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Access Kenya slow speeds
by george 14 May '13

14 May '13

Morning listers, anyone experiencing slow speeds in AK? Have been slow since yesterday 5pm. i'm on the Motorola canopy George

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Fwd: [Chapter-delegates] NEWS RELEASE: Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in Durban, South Africa, 12-13 July 2013
by Barrack Otieno 14 May '13

14 May '13

Listers, FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <cover(a)isoc.org> Date: Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:28 PM Subject: [Chapter-delegates] NEWS RELEASE: Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in Durban, South Africa, 12-13 July 2013 To: chapter-delegates(a)elists.isoc.org Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in Durban, South Africa, 12-13 July 2013 Co-organized by the Internet Society, AfTLD, and ICANN Forum will bring together registries, registrars, experts and policy makers to foster cross-border collaboration [Washington, D.C., and Geneva, Switzerland, 13 May 2013] – The Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum will be held on 12 - 13 July 2013 in Durban, South Africa. The event aims to establish a platform for the DNS community across Africa and to advance the domain name industry and domain name registrations on the continent. Over the years, the Internet Society, AfTLD, and ICANN have supported the continued development and growth of Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) in Africa through capacity building and technical support. Despite the support, the growth and sustainability of African ccTLDs and adoption of new technologies remains very low as compared to other regions of the world. To identify the bottlenecks that are keeping the industry from growing and the actions that can catalyze its growth, the three organizations determined the need for a forum to discuss these regional DNS issues. The DNS Forum will foster cross-border collaboration between registries, registrars, registrants, DNS experts, Government representatives, and policy makers. Topics covered during the 1 ½ day event include trends, opportunities, and challenges of the DNS industry; strategies for registries and registrars; legal issues with cross-border domain registrations; ways Governments can support domain name growth; and benefits of standardizing accreditation to attract more cross-border registrars and registrations. “The Internet Society’s African Regional Bureau has been working to strengthen the ccTLDs in Africa by improving sustainability, encouraging the implementation of automation solutions at ccTLDs, and promoting the use of technology such as DNSSEC at registries,” said Dawit Bekele, Internet Society Regional Bureau Director for Africa. “We are pleased to join together with AfTLD and ICANN to host this multi-stakeholder forum where participants can share experiences, gain new insights, and establish new business relationships with organizations from within and outside the continent. Such a forum is important to bring growth in the African domain name industry.” Pierre S. Dandjinou, ICANN Vice President of Stakeholder Engagement for Africa, commented, “ICANN is partnering with other players in the region to implement its Africa strategy, which was developed in 2012 by the African community. Thus, this DNS Forum in Durban, as a partnership between AfTLD and the Internet Society and as a pre-conference event to the ICANN meeting, is another milestone that builds on the MIGworks event in Addis in March 2013, which sought to pave the way for the development of the DNS industry in Africa and to empower the African community for an increased accreditation of registrars from the continent. I believe the new gTLD program will help grow this industry on a global and regional level, and we hope that African business players can be part of this growing industry as much as they can. ICANN will present in this event several programs to support and incubate new business players in Africa to benefit out of the growing potential in this continent.” “By working with and building on our partnerships in running the DNS Forum, AfTLD’s objective is to build on our thriving capacity building activities for ccTLDs in Africa so as to improve the DNS in Africa and the sustainability of ccTLDs,” said Dr. Paulos Nyirenda, President of AfTLD. “The DNS Forum will present a great opportunity for players in the domain industry to learn and to foster new and established relationships, including those among ccTLDs, registries, registrars, operators, policy makers and end users.” For more information and to register for the Africa DNS Forum, visit: http://aftld.org/afdnsforum -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/ -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/

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Wi-Free - No connection
by Edge Kenya 13 May '13

13 May '13

Hi all,I have tried connecting with Wi-free using 3 different SIMs but so far unsuccessful. Any tips on what I might be doing wrong?

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[skunkworks] Buy goods Charging interface Dev Guide
by joe mwirigi 13 May '13

13 May '13

Hi friends, Anyone with this guide to the api and cares to share with me? Kindest Regards *_______________________________________________________________ We must Keep on, *

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The Six Deadly Sins of Leadership
by Alex Nyika 13 May '13

