> wrote: >> >>> resistance from staff. ?It is not all that easy as I once >>> thought. ?We >>> shall not give up though. ?Parliament has to pass the FOI for all >>> the >>> digitization to stimulate enterprise. >>> >> >> The Media: >> >> Please help in exposing more Civil Servants frustrating openness in >> government. How does FOI threaten their interests? Why is the >> Official Secrets Act their continued corruption cover-up. What >> corruption perpetuating networks and cartels exist? Tally which MPs >> declare their support for FOI if tabled in parliament today? >> >> regards, >> >> Alex >> >> _______________________________________________ >> kictanet mailing list >> kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke >> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet >> >> This message was sent to: solo.mburu(a)gmail.com >> Unsubscribe or change your options at >> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/solo.mburu%40gmail.com >> > > > -- > Man is a gregarious animal and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all > the same way to the side of a hill! > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:37:36 +0300 > From: Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls > To: mwangi(a)wamae.com > Cc: kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke > Message-ID: > <1981f3fd0904170937m7816ee45m68e54d9a4a252f32(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Wasalaale! Please stop suspecting here's hard truth. Nowadays the > 'real' money is in procurement. > <http://www.ppoa.go.ke/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=47>. You > recall the time all 3,000 were sacked some years back.. > > Since the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2005 came into effect. > They changed tact and they put every hurdle in availing information > that would enable open tendering. Most of the costly ads are for PR.. > An example? One of them recently called me asking me to inform a group > of SMEs I was lobbying they get government business, to go collect > tender documents from their procurement department at 6 pm. The > deadline for submission was 9 am the following morning. You get what I > am saying? You don't suppose that person sat on that information 'by > accident' all the while? > > FOI would mean that anyone can go back and demand, for example, all > communication, call logs etc that Civil Servant had prior to the > tender award? Should pattern be established than impling that the law > was broken, then that somebody would find themselves on the other side > of the law. Just one example. > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:16 PM, <mwangi(a)wamae.com> wrote: >> Alex: >> >> I suspect that civil servants are not anti the FOI per se, but >> afraid that digitization will lead to job cuts and, to be somewhat >> cynical, reduce their ability to exact "rents" from their jobs. >> >> -Mwangi, Jhb >> Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists(a)gmail.com> >> >> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:37:59 >> To: <mwangi.wamae(a)gmail.com> >> Cc: <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> >> Subject: Re: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:09 PM, ?<bitange(a)jambo.co.ke> wrote: >> >>> resistance from staff. ?It is not all that easy as I once >>> thought. ?We >>> shall not give up though. ?Parliament has to pass the FOI for all >>> the >>> digitization to stimulate enterprise. >>> >> >> The Media: >> >> Please help in exposing more Civil Servants frustrating openness in >> government. How does FOI ?threaten their interests? Why is the >> Official Secrets Act their continued corruption cover-up. What >> corruption perpetuating networks and cartels exist? Tally which MPs >> declare their support for FOI if tabled in parliament today? >> >> regards, >> >> Alex >> >> _______________________________________________ >> kictanet mailing list >> kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke >> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet >> >> This message was sent to: mwangi.wamae(a)gmail.com >> Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/mwangi.wamae%40gmail.c… >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:34:34 +0300 > From: alice <alice(a)apc.org> > Subject: [kictanet] Court jails Pirate Bay founders...Worlds most high > profile file sharing website > To: Kenya ICT Action Network - KICTANet > <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> > Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> > Message-ID: <49E9120A.7070005(a)apc.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Coming to Kenya soon > > ---------------- > Court jails Pirate Bay founders > > Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde, speaking on his website: 'We cannot and > wouldn't pay' > > A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the > world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case. > > Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde > were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a > year > in jail. > > They were also ordered to pay $4.5m (?3m) in damages. > > Record companies welcomed the verdict but the men are to appeal and > Sunde said they would refuse to pay the fine. > > Speaking at an online press conference, he described the verdict as > "bizarre". > > "It's serious to actually be found guilty and get jail time. It's > really > serious. And that's a bit weird," Sunde said. > > "It's so bizarre that we were convicted at all and it's even more > bizarre that we were [convicted] as a team. The court said we were > organised. I can't get Gottfrid out of bed in the morning. If you're > going to convict us, convict us of disorganised crime. > > "We can't pay and we wouldn't pay. Even if I had the money I would > rather burn everything I owned, and I wouldn't even give them the > ashes." > > > It is almost certain that The Pirate Bay will keep on sailing, long > after today's court judgement > > > The damages were awarded to a number of entertainment companies, > including Warner Bros, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and