September 2013 - isoc - Skunkworks Site

Cyber-Terror and Al-Shabab in the Kenya Massacre: When Social Media is used to Perpetrate the Slaughter of the Innocent
by Davis Onsakia 27 Sep '13

27 Sep '13

We have shared our opinions many times on cyber-espionage or cyber-surveillance in Africa. Most of our opinions have largely been against the muzzling of the expression of free speech on the Internet by law abiding citizens who may be critical of their governments. In the wake of the callous, barbaric and cowardly assault on the innocent at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, and the use of social media by the terrorists to glorify the atrocities – we are compelled to comment..... Full article on the link - http://ictafrica.info/FullNews.php?id=10939 Can't agree more with this writer. However, the authorities will have to do a balancing act between muzzling the voice of others as they deal with such elements. Theirs was a disheartening and heartless act! 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

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Fellowship Application Round Opens for ICANN 49 in singapore
by Kivuva 26 Sep '13

26 Sep '13

The 49th ICANN meeting in Singapore, Singapore to be held 23-27 March 2014 - Application Round for Singapore opens: 20 September 2013 at 23:59 UTC - Application Round for Singapore closes: 1 November 2013 at 23:59 UTC - Selected Fellows for Singapore announced: 13 December 2013 More info at http://www.icann.org/en/about/participate/fellowships/terms-conditions ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva twitter.com/lordmwesh google ID | Skype ID: lordmwesh

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Fwd: [Chapter-delegates] Sudan loses Internet
by Barrack Otieno 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joly MacFie <joly(a)punkcast.com> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:07:15 -0400 Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Sudan loses Internet To: ISOC Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates(a)elists.isoc.org> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/25/sudan-loses-in… Internet intelligence corporation Renesys confirmed reports Wednesday that Sudan has been cut off from the Internet. Al Arabiya reported earlier Wednesday morning that Internet access was cut and schools were closed through Sept. 30, as capital city Khartoum erupted in riots over the lifting of government fuel subsidies. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------- - -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/

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Africa IGF
by Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

How is this going? Any updates for those not at site? -- Grace L.N. Mutung'u (Bomu) Kenya Skype: gracebomu Twitter: @Bomu Website: http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu

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Re: [ISOC_KE] SIP network cameras
by Fly 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

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Is KeNIC turning the corner?
by Ali Hussein 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

Listers Apologies for cross posting. As a former director at KeNIC I have been on record as one of its most ardent supporter and critic and I thought it is incumbent upon me to spare some time and talk about what I witnessed yesterday during its AGM. From the numbers presented it was evident that something positive is cooking in the .ke name space. 1. Ke registrations rose from 13k in 2011 to 26k in 2012. 2. Turnover jumped from kshs. 29 million to 34 million. 3. Profit from +1 million to 15 million. An interesting new item in the balance sheet appeared called Financial Assets. And this had about 33 million at the end of the year, 2012 with about 3.7 million in interest earned. This is as a result of prudent use of resources which may otherwise have languished in a checking account not earning any interest. Looking at the books it was obvious to me now that any surplus Cashflow goes into this pot as the Board and Management resolve how best to utilize these funds going forward. This is as it should be and it is Treasury Management 101. Good to see this prudence continue at KeNIC. The obvious question stakeholders now need to ask is how best to utilize these funds for the betterment of the .ke name space in particular and ICT evangelism in the country in general. Congratulations to the Management & Board of KeNIC for a job well done in 2012. The other issue I want to raise is the Elephant in the Room. Whereto KeNIC? What is the future of KeNIC and the .ke name space? There was a very healthy debate on this and the Board and Management assured all stakeholders that there would be transparency and total engagement with various stakeholders on this matter. For the listers who may not be privy to this issue we are referring to the ICT law that basically changes the status of KeNIC to being a licensed operator under the CCK. Without belaboring this point too much it raised issues of governance, the independence of KeNIC going forward, what ccTLD model best fits our situation and even whether KeNIC will exist in the near future. Suffice it to say that this is not an easy answer but I'm hopeful that as this debate goes on CCK and KeNIC will ensure full disclosure and engagement. This they have promised and we should take them at their word and continue to be vigilant. The other matter that was touched on by Barrack was the issue of inclusion and embracing Multi-stakeholderism without fear or favour. This KeNIC has done, though not so well. Room for improvement for sure and again the Board and Management assured us they will strive to improve. To this end I believe it is time to incorporate the Internet Society, Kenya Chapter into the Board of KeNIC. Kudos to the team at KeNIC for rising to the challenge. We assure them of continued engagement and vigilance to protect and improve the .ke name space. Regards Ali Hussein +254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113 "Kujikwaa si kuanguka, bali ni kwenda mbele" (To stumble is not to fall but a sign of going forward) - Swahili Proverb Sent from my iPad

