Re: [kictanet] Fibre Optic
Alex, You again still have not justified the landing of the marine cable. 1. Of the US 500 Million spent on satellite connectivity 80% is none productive traffic such as porn, spam and chat (you and me both in Nairobi but chatting on MSN). Reducing costs is not necessarily the only way to resolve an issue most of the times it is easier to increase your income so that the expense as a percentage is lowered. 2. Lets not replace the world bank loans with diaspora remittances, let us become productive and more ingenious, lets take advantage of our position as the most advanced economy in sub Saharan Africa. We need to lay fiber to the neighbouring countries so that we can pick out sourcing contracts from Europe and America but set up the call centers in the neighbouring countries. That way we utilise our higher value personnel to look for high value outsourcing. 3. Dream on . . . 4. Log onto a locally hosted site and experience true high speed Internet, stop browsing foreign sites and the fiber ceases to be essential. I know Dr. Ndemo says we cannot be an Island, is it being an Island when you are faithful to one partner. Certain things can be shared such as a hand shake or a conversation but certain activities are best kept within. Lets not over stretch ourselves bringing high speed garbage when we can use technology to improve our lives, locally. 5. Charity begins at home and so does B2B and B2C 6. Out sourcing what??? Have a good day. PS. Delay fiber or perish Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 KEnya Tel: +254722511225 ----- Original Message ---- From: Alex Gakuru <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Friday, 30 November, 2007 6:25:46 PM Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fibre Optic Robert: I cannot rationally argue against fibre connectivity, but on processes yes. Of course, I will argue hypothetically since if I responded seemingly with insider information then I would be misleading consumers. And you know my issues... On Nov 30, 2007 4:46 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Explain one issue to me, how will the marine cable increase the
remittances
from the diaspora, they are sending 3.9 billion over slow, expensive satellite links why should we reduce this by spending 7 billion to land the fiber?
1. AfDB data shows that in total Africa spends US$ 500 million (shs 30 billion) every year on transit satellite bandwidths.( i.e. 5 TEAMS projects). That would be a saving! 2. Back to your question, since it would be (promised very) cheap to call them, then we shall call them day and night "convincing" them how they have neglected mother Africa, poetically narrating Wanjiku's financial sufferings back home, her kiosk that needs only one-off stocking and her anguish will ease. They are only human. They will dig deeper into their pockets, miss a few lunches, tighten their belts, or speak nicely to their bosses on their urgent need to alleviate home poverty. If we collude and do this nationally for just one year, then we could quadruple remmitances to 16 billion shillings or at worst double it to 8 billion-enough to build a cable that will benefit us for the next 25 years:) That was on a light note though I am paraphrasing real comments attributable to *130* "Please call me" to diasporans. 3. Imagine starting a movie company. Be it a comedy, folk tales, Flora and Fauna, or like developing video games like Wesley Kiriinya's, "Adventures of Nyangi" http://www.sinc-studios.com/. The fibre gives one a potential 1.2 billion internet users customer base. Because THEY can play quality demo videos clips fast many are bound to purchase and if, say 10,000 buy a product at US$10 that would be Kshs 6 million. Such opportunities are lost every day we are not connected by fibre. 4. We have 2.7 million internet users. For how long does each one take tapping their fingers on the desk waiting for a slow web page to load? Multiply each one's lost productivity by 365 days/year then by 2.7 million and compute the national productivity loss caused by slow, yet very expensive internet. Based on these mathematics OECD countries have put up a nifty graphic showing broadband rankings of member countries, but which also include average price of broadband and average throughput here http://www.fiberevolution.com/2007/11/us-lags-in-grap.html, pointer courtesy Bill St. Arnaud http://www.canarie.ca/. I would be interesting to have Dr. Ndemo's expected consumer prices to compare. 5. Consumer/Busineses costs saving would be the most apparent benefit. I need not dwell on that since we all feel them pretty well. 6. I also skip outsourcing.
Alex, all I ask is can you give me a logical reason why we should spend 7 billion to land this fiber?
Are above logical enough reasons sufficiently compelling justification to support the international fibre? But like I said, remember SAT3 West Africa cable cost nearly the same as satellite because of Bandwidth cartels. So should be assured they have no space in TEAMS to clog broadband to consumers, but that is somebody's job. We are only asking for assurance it will not turn out to be a white grey elephant project:)
I am aware this discussion is academic but it should not stop us from questioning the rational.
