April 2013 - isoc - Skunkworks Site

Fw: Report on ICANN 46
by Davis Onsakia 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

FYI Interesting updates from the just concluded ICANN meeting. Regards and many thanks, Davis M Onsakia 'The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.' - Maureen Dowd ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: dotAfrica <neil(a)africanregistry.org> To: Davis <mautidavis(a)yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 7:46 PM Subject: Report on ICANN 46 Report on ICANN 46 From Africa for the World Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend In this newsletter 1. Introduction 2. GAC topics - GAC Advice 3. Trademark Clearinghouse – an update 4. ZACR and AfTLD MOU signing– a momentous occasion Note from the editor The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) held its 24th meeting in Beijing, Republic of China. This ICANN meeting was the most well attended meeting in the history of ICANN meetings, with the numbers totalling 2600-registered participants. With that said, it was indeed a scramble to get one’s hands on the most sought after commodity at ICANN… the Gala dinner tickets. The dotAfrica team did not attend, alas. The spectacular event was held at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing. This 24th meeting was of great interest to the dotAfrica team, particularly with regard to the much-anticipatedGAC Advice, issued for the new gTLDs, and the requirements for the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). Full reports on these two topics are included below. Overall, the meeting was a success for the dotAfrica team, with many people engaging us on the progress of our application, the dates for the delegation of the .africa gTLD, and so on. The spirited and very exciting debate still continues for .africa and we eagerly anticipate the completion of the initial evaluations. We wish Durban a successful ICANN meeting, and we are sure Africa will make us proud! A full report on the proceedings of the meeting can be downloaded here: https://www.centr.org/CENTR-Report-ICANN46 Until next time... Octavia Kumalo dotAfrica Marketing & PR Manager 2. GAC Communiqué - GAC Advice (Alice Munyua) GAC advice on new gTLDs contained in the GAC Beijing communiqué GAC advice represents a consensus position among member states that a particular new gTLD application potentially raises sensitivities, thereby creating strong presumptions that the ICANN Board of Directors should not approve the application. The Beijing meeting Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) communiqué issued on 11 April 2013 was an important one, as ICANN was expecting GAC Advice on new gTLDs, as defined in the Applicant Guidebook. The GAC communiqué serves as the official notification to applicants of GAC Advice and triggers a 21-day response period as per the Applicant Guidebook (Module 3.1). The guidebook states: "If the Board receives GAC Advice on new gTLDs stating that it is the consensus of the GAC that a particular application should not proceed, this will create a strong presumption for the ICANN Board that the application should not be approved. If the Board does not act in accordance with this type of advice, it must provide its rationale for not doing so." Read More 3. Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) - an update (Ed Pascoe) Here are some of the highlights of the meetings and discussions around the TMCH at ICANN Beijing. The pricing for the trademark holders and the ability to pay for the trademarks have been finalised. Everything else is still under development or in discussion. All the TMCH meetings were very well attended and fairly vocal. They have received lots of feedback and objections to some of the proposals so expect some of them to change. In particular IBM are still implementing email notifications of status changes. The SMD has yet to be implemented. The full strawman process is yet to be implemented. The text for rights holders’ notice of domain name registration has yet to be discussed. The TMCH will verify trademarks automatically where they have direct access to a trademark database. Otherwise the rights holder will have to submit trademark documentation. TLD is required to give 30 days’ advance notice of sunrise. It is expected that the first TLD to use the TMCH for sunrise will be .jobs. .jobs was delegated in 2005 but has recently changed its charter and has never had a sunrise period. TMCH are predicting a very short testing phase before it goes live. Some of the changes that have happened to the TMCH in the past few weeks include the following: - The claims notice period has changed from 60 days to 90 days. - The TMCH will provide brand holders with 30 days’ notice prior to the start of any sunrise period. This means that no TLD can start its sunrise without giving prior notice to the TMCH. If the TMCH does not have the resources/bandwidth to process the sunrise period, the TLD will have to delay sunrise until capacity is available. - Brandholders will be able to register up to 50 variants of their marks in the TMCH as long as those variants have been the subject of successful litigation or UDP arbitration in the past. Read More 4. ZACR and AfTLD MoU signing - a momentous occasion AFRICAN INTERNET COLLABORATION RECEIVES BOOST WITH "BEIJING AGREEMENT" A landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the ZA Central Registry (ZACR) and the African Top Level Domains Organisation (AfTLD) at ICANN's 46th Public Meeting in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Dubbed the "Beijing Agreement", the MoU is the foundation of the relationship between AfTLD - the representative of African country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) managers - and ZACR - the registry that is set to be awarded the right to operate the new dotAfrica (.africa) registry by ICANN. The agreement is a culmination of collaboration in existence since 2011 when AfTLD and its members endorsed the ZACR dotAfrica application. The agreement was signed by AfTLD President Dr Paulos Nyirenda, ZACR CEO Neil Dundas and the dotAfrica Steering Committee Chair Mohammed El Bashir. Thekey deliverable from the MOU is the allocation of a portion of dotAfrica’s surplus revenue for programmes aimed at enhancing African ccTLD capacity as administered by AfTLD. The AfTLD capacity building programme includes technical, policy and regulatory training, workshops and conferences. The investment in AfTLD’s ccTLD programme is not the only key deliverable for the ZACR dotAfrica project. Other key deliverables are African registrar development, African content development and ancillary socio-economic objectives. Read More Remember to follow us onTwitter & onFacebook. Check out our website for daily news: africainonespace.org Until next time ... follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend Copyright © 2013 dotAfrica, All rights reserved. General notices and communications from the dotAfrica SteerCom and Project Team Our mailing address is: dotAfrica COZA House Gazelle Close, Corporate ParkMidrand, Gauteng 1685 South Africa Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