13 May '13

*The Six Deadly Sins of Leadership* *By Jack and Suzy Welch* <http://jackwelch.strayer.edu/about/jack-welch> Being a leader is perhaps the hardest challenge any of us will ever face. No matter how long we work at it, practicing the right behaviors is a never-ending task. Knowing – and avoiding – the wrong ones is too. Thus, we offer the following six common leadership pitfalls: *1. Not Giving Self-Confidence its Due. *Self-confidence is the lifeblood of success. When people have it, they’re bold. They try new things, offer ideas, exude positive energy, and cooperate with their colleagues instead of surreptitiously attempting to bring them down. When they lack self-confidence, it’s just the opposite. People cower. They plod. And they spread negativity with every word and gesture. But all too often leaders ignore (or neglect) this very basic fact of the human condition. Why is anyone’s guess. Perhaps they just don’t understand that it is part of their job to instill self-confidence in their people. It may even be said that it’s their first job. You cannot unleash the creative power of individuals who doubt themselves. Fortunately, some people seem to be born with self-confidence. Others gain it from life and work experience and come to a company fully loaded. Regardless, leaders can never stop pouring self-confidence into their teams. The ways to do so are myriad. Make sure goals are challenging – but achievable. Give effusive positive feedback. Remind your direct reports of what they do right. We’re not saying that leaders should blindly extol and exalt. People know when they’re being gamed. But good leaders work relentlessly to find ways to instill self-confidence in those around them. They know it’s the gift that never stops giving. *2. Muzzling Voice. *Perhaps the most frustrating way that leaders underperform is by over-talking. That is, they act like know-it-alls. They can tell you how the world works, what corporate is thinking, how it will backfire if you try this or that, and why you can’t possibly change the product one iota. Sometimes such blowhards get their swagger from a few positive experiences, but usually they’re just victims of their own destructive personalities. Ultimately, the company ends up being a victim too, because know-it-alls aren’t just insufferable, they’re dangerous. They don’t listen, and that deafness makes it very hard for new ideas to get debated, expanded upon, or improved. No single person, no matter how smart, can take a business to its apex. For that, you need every voice to be heard. *3. Acting Phony. *Can you spot a phony? Of course you can – and so can your people. Indeed, if there is one widespread human capability, it is sniffing out someone who is putting on airs, pretending to be who they’re not, or just keeping their real self hidden. Yet too many leaders spend way too much time creating personas that put a wall between them and their employees. What a waste. Because authenticity is what makes people love you. Visibly grappling with tough problems, sweating the details, laughing, and caring – those are the activities that make people respond and feel engaged with what you’re saying. Sure, some people will tell you that being mysterious grants you power as a leader. In reality, all it generates is fear. And who wants to motivate that way? Now, obviously, authenticity is unattractive if it’s coupled with immaturity or an overdose of informality. And organizations generally don’t like people who are too emotionally unbounded – i.e. so real that all their feelings are exposed. They tend to tamp that kind of intensity down a bit. And that’s not a bad thing, as work is work and, more than at home, allows us to maintain some privacy. But don’t let convention wring all the authenticity out of you, especially as you climb the ladder. In time, humanity always wins. Your team and bosses come to know who you are in your soul, what kind of people you attract and what kind of performance you want from everyone. Your realness will make you accessible; you will connect and you will inspire. You will lead. *4. Lacking the Guts to Differentiate. *You only have to be in business a few weeks to know that not all investment opportunities are created equal. But some leaders can’t face that reality, and so they sprinkle their resources like cheese on a pizza, a little bit everywhere. As a result, promising growth opportunities too often don’t get the outsized infusions of cash and people they need. If they did, someone might get offended during the resource allocation process. Someone – as in the manager of a weak business or the sponsor of a dubious investment proposal. But leaders who don’t differentiate do the most damage when it comes to people. Unwilling to deliver candid, rigorous performance reviews, they give every employee the same kind of bland, mushy, “nice job” sign-off. Then, when rewards are doled out, they give star performers little more than the laggards. Now, you can call this egalitarian approach kind, or fair – as these lousy leaders usually do – but it’s really just weakness. And when it comes to building a thriving organization where people have the chance to grow and succeed, weakness just doesn’t cut it. *5. Fixation on Results at the Expense of Values. *Everyone knows that leaders deliver. Oratory and inspiration without results equal…well, a whole lot of nothing. But leaders are committing a real dereliction of duties if all they care about are the numbers. They also have to care about how those numbers came to be. Were the right behaviors practiced? Was the company’s culture of integrity honored? Were people taken care of properly? Was the law obeyed, in both letter and spirit? Values are a funny thing in business. Companies love to talk about them. They love to hang them up on plaques in the lobby and boast about them to potential hires and customers. But they’re meaningless if leaders don’t live and breathe them. Sometimes that can take courage. It can mean letting go of a top performer who’s a brute to his colleagues, or not promoting a star who doesn’t share her best ideas with the team. That’s hard. And yet if you’re a leader, this is a sin you cannot squint away. When you nail your results, make sure you can also report back to a crowded room: We did this the right way, according to our values. *6. Skipping the Fun Part *What is it about celebrating that makes managers so nervous? Maybe throwing a party doesn’t seem professional, or it makes people worry that they won’t look serious to the powers that be, or that, if things get too happy in the office, people will stop working their tails off. Whatever the reason, too many leaders don’t celebrate enough. To be clear here, we do not define celebrating as conducting one of those stilted little company-orchestrated events that everyone hates, in which the whole team is marched out to a local restaurant for an evening of forced merriment when they’d rather be home. We’re talking about sending a team to Disney World with their families, or giving each team member tickets to a show or a movie, or handing each member of the team a new iPod. What a lost opportunity. Celebrating makes people feel like winners and creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. You can’t! And yet companies win all the time and let it go without so much as a high-five. Work is too much a part of life not to recognize the moments of achievement. Grab as many as you can. Make a big deal out of them. That’s part of a leader’s job too – the fun part. *This content was originally presented as a lecture at the **Jack Welch Management Institute* <http://jackwelch.strayer.edu/>*.* * * -- Kind regards, Alex Nyika

