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To succeed, edtech must be at the service of teaching, not the other way around.....
by WANGARI KABIRU 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

To succeed, edtech must be at the service of teaching, not the other way around..... Together, technology and teachers can revamp schools | | | | | | | | | | | Together, technology and teachers can revamp schools How the science of learning can get the best out of edtech | | | | "...IN 1953 B.F. Skinner visited his daughter’s maths class. The Harvard psychologist found every pupil learning the same topic in the same way at the same speed. A few days later he built his first “teaching machine”, which let children tackle questions at their own pace. By the mid-1960s similar gizmos were being flogged by door-to-door salesmen. Within a few years, though, enthusiasm for them had fizzled out.Since then education technology (edtech) has repeated the cycle of hype and flop, even as computers have reshaped almost every other part of life. One reason is the conservatism of teachers and their unions. But another is that the brain-stretching potential of edtech has remained unproven.....Today, however, Skinner’s heirs are forcing the sceptics to think again (see article). Backed by billionaire techies such as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, schools around the world are using new software to “personalise” learning. This could help hundreds of millions of children stuck in dismal classes—but only if edtech boosters can resist the temptation to revive harmful ideas about how children learn. To succeed, edtech must be at the service of teaching, not the other way around....." Read on! 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".

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Trump, Putin discuss working together on cyber issues
by WANGARI KABIRU 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/341062-russian-official-trump-and-p… A working group that Kenya may join perhaps!The pundits on the other hand....Read on! ......Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov both indicated the countries would focus on cybersecurity, though described potential efforts in different terms.Lavrov – who attended the meeting with Trump, Putin and Tillerson – told reporters that the U.S. and Russia would launch a "bilateral working group" that included a focus on cybersecurity.Tillerson said the "framework" would deal with "how these tools are used to interfere with the internal affairs of countries, but also how the tools are used to threaten infrastructure, how these tools are used from a terrorism standpoint as well." Democrats on Friday raised alarm bells over the U.S. and Russia potentially working together on cyber issues. Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee investigating Russia's meddling in the election, said establishing a working group with Russia "would be akin to inviting the North Koreans to participate in a commission on nonproliferation."Schiff said the idea "tacitly adopts the fiction that the Russians are a constructive partner on the subject instead of the worst actor on the world stage.""This is like giving the alarm code to the guys who just burglarized your home. Just make it easier for them next time," Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) similarly tweeted. Read on.... Blessed day Regards/Wangari --------- Trump, Putin discuss working together on cyber issues BY JOE UCHILL - 07/07/17 06:20 PM EDT 3867,5108.6K © GettyU.S. and Russian officials indicated Friday that the two countries would work together in a number of areas, including cybersecurity.The officials revealed the effort following the first high-stakes meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the Group of 20 summit in Germany.Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov both indicated the countries would focus on cybersecurity, though described potential efforts in different terms.Lavrov – who attended the meeting with Trump, Putin and Tillerson – told reporters that the U.S. and Russia would launch a "bilateral working group" that included a focus on cybersecurity."It was agreed that all of these issues, including anti-terrorism efforts, fight against organized crime and hacker activities in any of their manifestations will be in focus of bilateral Russian-US cooperation. A bilateral working group will be set up for these ends," Lavrov said, according to Russian state news outlet TASS.ADVERTISEMENTMeanwhile, Tillerson told reporters that leaders planned to put in place "a working-level group" to handle cybersecurity issues."The two leaders also acknowledge the challenges of cyber threats and interference in the democratic processes of the United States and other countries, and agreed to explore creating a framework around which the two countries can work together to better understand how to deal with these cyber threats," Tillerson said.Tillerson said the "framework" would deal with "how these tools are used to interfere with the internal affairs of countries, but also how the tools are used to threaten infrastructure, how these tools are used from a terrorism standpoint as well."While Tillerson's remarks alluded to the joint effort including a focus on government-directed cybersecurity attacks, such as the 2016 U.S. election meddling Russia is accused of carrying out, Lavrov's comments did not appear to reference such an effort.Tillerson said the operation on the U.S. side would be run out of the State Department and national security adviser's office.The announcement raised eyebrows of Russia experts worried that Putin may be taking advantage of Trump and that pursuing cooperation before deterrence for recent Russian attacks might send the wrong message. "If the Russians want to coordinate with us on cybersecurity it's likely an operation to do intelligence gathering," said Jim Townsend, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO who is currently an adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security. "Usually when Russians make an offer to the U.S. these days, it's not because they like us."Instead, said Townsend, the move could be one to harvest the prestige of working with the United States and as a chance to peek at the United State's team of experts and approach to the issue.It is not likely, he said, a type of task force would accomplish much due to the layers of secrecy both nations would place in front of their envoys and the fact that Russia is viewed by most allied nations to be the perpetrator of many destructive cyberattacks. Democrats on Friday raised alarm bells over the U.S. and Russia potentially working together on cyber issues. Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee investigating Russia's meddling in the election, said establishing a working group with Russia "would be akin to inviting the North Koreans to participate in a commission on nonproliferation."Schiff said the idea "tacitly adopts the fiction that the Russians are a constructive partner on the subject instead of the worst actor on the world stage.""This is like giving the alarm code to the guys who just burglarized your home. Just make it easier for them next time," Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) similarly tweeted.

