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TV signals turned off
by Sidney Ochieng 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

Listers, How long before they come for the internet? I’m so disappointed in the CA -- Regards, Sidney *Twitter:* @princelySid <https://twitter.com/princelySid> | *Web: * sidneyochieng.co.ke *Skype: *sidney.ochieng | *Github:* princelySid <https://github.com/princelySid>

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Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Fwd: [IGFmaglist] BPF Cybersecurity - final output document
by Barrack Otieno 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Mamadou LO" <alfamamadou(a)hotmail.com> Date: 9 Feb 2018 10:26 Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Fwd: [IGFmaglist] BPF Cybersecurity - final output document To: "africann(a)afrinic.net" <africann(a)afrinic.net>, "Fellowships-alumni" < Fellowships-alumni(a)icann.org> Cc: Envoyé depuis mon smartphone Samsung Galaxy. -------- Message d'origine -------- De : Wim Degezelle <wdegezelle(a)drmv.be> Date : 09/02/2018 06:57 (GMT+00:00) À : bp_cybersec_2016(a)intgovforum.org, igfmaglist(a)intgovforum.org Cc : Maarten Van Horenbeeck <maarten(a)first.org> Objet : [IGFmaglist] BPF Cybersecurity - final output document Dear All, It’s my pleasure to announce that the Final output of the 2017 Best Practice Forum on Cybersecurity is available on the IGF website: https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/bpf-cybersecurity-1 . The 2017 BPF focussed on the important role of good cybersecurity to enable ICTs and Internet technologies to contribute to development and the achievement of the SDGs. The BPF also explored what security areas would benefit from further multistakeholder dialogue. On behalf of the BPF Coordinators, Markus Kummer and Olusegun Olugbile, and the BPF Lead-Expert, Maarten Van Horenbeeck, I’d like to thank all who contributed throughout the year to the BPF and enriched its discussions. Please share the document with your communities. Kind Regards Wim _________________________ *Wim Degezelle* *IGF Consultant - BPF Cybersecurity* _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list AfrICANN(a)afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann

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Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Fwd: [IGFmaglist] BPF Cybersecurity - final output document
by Barrack Otieno 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Mamadou LO" <alfamamadou(a)hotmail.com> Date: 9 Feb 2018 10:26 Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Fwd: [IGFmaglist] BPF Cybersecurity - final output document To: "africann(a)afrinic.net" <africann(a)afrinic.net>, "Fellowships-alumni" < Fellowships-alumni(a)icann.org> Cc: Envoyé depuis mon smartphone Samsung Galaxy. -------- Message d'origine -------- De : Wim Degezelle <wdegezelle(a)drmv.be> Date : 09/02/2018 06:57 (GMT+00:00) À : bp_cybersec_2016(a)intgovforum.org, igfmaglist(a)intgovforum.org Cc : Maarten Van Horenbeeck <maarten(a)first.org> Objet : [IGFmaglist] BPF Cybersecurity - final output document Dear All, It’s my pleasure to announce that the Final output of the 2017 Best Practice Forum on Cybersecurity is available on the IGF website: https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/bpf-cybersecurity-1 . The 2017 BPF focussed on the important role of good cybersecurity to enable ICTs and Internet technologies to contribute to development and the achievement of the SDGs. The BPF also explored what security areas would benefit from further multistakeholder dialogue. On behalf of the BPF Coordinators, Markus Kummer and Olusegun Olugbile, and the BPF Lead-Expert, Maarten Van Horenbeeck, I’d like to thank all who contributed throughout the year to the BPF and enriched its discussions. Please share the document with your communities. Kind Regards Wim _________________________ *Wim Degezelle* *IGF Consultant - BPF Cybersecurity* _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list AfrICANN(a)afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann

