Draft National ICT Policy Discussions Day 8 of 10: Emerging Issues ( Big Data, Bitcoin, Internet of Things)

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

Listers, As we start day 8 of 10, please note that you can still contribute to any of the threads of the previous days. We would also like to thank everyone who has edited the policy on the Jadili platform http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy. We welcome your views on emerging issues. If there is any subject that has not been covered feel free to propose emerging areas that should be considered. Regards On 7/1/16, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote:
Day 8 of 10:
* Internet of Things, M2M * Net Neutrality & OTT * Big Data * Virtual Money/BlockChains
The Background:
Internet of Things is a vision (now a reality) of physical objects (machines, vehicles, buildings, etc) fitted with sensors that allow them to communicate with each other. The smart-city concept envisions sensors continuously reporting status (e.g Traffic status, Pollution Status, Maintenance Status) of the different objects to allow for efficient management response. A lot of data exchanges arises hence the term Big Data with its associated data analytics requirements.
Meanwhile, Virtual Money/Currency (Bitcoin, etc) threatens to disrupt the need for a centralised banking institutions. Over The Top (Skype, Twitter, FB, Youtube) have been around longer but the need to regulate or NOT to regulate them continues to be debated.
Given recent developments on the KiCTANET list on Virtual money what should our position on these and other emerging issues be from a policy perspective ? is there need to embrace the issues?
Your comments are welcome
-- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A
-- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A

Dear all, As regards the IoT as a revolutionary technology, some concerns worth being addressed are: - What are the energy efficient technologies that can be put in place to ensure that the sensors and IoT platform in general does not utilise a lot of power. - As IoT is implemented on the cloud, can we come up with a standard for CloudIoT especially given that we have many standards for the IoT cloud. -How are security and privacy issues being addressed as we adopt big data and IoT. Thats my 2 cents for now. Best regards Ronald Ojino
On Jul 1, 2016, at 1:38 AM, Barrack Otieno via isoc <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Listers,
As we start day 8 of 10, please note that you can still contribute to any of the threads of the previous days. We would also like to thank everyone who has edited the policy on the Jadili platform http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy <http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy>. We welcome your views on emerging issues. If there is any subject that has not been covered feel free to propose emerging areas that should be considered.
Regards
On 7/1/16, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com <mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com>> wrote:
Day 8 of 10:
* Internet of Things, M2M * Net Neutrality & OTT * Big Data * Virtual Money/BlockChains
The Background:
Internet of Things is a vision (now a reality) of physical objects (machines, vehicles, buildings, etc) fitted with sensors that allow them to communicate with each other. The smart-city concept envisions sensors continuously reporting status (e.g Traffic status, Pollution Status, Maintenance Status) of the different objects to allow for efficient management response. A lot of data exchanges arises hence the term Big Data with its associated data analytics requirements.
Meanwhile, Virtual Money/Currency (Bitcoin, etc) threatens to disrupt the need for a centralised banking institutions. Over The Top (Skype, Twitter, FB, Youtube) have been around longer but the need to regulate or NOT to regulate them continues to be debated.
Given recent developments on the KiCTANET list on Virtual money what should our position on these and other emerging issues be from a policy perspective ? is there need to embrace the issues?
Your comments are welcome
-- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A
-- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A
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On Jul 5, 2016, at 4:39 PM, Ronald Ojino <ronojinx@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all, As regards the IoT as a revolutionary technology, some concerns worth being addressed are: - What are the energy efficient technologies that can be put in place to ensure that the sensors and IoT platform in general does not utilise a lot of power. - As IoT is implemented on the cloud, can we come up with a standard for CloudIoT especially given that we have many standards for the IoT cloud. -How are security and privacy issues being addressed as we adopt big data and IoT. Thats my 2 cents for now. Best regards Ronald Ojino
On Jul 1, 2016, at 1:38 AM, Barrack Otieno via isoc <isoc@lists.my.co.ke <mailto:isoc@lists.my.co.ke>> wrote:
Listers,
As we start day 8 of 10, please note that you can still contribute to any of the threads of the previous days. We would also like to thank everyone who has edited the policy on the Jadili platform http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy <http://jadili.ictpolicy.org/docs/kenya-ict-policy>. We welcome your views on emerging issues. If there is any subject that has not been covered feel free to propose emerging areas that should be considered.
Regards
On 7/1/16, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com <mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com>> wrote:
Day 8 of 10:
* Internet of Things, M2M * Net Neutrality & OTT * Big Data * Virtual Money/BlockChains
The Background:
Internet of Things is a vision (now a reality) of physical objects (machines, vehicles, buildings, etc) fitted with sensors that allow them to communicate with each other. The smart-city concept envisions sensors continuously reporting status (e.g Traffic status, Pollution Status, Maintenance Status) of the different objects to allow for efficient management response. A lot of data exchanges arises hence the term Big Data with its associated data analytics requirements.
Meanwhile, Virtual Money/Currency (Bitcoin, etc) threatens to disrupt the need for a centralised banking institutions. Over The Top (Skype, Twitter, FB, Youtube) have been around longer but the need to regulate or NOT to regulate them continues to be debated.
Given recent developments on the KiCTANET list on Virtual money what should our position on these and other emerging issues be from a policy perspective ? is there need to embrace the issues?
Your comments are welcome
-- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A
-- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254733206359 Skype: barrack.otieno PGP ID: 0x2611D86A
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