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Fw: [Internet Policy] Capital I or small i(nternet)
by WANGARI KABIRU 03 Jul '17

03 Jul '17

Blessed Monday to all! Interesting discussion in the ISOC circles. Legal usage and who defines what is correct - a unique position with a "said multistakeholder model" Is the CAPS or lower case more on Brand, identity, ownership, (de)centralisation? A good point also is distinction between WWW and Internet (or internet). Be blessed. 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 Sunday, 2 July 2017, 20:30, Richard Hill <rhill(a)hill-a.ch> wrote: #yiv9895996481 #yiv9895996481 -- _filtered #yiv9895996481 {panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} _filtered #yiv9895996481 {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} _filtered #yiv9895996481 {font-family:Tahoma;panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}#yiv9895996481 #yiv9895996481 p.yiv9895996481MsoNormal, #yiv9895996481 li.yiv9895996481MsoNormal, #yiv9895996481 div.yiv9895996481MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;}#yiv9895996481 a:link, #yiv9895996481 span.yiv9895996481MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv9895996481 a:visited, #yiv9895996481 span.yiv9895996481MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv9895996481 p.yiv9895996481MsoAcetate, #yiv9895996481 li.yiv9895996481MsoAcetate, #yiv9895996481 div.yiv9895996481MsoAcetate {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:8.0pt;}#yiv9895996481 span.yiv9895996481BalloonTextChar {}#yiv9895996481 span.yiv9895996481EmailStyle19 {color:#1F497D;}#yiv9895996481 .yiv9895996481MsoChpDefault {} _filtered #yiv9895996481 {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}#yiv9895996481 div.yiv9895996481WordSection1 {}#yiv9895996481 Dear Ayden, Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I would recommend reading at least pages 1-3, 14, and 23-24 and of the Supreme Court judgment, which is at: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1194_08l1.pdf I wonder to what extent the court’s thinking was influenced by the fact that the law they struck down did not refer to the Internet, but to the “Web”. I’m sure we all agree that there is only one World Wide Web, so the correct usage is the proper noun, Web, when referring to the WWW (as opposed to using web to refer to the generic technology, as in “a private company can operate a private web, also referred to as an intranet”). Be that as it may, the court referred to “the Internet” or “the internet” without defining either term. As I’ve explained elsewhere[1] there are many definitions of the term “Internet”. The one that I like best is the 1995 definition of the US Federal Networking Council[2]: “the global information system that:(i) is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the Internet Protocol (IP) or its subsequent extensions/follow-ons;(ii) is able to support communications using the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite or its subsequent extensions/follow-ons, and/or other IP-compatible protocols; and(iii) provides, uses or makes accessible, either publicly or privately, high level services layered on the communications and related infrastructure described herein." This definition would appear to me to apply to a particular global system, which system should be referred to by a proper noun, that is “the Internet”. However, it is interesting to note that the telephone network is also a global system that is (i) logically linked together by a globally unique address space and (ii) is able to support communications using protocols. Yet nobody would think of referring to the telephone network with a proper noun, as “the Telephone Network”. Is that because the telephone network does not provide high-level services on top of its infrastructure? That is, do we think of “the Internet” because of “the World Wide Web”? And, if there were no World Wide Web, would we think of “the internet” as infrastructure, which is what Justice Alito seems to do? Thanks again and best,Richard [1] Richard Hill (2014), "The Internet, its governance, and the multi-Stakeholder model", Info, vol. 16. no. 2, March 2014[2] See footnote xv of Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf . “What Is The Internet (And What Makes It Work)” December, 1999, available at: http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/what_is_internet.html ------ On Sun, 2 Jul 2017, Richard Hill wrote: Show original message Also interesting: oral argument from oyez.org: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2016/15-1194 I recommend a whole thing, one of my favourite excerpts: ----- Elena Kagan So -- so a -- so a person in this situation, for example, cannot go onto the President's Twitter account to find out what the President is saying today? Robert C. Montgomery That -- that's correct, Your Honor. Elena Kagan Not only the President. I mean, we're sort of aware of it because the President now uses Twitter. ----- Marcin Cieślak Internet Society Poland From: InternetPolicy [mailto:internetpolicy-bounces@elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of Ayden Férdeline Sent: Saturday, July 1, 2017 19:50 To: Roland Perry Cc: internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org Subject: Re: [Internet Policy] Capital I or small i(nternet) Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I found this interesting: a majority of the US Supreme Court has capitalised the 'I' in Internet, treating it as a proper noun, in a recent decision: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pay5ek/internet-or-internet-the-… Best wishes, Ayden Férdelinelinkedin.com/in/ferdeline -------- Original Message --------Subject: [Internet Policy] Capital I or small i(nternet)Local Time: April 23, 2017 3:06 PMUTC Time: April 23, 2017 2:06 PMFrom: roland(a)perry.co.ukTo: internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc.org I'm old enough to regard the correct term as 'Internet' not 'internet'; for example in regular press releases, news stories etc. Does ISOC (or is that iSOC) have advice about this for the world at large?-- Roland Perry_______________________________________________

