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Elimu TV
by nnfeischools 01 May '16

01 May '16

Elimu TV is now streaming watch and learn with us through your mobile phone, laptop or desktop compute. Link up through www.elimutv.co.ke/live and share the link with your networks Jane

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/broadening-the-oversight-of-a-free-and-open-internet-1461105102
by Barrack Otieno 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

Listers, More on the IANA transition from Dr. Steve Crocker. http://www.wsj.com/articles/broadening-the-oversight-of-a-free-and-open-int… Regards -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

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Public Consultations on the Development of a National Addressing System (NAS) framework
by Ali Hussein 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

Dear listers Please find below link to the above. The deadline for submissions is 19th May. A more reasonable timeline I think? :-) http://www.ca.go.ke/ Regards Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi Sent from my iPad

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Re: [isoc_ke] isoc Digest, Vol 22, Issue 11
by Baba Jambo Owino 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

Thanks Barry for the forward. Regards On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 6:00 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. Fwd: [ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- Fellowship > Application Round Opens for ICANN57 (Barrack Otieno) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 11:20:40 +0300 > From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack(a)gmail.com> > To: ISOC Kenya Chapter <isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke> > Subject: [isoc_ke] Fwd: [ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- Fellowship > Application Round Opens for ICANN57 > Message-ID: > <CAKX6dsFM3gnjhHepdZVEvvMv4w= > YkrV4QjwyjEDGOVAT81pVAQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: ICANN At-Large Staff <staff(a)atlarge.icann.org> > Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 20:20:28 +0000 > Subject: [ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- Fellowship Application > Round Opens for ICANN57 > To: ALAC Announce <alac-announce(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> > > > > [ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/> > News Alert > > https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-04-22-en > > ________________________________ > Fellowship Application Round Opens for ICANN57 > > 22 April 2016 > > lCANN launches the application round for those interested in > participating at the ICANN57 Meeting through the Fellowship Program. > The Meeting will be held 29 October - 4 November 2016. > > This round remains open until 27 May 2016 and successful candidates > will be announced on the ICANN website, 27 July 2016. > > The Fellowship Program > > The ICANN Fellowship< > https://www.icann.org/en/about/participate/fellowships> > program seeks out those who are interested in, or already engaged in, > the various components of Internet Governance (specifically ICANN's > work in Policy Building, the Operation of the Domain Name System and > the Security and Stability of the Global Internet. The goal of the > Program is to help create a broader base of knowledgeable constituents > to engage in the ICANN Multistakeholder process and become the new > voice of experience in their regions and on the global stage. Priority > is given to those who are from developing nations, and those who may > not be able to self-fund to attend an ICANN Meeting without ICANN > Fellowship. > > Since its creation in 2007, the Fellowship Program has built a strong > group of individuals who are actively participating in all of the > ICANN communities as well as various Internet Governance entities > within the Internet Ecosystem. Their engagement ranges from writing > articles and blogs, providing online or in-person public comment in > regard to bottom up policy building, engaging in Internet conferences > and panel discussions, lifting a pen in working groups, mentoring > newcomers, assisting our regional leaders and becoming leaders > themselves. > > Click here for more information > »<https://www.icann.org/en/about/participate/fellowships> > > > > > > > -- > Barrack O. Otieno > +254721325277 > +254733206359 > Skype: barrack.otieno > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > isoc mailing list > isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc > > ------------------------------ > > End of isoc Digest, Vol 22, Issue 11 > ************************************ > -- Peter Owino Life is too short to eat green bananas!

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Fwd: [ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- Fellowship Application Round Opens for ICANN57
by Barrack Otieno 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ICANN At-Large Staff <staff(a)atlarge.icann.org> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 20:20:28 +0000 Subject: [ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- Fellowship Application Round Opens for ICANN57 To: ALAC Announce <alac-announce(a)atlarge-lists.icann.org> [ICANN]<http://www.icann.org/> News Alert https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-04-22-en ________________________________ Fellowship Application Round Opens for ICANN57 22 April 2016 lCANN launches the application round for those interested in participating at the ICANN57 Meeting through the Fellowship Program. The Meeting will be held 29 October - 4 November 2016. This round remains open until 27 May 2016 and successful candidates will be announced on the ICANN website, 27 July 2016. The Fellowship Program The ICANN Fellowship<https://www.icann.org/en/about/participate/fellowships> program seeks out those who are interested in, or already engaged in, the various components of Internet Governance (specifically ICANN's work in Policy Building, the Operation of the Domain Name System and the Security and Stability of the Global Internet. The goal of the Program is to help create a broader base of knowledgeable constituents to engage in the ICANN Multistakeholder process and become the new voice of experience in their regions and on the global stage. Priority is given to those who are from developing nations, and those who may not be able to self-fund to attend an ICANN Meeting without ICANN Fellowship. Since its creation in 2007, the Fellowship Program has built a strong group of individuals who are actively participating in all of the ICANN communities as well as various Internet Governance entities within the Internet Ecosystem. Their engagement ranges from writing articles and blogs, providing online or in-person public comment in regard to bottom up policy building, engaging in Internet conferences and panel discussions, lifting a pen in working groups, mentoring newcomers, assisting our regional leaders and becoming leaders themselves. Click here for more information »<https://www.icann.org/en/about/participate/fellowships> -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno

