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Kembi Gitura’s appointment to CA board challenged in court
by Victor Kapiyo 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

The appointment of former deputy Senate Speaker Kembi Gitura to chair the board of the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has been challenged in court, setting the stage for another protracted battle for leadership at the key State agency. President Uhuru Kenyatta on March 10 gazetted the appointment of Mr Gitura as the new CA board chairman starting April 18, 2021. He is set to take over from Mr Ngene Gituku whose term as chairman of the CA board is due to expire. However, the appointment has now been challenged at the Employment and Labour Relations Court by a Mr Benedict Kabugi Ndungu, who says the president failed to form a select panel to conduct the recruitment of the board’s chairman as required by Sections 6 and 6B of the Kenya Information and Communications (Amendment) Act (KICA) and the amendments done in 2013. https://nation.africa/kenya/news/uhuru-choice-of-gitura-for-ca-job-challeng… *Victor Kapiyo* Partner | *Lawmark Partners LLP* *Suite No. 8, Centro House, Westlands, Nairobi | **Web: www.lawmark.co.ke <http://www.lawmark.co.ke> * ==================================================== *“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude” Zig Ziglar*

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List subscribers cleanup - Yahoo Troubles
by Odhiambo Washington 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

Hello Listers Of late, we have been experiencing technical challenges in particular with YAHOO addresses, which for some reason has to lead to YAHOO classifying messages from the mailing list as spam. To deal with this challenge, there is a need to clean up the list of all dormant YAHOO addresses and I only have THREE possible options: 1. To send a probe mail to all the subscribed Yahoo addresses and request that they *please respond to this probe mail within three (or five) days.* 2. To disable delivery to ALL subscribed YAHOO addresses and wait for those who are active to raise a flag that they are not receiving posts to the list, and then re-enable their subscriptions. 3. To unsubscribe ALL the subscribed YAHOO addresses and let those who are active in the list re-subscribe either by going to https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet or by reaching out to the List Moderators. Given the number of addresses to deal with in this case (135), option 3 above comes out as the most efficient way to handle the issue. This is important as it will facilitate the sorting out the technical challenges we are experiencing. Regards Odhiambo Washington *KICTANet List Admin* +254 7 3200 0004 - Call/SMS/Sosomedia +254 7 2274 3223 - M-Pesa :-) "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#]

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Defend & Deliver Boot Camp
by Johnsey Kivoto 17 Mar '21

17 Mar '21

Dear Listers, Continuing its efforts to accelerate DMARC adoption through advocacy and practical solutions, the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) is pleased to offer another installment of its DMARC Bootcamp. Beginning May 5th, GCA will conduct five weeks of online technical training focused on what DMARC is and how to implement it. We’ll cover the basics of SPF and DKIM and options of performing DKIM key generation and signing. We will go over each of the tags for a DMARC policy and provide a demonstration of how to create the DNS records for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC on several systems. By the end of the bootcamp, participants will have enough information and confidence to move to the highest DMARC policy level of “reject” immediately or within a few months. [image: image.png] Every step of the way, GCA will assist with resources and guidance, including a weekly one-hour webinar. DMARC is considered the industry standard for email authentication to prevent attacks from malicious third parties sending harmful email using a counterfeit address. By implementing DMARC, you lower the odds of your domains being spoofed and used for phishing attacks against others. Open the link below to register. https://cutt.ly/yz4oYND DMARC is considered the industry standard for email authentication to prevent attacks from malicious third parties sending harmful email using a counterfeit address. By implementing DMARC, you lower the odds of your domains being spoofed and used for phishing attacks against others. DMARC is also an important defense against Business Email Compromise (BEC), which is a growing risk for organizations of all sizes, with more than $1.7 billion in losses last year according to the FBI <https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2019-internet-crime-report-released-021120> . Kind Regards, Johnsey Kivoto Activate link to view larger image.

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Cyber Basics for Small Businesses! A free three-week training series in April 2021
by Johnsey Kivoto 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Dear Listers, [image: Cyber-Basics-Twitter-Post (13)] The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) in partnership with The Cyber Readiness Institute (CRI), is launching a new three-week webinar series, *Cyber Basics for Small Businesses*, to help small businesses tackle key fundamentals of cyber protection and reduce their risk of cyberattack by up to 85%. The three one-hour sessions will walk attendees through basic cyber hygiene principles in non-technical, bite-sized segments, explaining risks, common attack methods and offering practical suggestions to help avoid falling victim. In between each weekly session, GCA will support attendees in implementing tools from the GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit for Small Business. The series is free to attend and will run weekly throughout April 2021 with the first webinar taking place on April 14. For more information and to sign up please visit: https://gca.globalcyberalliance.org/cyberbasics-2021 <https://gca.globalcyberalliance.org/e2t/tc/VVytjP2tMzcWW8y7mh-67PSmSVXkGBG4…> We are stronger together.

