March 2014 - isoc - Skunkworks Site

UNESCO Project Reports
by Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Members, As you are aware, Charles Oloo undertook a UNESCO project on behalf of the Kenyan Chapter. Please find attached reports of the same for your perusal. The UNESCO project is among the agenda items for Saturday's AGM. Regards, -- Grace L.N. Mutung'u Nairobi Kenya Skype: gracebomu Twitter: @Bomu <http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu>

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AGM on Saturday
by Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Dear members, Please let us know by a reply to this email, how many of you are available to attend the AGM on Saturday 29th March 2014. You can also reply to tell us that you are interested in ISOC Ke matters but are not available on that Saturday. Ahsante. -- Grace L.N. Mutung'u Nairobi Kenya Skype: gracebomu Twitter: @Bomu <http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu>

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AGM
by martin wasike 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Hi. I would wish to confirm attending the AGM on the set date. Thank you Martin wasike.

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Declaration of Election
by Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Members, Further to our statement on elections yesterday, and having received no objection or query from the community, we wish to declare Charles Oloo as the elected ISOC Kenya Chapter Chairperson. We take this opportunity to thank all the contestants particularly Barrack Otieno, who was very patient, open and diplomatic in his communication with the Committee. Together with the outgoing interim committee, they provided all documentation required to carry out the elections. We thank all those who participated in the elections for being co-operative and patient with the Elections Committee. The community gave us support even when we faced challenges and the openness with which they raised issues or gave suggestions for resolutions is commendable. It has truly been a learning experience. We shall shortly be giving formal notice of the AGM to be held on Saturday where the newly elected team will take over leadership of the Society. Once again thank you and congratulations to the new team. For the Elections Committee, -- Grace L.N. Mutung'u Nairobi Kenya Skype: gracebomu Twitter: @Bomu <http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu>

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Net Neutrality is like puppies - you can only say you love them
by Ali Hussein 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Listers Mr. Luigi Gambardella, the Executive Chairman of ETNO, Europe's TESPOK, shared his disdain for Net Neutrality with this diatribe below. What has net neutrality to do with puppies? More than you would imagine. Recently, while exchanging views with an acute and well-informed observer of European politics, I was told: "I share most of the telecom industry's concerns on how the debate is evolving, but net neutrality is like puppies. You can only say that you love them." Read on:- http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230372540457946128195805… This is the organization that was basically behind the Africa Position at WCIT12 which was the position that was taken by the team at the then CCK. Ali Hussein +254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim Blog: www.alyhussein.com "I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". ~ Albert Einstein Sent from my iPad

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Re: [ISOC_KE] isoc Digest, Vol 33, Issue 95
by Charles Oloo 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Dear Grace I will be available for the AGM meeting. Once again I wish to thank all members of the Election Team and for your able leadership patience and resilience. As Victor (election team member) stated earlier, we should view the election process as only changes in "roles" and not winners and losers. Whatever the position one holds, as members of ISOC family our objective should remain the same that is to spread the same gospel of the Internet. There may have been divergent views on issues on different occasions, as people could have had different opinions. But that is normal in a progressive society and the best thing is to have a conducive environment where one can have the freedom and platform to openly engage and express oneself. That is the culture we need to cultivate because the chapter does not belong to the elected officers, but to all the membership. Without the membership there could be not chapter. As a baby grows, there are challenges of crawling. standing and falling as it grows before it stands up and begins to walk.. Those are life dynamics, and building on those challenges and experiences, I think the Chapter like a young baby, can begin to move forward, by pooling together our skills, experiences and abilities. Let us all join hands together and spread the Internet gospel to achieve the mission and goals inclusively. Together we shall stand. Regards Charles On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:58 PM, <isoc-request(a)lists.my.co.ke> wrote: > Send isoc mailing list submissions to > isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > isoc-request(a)lists.my.co.ke > > You can reach the person managing the list at > isoc-owner(a)lists.my.co.ke > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of isoc digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. AGM on Saturday (Grace Mutung'u (Bomu)) > 2. Re: AGM on Saturday (Kelvin Githira) > 3. Re: Declaration of Election (Kelvin Githira) > 4. Re: AGM on Saturday (Daniel Otieno Omondi) > 5. Re: AGM on Saturday (Kibali Moreithi) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:56:28 +0300 > From: "Grace Mutung'u (Bomu)" <nmutungu(a)gmail.com> > To: "isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke" <isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke> > Subject: [ISOC_KE] AGM on Saturday > Message-ID: > <CAMwG4pwPdhfrHoro0Ft59=01oH0n= > HtUskKm3jFeAVi-Mnqq7w(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear members, > Please let us know by a reply to this email, how many of you are available > to attend the AGM on Saturday 29th March 2014. You can also reply to tell > us that you are interested in ISOC Ke matters but are not available on that > Saturday. > > Ahsante. > -- > Grace L.N. Mutung'u > Nairobi Kenya > Skype: gracebomu > Twitter: @Bomu > > <http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu> >

