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Fwd: [Internet Policy] The important role the Internet could play in times of conflict
by Barrack Otieno 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

Listers, Might be interesting to some. Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lia Kiessling <kiessling(a)isoc.org> Date: Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:20 PM Subject: [Internet Policy] The important role the Internet could play in times of conflict To: "internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org" <internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org> Hi Everyone Just altering you all to a new blog by Constance Bommelaer in Huffington Post today. Great insight on how the Internet plays a crucial role in education - especially in times of conflict. If you can't bring a child to school, it can help bring the school to the child. " . . . the world is experiencing the highest levels of displacement ever recorded. UNHCR estimates that 24 people were forced to flee their homes each minute in 2015, four times more than a decade ago. Among the world’s refugees, 51 per cent are children, many of whom are travelling alone and have stopped going to school." Here's the blog. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bringing-the-school-to-kids-the-importa… Please do share this important piece on your channels Lia Lia Kiessling Senior Manager, Campaigns The Internet Society Skype: liakiessling www.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 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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The $24 Billion Data Business That Telcos Don't Want to Talk About (Today's worth?)
by Alex Gakuru 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

The $24 Billion Data Business That Telcos Don't Want to Talk About Mobile Carriers Are Working With Partners to Manage, Package and Sell Data By Kate Kaye <http://adage.com/author/kate-kaye/974>. Published on October 26, 2015 U.K. grocer Morrisons, ad-buying behemoth GroupM and other marketers and agencies are testing never-before-available data from cellphone carriers that connects device location and other information with telcos' real-world files on subscribers. Some services offer real-time heat maps showing the neighborhoods where store visitors go home at night, lists the sites they visited on mobile browsers recently and more. Under the radar, Verizon <http://adage.com/directory/verizon-communications/289>, Sprint, Telefonica and other carriers have partnered with firms including SAP <http://adage.com/directory/sap/16447>, IBM <http://adage.com/directory/ibm/4762>, HP and AirSage to manage, package and sell various levels of data to marketers and other clients. It's all part of a push by the world's largest phone operators to counteract diminishing subscriber growth through new business ventures that tap into the data that showers from consumers' mobile web surfing, text messaging and phone calls. SAP's Consumer Insight 365 ingests regularly updated data representing as many as 300 cellphone events per day for each of the 20 million to 25 million mobile subscribers. SAP won't disclose the carriers providing this data. It "tells you where your consumers are coming from, because obviously the mobile operator knows their home location," said Lori Mitchell-Keller, head of SAP's global retail industry business unit. There is a lot of marketer interest in that information because it is tied to actual individuals. For the same reason, however, there is potential for resistance from privacy advocates. WPP units such as Kantar Media and GroupM's Mindshare have "kicked the tires" for three years on Consumer Insight 365, testing and helping develop applications for the service, said Nick Nyhan, CEO of WPP's Data Alliance. The extensive time spent so far partly reflects "high sensitivity to not doing something that would be too close for comfort from a consumer point of view," Mr. Nyhan said. The service also combines data from telcos with other information, telling businesses whether shoppers are checking out competitor prices on their phones or just emailing friends. It can tell them the age ranges and genders of people who visited a store location between 10 a.m. and noon, and link location and demographic data with shoppers' web browsing history. Retailers might use the information to arrange store displays to appeal to certain customer segments at different times of the day, or to help determine where to open new locations. "It used to be that this data was a lot harder to come by," said Ross Shanken, CEO of LeadID, a lead generation analytics firm. In a previous position at data firm TargusInfo 2008 and 2010 he nonetheless partnered with "a very large telco" to validate names, addresses and phone numbers for data appending. *Too risky for the E.U.?* To protect privacy, SAP receives non-personally-identifiable, anonymized information from telcos, and only provides aggregated information to its clients to prevent reidentification of individuals. Still, sharing and using data this way is controversial. Nearly all the players exploring the burgeoning Telecom Data as a Service field, or TDaaS for short, are reluctant to provide the details of their operations, much less freely name their clients. And despite privacy safeguards, SAP is focused on selling its 365 product in North America and the Asia-Pacific region because it cannot get the data it needs from telcos representing consumers in the E.U., where data protections are stricter than in the U.S. and elsewhere. But the rewards may outweigh the possible tangles with government regulators, consumer advocates and even squeamish board members. The global market for telco data as a service is potentially worth $24.1 billion this year, on its way to $79 billion in 2020, according to estimates by 451 Research based on a survey of likely customers. "Challenges