That's the spirit! We keep Ndemo on his toes, always.... Thanks, Alex __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! - the World's favourite mail http://uk.mail.yahoo.com
Alex,
You again still have not justified the landing of the marine cable.
1. Of the US 500 Million spent on satellite connectivity 80% is none productive traffic such as porn, spam and chat (you and me both in Nairobi but chatting on MSN). Reducing costs is not necessarily the only way to resolve an issue most of the times it is easier to increase your income so that the expense as a percentage is lowered. Well, i think we have established on this list, that alongside fiber,
Robert, Please lets be careful the conversation does not degenerate. Am going to make a subtantive case for why Fiber is important and response to the issues you have raised below. In the global Knowledge society we find ourselves in, bandwidth is the veins of the digital economy through which information technology and knowledge (the blood) flows. So if 3.9billion is being sent over expensive links then spending 7 billion to create a cheaper link means, more money would be sent because it is cheaper to send and also the money saved from the expensive link would also be sent to boost the local economy. In 2000, the ITU conducted a study that revealed that Africa spends about 500musd sending data to each other through third parties, am sure double that for voice because Africans like talking to each other so it means there is demand hence the issue is to make it cheaper by establishing links between our villages, towns, cities and countries. Satellite technology has it own limitations in terms of cost, letancy, accuracy, data loss rate etc and it is well know all over the world that fiber is a superior technology and has more long term benefits. This is not to ignore satellite, it still has and would hav a role to play for sometime to come. Even in the short term if you consider how much capacity one can get on fiber against the cost of laying and lighting it, it is cheaper than satellite however the history is that capacity is driven by demand. Some years back in Sweden, the government pass legislation that required fiber to be laid whenever the ground was dug and the cost of adding fiber to say a road infrastructure was so little, it did not matter but today Sweden is benefiting from that because there is fiber to homes and cost next to nothing because the investment then is lesser than now. If we dont make those investments now, it would be more expensive in the future and we would kick ourselves out of the knowledge revolution. On 3 Dec 2007, at 16:54, robert yawe wrote: there is a great need to grow and host local content and also use ccTLDs. Well, people watch porn not because of the Internet, they have already being watching it in real life. Spam is a global problem and there are both technical and non-technical solutions being applied to it. Well, there are a lot of local chat clients that can be installed locally and used. In my small office we have our own chat client that we use and as we grow that network also grows from a local server.
2. Lets not replace the world bank loans with diaspora remittances, let us become productive and more ingenious, lets take advantage of our position as the most advanced economy in sub Saharan Africa. We need to lay fiber to the neighbouring countries so that we can pick out sourcing contracts from Europe and America but set up the call centers in the neighbouring countries. That way we utilise our higher value personnel to look for high value outsourcing.
Well, you have made a clear case for international, regional and national fiber as outsourcing as a bait to move up the value chain of ICTs.
3. Dream on . . .
Well, i would dream BIG because our world has being changed so far ONLY by people who dare to dream....you feel me?
4. Log onto a locally hosted site and experience true high speed Internet, stop browsing foreign sites and the fiber ceases to be essential.
This is a fallacy in the entirety of the sentence, however parts of it are true. Fiber is essential not only for foreign sites but more so for local sites with videos of my folks making movies of our local rendition, for example. Really, the world is become global so geographic space is now determined by ip address and dns resolution. One must think local but act global, otherwise you are extinct.
I know Dr. Ndemo says we cannot be an Island, is it being an Island when you are faithful to one partner. Certain things can be shared such as a hand shake or a conversation but certain activities are best kept within. Lets not over stretch ourselves bringing high speed garbage when we can use technology to improve our lives, locally. You contradict yourself in this sentence because you want blood (technology) but you resist the high speed (fiber) through which it would come to improve your life. Well, i dont want to hold on the allegiance but i have seen the Kenyan government put tax payers money into some of these things which is worth comending though there is room for improvement.
5. Charity begins at home and so does B2B and B2C
Again on this list, there is being countless examples of these interactions
6. Out sourcing what???
It is a billion dollar industry, check the records.
Have a good day.