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ICANN 59: NCUC Outreach Event (Remote Participation)
by Paul M 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Dear Listers, For those of you who'll be unable to attend ICANN 59 in Johannesburg, the ISOC Gauteng chapter is organizing an outreach event targeted towards civil society participation in the ICANN's Non Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC). To register to participate go to the following links: Day1: https://isoc.zoom.us/meeting/register/e7c6bbaeb90973394ac87b605f06faf5 Day2: https://isoc.zoom.us/meeting/register/f33e9cfc7fe3c7e2c5b9141539e44ee6 The event commences on 23rd June 2017 at 11:00am EAT. Sincerely, Paul Muchene -- :-) Paul M

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Internet Society Annual General Meeting in Nairobi – Agenda, Open for Q&A and How To Participate Remotely
by WANGARI KABIRU 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

Show original message Agenda: https://www.internetsociety.org/board-meeting-agenda-no-1374 Remote participation:https://www.internetsociety.org/form/observer-guidelines-boa…: #isoc - http://twitter.com/hashtag/isoc May interest members! Blessed day. Regards/Wangari | | | | | | | On Saturday/Sunday June 10-11 2017 the Internet Society's Annual General Meeting will e held in Nairobi. The proceedings include an 'Open Forum' where the ISOC community may comment or ask questions. This and other Open Sessions will be reachable via Zoom, and also recorded. 'Executive' sessions will not be available online. Links to report docs should appear on the agenda page.What: ISOC Annual General Meeting #137 Where: Nairobi, Kenya When: Sat June 10 2017 - 06:00-14:00 UTC (02:00-10:00 EDT) Sun: June 11 2017 - 06:00-13:00 UTC (02:00-09:00 EDT)| Agenda: https://www.internetsociety.org/board-meeting-agenda-no-1374 Remote participation:https://www.internetsociety.org/form/observer-guidelines-boa… Twitter: #isoc - http://twitter.com/hashtag/isoc SATURDAY, 4 JUNE 2017 All times UTC = 4 hours ahead of EDTOPEN 06:00 1. Opening of ISOC Annual General Meeting – K. Brown CLOSED 06:00 2. Annual Election of Board Chair – K. Brown (45 mins.) OPEN 06:45 3. Welcome, Apologies and Declaration of Conflicts – Board Chair (5 mins.) CLOSED 06:50 4. Annual Election of Other Officers – Board Chair (20 mins.) OPEN 07:10 5. Approve the minutes of the 136th meeting of the Board of Trustees - Board Chair (5 mins.) 07:15 6. Action items from the 2016-2017 Board - Board Chair (10 mins.) 07:25 7. Recognition of Outgoing Trustee - Board Chair (10 mins.) 07:35 Break (15 mins.) 07:50 8. Board Committees and Charters - Board Chair (15 mins.) 08:05 9. ISOC Nominations Committee Recommendations – A. Munyua (30 mins) 08:35 10. Update on Future of the Internet project – S. Wentworth (40 mins) 09:15 Lunch Break (60 mins.) CLOSED 10:15 11. PIR Report - R. Gaetano, B. Cute (35 mins) OPEN 10:50 12. IETF Chair’s Report - Alissa Cooper (20 mins) 11:10 13. IAOC Chair’s Report – Leslie Daigle (15 mins) 11:25 14. Review of 2017-2018 Board meeting dates - Board Chair (20 mins) 11:45 Break (15 mins.) 12:00 15. Presentation on ISOC’s work in Africa – Africa Bureau Staff (90 mins) OPEN FORUM 13:30 16. ISOC Board Open Forum – Board Chair (30 mins) 14:00 End of Day One SUNDAY, 4 JUNE 2017 CLOSED 06:00 17. IAB Chair’s Report – Ted Hardie (20 mins) OPEN 06:20 18a. Overview – K. Brown (20 mins) 06:40 18b. Updates on Access Objective – R. Echeberria (20 mins) 07:00 18c. Updates on Trust Objective – O. Kolkman (20 mins) 07:20 18d. Financial Update – S. Spector (20 mins) 07:40 18e. Update on Chapters – R. Echeberria (20 mins) 08:00 Break (15 mins.) 08:15 18f. 25th Anniversary – A. Hassan and N. Armstrong (25 mins) 08:40 ISOC Website & Ad Campaign – J.Wood (45 mins) 09:25 Lunch Break (50 mins) 10:15 19. Appointment of the ISOC Board Liaison to IETF Nominations Committee - Board Chair (15 mins) 10:30 20. Annual Appointment of Committee Chairs and Members - Board Chair (60 mins) 11:30 21. Chapters Advisory Council Update – Avri Doria (20 mins) 11:50 Break (15 mins.) 12:05 22. Review of plans for July Board retreat - Board Chair (30 mins) 12:35 23. AOB (25 mins) 13:00 24. Adjournment. | Comment | See all comments | | | | | |

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Fw: [Internet Policy] Berlin court rules parents have no right to dead child's Facebook account
by WANGARI KABIRU 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