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IGF Community Public Consultation: Call for Inputs - Taking stock of the 2017 work programme and 12th IGF and suggestions for 2018 and 13th IGF
by WANGARI KABIRU 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-community-public-consu… Be blessed. Regards/Wangari--- Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth". IGF Community Public Consultation: Call for Inputs - Taking stock of the 2017 work programme and 12th IGF and suggestions for 2018 and 13th IGF All IGF stakeholders are invited to submit inputs to the IGF Secretariat related to the following questions:A) Taking stock of 2017 programming, preparatory process, community intersessional activities and the 12th annual IGF: What worked well? What worked not so well?B) Suggestions for improvements in 2018? (programming, preparatory processes, community intersessional activities and improvements for 13th annual meeting)All inputs should be sent to takingstock_at_intgovforum_dot_org in .doc or .pdf format by 11 February 2018. Submissions will be uploaded to the IGF website and made public. In keeping with previous years, the Secretariat will produce a synthesis paper of all contributions received by the deadline, which will serve as an input to the 1st face-to-face Open Consultations and MAG Meeting of the 2018 IGF preparatory process.

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Half of web users are faking their data due to security fears
by Gideon 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

Interesting findings, but not entirely surprising, Almost 50% of internet users are falsifying the data that companies ask them to hand over when signing up for services online, according to new research. Digital advertising and marketing contribute to a global industry worth hundreds of billions of pounds, but the data which underpins that industry may not be very reliable. Research commissioned by security company RSA has found that 49% of people are falsifying information about themselves online because they are concerned about companies managing to hold that data securely. https://news.sky.com/story/half-of-web-users-are-faking-their-data-due-to-s… https://www.rsa.com/content/dam/en/e-book/rsa-data-privacy-report.pdf?utm_s… Regards, Rop

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Re: [kictanet] Day 3 of Talk to the Senate (2017-2022 Priorities)
by JImmy Gitonga 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

It is not off-topic. I was once had a discussion with a county Director of ICT & Research and we were talking about this very thing. The problem, he said, was that it was not possible due to the paranoia against IFMIS access of any type. He was justified after the NYS saga of the IFMIS access. Counties then did not have access to IFMIS to pull and push data of their financial dealings. I don't know whether this has changed. With the best regards, *Jimmy Gitonga* On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 4:20 PM, <kictanet-request(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 13:17:26 +0000 > From: Adam Lane <adam.lane(a)huawei.com> > To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> > Subject: Re: [kictanet] Day 3 of Talk to the Senate (2017-2022 > Priorities) > Message-ID: > <AA158B127E68EE4388EDC0E3AB54B7EA011A2589@JNBEML523-MBX. > china.huawei.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On transparency, if this is not too much off-topic, there should be a > portal detailing every single project expense for each county, with a > breakdown of who the vendor is, how much they paid, project progress, > project results etc. I am not aware of such a portal for Kenya yet I do not > know why it has not been created yet. It is easy. > > The World Bank has this: http://projects.worldbank.org/P152394?lang=en , > e.g. who won the tender to provide IT equipment for a health project in > Kenya? Have a look here: http://projects.worldbank.org/ > procurement/noticeoverview?lang=en&id=OP00045294 > > Financial audits from each project, procurement notices etc > > This would not be hard to do (presumably linked with IFMIS) and with APIs > it would also bring huge amounts of open data that can be analyzed and > compared across counties. > > Senior Director, Public Affairs > Huawei Southern Africa > Mobile: +254-7909-85886 > >

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Day 3 of Talk to the Senate
by JImmy Gitonga 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

