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Draft National ICT Policy Discussions Day 8 of 10: Emerging Issues ( Big Data, Bitcoin, Internet of Things)
by Barrack Otieno 05 Jul '16

05 Jul '16

Day 8 of 10: * Internet of Things, M2M * Net Neutrality & OTT * Big Data * Virtual Money/BlockChains The Background: Internet of Things is a vision (now a reality) of physical objects (machines, vehicles, buildings, etc) fitted with sensors that allow them to communicate with each other. The smart-city concept envisions sensors continuously reporting status (e.g Traffic status, Pollution Status, Maintenance Status) of the different objects to allow for efficient management response. A lot of data exchanges arises hence the term Big Data with its associated data analytics requirements. Meanwhile, Virtual Money/Currency (Bitcoin, etc) threatens to disrupt the need for a centralised banking institutions. Over The Top (Skype, Twitter, FB, Youtube) have been around longer but the need to regulate or NOT to regulate them continues to be debated. Given recent developments on the KiCTANET list on Virtual money what should our position on these and other emerging issues be from a policy perspective ? is there need to embrace the issues? Your comments are welcome -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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Fwd: Draft National ICT Policy Discussions Day 9 of 10: Institutional, Legal & Regulatory Framework
by Barrack Otieno 01 Jul '16

01 Jul '16

Listers, For your attention. Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 20:26:12 +0300 Subject: Draft National ICT Policy Discussions Day 9 of 10: Institutional, Legal & Regulatory Framework To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> Dear Listers, Before we get into weekend mode, i would like to share tomorrows topic. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to today's topic. Feel free to continue contributing to previous discussions. The Background: Now that we have discussed most of the issues, it is time to look at the governance framework for the same. Traditionally, the key governance actors have been the ICT Parliamentary Committees, the ICT Ministry, the National Communication Secretariat (NCS), the ICT regulator, the ICT Authority, the ICT (Multimedia) Appeals Tribunal. The market players have been the Operators, Postal Agency, Courier Services, Application Service Providers. Have these entities worked for use or do we want to delete, add or restructures some of them? Is there a ned to define specific roles for Professional bodies, Civil Society and others in the ICT space? What are the legal & regulatory gaps we find moving forward? -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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