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Exploring White Elephants - KODI
by Twahir Hussein Kassim 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

Listers, The Kenya Constitution 2010 provides in Article 35: - 35. Access to information (1) Every citizen has the right of access to-- (a) information held by the State; and (b) information held by another person and required for the exercise or protection of any right or fundamental freedom. (2) Every person has the right to the correction or deletion of untrue or misleading information that affects the person. (3) The State shall publish and publicise any important information affecting the nation. Following this, the Kibaki administration launched Kenya Open Data Initiative (KODI) in 2011. KODI was hailed as the *first such programme in sub-saharan Africa <https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/open-data-kenya#:~:text=In….>* by the *Centre for Public Impact*. Unfortunately the focus on updating this data lost steam, as it stands today ONLY 970 datasets have been uploaded to the system. The last update seems to have been made in 2017.Below is a graph of the dataset uploaded between 2011 and 2017: - [image: Capture.PNG] My interest in KODI was to gather information on utilisation of USF. Unfortunately no info on USF is there on KODI. Additionally, KODI seems to be on UPDATE LEAVE since 2017. This initiative is under the ICT Authority, it would be helpful to know why updates are not forthcoming when this is a constitutional right as per Article 35 of Kenya constitution 2010. Is this another White Elephant? Regards Twahir [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> Sender notified by Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> 03/12/21, 02:46:52 PM

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Reminder: Meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on ICT Thur 11, 2021. 9:30am
by David Indeje 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Dear Listers, Further to our meeting today morning. The Senate Standing Committee on Information and Technology is scheduled to have its next Sitting on Thursday, 11th March 2021 on the Zoom Platform at 9:30 a.m. This is to remind KICTANET about the Sitting. The login credentials are as follows: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82366419552?pwd=K29hclJYbFk3OHFlYnJtcnJ4aUVpUT09 Meeting ID: 823 6641 9552 Passcode: 353183 Best, Indeje

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Launch of report on privacy and data protection practices of digital lending apps in Kenya
by Grace Mutung'u 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Dear colleagues, CIPIT, with support from Privacy International has been undertaking a study on the privacy practices of digital lending apps in Kenya. The study finds evidence of the apps sharing data with third parties, including data analytic firms. We invite you for the launch of the report <https://cipit.strathmore.edu/privacy-and-data-protection-practices-of-digit…>, to take place on Monday 15th March at 11.00am EAT (GMT+3). Please register on this link <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82056206220?pwd=QWF2OGpxZ09OY3pQZTR2dXVzMmRjZz09> for the meeting. We look forward to having you at the meeting and engaging on the issue. -- Grace Mutung'u Skype: gracebomu @Bomu PGP ID : 807F57ACF469B0BB

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Africa Digital Policy Institute
by Linda Bonyo 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

Dear Listers. We hope you are keeping well and greetings from the Lawyers Hub. Today we launched the following initiatives which may interest you; 1. The Africa Digital Policy Institute and call for 2021 Fellows with the support of Omidyar Network. 2. The Africa Startup Law Accelerator to give legal support to tech startups in 6 African Countries. 3. Africa Law Tech Festival (July 5-9 ) themed Digital Policy for economic Growth with a one day summit on Digital Identity, Internet Governance, Cryptocurrency regulation, AI & Ethics, Startup Law and Digital trade. 4. Our revamped membership program incorporating Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania We are keen to work with new partners, faculty and speakers. Feel free to reach out to me or check out our website lawyershub.org . The launch video is here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmbpFRX_ot8>and is only 16 minutes long, we would appreciate any opportunities to collaborate with many of you to better the digital policy environment in Kenya and across Africa. Warm regards and stay safe *__________________________________________________________________* *Linda Bonyo* (Ms.) | CEO, *Lawyers Hub * *Tech for Justice* Web <http://www.lawyershub.org> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawyers-hub-kenya-1bb021161/> | Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/lawyershubkenya> | Calendar <http://www.calendly.com/bonyo> | *_**__________________________________________________________* *DISCLAIMER: The information contained in or accompanying this e-mail is intended for the use of the stated recipient only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Any views or opinions presented herein are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Lawyers Hub.*

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INVITATION TO A MEETING OF THE SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY; THURSDAY, 11TH MARCH, 2021 AT 9:40 A.M.
by Ali Hussein 07 Mar '21