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Fwd: Website Review
by ibtisam jamal 13 May '13

13 May '13

Hello all We have a website that we’d like you to help evaluate based on its * navigation*, *usability*, and *content*, and make recommendations that needs to be address based on the findings. The website is *www.uongozi.or.tz Please Help Out*

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add new member
by ibtisam jamal 13 May '13

13 May '13

Please add him to the mailing list abdulaziz.muhile(a)gmail.com

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LOOKING FOR IPOD 5
by Josephine K. Irungu 13 May '13

13 May '13

Hi all, Looking for a brand new Ipod 5, 64GB, any leads. Rgds On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:37 PM, <skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke> wrote: > Send skunkworks mailing list submissions to > skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > skunkworks-request(a)lists.my.co.ke > > You can reach the person managing the list at > skunkworks-owner(a)lists.my.co.ke > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of skunkworks digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Fwd: Website Review (ibtisam jamal) > 2. Super Fast 5g (Amarjit Labhuram) > 3. Re: Super Fast 5g (Tony Likhanga) > 4. add new member (ibtisam jamal) > 5. Open Data (Phares Kariuki) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:47:00 +0300 > From: ibtisam jamal <ibty.jamal(a)gmail.com> > To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke> > Cc: skunkworks <skunkworks(a)my.co.ke>, abdulaziz Muhile > <abdulaziz.muhile(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Fwd: Website Review > Message-ID: > < > CAAq4QWYZvMFpa5Y7XWHb21B2BFNuLMGZepFKkZHmcuYG_UO-Cw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Hi Adam, > > As harsh as possible ,all critics are allowed. > > Regards, > > > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Adam Nelson <adam(a)varud.com> wrote: > > > To be honest: > > > > 1. Outdated layout method - should be using CSS3/HTML5 and not tables > > 2. Print, Font, and Email Page icons on top totally superfluous > > 3. Headings like 'Welcome' don't really help the user accomplish any > > particular outcome. > > > > How harsh do you want us to be exactly? In order to move forward you > need > > to do research on sites with a similar mandate and critique them as a > team. > > Basically, just substitute 'African' with 'Asian' and other regions of > the > > world and see what other people are doing. For instance, the Asian > > Leadership Institute is pretty well laid out (although by no means > ideal): > > > > http://asianleadership.com/ > > > > Cheers, > > Adam > > > > P.S. - As for IE6, people need to get over it. Africa is the last place > > on earth where I keep hearing people talk about IE6 as a requirement. > Tell > > whoever you're working for that you're sacrificing usability for modern > > devices by spending time on anything <IE8. You're also screwing yourself > > career-wise because developing IE6 layouts is a dead skill. > > > > https://twitter.com/varud > > https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson > > > > > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:23 PM, TheBigBoss <thebigboss(a)peperuka.com > >wrote: > > > >> Good as any other (boring; can I say it) template-like website. > >> > >> Ouch ! Tables !!! > >> > >> <table id="Table_01" width="1073" border="0" cellpadding="0" > cellspacing="0"> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On 13 May 2013 14:46, ibtisam jamal <ibty.jamal(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Hello all > >>> > >>> We have a website that we?d like you to help evaluate based on its * > >>> navigation*, *usability*, and *content*, and make recommendations that > >>> needs to be address based on the findings. > >>> > >>> The website is *www.uongozi.or.tz > >>> > >>> Please Help Out* > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> skunkworks mailing list > >>> skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke > >>> ------------ > >>> List info, subscribe/unsubscribe > >>> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > >>> ------------ > >>> > >>> Skunkworks Rules > >>> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 > >>> ------------ > >>> Other services @ http://my.co.ke > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> skunkworks mailing list > >> skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke > >> ------------ > >> List info, subscribe/unsubscribe > >> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > >> ------------ > >> > >> Skunkworks Rules > >> http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 > >> ------------ > >> Other services @ http://my.co.ke > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > skunkworks mailing list > > skunkworks(a)lists.my.co.ke > > ------------ > > List info, subscribe/unsubscribe > > http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks > > ------------ > > > > Skunkworks Rules > > http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 > > ------------ > > Other services @ http://my.co.ke > > >

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Open Data
by Phares Kariuki 13 May '13

13 May '13

Probably the best thing to happen to the open data movement… -- Regards, Phares Kariuki | Twitter: kaboro | Skype: kariukiphares | B: http://www.kaboro.com/ |

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Super Fast 5g
by Amarjit Labhuram 13 May '13

13 May '13

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/hardware/Samsung-tests-5G… Have a great day! Warm regards, Amarjit Singh Labhuram.

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