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Opportunity Labs Fellowship Program - please circulate
by WANGARI KABIRU 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

opplabs.org/Fellowships.pdf Happy Furahi Day! This may be of interest to you and to many others. Have a pleasant day. Regards/Wangari --- Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ravi Agarwal <RaviA(a)engagespark.com> Date: Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:03 PM Subject: Opportunity Labs Fellowship Program - please circulate Hi We’re launching our Opportunity Labs Fellowship Program in Cebu, Philippines. Do you know anyone that might be interested? Opportunity Labs is looking for talented people who are passionate and ready to step up to make change in our world – to help us tackle global poverty at scale by building new social businesses around the world. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to and learn about building social businesses while working with a distinguished and diverse team. We’re looking for Fellows in the following areas of expertise: · Business Fellow: help us develop partnerships with telecommunications companies around the world to carry our traffic and to distribute our services, especially in developing markets where finding reliable telephony routes can be a challenge. · Marketing Fellow: help us build on our global online and offline marketing strategy while building a local team to leverage the best and latest marketing tactics. You must have experience with offline and online marketing, ideally for an online product. · Software & Technology Fellow: help us with our innovative cloud platform by teaching and training young Filipino software developers on the latest cloud technologies: Python, Django, Java, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, Nginx, Apache Tomcat, Freeswitch, and ActiveMQ. You must have programming proficiency in object oriented design in C, C++, C#, Go, Java or Python, and experience in working with cloud stacks. Please see the attached pdf or view it here: http://opplabs.org/Fellowships.pdf . The Fellowships will be based in Cebu, Philippines. Thank you, -Ravi Mobile: +63-998-189-5363 (Philippines) http://linkedin.com/in/raviagarwal www.engageSPARK.com – SMS & Voice. Quick, Simple, Global. Check out our Recent Blog Posts: * The problems we’re solving at engageSPARK * Incorporating a Social Enterprise – a simple legal guide , Part II * Intro to technologies behind M4D (Mobile for Development)

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Fwd: [ccAfrica] CC Kenya Announcement
by Alex Gakuru 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

[Sent from my tiny screen wireless device. Excuse mobile brevity and or unintended typos] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Alex Gakuru" <gakuru(a)creativecommons.org> Date: Sep 20, 2013 9:57 AM Subject: Fwd: [ccAfrica] CC Kenya Announcement To: "Alex Gakuru" <gakuru(a)gmail.com> [Sent from my tiny screen wireless device. Excuse mobile brevity and or unintended typos] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Alex Gakuru" <gakuru(a)gmail.com> Date: Sep 20, 2013 9:42 AM Subject: [ccAfrica] CC Kenya Announcement To: "CC Africa mailing list" <ccafrica(a)lists.ibiblio.org>, " ccafrica-oer(a)lists.ibiblio.org" <ccafrica-oer(a)lists.ibiblio.org> Read more at: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/38534 Pleasant reading. Alex _______________________________________________ ccAfrica mailing list ccAfrica(a)lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ccafrica

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Fwd: [ccAfrica] CC Kenya Announcement
by Alex Gakuru 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

[Sent from my tiny screen wireless device. Excuse mobile brevity and or unintended typos] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Alex Gakuru" <gakuru(a)gmail.com> Date: Sep 20, 2013 9:42 AM Subject: [ccAfrica] CC Kenya Announcement To: "CC Africa mailing list" <ccafrica(a)lists.ibiblio.org>, " ccafrica-oer(a)lists.ibiblio.org" <ccafrica-oer(a)lists.ibiblio.org> Read more at: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/38534 Pleasant reading. Alex _______________________________________________ ccAfrica mailing list ccAfrica(a)lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ccafrica

