From tomorrow, www.nethope.org hosts its Annual Global Summit in Nairobi bringing to Kenya over 70 top level CIOs from humanitarian organizations around the world. I am hoping the Kenyans attending will broadcast this to
Mureithi Excellent Summary. I did attend some sessions at the ICANN and it was impressive to see such small details work so well. Conference organisers did a superb job with such important things as availing enough sockets and power cables to laptop users at the conference. Those with the greatest understanding of this space on the new gTLDs (global Top Level Domains) must keep the understanding and implications of this among the policy makers, the industry and the general public here in Kenya. Some (if not most) of the sessions used Adobe Acrobat Connect (Online Conference Software) to provide online collaboration to participants both here and globally and the feedback from many is that it worked perfectly thanks to stable and high quality links. Yes I do agree that this validates our ability to provide collaborative services of any kind over the internet and thus BPO. There was sizeable amount of twitter feeds coming out of #ICANN sending details on the debate, and even pics from the venues. The Twitter feeds are still on. On another note, I am sitting on my laptop on twitter following another conference taking place in Texas on Africa (twitter ##africa3d0, #sxsw) ( http://sxsw.com/interactive) and Eric of Ushahidi has just been on a live stream (about an hour ago) from Kenya speaking to conference participants and reading in, I have seen comments on Mpesa and African Innovation come mentioned. the rest of the world through the online tools available. All these help build 'the ecosystem'. Congratulations to the ICANN team here for a good organizational job. Paul Kukubo Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board PO Box 27150 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya 12th Floor, Teleposta Towers Koinange Street Tel +254 20 2089061, +254 20 2211960 Fax: +254 20 2211962 website: www.ict.go.ke local content project: www.tandaa.co.ke, www.facebook.com/tandaakenya twitter:@tandaaKENYA BPO Project: www. doitinkenya.co.ke Digital Villages Project: www.pasha.co.ke personal contacts _______________ Cell: + 254 735 180001 skype: kukubopaul googletalk: pkukubo personal blog: www.paulkukubo.co.ke personal twitter: @pkukubo ____________________ Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:38 PM, muriuki mureithi < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi Listers
After an attempt that aborted in 2008, ICANN came full throttle into Nairobi and after 6 action packed days it was time to park the bags and leave– they did and they are gone heading for Brussels!
Will Nairobi be remembered or put it differently will Nairobi remember ICANN. What’s the impact both ways? My take is that the impact was both ways – Nairobi provided a fertile ground for Board action and ICANN event affirmed the local ICT sector and raised high to a pedestal for the world to see.
Nairobi was a watershed for gTLDs . Being held in a developing country, it provided a fertile groundswell for consideration that resulted in at least two resolutions. EOI was thrown out by the Board for good reason - the criteria would have worked against the developing countries and small entities. This however is a short term reprieve and should only be a breather. Nairobi also provided a fertile moral ground to persuade the Board to pass a resolution supporting the formation of a working group to develop a sustainable approach to providing support to applicants requiring assistance in applying for and operating new gTLDs. These provide a lifeline for developing countries to participate meaningfully in the new space to be unleashed by the new gTLDs. It is a challenge thrown to us.
ICANN more than affirmed the maturity of the ICT sector , the challenge is to build on this . A large number of ICANNers did not come to Nairobi courtesy of the mishandled security issues. This was a blessing in disguise for the ICT sector. The scribes did their work, transcribing live from California, some board members, presenters , and other participants participated fully – no latency . ICANN confirmed beyond doubt that our ICT infrastructure is world class and beyond reproach. In the main conference hall, I estimated over 200 devices all online and most streaming and the wireless internet speeds were incredible, the cellular networks were incredible and according to one staffer of ICANN, bandwidth capacity and quality was no different from any developed world country!! He thought the best thing should have been to stream the Carnivore Gala live to those who didn’t come. Our ICT system has come of age and fully confirmed by ICANN. If scribes can sit in California and do their thing , the converse is true, we can offer first class scribing to world. This is an item we should shout loudly when marketing the BPO sector . Secondly, ICANN did official business on audio and video conferencing , is there any reason where we should not aggressively use audio and video conferencing in government , private sector and even social engagements?
Finally, ICANN provided a stepping stone and great credentials to bring IGF to kenya next year .
Media was caught unawares and never could catch up with the biggest event on internet that ever landed in Kenya . coverage of the opening day was a whimper and subsequent coverage tacked away in obscure pages.
Cheers
Muriuki Mureithi
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