August 2014 - isoc - Skunkworks Site

Safaricom set to tighten grip on Market. Good for the industry? Consumer? Or should we worry about increasing market power?
by Ali Hussein Kassim 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

With Safaricom's and Airtel's deal to acquire YuMobile set to go through what's your take on this new development? http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/-/539550/2410866/-/item/0… Ali Hussein +254 770 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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ISOC Kenya chapter membership committee material: Membership Campaign - Report from Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter // Campagne d'adhésion - Rapport du Chapitre de Bangladesh à Dacca
by Mwendwa Kivuva 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

Greetings, This is great material that can be used By ISOC Kenya chapter membership committee. MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Mandate ---------------------- A. Define types of membership, active and inactive, individual, corporate etc and methods of such engagement and partnership B. Develop and negotiate agreements and MoU's and other type of partnerships and modalities of engagement. C.Ensure that such agreements and MoU's are honoured by the society and the other parties concerned as per agreements. D. Provide to the executive timely reports E. Liaise with other committees on issues that s cut. Members -------- 1. Mary Ngigi 2. Daniel Kihia 3. Judy Muli 4. John K. Njoroge 5. Daniel Omondi 6. Kiarie Francis 7. Eric Momanyi 8. Crosby Mhone 9. Nixon Sikini 10. Davis Onsakia ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anne Lord <lord(a)isoc.org> Date: 2014-08-13 12:38 GMT+03:00 Subject: [Africanchapters] Membership Campaign - Report from Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter // Campagne d'adhésion - Rapport du Chapitre de Bangladesh à Dacca To: Elist africanchapters <africanchapters(a)elists.isoc.org> ============================== VERSION FRANCAISE CI-DESSOUS ============================== Dear All, I am sharing the Membership campaign report (below) from the ISOC Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter may be of interest to you. My apologies that the report is only available in English. The report describes the ISOC Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter membership recruitment campaign, which ran for 45 days earlier this year. The goal was to diversify their membershipand find new young members to help run the Chapter. Therefore they targeted students, professionals and journalists. As a result they experienced a net gain of over 200 members. If you would like to know more, please read the report below. If you have any questions for the Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter, let me know and I will put you in touch. Best wishes Anne == Bonjour à tous, Je partage ci-dessous le rapport de campagne d'adhésion d'internet society - chapitre de Bangladesh à Dacca, qui peut vous intéresser. Je vous demande pardon pour le rapport qui n'est disponible qu'en Anglais. Le rapport décrit la campagne de recrutement de membre du chapitre d'ISOC Bangladesh à Dacca, qui s'était déroulé sur 45 jours en début de cette année. L'objectif a été de diversifier leur adhésion et de trouver de nouveaux membres plus jeunes pour contribuer à la gestion du chapitre. Ainsi, ils ont ciblés des étudiants, des professionnels et des journalistes. Par conséquent, ils ont réalisé un gain net de plus de 200 membres. Si vous désirez en savoir plus, merci de lire le rapport ci-dessous. Si vous avez des questions au chapitre ISOC de Bangladesh à Dacca, dites le moi, et je vous mettrai en contact. Meilleures salutations, Anne _______________________________________________ As an Internet Society Chapter Officer of the African region you are automatically subscribed to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet Society Chapter Portal (AMS): https://portal.isoc.org ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya twitter.com/lordmwesh "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson

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Safaricom set to tighten grip on Market. Good for the industry? Consumer? Or should we worry about increasing market power?
by Ali Hussein 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

With Safaricom's and Airtel's deal to acquire YuMobile set to go through what's your take on this new development? http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/-/539550/2410866/-/item/0… Ali Hussein +254 770 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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Digital Matatus
by Joly MacFie 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Hi, I suspect you guys are all over this already, but it was new to me. I was shooting a "smart cities" event in downtown NYC this week and one of the speakers, from MIT's Civic Data Design Lab, talked about a Kenyan transportation mapping project. It's http://www.digitalmatatus.com/ j -- --------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Fwd: [African-ig-school] Fwd: Call for Applications: The Open Technology Fund Information Controls Fellowship Program
by Mwendwa Kivuva 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alexandra Groome <alexandra(a)apc.org> Date: 4 August 2014 15:27 Subject: [African-ig-school] Fwd: Call for Applications: The Open Technology Fund Information Controls Fellowship Program To: "african-ig-school(a)lists.apc.org" <african-ig-school(a)lists.apc.org> Hi all, Sharing the call for proposals below with you. Alexandra On 01/08/2014 18:14, Alexandra Groome wrote: Hi, A call for fellowships. Is this of interest to anyone? This program cultivates research, outputs, and creative collaboration at different levels and across institutions on the topic of information controls, specifically repressive Internet censorship and surveillance. To do so, ICFP supports qualified individuals to work within host organizations that are existing centers of expertise by offering competitively paid fellowships. The OTF Fellowship Program in Information Controls is modeled on other successful fellowship programs, and is jointly administered by Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. The program offers two tiers of fellowships: - Senior Fellows: Offered as a one year term and typically taken up by postdoctoral, doctoral students, and/or researchers / practitioners with demonstrated expertise and experience. - Seasonal Fellows: Offered as a three or six month term and typically taken up by students and/or junior practitioners. Applications are open to people from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines and can include students, and junior to mid-career practitioners. While individuals with diverse and unlikely backgrounds are encouraged to apply, likely candidates have experience as computer scientists, engineers, information security researchers, software developers, social scientists, lawyers and law students, engineers, data visualization designers, and others. To apply to be a fellow, please fill out this online form <https://www.opentechfund.org/fellowship>. Interested host organizations can email info(a)opentechfund.org. https://citizenlab.org/2014/07/information-controls-fellowship-program/ Alex -- Alexandra Groome Association for Progressive Communications _______________________________________________ Resource.mob mailing list Info and options: http://lists.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/resource.mob To unsubscribe, email resource.mob-unsubscribe(a)lists.apc.org -- Emilar E. Gandhi CIPP Africa Projects Coordinator Communications and Information Policy Programme (CIPP) Association for Progressive Communicationswww.apc.org skype: emilarvushe _______________________________________________ African-ig-school mailing list Info and options: http://lists.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/african-ig-school To unsubscribe, email african-ig-school-unsubscribe(a)lists.apc.org ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya twitter.com/lordmwesh "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson

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