i have re sent the report just incase it did not open first time regards becky Tel. 254 720 318 925 blog:http://beckyit.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------- Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games.
Becky, I hope Listers know that to open the report they need the PDF (Acrobat) Reader installed on their machines as opposed to using MS-Word. PDF has become the defacto standard for documents accross the Net. However, incase you have not downloaded your FREE copy of Acrobat Reader, below is a text abstract of the Report. walu. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Abstract Begins~~~~ The liberalisation of the Kenyan Internet Sector, particularly at the Internet Gateway level has not had the expected impact on the Kenyan Market. Specifically, the Internet indicators such as Affordability, Dispersion and Usage have not changed as significantly as expected. In view of this, the Regulator, the Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK), commissioned an Internet Study to establish the status of the above indicators as well as their corresponding reasons and limitations. The Regulator published the results of the Study and this was taken up by KICTANet for further (online) deliberation. The Key Discussion points were borrowed from the Consultant Report and included but not limited to Network Infrastructure: The indicator that established the structure and quality of the International and National (domestic) Internet backbone across the country, Internet Tariffs & Affordability: The indicator that established the capacity of consumers to afford the Internet Services and Dispersion: The indicator that established the geographic reach and sectoral absorption of the Internet Service. In discussing the Internet Study Report, particular emphasis was laid on raising awareness regarding the state of the Internet industry in the country and understanding the underlying reasons behind the current state. In addition, the recommendations given within the Internet Study Report were presented and subjected to peer evaluation in terms of practicability and /or ability to resolve the particular issue addressed. The discussions revealed that whereas the quality and service on Internet within the country had been largely blamed on ISPs, there was some elements of Regulatory failure to police the Internet Market and ensure that the key players Internet Gateway Operators (IGOs) and the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) operated within their stipulated licensing terms and conditions. The Internet Market was currently in a state of anarchy where IGOs were retailing directly to consumers while ISPs where busy building their own networks thus duplicating if not conflicting effort and failing to leverage on the economies of scale in terms of Bandwidth aggregation. Other notable insights included the role of Government in facilitating the provision of both the Domestic and International fiber backbone Infrastructure. Whereas some members felt that such interventions would present unfair and hostile competition to the Private Sector, most believed that the intervention was long overdue particularly if implemented on an Open Access basis - thus allowing for Private Sector participation. This was seen as the solution to the dual problem of Accessibility (Dispersion) and Affordability. ~~~~Ends~~~~ --- Rebecca Wanjiku <rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com> wrote:
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Dear All, Please take a break from ICTs and read the Wall Sreet Journal article below on Gordon Brown. So Who's This Gordon Brown Anyway? By Quentin Letts 877 words 28 June 2007 The Wall Street Journal A13 English (Copyright (c) 2007, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) London -- On Wednesday, we in Britain received a new prime minister. About an hour after Tony Blair formally resigned his post to Queen Elizabeth II, the Right Honourable James Gordon Brown arrived at Buckingham Palace, kissed the Queen's hand and was invited to form a new government. That is how we often do things here when we want to change the head of government. There need not be a general election. Nor a coup. Just a post-prandial trip to the palace by, in this instance, a bookish, burly Scotsman who has ached and plotted and toiled and seethed to become Prime Minister since he was first elected to Westminster's House of Commons in 1983. Now, at last, his hour has come. When John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher, so little was known about the new PM that foreign diplomats struggled to form much of a view about his politics. Those initial dispatches from London embassies back to capital cities contained a fair deal of padding and bluster. With Gordon Brown there need be no such scratching around for intelligence. The methodical Mr. Brown, a subtle but unrelenting redistributionist, has been Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer since 1997. His wide-ranging policies are there for anyone patient enough to study them. He believes in stealthy (i.e., hidden) taxes, a big state and exceedingly complex schemes to help "the puir," as he pronounces "the poor." But what sort of character is this Brown? As the political salonistes of Washington, D.C. lick their pencils and hover over the B section of their address books, what of the inner Brown? Is he convivial? Is he one of life's thigh slappers? Or is he, well, hard work? One to stick next to Henry Kissinger at dinner? Or one for the splashier, Harry-and-Tina-end of the table? Unusual for a successful modern politician, Gordon Brown is not a particularly good actor -- bad at fake smiles, yet to perfect that look of plastic delight which can be flashed in an instant, normally when a camera is nearby. If he is having a bad time, big Gordon has a job disguising it. His purple lips start to pout. He begins to pull at his dark pepper-and-salt fringe, or at least he did until he recently had it shampooed and trimmed. He has a maddening habit of looking at the floor. Gordon Brown will be the first British prime minister since Clement Attlee (who beat Churchill in 1945) not to know how to drive a motor car. In part this is because he lost the sight of his left eye in a sporting injury at school. In part, though, his inability to drive reflects a wider nonchalance about fripperies, as he would consider them. Call it unworldly if you like, but Gordon Brown is not much interested in clothes or food or in his own wealth. Just as Linus in Peanuts draws strength from his security blanket, so Mr. Brown never feels entirely rooted unless he is surrounded by mounds of hand-scrawled briefing notes. These sheets of A4 tend to bear color-coded sticky labels and are carried about Westminster by his acolytes. If they ever encountered a tornado, the air above London would be thick for days with slow-settling sheets of notation scrawled in an almost illegible black hand. He is a poor time keeper. Tidiness has never been a forte although the crumpled shirts and shiny suit trousers improved after his comparatively late marriage. His wife Sarah has battled to get him to wear neckties in any color other than red. He has relented to the extent of sometimes wearing a blue tie. He and Sarah lost their first child and bore their bereavement with great stoicism. Their third, born last year, has cystic fibrosis. Gordon Brown is very different from the socially fluent Tony Blair. In private he can be charming -- and in private a wide smile comes easily -- but in public he is a bundle of anxiety who thinks he must crush all resistance. His jaw juts when he speaks and he has a smallish repertoire of jokes. At a lectern he does not swagger or casually survey the throng. He pats his script repeatedly with two hands the fingernails of which are bitten to bleeding remnants. Not even the most skilled Manhattan manicurist could salvage those nails. This does not, I hope, make Gordon Brown sound dull or timid. He is a more intellectual man than the sometimes broad-brush Blair. A sometime journalist, he is alive to gossip. He can also be astoundingly determined. A clergyman's son, he can drop spiritual language into political remarks without sounding arch. He is enigmatic, secretive, cautious, brooding, and before marriage he was considered a great catch for glamorous women. Prime Minister Brown may not prove quite as unquestioning an ally of the current White House. He is, however, an intriguing customer, as America may soon discover now that the Queen's hands have been brushed by those pouty, purple lips. ---------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------- "easy access to the world"
Bw. Ndemo: Thanks for sharing, I first came across Gordon Brown while we were studying the report produced by the Commission for Africa, and Africa can by happy in that we have a strong alley in Gordon Brown who sat on the commission and hence participated heavily in colating various views of the millenium goals from an African perspective, if you look at the IMF release you see that Gordon Brown has been advocating and pushing for the G8 to do their part from way back when! Lucy http://www.commissionforafrica.org/english/report/introduction.html http://www.brandt21forum.info/CFApressrelease03January2005.pdf http://www.imf.org/external/np/tr/2005/tr050924b.htm
Dear All, Please take a break from ICTs and read the Wall Sreet Journal article below on Gordon Brown.
So Who's This Gordon Brown Anyway?
By Quentin Letts
877 words
28 June 2007
The Wall Street Journal
A13
English
(Copyright (c) 2007, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)
London -- On Wednesday, we in Britain received a new prime minister. About an hour after Tony Blair formally resigned his post to Queen Elizabeth II, the Right Honourable James Gordon Brown arrived at Buckingham Palace, kissed the Queen's hand and was invited to form a new government.