You too
PS. Delay fiber or perish
I dont think this is a good statement even from a gentlemen to the other.....it lacks decorum
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 KEnya
Tel: +254722511225
----- Original Message ---- From: Alex Gakuru <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Friday, 30 November, 2007 6:25:46 PM Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fibre Optic
Robert:
I cannot rationally argue against fibre connectivity, but on processes yes.
Of course, I will argue hypothetically since if I responded seemingly with insider information then I would be misleading consumers. And you know my issues...
On Nov 30, 2007 4:46 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Explain one issue to me, how will the marine cable increase the
remittances
from the diaspora, they are sending 3.9 billion over slow, expensive satellite links why should we reduce this by spending 7 billion to land the fiber?
1. AfDB data shows that in total Africa spends US$ 500 million (shs 30 billion) every year on transit satellite bandwidths.( i.e. 5 TEAMS projects). That would be a saving!
2. Back to your question, since it would be (promised very) cheap to call them, then we shall call them day and night "convincing" them how they have neglected mother Africa, poetically narrating Wanjiku's financial sufferings back home, her kiosk that needs only one-off stocking and her anguish will ease. They are only human. They will dig deeper into their pockets, miss a few lunches, tighten their belts, or speak nicely to their bosses on their urgent need to alleviate home poverty. If we collude and do this nationally for just one year, then we could quadruple remmitances to 16 billion shillings or at worst double it to 8 billion-enough to build a cable that will benefit us for the next 25 years:) That was on a light note though I am paraphrasing real comments attributable to *130* "Please call me" to diasporans.
3. Imagine starting a movie company. Be it a comedy, folk tales, Flora and Fauna, or like developing video games like Wesley Kiriinya's, "Adventures of Nyangi" http://www.sinc-studios.com/. The fibre gives one a potential 1.2 billion internet users customer base. Because THEY can play quality demo videos clips fast many are bound to purchase and if, say 10,000 buy a product at US$10 that would be Kshs 6 million. Such opportunities are lost every day we are not connected by fibre.
4. We have 2.7 million internet users. For how long does each one take tapping their fingers on the desk waiting for a slow web page to load? Multiply each one's lost productivity by 365 days/year then by 2.7 million and compute the national productivity loss caused by slow, yet very expensive internet. Based on these mathematics OECD countries have put up a nifty graphic showing broadband rankings of member countries, but which also include average price of broadband and average throughput here http://www.fiberevolution.com/2007/11/us-lags-in-grap.html, pointer courtesy Bill St. Arnaud http://www.canarie.ca/. I would be interesting to have Dr. Ndemo's expected consumer prices to compare.
5. Consumer/Busineses costs saving would be the most apparent benefit. I need not dwell on that since we all feel them pretty well.
6. I also skip outsourcing.
Alex, all I ask is can you give me a logical reason why we should spend 7 billion to land this fiber?
Are above logical enough reasons sufficiently compelling justification to support the international fibre? But like I said, remember SAT3 West Africa cable cost nearly the same as satellite because of Bandwidth cartels. So should be assured they have no space in TEAMS to clog broadband to consumers, but that is somebody's job. We are only asking for assurance it will not turn out to be a white grey elephant project:)
I am aware this discussion is academic but it should not stop us
from
questioning the rational.
That's the spirit! We keep Ndemo on his toes, always....
Thanks,
Alex
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Dear all Is the question whether or not the public infrastructure that we are investing in as a country is going to proof to be of value in the long term? A valid question indeed, because there are many types of info com infrastructure deployment initiatives that have not always produced or achieved the desired outcomes, resulting in networks that do not realise their potential value and as a result failure to realise universal access expectations. Reasons could be varied from the previous state of the market/sector, reluctant stakeholders, the overall political situation, even non-ambitious users, etc. etc. We should however look at the TEAMS initiative broadly within the context of ICTs as enablers of socio-economic development... e.g improved delivery of health care services, better access to government services, increased quantity and quality of education/training opportunities and the list goes on. The value of TEAMS will of course only be realised if we have wide spread national terrestrial fibre to complement it and locally generated content, services and applications. So the demand side is even more crucial therefore calling for greater participation of the users/consumers in this process. So initiatives like our digital villages, which seem to follow the community owned network framework are essential... best alice robert yawe wrote:
Alex,
You again still have not justified the landing of the marine cable.