Warm greetings! The last time I heard on child online safety locally the message was "Parents, get to know what your child is doing online". Does this apply only when alive.....or even while resting in piece? Overall, legacy issues here - email accounts and other online (digital) avenues. Be blessed. 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 Tuesday, 6 June 2017, 6:30, Olévié Kouami <olivierkouami(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi everyone. Just to share with you the following lines read on the FB Wall of a closed friend if me. I totalité concur.'As a parent of a soon-to-become-teenager, I know that I should be involved in and educating their digital life. I don't mean to be intrusive, but present. I need to know and be aware of online dangers and things like cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking, or abusive/dangerous/suspicious messages. I need to educate my kids about these dangers, and even advocate for such education/training in their schools. At home, ofcourse it helps to create an environment of trust and dialogue where my children will feel comfortable telling me about their challenges.' Warm regardsOlévié Le 4 juin 2017 22:17, "Botzko, Stephen" <Stephen.Botzko(a)polycom.com> a écrit : Facebook's approach to privacy protection in these cases looks simple to me - designated legacy contacts have full access, anyone else needs a court order to see anything private. If a court decides that the estate executor (or anyone else) is entitled to access, then the court provides the order, and Facebook complies. This should provide the best legal protection for Facebook, as they never make the decision on when to provide access. That's only done by the original account owner, or by a court. And Facebook never needs to get into the complexity of figuring out who owns the digital assets after death. Memorialization is distinct from legacy contact BTW - and the legacy contact. >>> I am not sure how to frame the entire question: when you write a long, important post on FB, who owns it? You or FB? FB doesn't claim to own your post - their terms of service give them a transferrable right to use it, but not ownership. As far as I can see from the terms of service, that right to use continues after your death. It lasts until two conditions are met: (a) your account is deleted AND (b) no one else on FB is sharing your content. The way I read their terms, they also stop short of saying that you own the post. That makes sense to me, as far as they know you might be plagiarizing someone else. Stephen -----Original Message----- From: InternetPolicy [mailto:internetpolicy- bounces(a)elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of mario chiari Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2017 4:34 PM To: James Gannon <james(a)cyberinvasion.net>; Richard Hill <rhill(a)hill-a.ch> Cc: 'ISOC Policy' <internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc. org> Subject: Re: [Internet Policy] Berlin court rules parents have no right to dead child's Facebook account Hi James, On Sun, 2017-06-04 at 09:02 +0000, James Gannon wrote: > Can I ask that people when wanting to talk about a topic at least go > and read the topics in question: > > From Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/help/ 1506822589577997/ > > What will happen to my Facebook account if I pass away? > You can tell us in advance whether you’d like to have your account > memorialized or permanently deleted from Facebook. > No one can log into a memorialized account > > Why can't I log into a memorialized account on Facebook? > If Facebook is made aware that a person has passed away, it's our > policy to memorialize the account. > Please keep in mind that it's always against the Facebook Terms to > log into another person's account. We'll only be