Thank you Grace for asking those questions. I will speak on behalf of Mzalendo Trust - Dokeza project, though I am not the official voice for the project. Mzalendo Trust's particular area of concern is what the Parliamentarians (National Assembly and Senate) do on our behalf regarding the three areas as stipulated in our constitution; representation, legislation and oversight. Mzalendo Trust had been covering the representation aspect quite well, but the other two "jobs" needed to be covered to complete their interest in what Parliamentarians do for us. The Dokeza platform (https://dokeza.mzalendo.com/) was envisaged to go beyond what Jadili (http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/) was doing, especially in the area of public participation feedback going back to Parliament in a way that is formal and transparent. In this vein, I will try and answer the questions Grace posed. 1. We (Mzalendo Dokeza team) had a series of meetings with the Clerk to the National Assembly, the Clerk to the Senate and Kenya Law Review in particular to understand what would be the Draft Bill Process. How is a legislative Bill drafted? Who can draft a legislative Bill? After the First Reading, who is it presented to the Public for participation? How can we record the participation? The important part was to track the changes on a Legislative Bill as it went through a particular Parliamentary house and committees. Parliament conceded that this should really be done by them and made available to the public. However, we got to understand, from the Kenya Law Review, that currently the only official versions of any Bill are those that come from the Government Printer. The Bills on the Kenya Law Review website are PURCHASED from the Government Printer. So Dokeza hopes to work with Parliament to receive Bill versions and post them on the Dokeza Platform as the bills go through the different stages. However, the official Act of Parliament will be on the Kenya Law Review website. This is a work in progress requiring new policies, e.g. standing orders to allow public access, or a policy implementation under the Access to Information Act, 2016. 2. Committee reports are simply not accessible since there has been no law or . Dokeza is envisaged to collect public contributions to the legislative bills through annotations as well as constructive comments from experts of law and the public. These are submitted, after the public participation period is over, to the committee stage as a formal memorandum to accompany the bill. Where the public contributions make it into the final bill, the incorporated changes will be highlighted on the final Act of Parliament on the Dokeza platform for archival purposes in the documentation of public participation in the legislative bill development process in Kenya. Hopefully the Dokeza Platform can do this at a later date once the policies are in place. 3. The issue of the Parliament's communication with the public has to be revisited to go beyond the passive airing of proceedings in both houses. In my opinion, KBC should have a channel, on radio at least of programming MADE from the work done in Parliament. Schedules for public fora, special interests and all manner of stake holders may be engaged through interviews or could create content for a channel such as this. Then the public can fully engage on various other platforms, citing content that comes directly from Parliament and sharing it on social platform of choice. Due to the positive feedback Mzalendo Trust got from the "Peoples' Shujaaz" awards given to Parliamentarians who had excelled in representation, legislation and oversight, the next step would be to interview and cover work done specifically by our Parliamentarians beyond the political soundbites that we regularly consume. There is already a lot of public activity, where exerts of TV video programming on Youtube are shared on Facebook and WhatsApp as an example of what is possible. Senate can definitely look into a law that would give counties the legal means to allow access to legislative bills in county parliaments to the public and and collect documentable public feedback to facilitate the legislative bill development. That would be a good first step documenting and reviewing public participation in legislative bill development at the county level. Jimmy Gitonga, Lead, Design and Development, Dokeza Platform > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 14:47:19 +0300 > From: "Grace Mutung'u (Bomu)" <nmutungu(a)gmail.com> > To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> > Subject: Re: [kictanet] Day 3 of Talk to the Senate (2017-2022 > Priorities) > > Kanini, > On top of the great suggestions for counties, Senate ICT Committee should > champion use of ICTs for public participation even at Parliament. I noticed > that for example, most of the time we are discussing a Bill, we are never > sure of the version and Bunge does not post the same Bill/links on its > site. > > Going beyond participation is feedback. We contribute our input but never > know whether it was of any use. Why cant committee reports be uploaded > regularly? Why can't our submissions be published so that anyone who ever > wants to learn about the issue can see the issues behind the issue? Would > it be possible to let the public follow the life of a Bill they have > interest in online as it moves through the House? > > Do committees have public communication channels? It would be nice to > follow the ICT Committee on social media to learn its agenda etc. Such > information would somehow trickle to radio, newspapers and other media and > hopefully contribute to diversifying local content. > > On public information, I notice that both Houses have a tv channel. But the > channels go blank when Houses are not in session? Can Senate use the non > live broadcasting time to show committee sessions or educate the public on > the many aspects of the legislature? > > Wishing the committee all the best, > >