and constraints" mean operators are scraping just 10% of the possible market right now, though that will rise to 30% by 2020, 451 Research said. "If I was a CEO of any telecom operator in the U.S., I would be saying to myself I can do the same," said Michael Provenzano, CEO and co-founder of Vistar Media, which teams up with mobile operators to provide anonymized and aggregated data for targeting digital out-of-home ads based on consumers' comings and goings. "That's going to be something these guys are talking about in the boardroom." Perhaps the most prominent recent moves in the burgeoning TDaaS realm are Verizon's $4.4 billion acquisition of AOL <http://adage.com/directory/aol/2727> in May, followed by its purchase of mobile ad network Millennial Media <http://adage.com/directory/millennial-media/3111> for $238 million in September. Many saw the AOL buy as a means for Verizon to turn its data into a viable business, in part because AOL provides ad-tech infrastructure and marketer relationships that Verizon lacks. The level of authenticated information derived from Verizon and other mobile operators is seen as potentially more valuable than some other consumer data because it directly connects mobile phone interactions to individuals through actual billing information. "We're talking about linking a household and a billing relationship with a human being," said Seth Demsey, CTO of AOL Platforms. Verizon's Precision Market Insights division previously stumbled in its attempts to aggregate and package mobile data to help marketers target consumers and measure campaigns. Sprint's similar Pinsight Media division and AT&T's AdWorks—which segments and targets TV audiences—have not fared much better, according to observers. But lackluster results from going it alone have driven telcos toward companies that can facilitate cashing in on data. Along with SAP on the marketer-facing side, others including HP and IBM have stepped in to help phone carriers on the back-end data management and analysis side. When Spanish operator Telefonica embarked on its Dynamic Insights offering, it partnered with consumer insights firm GfK to help package the telco's mobile data for clients including U.K. food purveyor Morrisons. The grocery chain used the service to garner anonymized data connecting consumer demographic data to location visits. Some of these data relationships have long histories. SAP America owns Sybase, a subsidiary it bought in 2010 that serves as a technology hub for multiple mobile carriers and counts Verizon as a partner. The Sybase business has provided "deep relationships with mobile operators around the globe," said Rohit Tripathi, global VP and general manager of SAP Mobile Services, in an email. AirSage, another firm that has tight integrations with mobile operators, supplies data to municipal planners, retail store developers and city tourism boards. The company integrated its technology with telecom companies in the 1990s to enable 911 call support services. More recently it has signed data deals with Verizon Wireless and Sprint. "Our solution is actually plugged into the network behind the firewall of the carrier," said Ryan Kinskey, director of business development and sales at AirSage. Device IDs tracked by AirSage are anonymized, he added. Verizon and Sprint declined to comment for this story. AT&T and T-Mobile said they don't share consumer or location data with SAP, Sybase, AirSage or Vistar. *Why the secrecy?* Insiders say phone carriers exploring data-sharing businesses are tight-lipped because they don't want to reveal too many details to competitors, but fear of consumer complaints is always lurking in the background. "The practices that carriers have gotten into, the sheer volume of data and the promiscuity with which they're revealing their customers' data creates enormous risk for their businesses," said Peter Eckersley, chief computer scientist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy watchdog. Mr. Eckersley and others suggest that anonymization techniques are faulty in many cases because even information associated with a hashed or encrypted identification code can be linked back to a home address and potentially reidentified by hackers. Unlike other types of location tracking, such as beacon technologies that work only with mobile apps that people have agreed to let track them, many services employing telco data require no explicit opt-ins by consumers. Companies like SAP instead rely on carriers' terms and conditions with their subscribers, calling acceptance of the terms equivalent to opting in. Verizon's privacy policy, for example, says that information collected on its customers may "be aggregated or anonymized for business and marketing uses by us or by third parties." Ultimately, for mobile operators, these relationships could reap substantial income from the data generated by subscribers who already account for their primary revenue streams. The telcos do not break out revenue derived from their data-related sales in their quarterly earnings reports, so just how much money they're making from these deals is not known. SAP will "effectively share the revenue back with the operator, so they get to make money from data that they're basically not utilizing or under-utilizing today," former SAP Mobile President John Sims said at an industry conference in Las Vegas in 2013 as the company introduced Consumer Insight 365. "The mobile operators don't want to reveal this," said Mr. Tripathi, the SAP Mobile Services executive. No matter how much telcos and their partners stress that the data is anonymized and aggregated, he said, "they are fearful people will take this and twist it into something that it isn't." http://adage.com/article/datadriven-marketing/24-billion-data-business-telc…

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4G no longer 'fashionable' 5G at peak download speeds of up to 35.46 gigabits per second is ...
