ICANN seeks input on transparency and accountability
(Apologies for cross posting) ICANN has announced a new public comment forum and list of questions related to principles of transparency and accountability: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-16oct06.htm "Responses are sought by October 31, 2006. Based on the responses received and other research, a first draft of the principles will be published for community comment in November, 2006. It is hoped that the Management Operating Principles will be adopted by the Board as part of the Strategic Plan at the Sao Paulo meeting." Among the specific questions ICANN is asking is, "What standards of transparency are appropriate in ICANN operations and activity?" The obvious answer is that the appropriate standard of transparency is set by ICANN's Bylaws: "the maximum extent feasible". It's impossible to tell from the announcment if someone at ICANN wants to change that standard. It's odd that this is intended for inclusion in ICANN's Strategic Plan. The only non-spam comments submitted to ICANN's previous public forum on the draft Strategic Plan were mine, related to exactly this issue. But until now, ICANN has entirely ignored them: http://forum.icann.org/lists/stratplan-draft-comments/msg00000.html http://forum.icann.org/lists/stratplan-draft-comments/ Comments can be sent to <principles-comments@icann.org>, and can be viewed at <http://forum.icann.org/lists/principles-comments/>.
Dear All, I think there are good lessons to learn from the article below. Regards Ndemo. October 17, 2006 Skills Gap Hurts Technology Boom in India By SOMINI SENGUPTA <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/somini_sengupta/index.html?inline=nyt-per> TIRUCHENGODE, India <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/india/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> As its technology companies soar to the outsourcing skies, India is bumping up against an improbable challenge. In a country once regarded as a bottomless well of low-cost, ready-to-work, English-speaking engineers, a shortage looms. India still produces plenty of engineers, nearly 400,000 a year at last count. But their competence has become the issue. A study commissioned by a trade group, the National Association of Software and Service Companies, or Nasscom, found only one in four engineering graduates to be employable. The rest were deficient in the required technical skills, fluency in English or ability to work in a team or deliver basic oral presentations. The skills gap reflects the narrow availability of high-quality college education in India and the galloping pace of the country's service-driven economy, which is growing faster than nearly all but China's. The software and service companies provide technology services to foreign companies, many of them based in the United States. Software exports alone expanded by 33 percent in the last year. The university systems of few countries would be able to keep up with such demand, and India is certainly having trouble. The best and most selective universities generate too few graduates, and new private colleges are producing graduates of uneven quality. Many fear that the labor pinch may signal bottlenecks in other parts of the economy. It is already being felt in the information technology sector. With the number of technology jobs expected to nearly double to 1.7 million in the next four years, companies are scrambling to find fresh engineering talent and to upgrade the schools that produce it. Some companies are training faculty members themselves, offering courses tailored to industry needs and improving college labs and libraries. They are rushing to get first choice of would-be engineers long before they have completed their course work. And they are fanning out to small, remote colleges that almost no one had heard of before. The country's most successful technology concerns can no longer afford to hire only
Dear All, Attached please find the full text of the article I mentioned earlier. Regards Ndemo.
Certainly, a great lesson to learn from. Thanks for sharing the article! At / À 12:56 PM 10/24/2006, bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote / a écrit:
Dear All, I think there are good lessons to learn from the article below.
Regards
Ndemo.
October 17, 2006 Skills Gap Hurts Technology Boom in India By SOMINI SENGUPTA <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/somini_sengupta/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
TIRUCHENGODE, India <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/india/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> As its technology companies soar to the outsourcing skies, India is bumping up against an improbable challenge. In a country once regarded as a bottomless well of low-cost, ready-to-work, English-speaking engineers, a shortage looms.
India still produces plenty of engineers, nearly 400,000 a year at last count. But their competence has become the issue.
A study commissioned by a trade group, the National Association of Software and Service Companies, or Nasscom, found only one in four engineering graduates to be employable. The rest were deficient in the required technical skills, fluency in English or ability to work in a team or deliver basic oral presentations.
The skills gap reflects the narrow availability of high-quality college education in India and the galloping pace of the country's service-driven economy, which is growing faster than nearly all but China's. The software and service companies provide technology services to foreign companies, many of them based in the United States. Software exports alone expanded by 33 percent in the last year.
The university systems of few countries would be able to keep up with such demand, and India is certainly having trouble. The best and most selective universities generate too few graduates, and new private colleges are producing graduates of uneven quality.