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Internet Society is recruiting a Manager Chapter Development Africa
by Mwendwa Kivuva 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

Internet Society is recruiting a Manager for Chapter Development, Africa. Apply now http://www.internetsociety.org/jobs/manager-chapter-development-africa

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Re: [isoc_ke] EU hits Google with Anti-Trust complaint
by WANGARI KABIRU 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

Happy Furahi Day! Thank you for sharing the piece! "One big difference in U.S. antitrust law is that the ultimate barometer of whether something is illegal is whether it negatively affects the consumer—for example, by raising the price of a product or service. That would make it difficult to prosecute Google for antitrust behavior, since the vast majority of its products are free. The European Union, however, doesn’t need to make that argument—it’s free to find Google’s behavior illegal regardless of what it costs." ISOC KE during the next Internet Governance Forum, the Competition Authority would be a great guest to "demystify this Anti-Trust, Dominance terms and practical application. Today's local tech start-up may be less concerned, however, it is the next global tech giant soon. Blessed day. Regards/Wangari --- 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 Fri, 22/4/16, Ali Hussein via isoc <isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke> wrote: Subject: [isoc_ke] EU hits Google with Anti-Trust complaint To: kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke, ISOC(a)lists.my.co.ke Date: Friday, 22 April, 2016, 3:31 Listers This should be interesting. EU hits Google EU officials say Google forces phone makers and carriers to install its services. For many Android users, one of the appealing things about Google’s mobile operating system is that it is an open ecosystem—anyone can install or modify it, since it is open source, and users can run any apps they want, something they can’t do on Apple’s iOS devices. But the European Union doesn’t see it that way. To the EU, Android is a just tool that Google uses to expand its mobile and search monopolies.Read on:- http://fortune.com/2016/04/21/eu-google-antitrust/Ali HusseinPrincipalHussein & Associates+254 0713 601113 / 0770906375 Twitter: @AliHKassimSkype: abu-jomoLinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi Sent from my iPad -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ isoc mailing list isoc(a)lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc

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EU hits Google with Anti-Trust complaint
by Ali Hussein 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

Listers This should be interesting. EU hits Google EU officials say Google forces phone makers and carriers to install its services. For many Android users, one of the appealing things about Google’s mobile operating system is that it is an open ecosystem—anyone can install or modify it, since it is open source, and users can run any apps they want, something they can’t do on Apple’s iOS devices. But the European Union doesn’t see it that way. To the EU, Android is a just tool that Google uses to expand its mobile and search monopolies. Read on:- http://fortune.com/2016/04/21/eu-google-antitrust/ Ali Hussein Principal Hussein & Associates +254 0713 601113 / 0770906375 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi Sent from my iPad

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Fwd: [Internet Policy] Universal service fund in the U.S. has failed badly. Despite $billions, U.S. has close to the worst coverage in the developed world.
by Barrack Otieno 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