That is how we often do things here when we want to change the head of government. There need not be a general election. Nor a coup. Just a post-prandial trip to the palace by, in this instance, a bookish, burly Scotsman who has ached and plotted and toiled and seethed to become Prime Minister since he was first elected to Westminster's House of Commons in 1983. Now, at last, his hour has come.
When John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher, so little was known about the new PM that foreign diplomats struggled to form much of a view about his politics. Those initial dispatches from London embassies back to capital cities contained a fair deal of padding and bluster.
With Gordon Brown there need be no such scratching around for intelligence. The methodical Mr. Brown, a subtle but unrelenting redistributionist, has been Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer since 1997. His wide-ranging policies are there for anyone patient enough to study them. He believes in stealthy (i.e., hidden) taxes, a big state and exceedingly complex schemes to help "the puir," as he pronounces "the poor."
But what sort of character is this Brown? As the political salonistes of Washington, D.C. lick their pencils and hover over the B section of their address books, what of the inner Brown? Is he convivial? Is he one of life's thigh slappers? Or is he, well, hard work? One to stick next to Henry Kissinger at dinner? Or one for the splashier, Harry-and-Tina-end of the table?
Unusual for a successful modern politician, Gordon Brown is not a particularly good actor -- bad at fake smiles, yet to perfect that look of plastic delight which can be flashed in an instant, normally when a camera is nearby. If he is having a bad time, big Gordon has a job disguising it. His purple lips start to pout. He begins to pull at his dark pepper-and-salt fringe, or at least he did until he recently had it shampooed and trimmed. He has a maddening habit of looking at the floor.
Gordon Brown will be the first British prime minister since Clement Attlee (who beat Churchill in 1945) not to know how to drive a motor car. In part this is because he lost the sight of his left eye in a sporting injury at school. In part, though, his inability to drive reflects a wider nonchalance about fripperies, as he would consider them. Call it unworldly if you like, but Gordon Brown is not much interested in clothes or food or in his own wealth.
Just as Linus in Peanuts draws strength from his security blanket, so Mr. Brown never feels entirely rooted unless he is surrounded by mounds of hand-scrawled briefing notes. These sheets of A4 tend to bear color-coded sticky labels and are carried about Westminster by his acolytes. If they ever encountered a tornado, the air above London would be thick for days with slow-settling sheets of notation scrawled in an almost illegible black hand.
He is a poor time keeper. Tidiness has never been a forte although the crumpled shirts and shiny suit trousers improved after his comparatively late marriage. His wife Sarah has battled to get him to wear neckties in any color other than red. He has relented to the extent of sometimes wearing a blue tie. He and Sarah lost their first child and bore their bereavement with great stoicism. Their third, born last year, has cystic fibrosis.
Gordon Brown is very different from the socially fluent Tony Blair. In private he can be charming -- and in private a wide smile comes easily -- but in public he is a bundle of anxiety who thinks he must crush all resistance. His jaw juts when he speaks and he has a smallish repertoire of jokes. At a lectern he does not swagger or casually survey the throng. He pats his script repeatedly with two hands the fingernails of which are bitten to bleeding remnants. Not even the most skilled Manhattan manicurist could salvage those nails.
This does not, I hope, make Gordon Brown sound dull or timid. He is a more intellectual man than the sometimes broad-brush Blair. A sometime journalist, he is alive to gossip. He can also be astoundingly determined.
A clergyman's son, he can drop spiritual language into political remarks without sounding arch. He is enigmatic, secretive, cautious, brooding, and before marriage he was considered a great catch for glamorous women. Prime Minister Brown may not prove quite as unquestioning an ally of the current White House. He is, however, an intriguing customer, as America may soon discover now that the Queen's hands have been brushed by those pouty, purple lips.
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