Columbia > Pictures. > > However, the total awarded fell short of the $17.5m in damages and > interest the firms were seeking. > > Speaking to the BBC, the chairman of industry body the International > Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) John Kennedy said the > verdict sent out a clear message. > > "These guys weren't making a principled stand, they were out to line > their own pockets. There was nothing meritorious about their > behaviour, > it was reprehensible. > > "The Pirate Bay did immense harm and the damages awarded doesn't even > get close to compensation, but we never claimed it did. > > "There has been a perception that piracy is OK and that the music > industry should just have to accept it. This verdict will change > that," > he said. > > The Pirate Bay's first server is now a museum exhibit in Stockholm > > The four men denied the charges throughout the trial, saying that > because they did not actually host any files, they were not doing > anything wrong. > > Speaking on Swedish Radio, assistant judge Klarius explained how the > court reached its findings. > > "The court first tried whether there was any question of breach of > copyright by the file-sharing application and that has been proved, > that > the offence was committed. > > "The court then moved on to look at those who acted as a team to > operate > the Pirate Bay file-sharing service, and the court found that they > knew > that material which was protected by copyright but continued to > operate > the service," he said. > > A lawyer for Carl Lundstrom, Per Samuelson, told journalists he was > shocked by the guilty verdict and the severity of the sentence. > > "That's outrageous, in my point of view. Of course we will appeal," he > was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency. "This is the first word, > not the last. The last word will be ours." > > Political issue > > Rickard Falkvinge, leader of The Pirate Party - which is trying to > reform laws around copyright and patents in the digital age - told the > BBC that the verdict was "a gross injustice". > > "This wasn't a criminal trial, it was a political trial. It is just > gross beyond description that you can jail four people for providing > infrastructure. > > Mark Mulligan from Forrester Research says what was different about > Pirate Bay > > "There is a lot of anger in Sweden right now. File-sharing is an > institution here and while I can't encourage people to break copyright > law, I'm not following it and I don't agree with it. > > "Today's events make file-sharing a hot political issue and we're > going > to take this to the European Parliament." > > The Pirate Bay is the world's most high profile file-sharing website > and > was set up in 2003 by anti-copyright organisation Piratbyran, but for > the last five years it has been run by individuals. > > Millions of files are exchanged using the service every day. > > No copyright content is hosted on The Pirate Bay's web servers; > instead > the site hosts "torrent" links to TV, film and music files held on its > users' computers. > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > kictanet mailing list > kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke > http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet > > > End of kictanet Digest, Vol 23, Issue 25 > **************************************** ##################################################################################### Scanned by MailMarshal - Marshal's comprehensive email content security solution. 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Re: [kictanet] kictanet Digest, Vol 23, Issue 25
by Evans J. Nyagah 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

Sent from my iPhone On Apr 18, 2009, at 12:08 PM, "kictanet-request(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke" <kictanet-request(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke > wrote: > 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: South Africa embraces ICT in polls (bitange(a)jambo.co.ke) > 2. Re: South Africa embraces ICT in polls (Gakuru Alex) > 3. Re: South Africa embraces ICT in polls (Solomon Mburu) > 4. Re: South Africa embraces ICT in polls (Gakuru Alex) > 5. Court jails Pirate Bay founders...Worlds most high profile > file sharing website (alice) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:09:17 +0300 (EAT) > From: bitange(a)jambo.co.ke > Subject: Re: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls > To: "Wainaina Mungai" <wainaina(a)madeinkenya.org> > Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> > Message-ID: > <ed68a29c670ed4c654ab14de0670e33e.squirrel(a)mail.jambo.co.ke> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > Wainaina, > Indeed we have made progress in this end. The Lands, Judiciary, Motor > Vhicle, and Pension Dept registries are being prepared for > digitization. > It takes time to go through the procurement process and fighting > resistance from staff. It is not all that easy as I once thought. We > shall not give up though. Parliament has to pass the FOI for all the > digitization to stimulate enterprise. > > Regards > > Ndemo. > > >> A few years back at the Safaricom offices, President Kibaki tasked >> former Info & Comm Minister with implementing such "Digitization" in >> government. What ever happened to that? >> >> **Is PS Ndemo still tasked with implementing digitization? >> >> Regards, >> Wainaina >> >> >> On 4/16/09, wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Well our census is up in a few months. Let's see if technology >>> will be >>> used >>> to verify the truth of the collected data. >>> >>> I believe in a system where everything works like it's supposed >>> to, data >>> from deaths, births, immigration (and whatever affects population >>> size) >>> can >>> be used to update the population statistics, and a census only >>> conducted >>> in >>> areas where there seems to be an abnormal population size change >>> (small-scale census). Technology can go a long way into making >>> this a >>> reality. I believe the cost of maintaining the technology and doing >>> small-scale census would be