Listers, In light of Walu's write up on Universal Access, this might provide an interesting comparison. Thank you Best Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dave Burstein <daveb(a)dslprime.com> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 02:48:29 -0400 Subject: [Internet Policy] Universal service fund in the U.S. has failed badly. Despite $billions, U.S. has close to the worst coverage in the developed world. To: Richard Hill <rhill(a)hill-a.ch>, "internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org" <internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org>, Alejandro Pisanty <apisanty(a)gmail.com> Folks I changed the subject to avoid getting entangled in the debate about the particular report and focus on the issue of achieving access. Based on the U.S. experience, I believe USF funding is inefficient at best. The U.S. has about 5M homes that can't get landline broadband despite $7B in our stimulus and billions more over the years in Universal Service money. (FCC data) That's 7-10X the unserved rate in much of Western Europe.The greater land area is only a partial explanation. See the work of Professors Rosston and Hazlett as well as Scott Wallsten, who was chief economist of our broadband plan. I did two workshops for our Broadband Plan. I don't have depth on the issues in other countries but what I know suggests USF isn't performing well most places. I believe the Kurth Solution, named after the German regulator, is strongly preferable. Unserved rural areas by their nature are scattered and have limited local infrastructure. In most places, only the incumbent has the local facilities and backhaul required to serve the area at competitive cost. This became obvious when almost none of the applications for our broadband stimulus were from new entrants looking to connect the unserved, although that was the primary goal of the funding. The result was that the local phone company could and did claim their costs were far higher than they needed to be. Add on the political power of the phone companies (regulatory capture) and the system is spending what I estimate is easily twice what an efficient subsidy would be. (Limited hard data.) Kurth in Germany covered most of the "white spaces on the map" at a much lower cost. In a spectrum auction, the carriers were required to cover white spaces before they use the spectrum in the big cities. While the companies could reduce their bids, WIK Consulting told me the impact was very small. Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom, spending their own money covered those small towns rapidly and what I believe was far less than any USF subsidy would have been. LTE speeds are now 50-100 megabits, enough for most purposes. The caps on the rural wireless were much too low but technology is rapidly improving that. Today's LTE gear has 3-4X the capacity of the earlier systems, mostly through carrier aggregation. More advanced MIMO and MU MIMO are likely to deliver 10X the current capacity in the next few years, according to leading wireless experts such as Stanford's Paulraj. That will allow raising the cap to perhaps 100-150 gigabytes/month, probably with unlimited access nights and mornings. Portugal and others are working with a similar system. ---------------------------------- Unless you have a plan to educate the regulator and enforce reasonable pricing in USF, I think the plans are somewhere between overly expensive or ridiculous. The U.S. couldn't do it despite major efforts since the Broadband plan. The "Kurth Solution" - indirect competitive bidding as part of the spectrum auction, seems to work well. It's not the only alternative. Australia is building a National Broadband Network for everyone. Unfortunately, the cost has gotten out of hand, as so often happens with government projects. India may have a better idea; the government is extending fiber to 10's of thousands of small towns with the expectation private or cooperative efforts can deploy the last mile. The backhaul costs are often the largest expense in rural service. They require so much capital few but the largest companies can finance backhaul. With mobile phones and WiFi gear now under $50, local businesses or munis can connect to that fiber and serve the area with a small investment. This is very promising, although political entanglement has drastically slowed construction. Some government projects work well (China), others we know are unsuccessful. ------------------------------- Satellite has become much more attractive than before. Mark Dankberg, Viasat CEO, told our broadband plan today's satellites have an order of magnitude more capacity and reduce latency by half. (They haven't solved the 22,000 mile distance but improving the routers and caching apparently makes a huge difference.) No politician would admit it, but the assumption in the U.S. plan was satellite for the last 1%. All current Universal access programs may have become obsolete on December 21, The Falcon 9 successfully launched a constellation of 11 Orbcomm-OG2 second-generation Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. The first stage returned to Cape Canaveral successfully, which Elon Musk's company says will reduce costs by about 30%. The first two sea landings failed but April 8, 2016, Falcon 9 Flight 23 successfully landed a 1st stage booster on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You. Low Orbit satellites solve the latency problem but still have a way to go. Small, inexpensive tracking antennas need to be developed. An engineer I respect has studied the problems and expects LEO sats will be the way to go in a few years. Facebook's drones will probably never be cost-effective just serving extreme rural areas, I believe; I'm anticipating they will need urban customers to cover the costs. Their engineers may be good but the head of the project didn't know the facts on the ground. I haven't researched it but I expect the rapidly dropping costs of LTE will be much less than the drone network. I would guess the same about Google's balloons but the team seems far more knowledgeable. I've bcc'd this to the experts mentioned. I hope they and any others catch any mistakes I have. The above is only about access. I'm very encouraged by the new U.S. Broadband Lifeline, a $9.25/month subsidy for the poor where networks are already in place. Broadband networks are a classic case of high fixed costs/low marginal costs. The marginal cost of adding a customer to an existing large broadband network in America or Europe is $4-8/month. Dave Burstein Editor, Fast Net News, Net Policy News and DSL Prime Author with Jennie Bourne DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed (Peachpit) -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno

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Fwd: [kictanet] Fwd: [AFRINIC-Announce] Call for Nominations for AFRINIC Board
by Barrack Otieno 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

Listers, FYI. Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet" <kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Apr 12, 2016 11:39 AM Subject: [kictanet] Fwd: [AFRINIC-Announce] Call for Nominations for AFRINIC Board To: <otieno.barrack(a)gmail.com> Cc: "Mwendwa Kivuva" <Kivuva(a)transworldafrica.com> FYI ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya twitter.com/lordmwesh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: AFRINIC Communication <comm-announce(a)afrinic.net> Date: 12 April 2016 at 10:16 Subject: [AFRINIC-Announce] Call for Nominations for AFRINIC Board To: announce(a)afrinic.net Dear AFRINIC Member, NomCom2016 is please to announce that the AFRINIC Board Nomination process is open for the following seats: · Seat 1: Northern Africa (currently held by Haitham el Nakhal); · Seat 2: Western Africa (currently held by Sunday Folayan); · Seat 7: Non-geographical (currently held by Aminata Garba). - to serve a three-year term from July 2017 to June 2020. The Closure of the Candidate Nomination period is 20th April 2016 at 20:00 UTC. Please see details at: http://afrinic.net/en/library/news/1677-call-for-nominations-for-afrinic-bo… On behalf of NomCom 2016 _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce(a)afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/announce _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet(a)lists.kictanet.or.ke https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/otieno.barrack%40gmai… 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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