Many fear that the labor pinch may signal bottlenecks in other parts of the economy. It is already being felt in the information technology sector.
With the number of technology jobs expected to nearly double to 1.7 million in the next four years, companies are scrambling to find fresh engineering talent and to upgrade the schools that produce it.
Some companies are training faculty members themselves, offering courses tailored to industry needs and improving college labs and libraries. They are rushing to get first choice of would-be engineers long before they have completed their course work. And they are fanning out to small, remote colleges that almost no one had heard of before. The country's most successful technology concerns can no longer afford to hire only
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Hi Edith, You must have been blogging. Regards Ndemo.
Certainly, a great lesson to learn from.
Thanks for sharing the article!
At / À 12:56 PM 10/24/2006, bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote / a écrit:
Dear All, I think there are good lessons to learn from the article below.
Regards
Ndemo.
October 17, 2006 Skills Gap Hurts Technology Boom in India By SOMINI SENGUPTA <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/somini_sengupta/index.html?inline=nyt-per>
TIRUCHENGODE, India <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/india/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> As its technology companies soar to the outsourcing skies, India is bumping up against an improbable challenge. In a country once regarded as a bottomless well of low-cost, ready-to-work, English-speaking engineers, a shortage looms.
India still produces plenty of engineers, nearly 400,000 a year at last count. But their competence has become the issue.
A study commissioned by a trade group, the National Association of Software and Service Companies, or Nasscom, found only one in four engineering graduates to be employable. The rest were deficient in the required technical skills, fluency in English or ability to work in a team or deliver basic oral presentations.
The skills gap reflects the narrow availability of high-quality college education in India and the galloping pace of the country's service-driven economy, which is growing faster than nearly all but China's. The software and service companies provide technology services to foreign companies, many of them based in the United States. Software exports alone expanded by 33 percent in the last year.
The university systems of few countries would be able to keep up with such demand, and India is certainly having trouble. The best and most selective universities generate too few graduates, and new private colleges are producing graduates of uneven quality.
Many fear that the labor pinch may signal bottlenecks in other parts of the economy. It is already being felt in the information technology sector.
With the number of technology jobs expected to nearly double to 1.7 million in the next four years, companies are scrambling to find fresh engineering talent and to upgrade the schools that produce it.
Some companies are training faculty members themselves, offering courses tailored to industry needs and improving college labs and libraries. They are rushing to get first choice of would-be engineers long before they have completed their course work. And they are fanning out to small, remote colleges that almost no one had heard of before. The country's most successful technology concerns can no longer afford to hire only
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Good lesson , though wonder whether as a country we are ready to address manpower shortage in this area. Just the other day Safaricom's Micheal Joseph was lamenting about the same...are we checking what our Universities are offering in relation to our projected needs? Regards Wafula bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote: Hi Edith, You must have been blogging. Regards Ndemo.
Certainly, a great lesson to learn from.
Thanks for sharing the article!
At / À 12:56 PM 10/24/2006, bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote / a écrit:
Dear All, I think there are good lessons to learn from the article below.
Regards
Ndemo.
October 17, 2006 Skills Gap Hurts Technology Boom in India By SOMINI SENGUPTA
TIRUCHENGODE, India
As its technology companies soar to the outsourcing skies, India is bumping up against an improbable challenge. In a country once regarded as a bottomless well of low-cost, ready-to-work, English-speaking engineers, a shortage looms.
India still produces plenty of engineers, nearly 400,000 a year at last count. But their competence has become the issue.
A study commissioned by a trade group, the National Association of Software and Service Companies, or Nasscom, found only one in four engineering graduates to be employable. The rest were deficient in the required technical skills, fluency in English or ability to work in a team or deliver basic oral presentations.
The skills gap reflects the narrow availability of high-quality college education in India and the galloping pace of the country's service-driven economy, which is growing faster than nearly all but China's. The software and service companies provide technology services to foreign companies, many of them based in the United States. Software exports alone expanded by 33 percent in the last year.
The university systems of few countries would be able to keep up with such demand, and India is certainly having trouble. The best and most selective universities generate too few graduates, and new private colleges are producing graduates of uneven quality.
Many fear that the labor pinch may signal bottlenecks in other parts of the economy. It is already being felt in the information technology sector.
With the number of technology jobs expected to nearly double to 1.7 million in the next four years, companies are scrambling to find fresh engineering talent and to upgrade the schools that produce it.