able to give you access to > an account if we can verify that it’s your own > account. Besides whether or not those guidelines are in accordance with law of the different country where FB operates, even they (which by the way do not seem to be included in the contractual terms of use, I do not see them implied by https: //www.facebook.com/legal/terms ) are somehow stating that a "executor of the account holder" may ask to delete the account - apparently including "data stored in backup systems" - of the deceased, see section "How do I request the removal of a deceased family member's Facebook account?". So, it does seem that FB recognizes that an 'executor'(heir) may ask to delete, but not to download!, data stored in backup systems related to the deceased user. By a quick browsing, it is not clear to me how FB intends to marry that with its own talk about to let a user to choose to memorialize an account, 'legacy contacts' (see https://www.facebook.com/help/ 1568013990080948?helpref= search&sr =1&query=Legacy%20Contacts) and similar. I am not sure how to frame the entire question: when you write a long, important post on FB, who owns it? You or FB? > > As to my safety deposit box situation yes that is what is in my > contract that unless I state otherwise in my will my box is not to be > shared with anyone including my heirs. Frankly, I do not understand: are you saying that the content of that box, in the unfortunate case in 1000 years, will be seized by your safety box provider? Is that by default under USA law, unless you state otherwise in your will? Thanks for your replies cheers mario > > -JG > > -----Original Message----- > From: mario chiari [mailto:posta@mariochiari.net] > Sent: 04 June 2017 09:48 > To: James Gannon <james(a)cyberinvasion.net>; Richard Hill <rhill(a)hill-a.ch> > Cc: 'ISOC Policy' <internetpolicy(a)elists.isoc. org> > Subject: Re: [Internet Policy] Berlin court rules parents have no right to > dead child's Facebook account > > Hi James, > > On Sat, 2017-06-03 at 14:51 +0000, James Gannon wrote: > > > > No my express wishes may be enshrined in the contract I sign with the > > vendor at any point, that construct is not only allowed through my will. > You wrote about "a express provision in the contract [you] have [with your] > safe deposit box [providers] such [you] expect them to keep [your] personal > effects private". In your real case, is that so that it will shield those > providers from your heirs, even in the case of your passing away? > > I have a safety box at my bank office too, my understanding is that by default > (under contractual terms for safety box most common in Italy) it will be > accessible to my heirs. > > > > > Your position of relegation of rights on death is frankly strange, > > just because a person is dead does not mean they lose all of the > > rights of contracts they have signed during their life. > I am not claiming a so general proposition (about all of the rights), but I do > not see how that German underage could have signed anything such to keep > her/his FB account unaccessible from her/his parents, even in case of her/his > passing away. I doubt anything similar is even remotely implied by her/his > undersigning FB's terms of use. Do you think otherwise? > > thanks, best wishes > mario > > ..... > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 2017-06-03 at 11:05 +0000, James Gannon wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Unless I express otherwise in my will or in the contact with the > > > > PO box company I would of course expect them to keep my personal > > > > effects private, this is an express provision in many contracts > > > > that are expected to last until death, for example I know there is > > > > such a provision in the contract I have in my safe deposit box. > > > > > > > > -J > ....