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Day 3 of Talk to the Senate (2017-2022 Priorities)
by kanini mutemi 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

Dear Listers, Welome to the third and final day of the Talk to the Senate series. We have discussed at length the challenges facing the counties and made exciting proposals for a brighter future. We will culminate this discussion with an earnest look at how we can foster engagements between the ICT community and the legislature (think, effective public participation). The proposals we come up with could very easily be adopted into a Public Participation Bill that would dictate how counties are to conduct public participation, talk about killing two birds with one stone. Please indulge me in answering the following questions– (a) What constitutes effective public participation? (b) How can we leverage on ICT to achieve effective public participation? (c) Please give proposals on engagements you would like to see between the ICT community and the Senate ICT Committee. Let us finish strong!

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Copyright Amendment Bill 2017 and Computer and Cybercrimes Bill 2017 now on Jadili
by Francis Monyango 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

Listers, The National Assembly has asked members of the public to submit any representations that they have on the Copyright Amendment Bill 2017 and Computer and Cybercrimes Bill 2017 by 13th February 2017. To enable many to understand the contents of these bills, we have uploaded copies of the bills to the Jadili platform to enable online discussion. Copyright Amendment Bill 2017 - http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/the-copyright-(amendment)-bill,-2017 Computer and Cybercrimes Bill 2017 - http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/the-computer-and-cybercrimes-bill,-2017 Looking forward to your participation and contribution. -- Francis Monyango Lawyer | ICT Policy and Legal Consultant www.monyango.com

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Re: [kictanet] Day 2 of Talk to the Senate (2017-2022 Priorities)
by Adam Lane 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