07 Mar '21

Listers The above refers. The Senate Standing Committee on Information, Communication and Technology is established under standing order 212(3) of the Senate Standing Orders and is mandated to consider all matters relating to technology, engineering and electronic research, information, broadcasting and Information Communications Technology (ICT) development. In the execution of its mandate, the Committee endeavors to engage with relevant stakeholders in order to ensure that it responds to the emerging needs of the ICT sector. Towards this end, the Committee invites you to a consultative meeting whose objective is to deliberate on emerging legislative and policy gaps in the sector that require the intervention of the Committee. The meeting will be held on Thursday, 11th March, 2021 at 9:40 a.m. on the Zoom online meeting platform. We have slots for 10 listers. Kindly express your interest to attend by emailing me privately within the next 48 hours. This will be on a first come first served basis. Thanks and regards Ali Hussein Digital Transformation +254 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle Sent from my iPad

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Girl Trouble: Breaking Through The Bias in Artificial Intelligence
by Lydia gachungi 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

*UNESCO and the World Economic Forum present Girl Trouble: Breaking Through The Bias in AI on International Women's Day, 8th March, 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm (CET). This timely round-table brings together a range of leading female voices in tech to confront the deep-rooted gender imbalances skewing the development of artificial intelligence. Today critics charge that AI feeds on biased data-sets, amplifying the existing the anti-female biases of our societies, and that AI is perpetuating harmful stereotypes of women as submissive and subservient. Is it any wonder when only 22% of AI professionals globally are women?* Our panellists are female change-makers in AI. From C-suite professionals taking decisions which affect us all, to women innovating new AI tools and policies to help vulnerable groups, to those courageously exposing injustice and algorithmic biases, we welcome: 1. *Gabriela Ramos,* Assistant Director-General of Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO, leading the development of UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of AI <https://en.unesco.org/artificial-intelligence/ethics>, the first global standard-setting instrument in the field. 2. *Kay Firth-Butterfield*, Keynote speaker. Kay was the world’s first chief AI Ethics Officer. As Head of AI & Machine Learning, and a Member of the Executive Committee of the World Economic Forum, Kay develops new alliances to promote awareness of gender bias in AI; 3. *Ashwini Asokan*, CEO of Chennai-based AI company, Mad Street Den. She explores how Artificial Intelligence can be applied meaningfully and made accessible to billions across the globe; 4. *Adriana Bora* a researcher using machine learning to boost compliance with the UK and Australian Modern Slavery Acts, and to combat modern slavery, including the trafficking of women; 5. *Anne Bioulac*, a member of the Women in Africa Initiative, developing AI-enabled online learning to empower African women to use AI in digital entrepreneurship; 6. *Meredith Broussard*, a software developer and associate professor of data journalism at New York University, whose research focuses on AI in investigative reporting, with a particular interest in using data analysis for social good ; 7. *Latifa Mohammed Al-AbdulKarim*, named by Forbes magazine as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics, and as one of the women defining AI in the 21st century; 8. *Wanda Munoz*, of the Latin American Human Security Network. One of the Nobel Women’s Initiative's 2020 peacebuilders, she raises aware-ness around gender-based violence and autonomous weapons; 9. *Nanjira Sambuli*, a Member of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel for Digital Cooperation and Advisor for the A+ Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms; 10. *Jutta Williams*, Product Manager at Twitter, analyzing how Twitter can improve its models to reduce bias. There's an urgent need for more women to participate in and lead the design, development, and deployment of AI systems. Evidence shows that by 2022, 85% of AI projects will deliver erroneous outcomes due to bias. AI Recruiters searching for female AI specialists online just cannot find them. Companies hiring experts for AI and data science jobs estimate fewer than 1 per cent of the applications they receive come from women. Women and girls are 4 times less likely to know how to programme computers, and 13 times less likely to file for technology patent. They are also less likely to occupy leadership positions in tech companies. Building on UNESCO’s cutting edge research in this field, and flagship 2019 publication “*I’d Blush if I Could* <https://en.unesco.org/Id-blush-if-I-could>”, and policy guidance on gender equality in the 2020 UNESCO Draft Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence <https://en.unesco.org/AI-and-GE-2020>, the panel will look at: 1. The 4th industrial revolution is on our doorstop, and gender equality risks being set back decades; What more can we do to attract more women to design jobs in AI, and to support them to take their seats on the boards of tech companies. 2. How can AI help us advance women and girls' rights in society? And how can we solve the problem of algorithmic gender bias in AI systems? Women’s leadership in the AI Sector at all levels, from big tech to the start-up AI economy in developing countries will be placed under the micro-scope. *REGISTRATION* *For Media:* This event will be followed by an interactive question and answer session between the media and panellists. Please click *here <https://unesco-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PehJNr7hQG6og1bO9Xt0qA>* to register. *For General Public:* Please click *here* <https://en.unesco.org/girltrouble/registration> to register. https://en.unesco.org/girltrouble

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