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Je NTSA Kenya?: Trump admin revising driverless car guidelines
by WANGARI KABIRU 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/336462-trump-admin-revising-driver… Blessed Tuesday! While curious on Kenya's NTSA guide on autonomous vehicles in Kenya (East Africa), I find the below to be extendable for coexistence and shared prosperity as the statement of the century across evolving technologies for Kenya's Silicon Savannah; "But Chao said Silicon Valley needs to “step up” and be more forthcoming with information about self-driving cars in an effort to better educate both the government and public about the emerging technology. “A lot of the technology comes from Silicon Valley,” Chao said, according to Bloomberg. “They have a responsibility to educate the rest of the American public on the technologies they’re thinking about, technologies which are miles and miles ahead of most people’s understanding.” Be blessed. Regards/Wanngari --- 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". Trump admin revising driverless car guidelines | | | | | | | | | | | Trump admin revising driverless car guidelines By Melanie Zanona Updated guidance on the emerging technology is expected to be released in the next few months, said Transportati... | | | | Trump admin revising driverless car guidelines By Melanie Zanona - 06/05/17 08:21 PM EDT 3 0 © Getty The Trump administration is reportedly revising Obama-era guidelines for driverless vehicles. Updated guidance on the emerging technology is expected to be released in the next few months, said Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, according to multiple reports. "The pressure is mounting for the federal government to do something," Chao said during a conference in Detroit on Monday, according to Reuters. The new guidance will focus on spurring industry innovation and encouraging "new entrants and ideas that deliver safer vehicles,” Chao added. But she also emphasized that the agency would not rush to draft binding regulations on self-driving cars. “Too quick of movement toward rules may not be sustainable in the long term,” Chao said, according to Bloomberg. “We don’t want to have rules that may impede future advances.”ADVERTISEMENTThe administration has been re-evaluating the flexible, voluntary guidelines for autonomous vehicles that were released last fall. The framework includes a 15-point safety assessment for automakers that is meant to be subjected to the formal rulemaking process. The guidelines also include model policy for states in an effort to avoid a messy patchwork of regulations across the country. The industry has searched for clues about how Trump will approach autonomous vehicle regulations, with some expecting his administration to have a lighter touch. Most industry representatives have called the driverless car guidelines a good first step, but think some improvements could be made. Driverless car developers have raised concern that states are trying to make the voluntary safety checklist mandatory, while others have taken issue with being asked to share significant data about their technology. The industry has also urged policymakers to ease certain safety standards that don’t apply to traditional automobiles, which they say could hamper innovation and testing. But Chao said Silicon Valley needs to “step up” and be more forthcoming with information about self-driving cars in an effort to better educate both the government and public about the emerging technology. “A lot of the technology comes from Silicon Valley,” Chao said, according to Bloomberg. “They have a responsibility to educate the rest of the American public on the technologies they’re thinking about, technologies which are miles and miles ahead of most people’s understanding.”

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2nd Summit on Community Networks In Africa - Ebook
by WANGARI KABIRU 28 May '17

28 May '17

Blessed Sunday! I am delighted to share resources from the Community Networks In Africa Training Workshop and followup events coordinated by the Internet Society at the Africa Internet Summit (AIS) in Nairobi. The discussions for Kenyan colleagues was a great follow through in my perspective to the successful Communications Authority hosted ICT Week. Community Networks - that have been a phenomenon for about 10years now is a great opportunity call for Communities to take greater ownership of and for their connectivity for the purposes they need it. Please find for your review a great e-book. http://wndw.net/pdf/wndw-en/wndw-ebook.pdf A report on the Community Networks in Africa was launched during the event. Congratulations to Jane Coffin and Michuki Mwangi for following through to this 2nd Summit on Community Networks!! Have a blessed week ahead! Regards/Wangari Africa Internet Summit (AIS) 2017 | Internet Society | | | Africa Internet Summit (AIS) 2017 | Internet Society | | | --- 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".

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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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