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Re: [ISOC_KE] AGM on Saturday
by Ephraim Percy Kenyanito 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Apologies. I will be traveling at the time and will also not make it for the April monthly meeting. I however hope to make it for the May monthly meeting. Regards, Ephraim Percy Kenyanito. *Twitter:* https://twitter.com/ekenyanito On 27 March 2014 23:50, <isoc-request(a)lists.my.co.ke> wrote: > Send isoc mailing list submissions to > isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > isoc-request(a)lists.my.co.ke > > You can reach the person managing the list at > isoc-owner(a)lists.my.co.ke > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of isoc digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: AGM on Saturday (Barrack Otieno) > 2. UNESCO Project Reports (Grace Mutung'u (Bomu)) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:04:43 +0300 > From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack(a)gmail.com> > To: Kibali Moreithi <kibalimoreithi(a)gmail.com> > Cc: "isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke" <isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke> > Subject: Re: [ISOC_KE] AGM on Saturday > Message-ID: > < > CAKX6dsE-phXv-hc07XZrbASCca9G1+MQT2dZcViQYgLC9HnMAg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I will attend. > > Best Regards > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Kibali Moreithi > <kibalimoreithi(a)gmail.com>wrote: > > > I feel sad that I will not be bale to attend, and I have missed so many > > meetings so far which is really terrible > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Daniel Otieno Omondi < > dottocomp(a)yahoo.com > > > wrote: > > > >> Dear Grace/Committee, > >> I will attend. > >> > >> Daniel O.Omondi > >> +254722756211 > >> > >> > >> On Thursday, March 27, 2014 3:29 PM, Kelvin Githira < > >> kelvin(a)skysys.co.ke> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Mine would be a suggestion, lets promote online meetings. Diffrent > >> lifestyles and schedules have contributed to low turn outs to meetings. > >> This model would only need a moderator and i am sure we will have > volumes > >> in attendance. > >> > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >> On Mar 27, 2014, at 6:56 AM, "Grace Mutung'u (Bomu)" < > nmutungu(a)gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Dear members, > >> Please let us know by a reply to this email, how many of you are > >> available to attend the AGM on Saturday 29th March 2014. You can also > reply > >> to tell us that you are interested in ISOC Ke matters but are not > available > >> on that Saturday. > >> > >> Ahsante. > >> -- > >> Grace L.N. Mutung'u > >> Nairobi Kenya > >> Skype: gracebomu > >> Twitter: @Bomu > >> > >> <http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> isoc mailing list > >> isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke > >> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> isoc mailing list > >> isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke > >> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> isoc mailing list > >> isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke > >> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > isoc mailing list > > isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke > > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc > > > > > > > -- > Barrack O. Otieno > +254721325277 > +254-20-2498789 > Skype: barrack.otieno > http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/ >

