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New Association Launched to Support the Internet Governance Forum
by Mwendwa Kivuva 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wende Cover <cover(a)isoc.org> Date: 1 September 2014 15:52 Subject: [Chapter-delegates] NEWS RELEASE: New Association Launched to Support the Internet Governance Forum New Association Launched to Support the Internet Governance Forum and its Essential Role in Addressing Internet Governance Issues Internet Governance Forum Support Association opens on eve of ninth annual IGF [Istanbul, Turkey - 1 September 2014] - The Internet Governance Forum Support Association was officially launched today at its inaugural General Assembly meeting in Istanbul. The IGF Support Association will support the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which brings people together from all stakeholder groups, and provides valuable opportunities for discussions on issues relating to the Internet and its future. The launch of the IGF Support Association was held on the eve of the ninth annual IGF in Istanbul, where governments, civil society, the private sector and the technical community have convened to discuss best practice approaches to the global development of the Internet. The IGF offers an informal setting, free from binding negotiations, for productive work towards effective Internet policy solutions. The IGF Support Association will contribute to the United Nations IGF Trust Fund and support activities such as Internet governance-related capacity building in developing countries, national and regional IGF initiatives, and fellowships for participation in IGF meetings at national, regional and global levels. The establishment of the IGF Support Association is an initiative of the Internet Society, with the main objectives of promoting and supporting the global IGF, as well as the national and regional IGF initiatives. It was created to: * provide funds to maintain and strengthen the IGF Secretariat and national and regional IGF initiatives; * seek and promote exchange and collaboration with national and regional IGF initiatives; * identify new sources of funding and facilitate funding of the IGF; * make contributions to the IGF Trust Fund administered by the United Nations; and * award fellowships for participation at IGF meetings, including preparatory meetings. "The collaboration that occurs at the IGF is extremely important to all of us who are committed to an open, thriving, and accessible Internet," noted Markus Kummer, Internet Society Senior Vice President. "It is essential that we have a robust and sustainable income stream for the IGF to continue its growth and progress." During the IGF Support Association General Assembly, the following individuals were elected to the Executive Committee: * Raúl Echeberría, Internet Society * Virat Bhatia, AT&T * Subi Chaturvedi, Media For Change * Marilyn Cade, mCADE * Cheryl Miller, Verizon * Avri Doria, Independent Researcher * Edmon Chung, DotAsia * Tarek Kamel, ICANN * Alice Munyua, CATIA * Chengetai Masango, IGF Secretariat (Non-voting member of Board) Raúl Echeberría, newly elected Chair of the IGF Support Association Executive Committee, commented, "The IGF has proven to be a remarkably successful forum, yet continues to face challenges of underfunding. The IGF Support Association will work to remedy this and will serve as a vital channel for funding from individuals, companies and foundations to help ensure the IGF remains the primary event for everyone interested in the Internet and its governance. We are very proud to launch this new Association." The IGF Support Association is based in Geneva, Switzerland and is now accepting members and donations. For more information, visit http://www.igfsa.org. Link to press release: http://www.internetsociety.org/news/new-association-launched-support-intern… _______________________________________________ As an Internet Society Chapter Officer 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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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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Digital Life Documentary on BBC: Do the dead deserve privacy online?
by Mwendwa Kivuva 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

BBC Audio Documentary on Digital Life http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rl5r4 ABSTRACT Who do you want to be able to read your old emails when you die? Are the dead entitled to privacy? Jolyon Jenkins reports on the increasingly contentious issue of our digital legacy. As we lead more of our lives online, we leave behind an ever bigger digital footprint when we go. There are the public parts - the blogs, the tweets, the forum posts - but also the private things such as the emails stored on servers owned by companies like Google. Sorting out the digital legacy is becoming as onerous as being a traditional executor. But it brings entirely new problems: in the case of people who have died suddenly or mysteriously, relatives sometimes feel that they are entitled to get access to the email accounts of dead person to try to find a clue to what was happening in their lives. But many email providers resist handing over this material because of a confidentiality clause in their terms and conditions. Jolyon Jenkins talks to the Stassen family in Wisconsin who took both Facebook and Google to court to gain access to the accounts of their son Benjamin who committed suicide. He also talks to Esther in Kenya who similarly would like to get into her dead sister's email account to try to find a clue to her unexplained death. But unlike the Stassens, Esther has had no luck. These are uncharted waters, where analogies with old technology quickly break down, where the principles are unclear, and where important private and personal matters seem to be left to the discretion of big corporations. Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. Glenn McKnight mcknight.glenn(a)gmail.com skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight . _______________________________________________ As an Internet Society Chapter Officer 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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Stung by cyber attacks, State resolves to host websites locally
by Gideon 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