Some companies are training faculty members themselves, offering courses tailored to industry needs and improving college labs and libraries. They are rushing to get first choice of would-be engineers long before they have completed their course work. And they are fanning out to small, remote colleges that almost no one had heard of before. The country's most successful technology concerns can no longer afford to hire only
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Thanks to PS Ndemo for bringing this out. As for Wafula's question, the work force survey undertaken by the CSK earlier this year revealed that there is very little linkage between what the ICT training institutions (including Universities) are producing and the requirements of the industry either now or in the foreseeable future. Certainly there appear to be no mechanisms to facilitate such linkage. Perhaps something could be done now before we find ourselves in India's position. Kind Regards Waudo Siganga On Wed, October 25, 2006 9:22 am, TONY WAFULA wrote:
Good lesson , though wonder whether as a country we are ready to address manpower shortage in this area. Just the other day Safaricom's Micheal Joseph was lamenting about the same...are we checking what our Universities are offering in relation to our projected needs?
Regards
Wafula
bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote: Hi Edith, You must have been blogging.
Regards
Ndemo.
Certainly, a great lesson to learn from.
Thanks for sharing the article!
At / À 12:56 PM 10/24/2006, bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote / a écrit:
Dear All, I think there are good lessons to learn from the article below.
Regards
Ndemo.
October 17, 2006 Skills Gap Hurts Technology Boom in India By SOMINI SENGUPTA
TIRUCHENGODE, India
As its technology companies soar to the outsourcing skies, India is bumping up against an improbable challenge. In a country once regarded as a bottomless well of low-cost, ready-to-work, English-speaking engineers, a shortage looms.
India still produces plenty of engineers, nearly 400,000 a year at last count. But their competence has become the issue.
A study commissioned by a trade group, the National Association of Software and Service Companies, or Nasscom, found only one in four engineering graduates to be employable. The rest were deficient in the required technical skills, fluency in English or ability to work in a team or deliver basic oral presentations.
The skills gap reflects the narrow availability of high-quality college education in India and the galloping pace of the country's service-driven economy, which is growing faster than nearly all but China's. The software and service companies provide technology services to foreign companies, many of them based in the United States. Software exports alone expanded by 33 percent in the last year.
The university systems of few countries would be able to keep up with such demand, and India is certainly having trouble. The best and most selective universities generate too few graduates, and new private colleges are producing graduates of uneven quality.
Many fear that the labor pinch may signal bottlenecks in other parts of the economy. It is already being felt in the information technology sector.
With the number of technology jobs expected to nearly double to 1.7 million in the next four years, companies are scrambling to find fresh engineering talent and to upgrade the schools that produce it.
Some companies are training faculty members themselves, offering courses tailored to industry needs and improving college labs and libraries. They are rushing to get first choice of would-be engineers long before they have completed their course work. And they are fanning out to small, remote colleges that almost no one had heard of before. The country's most successful technology concerns can no longer afford to hire only
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Waudo, could u please sambaza(share) the results of this Survey done by CSK. I can imagine it would be interesting (and important) reading. walu. --- waudo@signet.co.ke wrote:
Thanks to PS Ndemo for bringing this out. As for Wafula's question, the work force survey undertaken by the CSK earlier this year revealed that there is very little linkage between what the ICT training institutions (including Universities) are producing and the requirements of the industry either now or in the foreseeable future. Certainly there appear to be no mechanisms to facilitate such linkage. Perhaps something could be done now before we find ourselves in India's position.
Kind Regards Waudo Siganga
Good lesson , though wonder whether as a country we are ready to address manpower shortage in this area. Just the other day Safaricom's Micheal Joseph was lamenting about the same...are we checking what our Universities are offering in relation to our projected needs?
Regards
Wafula
bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote: Hi Edith, You must have been blogging.
Regards
Ndemo.
Certainly, a great lesson to learn from.
Thanks for sharing the article!
At / À 12:56 PM 10/24/2006, bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote / a écrit:
Dear All, I think there are good lessons to learn from the
Regards
Ndemo.
October 17, 2006 Skills Gap Hurts Technology Boom in India By SOMINI SENGUPTA
TIRUCHENGODE, India
As its technology companies soar to the outsourcing
skies, India is
bumping up against an improbable challenge. In a country once regarded as a bottomless well of low-cost, ready-to-work, English-speaking engineers, a shortage looms.