by Alex Gakuru 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

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Re: [isoc_ke] Save the date Kenya Internet Governance Forum 6th July 2017
by Barrack Otieno 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Dear Colleagues, The 9th edition of the Kenya Internet Governance Forum will be held on 6th July 2017. The Kenya Internet Governance Forum is dedicated to open, inclusive , and informal dialogue on Internet governance issues among all interested stakeholders in Kenya. The local Multi Stakeholder Advisory Group will be providing updates on the event venue, theme and the program through the mailing list and other avenues such as social media. Thank you Best Regards For and on behalf of the Multi Stakeholder Advisory Group -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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Fwd: [Internet Policy] TRUMP BACKS INTERNET GOVERNANCE DIALOGUE IN 2018 BUDGET PROPOSAL
by Barrack Otieno 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Dear Listers, This is for your information and attention. Best Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joly MacFie <joly(a)punkcast.com> Date: Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:57 AM Subject: [Internet Policy] TRUMP BACKS INTERNET GOVERNANCE DIALOGUE IN 2018 BUDGET PROPOSAL To: "internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org" <InternetPolicy(a)elists.isoc.org> (via Mark Buell) https://www.bna.com/trump-backs-internet-b57982085284/ President Donald Trump wants to cut funding for a number of federal agencies, departments and programs under a 2018 budget blueprint <http://src.bna.com/m1N> released March 16. But the U.S. presence in global internet governance discussions is one thing that Trump says he won’t cut. According to the proposal, the Trump administration will continue supporting the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s participation in “multi-stakeholder forums” on internet governance and digital commerce. <snip> * NTIA head + deputy posts still vacant https://www.ntia.doc.gov/offices -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- - _______________________________________________ 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 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Internet Society "Youth and the Internet" Survey and Community Forum
by Barrack Otieno 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

Dear Listers, This is for your information and attention. Best Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Victor Ndonnang <ndonnang(a)isoc.org> Date: Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 7:22 PM Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Internet Society "Youth and the Internet" Survey and Community Forum To: AfrICANN Community List <africann(a)afrinic.net> Dear all, The Internet Society is holding a community Forum on Youth and the Internet on 16 March 2017 at 16:00 UTC to discuss how young people (ages 13-25) feel about the Internet including challenges and opportunities. I would like to invite young people on this list to complete our below “3 questions” Youth and the Internet Survey. For those who are less young, please share it with your respective youth communities. Here are the links to the survey: English: http://bit.ly/2mQ0k4k Français: http://bit.ly/2mlYBGp español: http://bit.ly/2n6vXr1 Português: http://bit.ly/2mGgIbf Thank you. Wishing you a great weekend. Best regards, Victor. --- Victor Ndonnang Chapter Development Manager, Africa & Middle East. Internet Society The Internet is for Everyone! http://www.internetsociety.org/ Skype ID: Ndonnang _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list AfrICANN(a)afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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Fwd: [Internet Policy] Shine The Light on March 8th!