1. Of the US 500 Million spent on satellite connectivity 80% is none productive traffic such as porn, spam and chat (you and me both in Nairobi but chatting on MSN). Reducing costs is not necessarily the only way to resolve an issue most of the times it is easier to increase your income so that the expense as a percentage is lowered.
2. Lets not replace the world bank loans with diaspora remittances, let us become productive and more ingenious, lets take advantage of our position as the most advanced economy in sub Saharan Africa. We need to lay fiber to the neighbouring countries so that we can pick out sourcing contracts from Europe and America but set up the call centers in the neighbouring countries. That way we utilise our higher value personnel to look for high value outsourcing.
3. Dream on . . .
4. Log onto a locally hosted site and experience true high speed Internet, stop browsing foreign sites and the fiber ceases to be essential. I know Dr. Ndemo says we cannot be an Island, is it being an Island when you are faithful to one partner. Certain things can be shared such as a hand shake or a conversation but certain activities are best kept within. Lets not over stretch ourselves bringing high speed garbage when we can use technology to improve our lives, locally.
5. Charity begins at home and so does B2B and B2C
6. Out sourcing what???
Have a good day.
PS. Delay fiber or perish
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 KEnya
Tel: +254722511225
----- Original Message ---- From: Alex Gakuru <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Friday, 30 November, 2007 6:25:46 PM Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fibre Optic
Robert:
I cannot rationally argue against fibre connectivity, but on processes yes.
Of course, I will argue hypothetically since if I responded seemingly with insider information then I would be misleading consumers. And you know my issues...
On Nov 30, 2007 4:46 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
Explain one issue to me, how will the marine cable increase the
remittances
from the diaspora, they are sending 3.9 billion over slow, expensive satellite links why should we reduce this by spending 7 billion to land the fiber?
1. AfDB data shows that in total Africa spends US$ 500 million (shs 30 billion) every year on transit satellite bandwidths.( i.e. 5 TEAMS projects). That would be a saving!
2. Back to your question, since it would be (promised very) cheap to call them, then we shall call them day and night "convincing" them how they have neglected mother Africa, poetically narrating Wanjiku's financial sufferings back home, her kiosk that needs only one-off stocking and her anguish will ease. They are only human. They will dig deeper into their pockets, miss a few lunches, tighten their belts, or speak nicely to their bosses on their urgent need to alleviate home poverty. If we collude and do this nationally for just one year, then we could quadruple remmitances to 16 billion shillings or at worst double it to 8 billion-enough to build a cable that will benefit us for the next 25 years:) That was on a light note though I am paraphrasing real comments attributable to *130* "Please call me" to diasporans.
3. Imagine starting a movie company. Be it a comedy, folk tales, Flora and Fauna, or like developing video games like Wesley Kiriinya's, "Adventures of Nyangi" http://www.sinc-studios.com/. The fibre gives one a potential 1.2 billion internet users customer base. Because THEY can play quality demo videos clips fast many are bound to purchase and if, say 10,000 buy a product at US$10 that would be Kshs 6 million. Such opportunities are lost every day we are not connected by fibre.
4. We have 2.7 million internet users. For how long does each one take tapping their fingers on the desk waiting for a slow web page to load? Multiply each one's lost productivity by 365 days/year then by 2.7 million and compute the national productivity loss caused by slow, yet very expensive internet. Based on these mathematics OECD countries have put up a nifty graphic showing broadband rankings of member countries, but which also include average price of broadband and average throughput here http://www.fiberevolution.com/2007/11/us-lags-in-grap.html, pointer courtesy Bill St. Arnaud http://www.canarie.ca/. I would be interesting to have Dr. Ndemo's expected consumer prices to compare.
5. Consumer/Busineses costs saving would be the most apparent benefit. I need not dwell on that since we all feel them pretty well.
6. I also skip outsourcing.
Alex, all I ask is can you give me a logical reason why we should spend 7 billion to land this fiber?
Are above logical enough reasons sufficiently compelling justification to support the international fibre? But like I said, remember SAT3 West Africa cable cost nearly the same as satellite because of Bandwidth cartels. So should be assured they have no space in TEAMS to clog broadband to consumers, but that is somebody's job. We are only asking for assurance it will not turn out to be a white grey elephant project:)
I am aware this discussion is academic but it should not stop us from questioning the rational.