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East Africa: More Content Lowers Broadband Costs
by Joly MacFie 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

[posted to ISOC ITU-announce list by Sally Wentworth] http://allafrica.com/stories/201304291976.html ================= Kampala, Uganda — Africa is making notable steps in adopting Information Technology (IT), but the continent is consuming far more content than it is creating. This means that as a consumer of over 99% of IT content, Africa continues to incur high costs when buying broadband. This also means missing out on the benefits that come from the IT sector. Brahima Sanou, the Director of Telecommunication Development Bureau at the Geneva- based International Telecommunications Union (ITU) was recently giving the keynote speech at the regional ICT conference in Kampala. He said that the continent needs to create more content so as to benefit from the IT infrastructure it was developing. "The challenge for Africa is to create content that would add value to the population. If Africa is to benefit from broadband penetration, it should promote innovation as well as create content," he said. He added that the services that are currently manually given to the citizens would be more effective and easily accessible if automated. "No woman should pass away when giving life, because information is all around us. No epidemic should get out of hand because information was not properly disseminated yet we have over 50% mobile coverage," Sanou said, before adding, "Today ICT is not about hardware, software or GBs. It's about the people... rural persons, senior citizens. Let's give a human face to ICT." Michuki Mwangi the Regional Development Manager - Africa at the Internet Society says that East Africa needs to adopt a collective approach towards reducing the cost of broadband access. He said that the governments should take the lead and automate all services which would make it easier and cheaper for citizens. Eventually this would reduce the overall cost of broadband. "The reason we have slowed down in growing internet usage and internet penetration is because of the relevance of the content available to us. Right now the only significant benefit from the internet is social," he said. Mwangi said Africa currently has an 'Internet Transit Deficit' because the amount of content produced is lower than the amount of content it gets from outside. This makes the cost of broadband access high, because of the mismatch unless more local content is created. He told the East African Business Week on the sidelines of the conference that the solution to that bridging that deficit lies with the governments automating all services to their citizens. "The biggest content provider in Africa who is untapped is the government. Currently a lot of transactions that people carry out are with government. Between 40-60% of the activities that most businesses engage in are with government. "If all government services were therefore online, there would be a significant push on. When governments for instance make it easier for businessmen to file their returns, the compliance levels would be high and more revenue would be created," Mwangi stated. He pointed out that with mobile payments already in place, governments would benefit if they created some synergy between the two platforms. "It will be very transparent, less corruption and more revenue will be collected. So there is a clear business principal there and for the end users there would be the convenience aspect." He however says that the region should ensure that barriers to operators are eliminated to ensure that the costs remain low. According to Mwangi, the bureaucratic processes involved end up hiking the cost of putting fibre on the ground. As a result, the fibre becomes expensive when it becomes active. "In a region where the labour costs are very low, why is the cost of putting fibre on the ground very high? The regulations and policies in place make it difficult for the operators to access right of way and it becomes even tougher to put it across borders. You find that by the time somebody has the rights of way they have spent more than 50% of the cost of putting the fibre on the ground." -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Re: [ISOC_KE] Kenya to host second Edition of the Africa IGF
by Barrack Otieno 27 Apr '13