cheaper than doing an entire census >>> every >>> decade. >>> >>> O_O >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --- On Thu, 4/16/09, John Walubengo <jwalu(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> From: John Walubengo <jwalu(a)yahoo.com> >>> Subject: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls >>> To: kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com >>> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" >>> <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> >>> Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 11:04 AM >>> >>> >>> >>> Not sure if our next "Kivuitu" wants to hear things like below ;-) >>> >>> walu. >>> ~~~~~~ >>> By CHARLES OMOND IPosted Thursday, April 16 2009 at 10:41 >>> >>> In Summary >>> >>> As the rest of the continent dithers, use of information >>> communication >>> technology in South Africa's political processes has enabled >>> thousands >>> of >>> its citizens overseas to vote, a whole week ahead of their home- >>> based >>> compatriots. >>> >>> JOHANNESBURG, Thursday >>> As the rest of Africa dithers, South Africa has moved fast to >>> embrace >>> information communication technology as part of its political >>> processes. >>> And >>> as a result of the revolutionary move, thousands of eligible >>> voters have >>> already cast their ballots away from home and a whole week ahead of >>> their >>> home-based compatriots. >>> >>> Rest of the story... >>> http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/560768/-/13ph0aiz/-/index.html >>> >>> walu. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> kictanet mailing list >>> kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke >>> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet >>> >>> This message was sent to: kiriinya2000(a)yahoo.com >>> Unsubscribe or change your options at >>> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/kiriinya2000%40yahoo.c… >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> --- >> http://www.bungesms.com >> >> http://www.madeinkenya.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> kictanet mailing list >> kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke >> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet >> >> This message was sent to: bitange(a)jambo.co.ke >> Unsubscribe or change your options at >> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/bitange%40jambo.co.ke >> >> ---------------------------------------------- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> --------------------------------------------- >> "easy access to the world" >> >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > --------------------------------------------- > "easy access to the world" > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:37:59 +0300 > From: Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls > To: bitange(a)jambo.co.ke > Cc: kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke > Message-ID: > <1981f3fd0904170837r681702c3w684930526a644a02(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:09 PM, <bitange(a)jambo.co.ke> wrote: > >> resistance from staff. ?It is not all that easy as I once thought. ? >> We >> shall not give up though. ?Parliament has to pass the FOI for all the >> digitization to stimulate enterprise. >> > > The Media: > > Please help in exposing more Civil Servants frustrating openness in > government. How does FOI threaten their interests? Why is the > Official Secrets Act their continued corruption cover-up. What > corruption perpetuating networks and cartels exist? Tally which MPs > declare their support for FOI if tabled in parliament today? > > regards, > > Alex > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:03:40 -0230 > From: Solomon Mburu <solo.mburu(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls > To: Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists(a)gmail.com> > Cc: kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke > Message-ID: > <98099ee50904170933j7df14631l7c7ae19e2e185480(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dakitari, I believe no matter how much pressure and resistance is > coming from some civil servants, they will have to give in, only when > proper mechanisms and laws are put in place. > > On 17/04/2009, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:09 PM, <bitange(a)jambo.co.ke> wrote: >> >>> resistance from staff. ?It is not all that easy as I once >>> thought. ?We >>> shall not give up though. ?Parliament has to pass the FOI for all >>> the >>> digitization to stimulate enterprise. >>> >> >> The Media: >> >> Please help in exposing more Civil Servants frustrating openness in >> government. How does FOI threaten their interests? Why is the >> Official Secrets Act their continued corruption cover-up. What >> corruption perpetuating networks and cartels exist? Tally which MPs >> declare their support for FOI if tabled in parliament today? >> >> regards, >> >> Alex >> >> _______________________________________________ >> kictanet mailing list >> kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke >> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet >> >> This message was sent to: solo.mburu(a)gmail.com >> Unsubscribe or change your options at >> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/solo.mburu%40gmail.com >> > > > -- > Man is a gregarious animal and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all > the same way to the side of a hill! > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:37:36 +0300 > From: Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls > To: mwangi(a)wamae.com > Cc: kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke > Message-ID: > <1981f3fd0904170937m7816ee45m68e54d9a4a252f32(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Wasalaale! Please stop suspecting here's hard truth. Nowadays the > 'real' money is in procurement. > <http://www.ppoa.go.ke/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=47>. You > recall the time all 3,000 were sacked some years back.. > > Since the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2005 came into effect. > They changed tact and