That's the spirit! We keep Ndemo on his toes, always....
Thanks,
Alex
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Yawe, u seem to insist on playing the 'Local Content OR the International Fiber' card. I chose to view it in terms of 'Local Content AND International Fiber'. The two important issues need not be conflicted. Instead, they can both be simultaneously attacked without each cannibalising the other. Local Content: Biggest thrust would be eGovernment programs. Put as much public stuff online as possible and get to train a wide sector of the society on how to access it (digital villages?) International Fiber: Biggest motivator for now is to use the link to tap into the BPO industry. We cannot capture those international ICT jobs while using our expensive, time-delayed Satellite links. Ofcourse Increased Porn, Cyber Crime, etc would be expected to increase over the International Fiber. But that should be managed rather than provide a reason to lock our country into a little, digitally safe but internationally blacked-out island. walu. --- robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Alex,
You again still have not justified the landing of the marine cable.
1. Of the US 500 Million spent on satellite connectivity 80% is none productive traffic such as porn, spam and chat (you and me both in Nairobi but chatting on MSN). Reducing costs is not necessarily the only way to resolve an issue most of the times it is easier to increase your income so that the expense as a percentage is lowered.
2. Lets not replace the world bank loans with diaspora remittances, let us become productive and more ingenious, lets take advantage of our position as the most advanced economy in sub Saharan Africa. We need to lay fiber to the neighbouring countries so that we can pick out sourcing contracts from Europe and America but set up the call centers in the neighbouring countries. That way we utilise our higher value personnel to look for high value outsourcing.
3. Dream on . . .
4. Log onto a locally hosted site and experience true high speed Internet, stop browsing foreign sites and the fiber ceases to be essential. I know Dr. Ndemo says we cannot be an Island, is it being an Island when you are faithful to one partner. Certain things can be shared such as a hand shake or a conversation but certain activities are best kept within. Lets not over stretch ourselves bringing high speed garbage when we can use technology to improve our lives, locally.
5. Charity begins at home and so does B2B and B2C
6. Out sourcing what???
Have a good day.
PS. Delay fiber or perish
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 KEnya Tel: +254722511225
----- Original Message ---- From: Alex Gakuru <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Friday, 30 November, 2007 6:25:46 PM Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fibre Optic
Robert:
I cannot rationally argue against fibre connectivity, but on processes yes.
Of course, I will argue hypothetically since if I responded seemingly with insider information then I would be misleading consumers. And you know my issues...
On Nov 30, 2007 4:46 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Explain one issue to me, how will the marine cable
increase the remittances
from the diaspora, they are sending 3.9 billion over slow, expensive satellite links why should we reduce this by spending 7 billion to land the fiber?
1. AfDB data shows that in total Africa spends US$ 500 million (shs 30 billion) every year on transit satellite bandwidths.( i.e. 5 TEAMS projects). That would be a saving!
2. Back to your question, since it would be (promised very) cheap to call them, then we shall call them day and night "convincing" them how they have neglected mother Africa, poetically narrating Wanjiku's financial sufferings back home, her kiosk that needs only one-off stocking and her anguish will ease. They are only human. They will dig deeper into their pockets, miss a few lunches, tighten their belts, or speak nicely to their bosses on their urgent need to alleviate home poverty. If we collude and do this nationally for just one year, then we could quadruple remmitances to 16 billion shillings or at worst double it to 8 billion-enough to build a cable that will benefit us for the next 25 years:) That was on a light note though I am paraphrasing real comments attributable to *130* "Please call me" to diasporans.
3. Imagine starting a movie company. Be it a comedy, folk tales, Flora and Fauna, or like developing video games like Wesley Kiriinya's, "Adventures of Nyangi" http://www.sinc-studios.com/. The fibre gives one a potential 1.2 billion internet users customer base. Because THEY can play quality demo videos clips fast many are bound to purchase and if, say 10,000 buy a product at US$10 that would be Kshs 6 million. Such opportunities are lost every day we are not connected by fibre.
4. We have 2.7 million internet users. For how long does each one take tapping their fingers on the desk waiting for a slow web page to load? Multiply each one's lost productivity by 365 days/year then by 2.7 million and compute the national productivity loss caused by slow, yet very expensive internet. Based on these mathematics OECD countries have put up a nifty graphic showing broadband rankings of member countries, but which also include average price of broadband and average throughput here
http://www.fiberevolution.com/2007/11/us-lags-in-grap.html,
pointer courtesy Bill St. Arnaud http://www.canarie.ca/. I would be interesting to have Dr. Ndemo's expected consumer prices to compare.