If Yes, then I’m sure it would be very helpful to include connectivity in the formula and would lead to FCDC counties getting more funding, though it would be more important for counties to consider funding (to some extent) connectivity improvements and not only relying on central government. There is also a lot of in-kind they could do too to reduce total costs of ownership (both capex and opex, and address the many hidden costs involved in providing rural connectivity). On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 at 21:06, Adam Lane via kictanet <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>> wrote: Can you explain what that means- does it mean if they need more connectivity they'll get more money? Senior Director Public Affairs Huawei Southern Africa Mobile: +254 790985886 From:kanini mutemi via kictanet To:Adam Lane Cc:kanini mutemi Date:2018-02-06 20:50:58 Subject:Re: [kictanet] Day 2 of Talk to the Senate (2017-2022 Priorities) Thank you for the comments so far. Allow me to introduce yet another angle. This year the Commission of Revenue Allocation will recommend to the Senate a new formula for division of revenue among counties. Should ICT connectivity be one of the bases of this new formula? On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 at 20:40, Adam Lane <adam.lane(a)huawei.com<mailto:adam.lane@huawei.com>> wrote: Dear all I may also express hesitation over the ICT Practitioners Bill; in my understanding if the desire was to ensure quality in ICT workforce, there are already existing qualifications that can serve this purpose as well as simple competition in both employment positions and service provision (as contractors/providers of ICT services to customers) which can be expressed not only through existing qualifications but also through experience, references etc as per other marketplaces. Other Policies that need to be looked at include revising the previous tax exemption for smartphones. It was lauded by many across the world and had a massive impact. Now smartphone penetration is stagnating and costs are not declining any more amongst handsets, similar policies should be considered again. On the questions below: a) No, few Counties are allocating the amount recommended by CRA; meanwhile the coordination between ICT Depts and other depts is usually awful not only leading to duplication of resources but more often waste of resources. Proper budgeting and planning should enable for collaboration between departments and ICT should have a role to play in delivering services in practically every other single budget. If this was done well then other depts would pay the bills and be a “customer” of the ICT department, which would use ICT dept expertise whilst ensuring ownership and implementation by the other (paying) department. The Senate should also look for poor budgeting, planning and coordination between Counties and Central Government. b) My understanding is the USF is now being fairly well implemented for rural network expansion, though its resources are not enough, but it should also seek to ensure that its funds meet its own standard (particularly related to ensuring the schools it is connecting get minimum broadband speeds stated in the National Broadband Strategy). However the USF should also broaden its scope and the Senate may enquire into this, i.e. what are the real barriers to broadband adoption (including skills, devices, content, as well as affordability, awareness, attitude etc; not just network) and how can these be solved, and how can various sources of funding address these. Secondly I would encourage the Senate to enquire into the situation of connectivity for public institutions and see why the schools that now all have electricity cannot also have fiber run over those same cables, for example. Certainly connectivity at schools will not just allow for internet access, but can enable update of the DLP curriculum, interactive content, remote support etc. Also the Senate may enquire as to how the hospitals connected by NOFBI are using the fiber they have. Regards Adam Senior Director, Public Affairs Huawei Southern Africa Mobile: +254-7909-85886 From: kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+adam.lane<mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Badam.lane>=huawei.com(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:huawei.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke>] On Behalf Of kanini mutemi via kictanet Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2018 2:31 PM To: Adam Lane <adam.lane(a)huawei.com<mailto:adam.lane@huawei.com>> Cc: kanini mutemi <kaninimutemi(a)gmail.com<mailto:kaninimutemi@gmail.com>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Day 2 of Talk to the Senate (2017-2022 Priorities) Good afternoon Listers. Thank you for the contributions coming in so far. Now looking at oversight, it is possible to see the Senate’s role as two-fold; overseeing that national resources allocated to counties are properly and lawfully utilised and protecting counties from harmful conduct by national organs. We see the first limb in the work of the County Public Accounts Committee, county visits by various committees and consideration of the reports of offices such as that of the Auditor General. Through Statements, the Senate is able to seek answers from the executive thereby holding them accountable. They may also move Motions for certain executive action to be taken. With this in mind I invite comments on– (a) Are counties allocating enough resources to ICT in their budgets? What could be improved? What ‘leaks’ should the Senate watch out for? (b) Are there particular questions you would like to propose to be adopted as statements or motions in the Senate seeking clarification on various executive decisions? What conduct by national bodies is likely to have an negative impact in the counties On 6 Feb 2018, at 13:32, Sidney Ochieng <sidney.ochieng(a)gmail.com<mailto:sidney.ochieng@gmail.com>> wrote: We need a comprehensive data protection law. On 6 February 2018 at 07:16, kanini mutemi via kictanet <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>> wrote: Good morning Listers! If you are just joining us, this is a series where we tell the Senate ICT Committee what we think should be in their agenda 2017-2022. Today our goal is to give very specific proposals on legislative and oversight interventions informed by the issues we highlighted yesterday. Those of us who gave proposals in their submissions yesterday, please do not tire, you may bring them up again today. By the way, the Day 1 discussion is not closed, please keep adding your contributions. We will dedicate the earlier part of the day to the legislative role of the Senate. I will come back later on and pose more questions on oversight, budget and sharing of revenue. I ask– (a) What ICT laws ought to be passed between now and 2022? Here you may comment on the Bills currently in circulation or make legislative proposals that the Committee can pick up and commission into the drafting of a Bill. Comments on Bills that would stifle ICT are also welcome. (b) What laws need to be amended? Keep in mind that the legislative role of the Senate as stated in Article 96 is limited to Bills concerning counties. Therefore, in your proposals, make a case on how that issue is one that concerns counties. (PS; the definition of that proviso is very controversial). Let us participate! _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/ Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/sidney.ochieng%40gmai… The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications. -- Regards, Sidney Twitter: @princelySid<https://twitter.com/princelySid> | Web: sidneyochieng.co.ke<http://sidneyochieng.co.ke/> Skype: sidney.ochieng | Github: princelySid<https://github.com/princelySid> -- Mercy Mutemi, Advocate. _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke<mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/ Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/kaninimutemi%40gmail.… The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications. -- Mercy Mutemi, Advocate. -- Mercy Mutemi, Advocate.

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