27 Apr '13

FYI -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenya to host the 2nd African Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF) Dear Stakeholders, Following a bid submitted by the Government of the Republic of Kenya through the Ministry of Information and Communication in February 2013 and confirmed in March, the AfIGF secretariat is pleased to announce that the 2nd African Internet Governance Forum will be held in Kenya from 11-13 September 2013. The meeting will be hosted by the Government in cooperation with the Internet Society Kenya Chapter. Kenya has hosted with great success the 5th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which had the highest number of participants in the history of the IGF. The AfIGF secretariat takes this opportunity to thank the Government and people of Kenya for agreeing to host, after Egypt, such an important African event. You are all invited to take part in AfIGF3. The AfIGF Secretariat Le Kenya abritera le 2eme Forum africain sur la Gouvernance de l’Internet (AfIGF) Chers Acteurs, Suite à l’offre faite par le Gouvernement de la République du Kenya à travers le Ministère de l’Information et de la Communication en février 2013 et confirmée en mars, le secrétariat AfIGF a le plaisir d’annoncer la tenue du 2eme Forum africain sur la Gouvernance de l’Internet au Kenya du 11 au 13 septembre 2013. La réunion sera organisée par le Gouvernement en coopération avec le Chapitre Internet Society du Kenya. Le Kenya a abrité avec un succès retentissant le 5eme Forum sur la Gouvernance de l’Internet (IGF), qui avait battu le record du plus grand nombre de participants de toutes les réunions IGF qui ont été tenues à ce jour. Le secrétariat d’AfIGF saisit cette opportunité pour rendre hommage au Gouvernement et à la population du Kenya d’avoir accepté d’abriter, après l’Egypte, un événement africain d’une si grande importance. Vous êtes tous invités a participer à AfIGF3. Le secrétariat d’AfIGF __________ You are receiving this message because you're a member of the community Discussion List on African Internet Governance Forum. A reply to this message will be sent to all members of Discussion List on African Internet Governance Forum. To reply to sender, send a message to mfaye(a)uneca.org. To unsubscribe, send an email to leave.aisi-ig-l(a)dgroups.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by KeNIC MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Kenya Network Information Center (KENIC) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by KeNIC MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Kenya Network Information Center (KENIC) -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/

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Doctors give us a break.......................
by WANGARI KABIRU 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Happy Furahi Day! >From this community's discussions over the week, it seems the internet community is not the only one having "Own person Appointment blues!' Lovely day. Regards/Wangari --- Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth". Doctors please give us a break......... 1. So is Titus Naikuni a Pilot?.. 2. Is the CEO of NSSF a retiree.?.. 3. Is the CEO of Kenya... Meat Commission a Butcher..? 4. Is BATA CEO a cobbler?.. 5. So the CEO of TPS Serena is a cook? 6. So Gitahi, CEO of Nation Media is a Journalist?? 7. So the Dept of Roads ought to be headed by a Chinese?? 8. So the CEO of DT Dobie is a mechanic?? 9. Or the CEO of G4S is a watchman?? 10. Or the CEO of KWS is a wild animal or what?? 11. or should the KBL CEO be a drunkard/brewer? Good Doctors please stop this!! According to you · the dept of Livestock should be headed by a cow or a Pastoralist.. Dept of fisheries a fisherman & Ministry of Transport a conductor!! ---

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Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Fwd: ICANN News Alert -- ICANN to Open Istanbul Hub
by Barrack Otieno 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dandjinou Pierre <pdandjinou(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:14 AM Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Fwd: ICANN News Alert -- ICANN to Open Istanbul Hub To: "africann(a)afrinic.net" <africann(a)afrinic.net> News release.. ** [image: ICANN] <http://www.icann.org/> News Alert http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-25apr13-en.pdf [PDF, 104 KB] ------------------------------ ICANN to Open Istanbul Hub Infrastructure, Growing Technology Sector, Proximity to Europe, Middle-East and Africa Make Istanbul Ideal Location 25 April 2013 http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-25apr13-en.pdf [PDF, 104 KB] This message was sent to Pdandjinou(a)gmail.com from: ICANN | 12025 Waterfront Drive Suite 300 | Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536 Email Marketing by [image: iContact - Try It Free!]<http://www.icontact.com/a.pl/144186> Manage Your Subscription <http://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.pl?r=14146552&l=6333&s=CJA4&m=91…> _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list AfrICANN(a)afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/

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Internet Governance Forum appeals for workshop newcomers
by Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

http://news.dot-nxt.com/2013/04/23/internet-governance-forum-appe Friends, If anyone is interested, I am more than happy to help them in preparing their proposal. Looking forward to good stuff from Kenya! -- Grace L.N. Mutung'u (Bomu) Kenya Skype: gracebomu Twitter: @Bomu Website: http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu

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ICT Secretary is it a wise move? http://www.cid.suny.edu/about_us/staff_in_focus/about_staff_in_focus_fred.cfm
by Barrack Otieno 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Listers, Just googled the nominee for the ICT Secretaries post and i am a bit lost as to whether he is the right person for the job. Two things come into my mind: 1. With regional balancing Dr. Ndemo will definately not make it as principal Secretary even if he merits. For such a crucial ministry i thought we needed some continuity otherwise we might slow down or lose out on the gains we have achieved in the last couple of years, i wonder what listers think. As a public we also have an obligation to vet the nominees. 2. The nominee appears to be a governance expert as opposed to an Information and Communications Technology expert, will he inspire the ICT community to move to the next frontiers the way Kagwe, Poghisio and Ndemo did? This are some of the concerns i have whilst respecting the Presidents Choice, what do others think? Let us collect our views as an ICT community, i am willing to consolidate them and then we submit to the necessary Parliamentary Commitee. Best Regards -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/