5. Consumer/Busineses costs saving would be the most apparent benefit. I need not dwell on that since we all feel them pretty well.
6. I also skip outsourcing.
Alex, all I ask is can you give me a logical reason why we should spend 7 billion to land this fiber?
Are above logical enough reasons sufficiently compelling justification to support the international fibre? But like I said, remember SAT3 West Africa cable cost nearly the same as satellite because of Bandwidth cartels. So should be assured they have no space in TEAMS to clog broadband to consumers, but that is somebody's job. We are only asking for assurance it will not turn out to be a white grey elephant project:)
I am aware this discussion is academic but it should
not stop us from
questioning the rational.
That's the spirit! We keep Ndemo on his toes, always....
Thanks,
Alex
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Glad you raised security issues Walu, While urging more content to be put online, we need to invest a little on securing our websites. Memories of various defaced sites should still be fresh? There is a young effort to raise funds to send two internet security members of skunkworks to the next IEFT meetings. Would you, others, like to join? Thxs --- John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
Local Content: Biggest thrust would be eGovernment programs. Put as much public stuff online as possible and get to train a wide sector of the society on how to access it (digital villages?) Ofcourse Increased Porn, Cyber Crime, etc would be expected to increase over the International Fiber. But that should be managed rather than provide a reason to lock our country into a little, digitally safe but internationally blacked-out island.
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Security is going to be a mega-issue once the submarine fiber lands in Mombasa. At the moment Kenya is spared the full-scale exposure from international cyber crooks simply because our slow satellite links don't lend themselves to modern tools of cyber-attacks. Here is my macro-projection of what will occur on the internet-security landscape in March 2009 or thereabout when the submarine cable is launched. 1. Continued delay of national and regional legislation makes Kenya and E.Africa a safe-haven for cyber-crooks. {following the delayed debate and enactment of the pre-requisite Cyber-legislations (e-Transaction Act, Cyber-crime Act, Data-protection Act, etc) Kenya has become the preferred destination for executing cyber crimes and getting away with it. The crooks are taking advantage of the lack of legislation as well as the incapacity for the authorities to investigate, collect, preserve digital evidence as well as prosecute cyber-crime. The newly launched submarine cables seem to have provided a conducive superhighway for the crooks to deploy there tools from the comfort of their Chinese, Eastern Europe and other territories. The Kenya Government seems to have been caught off-guard and the Internal Security Minister could not be reached for comment because he was holed up in a crisis-meeting....} 2. Local domains hosting critical national infrastructure get hit (Banking, KRA, Immigration, Medical Data) {....In particular, the successful deployment of eGovernment initiatives such as KRA, KPA, Banking, Medical and other data have become a soft-target for the criminals. They are launching various attacks that compromise poorly configured and insecure web-servers, they take advantage for ill-equipped employees who continue being the weakest link in the security chain of the respective organisations....} 3. 80% of International Bandwidth consumed by junk-mail, malware, porn. {....The BPO markets are the most affected in that operators are saying that they are getting allocated huge amounts of affordable bandwidth BUT they do not realise or experience the full potential of the links since 80% of the link is hijacked by spammers, porn-operators and other criminals....) Ofcourse I hope am wrong about these projections. But unless security is designed upfront into most of our digital projects, we definately are going to be hit and in a big way. walu. --- Alex Gakuru <alex.gakuru@yahoo.com> wrote:
Glad you raised security issues Walu,
While urging more content to be put online, we need to invest a little on securing our websites. Memories of various defaced sites should still be fresh?
There is a young effort to raise funds to send two internet security members of skunkworks to the next IEFT meetings. Would you, others, like to join?
Thxs
--- John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
Local Content: Biggest thrust would be eGovernment programs. Put as much public stuff online as possible and get to train a wide sector of the society on how to access it (digital villages?) Ofcourse Increased Porn, Cyber Crime, etc would be expected to increase over the International Fiber. But that should be managed rather than provide a reason to lock our country into a little, digitally safe but internationally blacked-out island.
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