they put every hurdle in availing information > that would enable open tendering. Most of the costly ads are for PR.. > An example? One of them recently called me asking me to inform a group > of SMEs I was lobbying they get government business, to go collect > tender documents from their procurement department at 6 pm. The > deadline for submission was 9 am the following morning. You get what I > am saying? You don't suppose that person sat on that information 'by > accident' all the while? > > FOI would mean that anyone can go back and demand, for example, all > communication, call logs etc that Civil Servant had prior to the > tender award? Should pattern be established than impling that the law > was broken, then that somebody would find themselves on the other side > of the law. Just one example. > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:16 PM, <mwangi(a)wamae.com> wrote: >> Alex: >> >> I suspect that civil servants are not anti the FOI per se, but >> afraid that digitization will lead to job cuts and, to be somewhat >> cynical, reduce their ability to exact "rents" from their jobs. >> >> -Mwangi, Jhb >> Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists(a)gmail.com> >> >> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:37:59 >> To: <mwangi.wamae(a)gmail.com> >> Cc: <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> >> Subject: Re: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:09 PM, ?<bitange(a)jambo.co.ke> wrote: >> >>> resistance from staff. ?It is not all that easy as I once >>> thought. ?We >>> shall not give up though. ?Parliament has to pass the FOI for all >>> the >>> digitization to stimulate enterprise. >>> >> >> The Media: >> >> Please help in exposing more Civil Servants frustrating openness in >> government. How does FOI ?threaten their interests? Why is the >> Official Secrets Act their continued corruption cover-up. What >> corruption perpetuating networks and cartels exist? Tally which MPs >> declare their support for FOI if tabled in parliament today? >> >> regards, >> >> Alex >> >> _______________________________________________ >> kictanet mailing list >> kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke >> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet >> >> This message was sent to: mwangi.wamae(a)gmail.com >> Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/mwangi.wamae%40gmail.c… >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:34:34 +0300 > From: alice <alice(a)apc.org> > Subject: [kictanet] Court jails Pirate Bay founders...Worlds most high > profile file sharing website > To: Kenya ICT Action Network - KICTANet > <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> > Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> > Message-ID: <49E9120A.7070005(a)apc.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Coming to Kenya soon > > ---------------- > Court jails Pirate Bay founders > > Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde, speaking on his website: 'We cannot and > wouldn't pay' > > A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the > world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case. > > Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde > were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a > year > in jail. > > They were also ordered to pay $4.5m (?3m) in damages. > > Record companies welcomed the verdict but the men are to appeal and > Sunde said they would refuse to pay the fine. > > Speaking at an online press conference, he described the verdict as > "bizarre". > > "It's serious to actually be found guilty and get jail time. It's > really > serious. And that's a bit weird," Sunde said. > > "It's so bizarre that we were convicted at all and it's even more > bizarre that we were [convicted] as a team. The court said we were > organised. I can't get Gottfrid out of bed in the morning. If you're > going to convict us, convict us of disorganised crime. > > "We can't pay and we wouldn't pay. Even if I had the money I would > rather burn everything I owned, and I wouldn't even give them the > ashes." > > > It is almost certain that The Pirate Bay will keep on sailing, long > after today's court judgement > > > The damages were awarded to a number of entertainment companies, > including Warner Bros, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and Columbia > Pictures. > > However, the total awarded fell short of the $17.5m in damages and > interest the firms were seeking. > > Speaking to the BBC, the chairman of industry body the International > Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) John Kennedy said the > verdict sent out a clear message. > > "These guys weren't making a principled stand, they were out to line > their own pockets. There was nothing meritorious about their > behaviour, > it was reprehensible. > > "The Pirate Bay did immense harm and the damages awarded doesn't even > get close to compensation, but we never claimed it did. > > "There has been a perception that piracy is OK and that the music > industry should just have to accept it. This verdict will change > that," > he said. > > The Pirate Bay's first server is now a museum exhibit in Stockholm > > The four men denied the charges throughout the trial, saying that > because they did not actually host any files, they were not doing > anything wrong. > > Speaking on Swedish Radio, assistant judge Klarius explained how the > court reached its findings. > > "The court first tried whether there was any question of breach of > copyright by the file-sharing application and that has been proved, > that > the offence was committed. > > "The court then moved on to look at those who acted as a team to > operate > the Pirate Bay file-sharing service, and the court found that they > knew > that material which was protected by copyright but continued to > operate > the service," he said. > > A lawyer for Carl Lundstrom, Per Samuelson, told journalists he was > shocked by the guilty verdict and the severity of the sentence. > > "That's outrageous, in my point of view. Of course we will appeal," he > was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency. "This