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Fwd: Who should Pay for Netflix? - For and Against Neutrality
by Ali Hussein 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Listers Apologies for cross posting. I find the blog by Reed Hastings pretty interesting especially after his recent deal with Comcast. Ali Hussein +254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim Blog: www.alyhussein.com "I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". ~ Albert Einstein Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > From: "Luigi Gambardella" <luigi.gambardella(a)gmail.com> > Date: March 22, 2014 at 7:53:10 PM GMT+3 > To: "ali(a)3mice.com" <ali(a)3mice.com> > Subject: Who should Pay for Netflix? > Reply-To: luigi.gambardella(a)gmail.com > > Se non legge correttamente questo messaggio, cliccare qui > > Who should Pay for Netflix? > > Dear friends, > > I’d like to share with you a great blog post by Jim Cicconi, in response to Reed Hasting’s recent blog. > > I share the view that there is a fundamental misunderstanding in the net neutrality debate. While sharing the principle of Open Internet, we cannot accept an interpretation of this principle as “free Internet, free lunch”. > > I believe that also in Europe we should avoid implementing any measure going against innovation, better services and that at the end would restrict the freedom of the users. > > Luigi Gambardella > > > > Who should Pay for Netflix? > > > Posted by: Jim Cicconi on March 21, 2014 at 4:08 pm > > > I saw Reed Hasting’s blog <http://blog.netflix.com/2014/03/internet-tolls-and-case-for-strong-net.html> yesterday from Netflix asserting in rather dramatic fashion (with diagrams) that ISPs should build facilities (he said provide, but those facilities have to be built) to accept all of Netflix’s content – indeed all of the content on the Internet – without charge. Failure to do so, according to Mr. Hastings, was a violation of “strong net neutrality rules” and bad public policy. I thought it might be helpful to unpack those assertions so we could get right down to the core of Netflix’s rather radical proposition — that people who don’t subscribe to Netflix should nonetheless pay for Netflix. Here are some undisputed facts upon which everyone should agree. > > First, let’s all accept the fact that the advent of streaming video is driving bandwidth consumption by consumers to record levels. Increased bandwidth consumption and faster broadband networks like our Gigapower service in Austin, Texas (and soon Dallas) are requiring all service providers to drive more fiber into their networks to create the capacity necessary to deliver those services to consumers, whether the service providers are delivering a wireless or a wireline product. This phenomenon was at the heart of our Project VIP investment announcement in November 2012 and it is true of companies like Cogent, Level 3 and CDNs like Netflix as well. > > Second, we should accept that companies must build additional capacity to handle this traffic. If Netflix was delivering, for example, 10 Terabytes of data in 2012 and increased demand causes them to deliver 20 Terabytes of data in 2013, they will have to build, or hire someone to build, the capacity necessary to handle that increased volume of traffic. That increase in traffic from Netflix is, by the way, not only the result of a likely increase in online viewing by existing subscribers, but also due to an increase in Netflix’s customer base (it announced a 33% increase in subscribers from 2012 to 2013 – good for Netflix). > > Third, if Netflix is delivering that increased volume of traffic to, say, AT&T, we should accept the fact that AT&T must be ready to build additional ports and transport capacity to accept the new volume of capacity as a consequence of Netflix’s good business fortune. And I think we can all accept the fact that business service costs are ultimately borne by consumers. > > Mr. Hastings blog post then really comes down to which consumers should pay for the additional bandwidth being delivered to Netflix’s customers. In the current structure, the increased cost of building that capacity is ultimately borne by Netflix subscribers. It is a cost of doing business that gets incorporated into Netflix’s subscription rate. In Netflix’s view, that’s unfair. In its view, those additional costs, caused by Netflix’s increasing subscriber counts and service usage, should be borne by all broadband subscribers – not just those who sign up for and use Netflix service. > > When Netflix delivered its movies by mail, the cost of delivery was included in the price their customer paid. It would’ve been neither right nor legal for Netflix to demand a customer’s neighbors pay the cost of delivering his movie. Yet that’s effectively what Mr. Hastings is demanding here, and in rather self-righteous fashion. Netflix may now be using an Internet connection instead of the Postal Service, but the same principle applies. If there’s a cost of delivering Mr. Hastings’s movies at the quality level he desires – and there is – then it should be borne by Netflix and recovered in the price of its service. That’s how every other form of commerce works in our country. It’s simply not fair for Mr. Hastings to demand that ISPs provide him with zero delivery costs – at the high quality he demands – for free. Nor is it fair that other Internet users, who couldn’t care less about Netflix, be forced to subsidize the high costs and stresses its service places on all broadband networks. > > As we all know, there is no free lunch, and there’s also no cost-free delivery of streaming movies. Someone has to pay that cost. Mr. Hastings’ arrogant proposition is that everyone else should pay but Netflix. That may be a nice deal if he can get it. But it’s not how the Internet, or telecommunication for that matter, has ever worked. > > http://www.attpublicpolicy.com/ > > > Per cancellarsi cliccare qui | Unsubscribe > > > Email inviata con MailUp > Con MailUp la cancellazione e' sicura