by Barrack Otieno 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lia Kiessling <kiessling(a)isoc.org> Date: Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 1:56 PM Subject: [Internet Policy] Shine The Light on March 8th! To: "internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org" <internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org> Dear All Happy International Women's Day! It seemed like yesterday we launched our #ShineTheLight campaign dedicated to closing tech's gender gap. The UN's theme for IWD2017 is Be Bold for Change - so we've chosen to celebrate women who are, sometimes in the face of great adversity, working to make the Internet a safer, more trusted place for all. We've got loads of content going out for this campaign - starting with a great piece in the Huffington Post Blog from our Senior Director of Global Internet Policy, Constance Bommelaer. It gives great context to the issue. · Not Backing Down: Women Across The Globe Fighting To Make The Internet Safe Here are some more posts you can share · Medium · Twitter · Facebook And over the course of the day, we'll be posting on our social media accounts sharing stories and tweets of these women and the women people around the world chose to tag as part of this campaign. If you have someone you'd like to #ShineTheLight on please do! We are using the hashtag #ShineTheLight and #ShePersisted alongside the #IWD2017 tag. See you all on the Internet and have a great International Women's Day! Lia _______________________________________________ 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 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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China International Strategy of Cooperation on Cyberspace
by WANGARI KABIRU 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2017-03/01/c_136094371.htm Blessed Wednesday! Happy International Women's Day! You will enjoy this read simply exploring China on cyberspace and IG. Must be relevant with the UN, ICANN, MAG etc. Anyone with more details on Kenya IG message at ICANN 58th Copenhagen, please share. Read on. Blessed day. Regards/Wangari "Cyberspace is the common space of activities for mankind. The future of cyberspace should be in the hands of all countries. Countries should step up communications, broaden consensus and deepen cooperation to jointly build a community of shared future in cyberspace." —Remarks by H.E. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, 2015/12/16 "....3. Promoting Fair Internet Governance China believes that a multilateral, democratic and transparent global Internet governance system should be built through equal participation and joint decision-making of the international community. Countries are entitled to participate in Internet governance on an equal footing. It is important to ensure equitable distribution of basic resources of the Internet and joint management of critical information infrastructure such as root servers. Relevant international processes should be open and inclusive with greater representations and voice of developing countries. China calls for enhanced communication and cooperation among all stakeholders including governments, international organizations, Internet companies, technological communities, non-governmental institutions and citizens. Relevant efforts should reflect broad participation, sound management and democratic decision-making, with all stakeholders contributing in their share based on their capacity and governments taking the leading in Internet governance particularly public policies and security...." "... 6.Protection of Citizens’ Rights and Interests Including Privacy China supports discussion on privacy protection at the UN General Assembly and the Human Rights Council, and calls for establishing relevant principles for protecting individual privacy in cyberspace. China encourage countries to take measures to curb Internet-enabled infringement of individual privacy, and pursue dialogue on the practices and efforts on respecting and protecting individual privacy in cyberspace. China will urge businesses to increase awareness of data protection and will support their effort to strengthen self-discipline and discuss best practices of individual information protection in cyberspace. Efforts will be made to facilitate cooperation between the government and businesses to safeguard individual privacy in cyberspace..." --- 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". -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 7/3/17, Ephraim Percy Kenyanito via kictanet <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote: Subject: [kictanet] Invitation to report Launch on Internet Freedom/ Digital Rights- March 17, 2017 To: wangarikabiru(a)yahoo.co.uk Cc: "Ephraim Percy Kenyanito" <ekenyanito(a)gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, 7 March, 2017, 14:36 Dear Colleague, I am excited to invite you and your friends to the launch of a report titled, "Supercharging Human Rights Defenders in East Africa". The vent will be held on Friday, March 17, 2017 as from 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM EAT at Strathmore University, Kenya. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-security-challenges-for-civil-society-… Over the past year, Small Media has been working in partnership with The Collaboration on International Policy for East and Southern Africa, The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (Defend Defenders), and Strathmore University Centre for IP and IT Law (CIPIT) to produce a new report evaluating the digital threats facing civil society organisations working across East Africa – in Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania. At this session, Small Media and its partners will present the findings of its latest report Supercharging Human Rights Defenders in East Africa, and then engage in a discussion with a range of stakeholders about how to best support regional civil society organisations to overcome the multitude of digital security challenges they face. The schedule for the session is as follows: 14:00-15:00 – Report Presentation and Q&A 15:00-15:30 – Coffee break 15:30-16:30 – Break-out sessions based around key themes and research findings 16:30-17:00 – Discussion around recommendations and next steps 17:00-18:00 – Networking and drinks Please feel free to share with your colleagues and to register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-security-challenges-for-civil-society-… -- Best Regards, *Ephraim Percy Kenyanito* Legal Researcher/ Policy Analyst Website: https://ephraimkenyanito.com/ Twitter: @ekenyanito <https://twitter.com/ekenyanito> PGP Fingerprint: B0FA394AF73DEB7AA1FDC7360CFED26DE6BA8DC1 [image: --] Ephraim Percy Kenyanito [image: https://]about.me/ekenyanito <https://about.me/ekenyanito?promo=email_sig&utm_source=email_sig&utm_medium…> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Twitter: http://twitter.com/kictanet Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/ Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/wangarikabiru%40yahoo… The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.

