Barrack, internet traffic is truly messed up down here. Considering that our domestic networks+local content are relatively non-existent we are heavy consumers international traffic - even my email, yours and many others are .com and so they will try to head out of the country through constrained links given that Seacom has gone down with probably 50%? of our international capacity... it only emphasis the sorry state of affairs that despite the pomp surrounding the advent of the undersea cable, there is yet to be that socio-economic revolution that was expected. Maybe there is but I have not yet heard about BPO jobs flooding our market, eLearning taking off, eCommerce and the rest of the goodies happening because we now have the superhighway down at the coast...indeed someone can do a good PhD thesis on why this is so and inform us exactly when the IT miracle will happen (the Indian style). walu. --- On Tue, 7/6/10, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote: From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya IGF 2010 Mailing List Discussions Day 2 of 8 Theme : Infrastructure Issues - Impact of the Fibre Optic Cable IGF Mailing List Discussions To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2010, 2:42 PM Listers , there is very loud silence with regard to Infrastructure issues i suppose we have adopted a wait and see approach, i can hear murmus across various lists within the country as well as regionally that seacom is down http://www.seacomblog.com/team-seacom/2010/07/seacom-service-down-seacom-act..., probably we are getting used to this scenario, however is this right? On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote: Dear Listers, Apologies for starting the thread late and thanks to all those who responded actively on the first day, the thread is still open. Today we look at Infrastructure issues, a quick glance through last years report brings to mind the Pomp that greeted the TEAMS and SEACOM initiative, one year down the line, it would only be good to review the milestones we have made this far, going through an earlier discussion on this list, i noted an interesting article posted by listers that mentioned the fact that the undersea cable has led to a boom in Spam coming from the this region, the study was conducted by Symantec, i know this is just a tip of the ICEBERG and would like to look at the issue from a Social perspective as well as an economic perspective, are there real (tangible benefits) that the cables have brought or is it euphoria, do we have indicators that show how the country has benefited?, what do the various consituencies have to say? Consumer advocates, Youth Representatives, the Private Sector?..the discussion is open -- Barrack O. Otieno +41767892272 Skype: barrack.otieno -- Barrack O. Otieno +41767892272 Skype: barrack.otieno -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: jwalu@yahoo.com Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jwalu%40yahoo.com