India still produces plenty of engineers, nearly 400,000 a year at last count. But their competence has become the issue.
A study commissioned by a trade group, the National Association of Software and Service Companies, or Nasscom, found only one in four engineering graduates to be employable. The rest were deficient in the required technical skills, fluency in English or ability to work in a team or deliver basic oral presentations.
The skills gap reflects the narrow availability of high-quality college education in India and the galloping pace of the country's service-driven economy, which is growing faster than nearly all but China's. The software and service companies provide technology services to foreign companies, many of them based in the United States. Software exports alone expanded by 33 percent in the last year.
The university systems of few countries would be able to keep up with such demand, and India is certainly having trouble. The best and most selective universities generate too few graduates, and new
producing graduates of uneven quality.
Many fear that the labor pinch may signal bottlenecks in other parts of the economy. It is already being felt in the information technology sector.
With the number of technology jobs expected to nearly double to 1.7 million in the next four years, companies are scrambling to find fresh engineering talent and to upgrade the schools that
Some companies are training faculty members
On Wed, October 25, 2006 9:22 am, TONY WAFULA wrote: article below. private colleges are produce it. themselves, offering courses
tailored to industry needs and improving college labs and libraries. They are rushing to get first choice of would-be engineers long before they have completed their course work. And they are fanning out to small, remote colleges that almost no one had heard of before. The country's most successful technology concerns can no longer afford to hire only
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The work force survey report is a large document but let me see if it can be placed on the web site. Will revert. Kind Regards Waudo On Wed, October 25, 2006 10:35 am, John Walubengo wrote:
Waudo,
could u please sambaza(share) the results of this Survey done by CSK. I can imagine it would be interesting (and important) reading.
walu.
--- waudo@signet.co.ke wrote:
Thanks to PS Ndemo for bringing this out. As for Wafula's question, the work force survey undertaken by the CSK earlier this year revealed that there is very little linkage between what the ICT training institutions (including Universities) are producing and the requirements of the industry either now or in the foreseeable future. Certainly there appear to be no mechanisms to facilitate such linkage. Perhaps something could be done now before we find ourselves in India's position.
Kind Regards Waudo Siganga
Good lesson , though wonder whether as a country we are ready to address manpower shortage in this area. Just the other day Safaricom's Micheal Joseph was lamenting about the same...are we checking what our Universities are offering in relation to our projected needs?
Regards
Wafula
bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote: Hi Edith, You must have been blogging.
Regards
Ndemo.
Certainly, a great lesson to learn from.
Thanks for sharing the article!
At / À 12:56 PM 10/24/2006, bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote / a écrit:
Dear All, I think there are good lessons to learn from the
Regards
Ndemo.
October 17, 2006 Skills Gap Hurts Technology Boom in India By SOMINI SENGUPTA
TIRUCHENGODE, India
As its technology companies soar to the outsourcing
skies, India is
bumping up against an improbable challenge. In a country once regarded as a bottomless well of low-cost, ready-to-work, English-speaking engineers, a shortage looms.
India still produces plenty of engineers, nearly 400,000 a year at last count. But their competence has become the issue.
A study commissioned by a trade group, the National Association of Software and Service Companies, or Nasscom, found only one in four engineering graduates to be employable. The rest were deficient in the required technical skills, fluency in English or ability to work in a team or deliver basic oral presentations.
The skills gap reflects the narrow availability of high-quality college education in India and the galloping pace of the country's service-driven economy, which is growing faster than nearly all but China's. The software and service companies provide technology services to foreign companies, many of them based in the United States. Software exports alone expanded by 33 percent in the last year.
The university systems of few countries would be able to keep up with such demand, and India is certainly having trouble. The best and most selective universities generate too few graduates, and new
producing graduates of uneven quality.
Many fear that the labor pinch may signal bottlenecks in other parts of the economy. It is already being felt in the information technology sector.
With the number of technology jobs expected to nearly double to 1.7 million in the next four years, companies are scrambling to find fresh engineering talent and to upgrade the schools that
Some companies are training faculty members
On Wed, October 25, 2006 9:22 am, TONY WAFULA wrote: article below. private colleges are produce it. themselves, offering courses
tailored to industry needs and improving college labs and libraries. They are rushing to get first choice of would-be engineers long before they have completed their course work. And they are fanning out to small, remote colleges that almost no one had heard of before. The country's most successful technology concerns can no longer afford to hire only
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Dear brother Walubengo, We shall Zambaza next week through this channel to all members. Thanks David S. Malaba Computer Society of Kenya --- John Walubengo <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
Waudo,
could u please sambaza(share) the results of this Survey done by CSK. I can imagine it would be interesting (and important) reading.
walu.