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Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team Draft Report of Recommendations For New gTLDs Available for Public Comment
by Barrack Otieno 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Dear Listers, This is for your information and attention. Best Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bob Omondi <omondibob(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:20 AM Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team Draft Report of Recommendations For New gTLDs Available for Public Comment To: AfrICANN list <africann(a)afrinic.net> LOS ANGELES – 7 March 2017 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced the publication of the Draft Report from the Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice (CCT) Review Team with its recommendations for the New gTLD Program More details: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2017-03-07-en Regards B. _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list AfrICANN(a)afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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Fwd: Open Forum : #ShineTheLight on March 8h!
by Barrack Otieno 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Dear Listers, This is for your information and attention. Best Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lia Kiessling via Internet Society <Mail(a)connectedcommunity.org> Date: Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 1:28 AM Subject: Open Forum : #ShineTheLight on March 8h! To: otieno.barrack(a)gmail.com Hello Open Forum! I can't believe it's been a year since we launched #ShineTheLight! This year the UN has chosen the theme Be Bold for Change... == Please, reply above this line == ------------------------------ Open Forum <https://connect.internetsociety.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer…> #ShineTheLight on March 8h! <https://connect.internetsociety.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer…> [image: Lia Kiessling] <https://connect.internetsociety.org/people/lia-kiessling> Mar 7, 2017 5:28 PM Lia Kiessling <https://connect.internetsociety.org/people/lia-kiessling> Hello Open Forum! I can't believe it's been a year since we launched #ShineTheLight! This year the UN has chosen the theme “Be Bold for Change” so we’re celebrating women who are boosting online trust. These can be women who are building the technology that drives the Internet, to bloggers speaking out against human rights violations, or any number of the millions of women out there who are making the Internet a more inclusive place just by logging on. *How to take part* If you’re on social media, you can share your story using the hashtag #ShineTheLight This year we are also using the tag #ShePersisted <https://twitter.com/hashtag/shepersisted> – a hashtag that’s a great one to follow for conversations on women who are out there and pushing for change. *Here's an example:* I want to #ShineTheLight on @ildasim <https://twitter.com/ildasim> for making sure everyone has a chance to lend a digital hand #ShePersisted More tomorrow and Happy International Women's Day! Lia ------------------------------ kiessling(a)isoc.org Senior Manager, Creative Content Note: replies will be sent to the full discussion group. ------------------------------ *Reply to Sender Online <https://connect.internetsociety.org/communities/all-discussions/postreply/?…>* *View Thread <https://connect.internetsociety.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer…>* *Flag as Inappropriate <https://connect.internetsociety.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer…>* You are subscribed to "Open Forum" as otieno.barrack(a)gmail.com. To change your subscriptions, go to My Subscriptions <http://connect.internetsociety.org/preferences?section=Subscriptions>. To unsubscribe from this community discussion, go to Unsubscribe <http://connect.internetsociety.org/HigherLogic/eGroups/Unsubscribe.aspx?Use…> . -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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