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Fwd: [Chapter-delegates] Webcasts today: Finnish & Russian Internet Forums
by Barrack Otieno 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joly MacFie <joly(a)punkcast.com> Date: Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:04 AM Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Webcasts today: Finnish & Russian Internet Forums To: ISOC Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates(a)elists.isoc.org> Two events underway today Apr 25 2013 Finnish Internet Forum Agenda: http://www.internetforum.fi/finnish-internet-forum-2013 Webcast: http://bit.ly/isoctv Russian Internet Governance Forum Agenda: http://rigf.ru/en/prog/ Webcast: http://rigf.ru/en/press/?p=trans -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - _______________________________________________ As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically subscribed to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet Society Chapter Portal (AMS): https://portal.isoc.org -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/

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What awaits the new ICT Cabinet Secretary
by Grace Githaiga 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

When the President announced Dr Fred Matiang'i as the Cabinet Secretary nominee Information, Communication and Technology, the ICT fraternity got busy on Google.The question was, who is this guy? http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/What-awaits-the-new-ICT-Cabinet-Secret…

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Re: [ISOC_KE] [kictanet] Kenya to host second Edition of the Africa IGF
by meshack emakunat 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

This great news ------------------------------ On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 1:29 AM PDT Ali Hussein wrote: >Great Barrack. > >Good to see ISOC Kenya Chapter is active and doing great stuff! > >Digital team! :) > >Ali Hussein >CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd >Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd > >+254 713 601113 > >"The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb > >Sent from my iPad > >On Apr 24, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> FYI >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Kenya to host the 2nd African Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF) >> >> Dear Stakeholders, >> >> Following a bid submitted by the Government of the Republic of Kenya >> through the Ministry of Information and Communication in February 2013 and >> confirmed in March, the AfIGF secretariat is pleased to announce that the >> 2nd African Internet Governance Forum will be held in Kenya from 11-13 >> September 2013. The meeting will be hosted by the Government in >> cooperation with the Internet Society Kenya Chapter. >> >> Kenya has hosted with great success the 5th Internet Governance Forum >> (IGF), which had the highest number of participants in the history of the >> IGF. >> >> The AfIGF secretariat takes this opportunity to thank the Government and >> people of Kenya for agreeing to host, after Egypt, such an important >> African event. >> >> You are all invited to take part in AfIGF3. >> >> The AfIGF Secretariat >> >> Le Kenya abritera le 2eme Forum africain sur la Gouvernance de >> l’Internet (AfIGF) >> >> Chers Acteurs, >> >> Suite à l’offre faite par le Gouvernement de la République du Kenya à >> travers le Ministère de l’Information et de la Communication en >> février 2013 et confirmée en mars, le secrétariat AfIGF a le plaisir >> d’annoncer la tenue du 2eme Forum africain sur la Gouvernance de >> l’Internet au Kenya du 11 au 13 septembre 2013. La réunion sera >> organisée par le Gouvernement en coopération avec le Chapitre Internet >> Society du Kenya. >> >> Le Kenya a abrité avec un succès retentissant le 5eme Forum sur la >> Gouvernance de l’Internet (IGF), qui avait battu le record du plus grand >> nombre de participants de toutes les réunions IGF qui ont été tenues à >> ce jour. >> >> Le secrétariat d’AfIGF saisit cette opportunité pour rendre hommage au >> Gouvernement et à la population du Kenya d’avoir accepté d’abriter, >> après l’Egypte, un événement africain d’une si grande importance. >> >> Vous êtes tous invités a participer à AfIGF3. >> >> Le secrétariat d’AfIGF >> >> __________ >> You are receiving this message because you're a member of the community >> Discussion List on African Internet Governance Forum. >> >> A reply to this message will be sent to all members of Discussion List on >> African Internet Governance Forum. >> To reply to sender, send a message to mfaye(a)uneca.org. >> To unsubscribe, send an email to leave.aisi-ig-l(a)dgroups.org >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by KeNIC MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> >> Kenya Network Information Center (KENIC) >> >> >> >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by KeNIC MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> >> Kenya Network Information Center (KENIC) >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Barrack O. Otieno >> +254721325277 >> +254-20-2498789 >> Skype: barrack.otieno >> http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/ >> _______________________________________________ >> isoc mailing list >> isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke >> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc

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