[kictanet] Day 2 Internet Study- International & Domestic Bandwidth Usage

[Jose']

Hi Walu,

You ask what can be done to make us be exporters? 

Answer:-Human resource development is a very fundamnetal way of making us export bandwith.We need to provide individuals(web developers) with skills and access to information,knowledge and traing that will catalyze them to think and explore on grounds of export thus enabling them to perform effectively.

Simply,let us all invest our resources to capacity building strategies.

Whats your input Alex?

Best Regards, 
Jose' Njuki-Imwe Ngunjiri || +254 722 336754 || 



----- Original Message ----
From: John Walubengo <jwalu at yahoo.com>
To: ngunjirijnr at yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:13:04 AM
Subject: [kictanet] Day 2 Internet Study- International & Domestic Bandwidth Usage


Hi all,

Yesterday was the most silent deliberation I have ever had
- am told it may have been caused by the excitement of the
'Free PC & Cheap Internet' from LK and KDN...

Any I do hope today we shall have some response on the
above topic which incidentally have a bearing on the
long-term success or otherwise of similar 'Free PC & Cheap
Internet' initiatives...the question of International vs
Domestic Internet Bandwidth.

The Internet Study says that of the about 1G International
International Bandwidth only 10% is outbound while 90% is
inbound.  What this mean is that kenya is a net IMPORTER of
internet content.  In internet economic terms we are
therefore consumers rather than generators of internet
content - which is a bad thing.  Value is always retained
by those who generate rather than just consume internet
content i.e. the exporters of internet content.

Put in another way, all the International bandwidth (KDN,
Jamii & others) buys (imports) on our behalf implies that
someone in the Northern hemisphere is getting paid for it -
wouldn't it be better that KDN, Jamii & others get to sell
(export) the same amount of bandwidth to consumers in the
North?  What can be done to get that to happen? Are the
recommendations in the report sufficient to address this
imbalance?

1 day discussion on this theme, the floor is open...  

walu.


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