is the first word, > not the last. The last word will be ours." > > Political issue > > Rickard Falkvinge, leader of The Pirate Party - which is trying to > reform laws around copyright and patents in the digital age - told the > BBC that the verdict was "a gross injustice". > > "This wasn't a criminal trial, it was a political trial. It is just > gross beyond description that you can jail four people for providing > infrastructure. > > Mark Mulligan from Forrester Research says what was different about > Pirate Bay > > "There is a lot of anger in Sweden right now. File-sharing is an > institution here and while I can't encourage people to break copyright > law, I'm not following it and I don't agree with it. > > "Today's events make file-sharing a hot political issue and we're > going > to take this to the European Parliament." > > The Pirate Bay is the world's most high profile file-sharing website > and > was set up in 2003 by anti-copyright organisation Piratbyran, but for > the last five years it has been run by individuals. > > Millions of files are exchanged using the service every day. > > No copyright content is hosted on The Pirate Bay's web servers; > instead > the site hosts "torrent" links to TV, film and music files held on its > users' computers. > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > kictanet mailing list > kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke > http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet > > > End of kictanet Digest, Vol 23, Issue 25 > **************************************** ##################################################################################### Scanned by MailMarshal - Marshal's comprehensive email content security solution. 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Court jails Pirate Bay founders...Worlds most high profile file sharing website
by alice 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Coming to Kenya soon ---------------- Court jails Pirate Bay founders Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde, speaking on his website: 'We cannot and wouldn't pay' A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail. They were also ordered to pay $4.5m (£3m) in damages. Record companies welcomed the verdict but the men are to appeal and Sunde said they would refuse to pay the fine. Speaking at an online press conference, he described the verdict as "bizarre". "It's serious to actually be found guilty and get jail time. It's really serious. And that's a bit weird," Sunde said. "It's so bizarre that we were convicted at all and it's even more bizarre that we were [convicted] as a team. The court said we were organised. I can't get Gottfrid out of bed in the morning. If you're going to convict us, convict us of disorganised crime. "We can't pay and we wouldn't pay. Even if I had the money I would rather burn everything I owned, and I wouldn't even give them the ashes." It is almost certain that The Pirate Bay will keep on sailing, long after today's court judgement The damages were awarded to a number of entertainment companies, including Warner Bros, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and Columbia Pictures. However, the total awarded fell short of the $17.5m in damages and interest the firms were seeking. Speaking to the BBC, the chairman of industry body the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) John Kennedy said the verdict sent out a clear message. "These guys weren't making a principled stand, they were out to line their own pockets. There was nothing meritorious about their behaviour, it was reprehensible. "The Pirate Bay did immense harm and the damages awarded doesn't even get close to compensation, but we never claimed it did. "There has been a perception that piracy is OK and that the music industry should just have to accept it. This verdict will change that," he said. The Pirate Bay's first server is now a museum exhibit in Stockholm The four men denied the charges throughout the trial, saying that because they did not actually host any files, they were not doing anything wrong. Speaking on Swedish Radio, assistant judge Klarius explained how the court reached its findings. "The court first tried whether there was any question of breach of copyright by the file-sharing application and that has been proved, that the offence was committed. "The court then moved on to look at those who acted as a team to operate the Pirate Bay file-sharing service, and the court found that they knew that material which was protected by copyright but continued to operate the service," he said. A lawyer for Carl Lundstrom, Per Samuelson, told journalists he was shocked by the guilty verdict and the severity of the sentence. "That's outrageous, in my point of view. Of course we will appeal," he was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency. "This is the first word, not the last. The last word will be ours." Political issue Rickard Falkvinge, leader of The Pirate Party - which is trying to reform laws around copyright and patents in the digital age - told the BBC that the verdict was "a gross injustice". "This wasn't a criminal trial, it was a political trial. It is just gross beyond description that you can jail four people for providing infrastructure. Mark Mulligan from Forrester Research says what was different about Pirate Bay "There is a lot of anger in Sweden right now. File-sharing is an institution here and while I can't encourage people to break copyright law, I'm not following it and I don't agree with it. "Today's events make file-sharing a hot political issue and we're going to take this to the European Parliament." The Pirate Bay is the world's most high profile file-sharing website and was set up in 2003 by anti-copyright organisation Piratbyran, but for the last five years it has been run by individuals. Millions of files are exchanged using the service every day. No copyright content is hosted on The Pirate Bay's web servers; instead the site hosts "torrent" links to TV, film and music files held on its users' computers.

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