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ELECTIONS
by Charles Oloo 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Dear All I received communication of the election results from the chair a while ago. I wish applaud the Committee for the job, and wish to thank all members who voted for me and also those who voted for Barrack. That is democracy and we need to cultivate it. With the release, at least now our nervousness is over and I wish to apologize to the election team for having to bear with our anxiety over the last two days. This is the first election for ISOC Kenya and the challenges have provided an experience that we will have to improve on in the future. To Barrack, I still respect you as a pioneer of the Chapter and hope that we shall still work together to drive the Chapter's objects forward. I also wish to thank and congratulate the other elected officers and look forward to working together. Commitment to earlier promises stands and the office will be open to all membership. Thank you all. Charles Innovative Web Applications Developer Tel: +254-721-909757, 738-275001 Alt. E-mail: coloo(a)kefri.org

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Signing ceremony for DotAfrica Domain
by Ephraim Percy Kenyanito 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Everyone, Apologies for cross posting. FYI the signing ceremnony for the dotAfrica has just taken place an hour ago. You can have a look at some of the pictures here https://twitter.com/ekenyanito/status/448775676674703360 - -- Regards, Ephraim Percy Kenyanito. Author| Researcher| Humanitarian| Cellular: (+254)-786-19-19-30/ (+254)-751-804-120 Skype: ekenyanito Website:http://about.me/ekenyanito Twitter: https://twitter.com/ekenyanito -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTMtIKAAoJEAz+0m3muo3ByX4P/Aw75SwGKuhVj8JwKEtRD8Z1 yr3EB+MIz3B2/3LrmMWPGjRNDICRA8MGXSYS7JQrEmTdwZgpXEcIKKaWq/UVxELi lDC5LqbK18ZOXl+MFLvuVV++TZ5ihpW0+FqR1fZHQqgLFFkW78DJM4aCEcwBc7RA u+SGNSPI0WD3Jfrcj4iduTW2tnViR89R0S7+jE4JHANrO12TyQbghaYDanVjihTv LtiEYMgamIBDkDE+NDIjCWuX7uT5MzioGSsXoZzgO2+P4Q5FNGVcUuhEm++nQJUM RNsceeASJL9HkYmCg4ral8ek7xXthpUlewTzikKwn7ee2WqPUrah/2mrNkp/tOJX NTJtquvVejVhFoZGdHfV61+ps3S4prs5IU5B3n4nW0L4SEinPDbnxMgMnP4VJvGQ uLXSLVwi5am2HQw0y25T9e8i3XIN59zkJQT1AbxgcvQq9EsvUd5BI69TSlg897/C G9HwYDetTwv91PhV6BvrB/X6OxC3m9KUJ/JCCnY9HHwsjNQSnEmx0hg/Ngcx52Rf igj63d2tpkTFZ21w8oqRFIkRftcmhZGHfVDa+/szl8lJUExVfnxw3mwlMovhnKBU +UEWNwvvsU5nwCGg36s8tSEsiJcJgQ/oMqQZowXPTe1Q3WqLWVmTSWpCKdNd6W8h ev7Unp/AgTmb+O0b5u8p =nAFR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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