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Fwd: [ISOC] More Information Regarding the ISOC Anti-spam Project
by Barrack Otieno 20 Sep '13

20 Sep '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kelly Harris <harris(a)isoc.org> Date: Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:44 PM Subject: [ISOC] More Information Regarding the ISOC Anti-spam Project To: "isoc-members-announce(a)elists.isoc.org" < isoc-members-announce(a)elists.isoc.org> Dear all, Please find below some additional information on the spam project. First a few words of background. The spam project was not in our budget for 2013, but as spam emerged as a contentious issue at WCIT we thought it would be good to show that there are solutions in place to deal with spam. As the issue emerged after we had finalised the 2013 budget it was clear at the outset that any activity would have to be funded through extra budgetary resources. We developed a concept for workshops to be held in developing regions and went out to potential donors to fund the project. There were many positive reactions and the governments and companies we approached agreed that it would be timely to go ahead with these workshops - one in Africa in cooperation with the ATU and the other one in Latin America in cooperation with CITEL - and bring the results to the IGF. One main session there will be devoted to issues such as spam. Despite the many positive reactions, funding proved more difficult than anticipated, as governments and most companies were in a similar budgetary situation and did not have that much spare cash to give away. When discussing the funding difficulties internally, there was great support and good will from the revenue team who agreed to help us to make this project happen. In these discussions, someone came up with the idea to try crowd funding to get the funds needed to bridge the gap. We agreed to try this out without discussing the modalities. With hindsight, this turned out to be a mistake. We should have communicated in advance what we are trying to achieve with the project -- that is to explain that solutions exist and to make sure that spam is no longer seen to be a major problem - and why to try out crowd funding. We tried to experiment with new ways of fund-raising and recognise that what was supposed to be a pilot project did not work out well. Please accept our apologies. We learned a lesson and will do things differently, should we try again to use crowd funding in the future. Good news is that the first spam workshop took place last week in Nairobi. Please find below a short report of the Naurobi workshop and a preview of the workshop that is to take place next month in Mendoza, Argentina. African Telecommunications Union (ATU) Spam Seminar for Policy Makers Nairobi, Kenya September 9, 2013 On September 9th the Internet Society organized a workshop on spam directed at informing policy makers throughout Africa on the process and partnerships needed to better address the unwanted email that is clogging their networks. Spam experts from around globe and from within Africa presented examples of how: some governments have draft legislation to define spam and establish enforcement criteria to address their issue with spam; industry associations such as MAAWG, LAP and ECO work in partnership with governments, ISPs, network operators and bulk mail distributors to develop best practices and codes of conduct to mitigate spam; and technical experts provided details on the tools and operational choices that can be used to limit the impact of spam on a network and end users. There were over 97 policy makers and network operators in attendance at this workshop. Details on the ATU event, including the presentations from the experts can be found at http://www.internetsociety.org/african-telecommunications-union-atu-combati… . Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) Spam Seminar for Policy Makers Mendoza, Argentina October 7, 2013 On October 7th the Internet Society will be facilitating a workshop on spam directed at informing policy makers throughout Latin America on the process and partnerships needed to better address the unwanted email that is clogging their networks. The workshop will have Spam experts from around globe and from within South America present examples and details on how to address the growing issue of spam and what the industry and technical communities are doing in partnership with governments to mitigate spam. If you are interested in attending the event, details can be found at https://www.citel.oas.org/en/Pages/Next-Meetings.aspx You're participation, comments and constructive suggestions are welcomed. Best regards, Ted Mooney Senior Director, Membership & Services The Internet Society 1775 Wiehle Avenue Reston, VA 20190 USA Office: +1 703-439-2774 Cell: +1 301-980-6446 eMail: mooney(a)isoc.org _______________________________________________ To manage your ISOC subscriptions or unsubscribe, please log into the ISOC Member Portal: https://portal.isoc.org/ Then choose Interests & Subscriptions from the My Account menu. -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/

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