+1 Adam, I'm not sure if local hosting solves the main issue which is the security of the systems. There needs to be more done in tandem with the migration to local web servers which includes the choice of the technology, tools, systems security, constant patch upgrades and the right skill sets. Regards Gideon Rop. DotConnectAfrica > All State-owned websites will be hosted locally in order to curb rising > cases of cyber security attacks. > > This was a key resolution at a crisis meeting held on Thursday between top > security officials and the Ministry of ICT. > > Held at Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK), the meeting was called to > discuss the safety preparedness of the government to handle cyber attacks. > > It comes just days after hacking of the Kenya Defence Forces' social media > accounts including the official email account of the military spokesperson > Emmanuel Chirchir. > > In attendance were ICT principal secretary Joseph Tiampati, representatives > of the National Intelligence Service, Kenya Defence Forces, CID, CAK > director-general Francis Wangusi and ICT Authority chief executive. > > > http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Cyber-Security-Attacks-ICT-Ministry/-/996/… > > > ______________________ > 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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Stung by cyber attacks, State resolves to host websites locally
by Mwendwa Kivuva 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

All State-owned websites will be hosted locally in order to curb rising cases of cyber security attacks. This was a key resolution at a crisis meeting held on Thursday between top security officials and the Ministry of ICT. Held at Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK), the meeting was called to discuss the safety preparedness of the government to handle cyber attacks. It comes just days after hacking of the Kenya Defence Forces' social media accounts including the official email account of the military spokesperson Emmanuel Chirchir. In attendance were ICT principal secretary Joseph Tiampati, representatives of the National Intelligence Service, Kenya Defence Forces, CID, CAK director-general Francis Wangusi and ICT Authority chief executive. http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Cyber-Security-Attacks-ICT-Ministry/-/996/… ______________________ 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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Fwd: [Internet Policy] Vint's video
by Barrack Otieno 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joly MacFie <joly(a)punkcast.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:31:13 -0400 Subject: [Internet Policy] Vint's video To: "internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org" <InternetPolicy(a)elists.isoc.org> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd3dH90tdhk#t=101 "and hand over that responsibilty to ICANN" Is that really a foregone conclusion? I thought the RFP was a little more open. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------- - -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/

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Fwd: Polite Reminder: Call for applications for Online Training: Internet Governance in Africa – an Introduction
by Ali Hussein 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

Listers Apologies for cross posting. See below for any one interested. 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 Begin forwarded message: > From: "Internet Society Kenya Chapter Secretariat" <info(a)isoc.or.ke> > Date: July 24, 2014 at 1:03:44 PM GMT+3 > To: <Ali(a)Hussein.me.ke> > Subject: Polite Reminder: Call for applications for Online Training: Internet Governance in Africa – an Introduction > Reply-To: <info(a)isoc.or.ke> > > > > Dear Ali Kassim, > > Dear friends and colleagues, > > This important call for applications has just been released by Nedpad, and will be managed by our colleagues Towela Jere and Titi Akinsanmi. Please let your friends in Africa know about this opportunity! > Call for applications for Online Training: Internet Governance in Africa – an Introduction > The NEPAD e-Africa Programme invites applications for an online training programme “Internet Governance in Africa – an Introduction” > Course Content > The course will cover fundamental aspects of Internet Governance and Internet policy including: > Actors and processes > Infrastructure and broadband policy > Cybersecurity > Privacy and Human Rights > Network neutrality > Management of domain names and IP addresses > Socio-economic and development aspects of the Internet and Internet Governance > The course will also offer case studies and practical examples from Africa and participants will be encouraged to contextualize their learning to their countries or regions. > Target Audience > The training is open to a wide variety of stakeholders including: > Government officials > Officials from regional and sub-regional institutions > Parliamentary representatives > Civil society activists and advocates > Students, academics and researchers > Journalists > Eligibility > Applicants must meet the following requirements: > Citizen of a member state of the African Union > Able to read, write and converse in English > Have reliable Internet access > Applicants with an undergraduate degree may have an added advantage. Preference will be given to individuals living and working in Africa. > Mode of Delivery > The course will be delivered in English and will be conducted online using a mixture of facilitator-led sessions and self-directed learning. Participants should expect to spend at least 8 hours per week on the course. The course will be delivered over an 8-week period. > Method of Application > Apply online using the application form. > (If you encounter problems with filling in the form online, you may request a PDF version to be sent to you. Send your request to: towelan(a)nepad.org) > Deadline for applications > Applications should be received on or before July 28. Late applications may be considered subject to availability of seats. > Course Fees > There are no fees associated with registration or participation in the course. > Enquiries > Enquiries may be directed to Towela Nyirenda-Jere via email: towelan(a)nepad.org > Yours Sincerely, > > Mwendwa Kivuva, > Secretary > > Internet Society Kenya Chapter > info(a)isoc.or.ke > > NB: Internet Society Kenya chapter has a mailing list for members discussions. If you are not on the list, you can subscribe by following the link below: > > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc

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