Thanx all the update. Yeah, the representation and subsequent appointments to the KENIC board may need a bit of reviewing. walu. nb: btw, DRAKE. Is this an acronym or someones name? google returns a music label. Sorry to ask, but am not sure I have heard of him/them (but maybe i dont need to). --- On Wed, 6/29/11, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote: From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenic AGM To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 10:01 PM Thats precise Mwendwa, thanks. On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:55 PM, lordmwesh <lordmwesh@gmail.com> wrote:
You have captured most issues Mr. Barrack. But I wish to narrow down to this Issues addressed 1. Growth prospects. There was a strategy to capture all schools in Kenya and give them a domain Target was about 31000 domains. Not very sure. 2. Register all companies in Kenya. Target, ... 3. There was a flame war on representation of registrars on the KENIC board which the chairman Mr. Burachara extinguished before any substantive agreement. Registrars felt that the current representation of DRAKE on the Kenic board was not 'representative' since the drake members are not known, they don't have an open forum, and there are no elections or apointments by members from the existing registrars. The issue of the Board being reconstituted might need to be discussed at lengths and taken to the secretary before the next AGM. Members were to create a mailing list for registrars to be discussing issues they feel are important and air them at the AGMs. 4. Google challenged us to pull up our socks on local content. The local content would be brought by more domains registered. They predicted a market growth in Kenya of $2Billion in digital advertising by the end of 5 years, with current advertising revenue per year in all media standing at $600Million. 5. The recent downtimes at the registry was queried, but Paul Musee assured members that the problem has been delt with by providing two redundant links to support the main link, and more links are being sort from TESPOK members. Any volunteers here?
Moses Kemibaro had a good summary on the AGM. Probably you can look at his blog.
Organisation and Attendance of the general AGM was good.
Kind Regards Mwendwa Kivuva 0722402248 Transworld Computer Channels
On 29/06/2011, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Walu,
Your absence was noticeable, the meeting went on well, most of the matters discussed were inhouse, notable topics were the progress on the local dispute resolution mechanism being established at Kenic to arbitrate on domain related disputes, we were also briefed on the KeNIC Strategic plan which is being implemented in phases and going by what was presented the future looks bright (at least the Financial report demonstrated this), google also did a very interesting presentation highlighting opportunities that the internet is likely to offer in the near future and the need for strategic partnerships (Kenic intends to work with registrars to make sure they hit a target of 50000 .Ke domains) , the organisers promised to put up all this information on their website , i am sure it is being compiled somewhere. And lest i forget we were taken through the new look KeNIC website whose aim is to improve how the TLDs clients interact with it. I looked at the Strategic Plan which seems great, i am still searching for their digital strategy which i hope is tucked somewhere in the website, as you can see, a lot of this were inhouse issues with brief comments on KeNICS role at ICANN. (Participation and Hosting number 37)
Best Regards
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
I missed the above AGM that took place last week? Anyone willing to give us updates/briefs on key highlights/what transpired or did not transpire?
Ave scanned their website www.kenic.or.ke but nothing uploaded yet...last minutes were for 2009, wonder where 2010 minutes are. Anyway, am specifically interested in.
a) what is the .KENIC position with regard to dot.africa? b) how does KENIC expect to be impacted by the creation of dot.africa? c) what is the current market structure/position between the tld dot.Ke and the secondary domains? 2yrs ago it was quite an issue.? d) anything else we should know?
walu.
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