Re: [kictanet] Kenya IGF 2010 Mailing List Discussions
Dear Listers, The Kenya ICT Network KICTANet is pleased to announce commencement of the Kenya IGF Mailing list discussion. The discussion will provide input to the Kenya National IGF that will be held on 29th July 2010. The discussions are aimed at identifying and exploring National level Internet Governance Issues. As key players in the Internet Industry, it is my pleasure to invite you to the online discussions which start on Monday 5th July 2010 and will end on 17 th July and will be moderated by myself and Judy Okite. Discussions will focus on Critical Internet Resources which is the theme in this years regional discussions to be held as from 11th to 13th August in Kampala Uganda, other topics on the agenda include: - Impact of the undersea cable and the National Fibre optic Backnbone --Lessons Learnt - Impact of the Unified Licensing Model - Management of the dotke CCTLD---Challenges and Milestones - Adopting IPv6 ----Challenges and Milestiones - e--crimes, Privacy, Data Security Looking forward to an interesting discourse over the two weeks period. Thank you -- Barrack O. Otieno +41767892272 Skype: barrack.otieno
Apologies for cross-posting; @Barrack, it was about time these Internet Governance (IG) issues were reviewed and am glad you have offered to moderate the discussions since I have been on some temporary self-imposed "minimized" mode... But allow me to jump ahead of the scheduled topics and go to the management of the .KE namespace which is scheduled for later - I just have an update from yesterday's KENIC AGM (www.kenic.or.ke) where the Chair, Sammy Buruchara made some clarification on the role of the regulator (CCK) with regards to the management of the 2nd level Kenyan domain name space. While he conceded that the Kenya Comm. Act (2009) does mandate the Regulator to oversee these subdomains, the Minister had yet to issue regulations on how it would be done because most stakeholders have shown concern and reservations on that specific clause...meaning status quo remains where the multistakeholder, public private partnership that makes up KENIC still manages and oversees all levels of the .KE namespace untill hopefully some consensus is reached on the way forward... That notwithstanding, one of the Registrars (those who register domains) had already felt the heat, when she reported that KENIC had recovered a name she registered in favour of a "bigger" player using dispute resolution mechanisms that were yet to be made public... walu. nb: With the recent Govt handing over the management of the National Optical Fiber Backbone (+the TEAMS gateway?) to one of the Operators, the impact of the mandatory requirement for Mobile SIM card registrations, the launch of the M-Kesho (eMoney bank account) amongst other regular ICT issues such as Internet Prices, Security, IPv6 etc, I do believe you have your plate full and I look forward to these discussions. --- On Fri, 7/2/10, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote: From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya IGF 2010 Mailing List Discussions To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Friday, July 2, 2010, 11:01 PM Dear Listers, The Kenya ICT Network KICTANet is pleased to announce commencement of the Kenya IGF Mailing list discussion. The discussion will provide input to the Kenya National IGF that will be held on 29th July 2010. The discussions are aimed at identifying and exploring National level Internet Governance Issues. As key players in the Internet Industry, it is my pleasure to invite you to the online discussions which start on Monday 5th July 2010 and will end on 17 th July and will be moderated by myself and Judy Okite. Discussions will focus on Critical Internet Resources which is the theme in this years regional discussions to be held as from 11th to 13th August in Kampala Uganda, other topics on the agenda include: Impact of the undersea cable and the National Fibre optic Backnbone --Lessons Learnt Impact of the Unified Licensing ModelManagement of the dotke CCTLD---Challenges and MilestonesAdopting IPv6 ----Challenges and Milestionese--crimes, Privacy, Data SecurityLooking forward to an interesting discourse over the two weeks period. Thank you -- 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
Thanks Walu for setting the ball rolling and for bringing in an interesting perspective from the KENIC AGM, i suppose there were many listers at the meeting and they might still be condensing their thoughts, nonetheless, we will have an opportunity to review the points you have raised on day 5 while reviewing the Management of dot KE CCTLD, i invite listers to identify what they consider pertinent issues that were raised during the meeting, the idea is to look at ways of improving Management of the dot KE CCTLD bearing in mind the fact that its management is based on a Public Private Sector model which has been a great example in the region and on the continent. I suppose the contentious issues have always been around pricing it it would be interesting to hear how this issue is being handled, i live this to listers to prepare their comments, however the thread is open should anyone be willing to contribute, we shall review the contributions on day 5 as we delve into the agenda in more detail. On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
Apologies for cross-posting;
@Barrack, it was about time these Internet Governance (IG) issues were reviewed and am glad you have offered to moderate the discussions since I have been on some temporary self-imposed "minimized" mode...
But allow me to jump ahead of the scheduled topics and go to the management of the .KE namespace which is scheduled for later - I just have an update from yesterday's KENIC AGM (www.kenic.or.ke) where the Chair, Sammy Buruchara made some clarification on the role of the regulator (CCK) with regards to the management of the 2nd level Kenyan domain name space.
While he conceded that the Kenya Comm. Act (2009) does mandate the Regulator to oversee these subdomains, the Minister had yet to issue regulations on how it would be done because most stakeholders have shown concern and reservations on that specific clause...meaning status quo remains where the multistakeholder, public private partnership that makes up KENIC still manages and oversees all levels of the .KE namespace untill hopefully some consensus is reached on the way forward...
That notwithstanding, one of the Registrars (those who register domains) had already felt the heat, when she reported that KENIC had recovered a name she registered in favour of a "bigger" player using dispute resolution mechanisms that were yet to be made public...
walu. nb: With the recent Govt handing over the management of the National Optical Fiber Backbone (+the TEAMS gateway?) to one of the Operators, the impact of the mandatory requirement for Mobile SIM card registrations, the launch of the M-Kesho (eMoney bank account) amongst other regular ICT issues such as Internet Prices, Security, IPv6 etc, I do believe you have your plate full and I look forward to these discussions.
--- On *Fri, 7/2/10, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com>* wrote:
From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya IGF 2010 Mailing List Discussions To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Friday, July 2, 2010, 11:01 PM
Dear Listers,
The Kenya ICT Network KICTANet is pleased to announce commencement of the Kenya IGF Mailing list discussion. The discussion will provide input to the Kenya National IGF that will be held on 29th July 2010. The discussions are aimed at identifying and exploring National level Internet Governance Issues. As key players in the Internet Industry, it is my pleasure to invite you to the online discussions which start on Monday 5th July 2010 and will end on 17 th July and will be moderated by myself and Judy Okite.
Discussions will focus on Critical Internet Resources which is the theme in this years regional discussions to be held as from 11th to 13th August in Kampala Uganda, other topics on the agenda include:
- Impact of the undersea cable and the National Fibre optic Backnbone --Lessons Learnt - Impact of the Unified Licensing Model - Management of the dotke CCTLD---Challenges and Milestones - Adopting IPv6 ----Challenges and Milestiones - e--crimes, Privacy, Data Security
Looking forward to an interesting discourse over the two weeks period.
Thank you
-- Barrack O. Otieno +41767892272 Skype: barrack.otieno
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