--- waudo@signet.co.ke wrote:
Thanks to PS Ndemo for bringing this out. As for Wafula's question, the work force survey undertaken by the CSK earlier this year revealed that there is very little linkage between what the ICT training institutions (including Universities) are producing and the requirements of the industry either now or in the foreseeable future. Certainly there appear to be no mechanisms to facilitate such linkage. Perhaps something could be done now before we find ourselves in India's position.
Kind Regards Waudo Siganga
Good lesson , though wonder whether as a country we are ready to address manpower shortage in this area. Just the other day Safaricom's Micheal Joseph was lamenting about the same...are we checking what our Universities are offering in relation to our
On Wed, October 25, 2006 9:22 am, TONY WAFULA wrote: projected needs?
Regards
Wafula
bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote: Hi Edith, You must have been blogging.
Regards
Ndemo.
Certainly, a great lesson to learn from.
Thanks for sharing the article!
At / À 12:56 PM 10/24/2006, bitange@jambo.co.ke
Dear All, I think there are good lessons to learn from
Regards
Ndemo.
October 17, 2006 Skills Gap Hurts Technology Boom in India By SOMINI SENGUPTA
TIRUCHENGODE, India
As its technology companies soar to the
outsourcing skies, India is
bumping up against an improbable challenge. In a country once regarded as a bottomless well of low-cost, ready-to-work, English-speaking engineers, a shortage looms.
India still produces plenty of engineers, nearly 400,000 a year at last count. But their competence has become the issue.
A study commissioned by a trade group, the National Association of Software and Service Companies, or Nasscom, found only one in four engineering graduates to be employable. The rest were deficient in the required technical skills, fluency in English or ability to work in a team or deliver basic oral presentations.
The skills gap reflects the narrow availability of high-quality college education in India and the galloping pace of
service-driven economy, which is growing faster than nearly all but China's. The software and service companies provide technology services to foreign companies, many of them based in the United States. Software exports alone expanded by 33 percent in the last year.
The university systems of few countries would be able to keep up with such demand, and India is certainly having trouble. The best and most selective universities generate too few graduates, and new
producing graduates of uneven quality.
Many fear that the labor pinch may signal bottlenecks in other parts of the economy. It is already being felt in the information technology sector.
With the number of technology jobs expected to nearly double to 1.7 million in the next four years, companies are scrambling to find fresh engineering talent and to upgrade the schools
Some companies are training faculty members
wrote / a écrit: the article below. the country's private colleges are that produce it. themselves, offering courses
tailored to industry needs and improving
college labs > and libraries. > >>> They > >>>are rushing to get first choice of would-be engineers > long before they > >>>have completed their course work. And they are fanning > out to small, > >>>remote colleges that almost no one had heard of > before. The country's > >>> most > >>>successful technology concerns can no longer afford to > hire only > >>> > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>kictanet mailing list > >>>kictanet@kictanet.or.ke > >>>http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet > >>> > >>>Please unsubscribe or change your options at >
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On 10/25/06, waudo@signet.co.ke <waudo@signet.co.ke> wrote:
there is very little linkage between what the ICT training institutions (including Universities) are producing and the requirements of the industry either now or in the foreseeable future.
Check out www.jkuategovacademy.ac.ke to see how PPPs are trying to address this linkage. The JKUAT Academy is the only one that has developed its curriculum based on actual Govt environment and in line with the E-Govt Strategy paper. PS. Sorry, I could not resist the marketing opportunity offered by this discussion. -- With Kind Regards, Bildad Kagai MD - Circuits & Packets Communications Ltd Content & Training Partner - JKUAT E-Government Academy Suite B2, Tetu Apartments, State House Avenue P. O. Box 20311 - 00200 Nairobi, Kenya Tel. 254 20 2728332 Fax. 254 20 2726965 Cell. 254 724 226600 URL. www.circuitspackets.co.ke URL. www.JKUATEgovAcademy.ac.ke
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alice＠apc.org -
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waudo＠signet.co.ke