[kictanet] My Evening in Jail (O.K, next to Jail)

Wed Mar 7 20:05:26 EAT 2007

Did you know that Nairobi has the biggest WIFI deployment in Africa?

Rgds

Kai
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Judy Okite 
  To: kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 20:00
  Subject: Re: [kictanet] My Evening in Jail (O.K, next to Jail)

  Sir,

  Pole sana,

  Shows where we are @! with telkom kenya,bringing in new products every other day,why cant they for example try out a few Wi-Fi hotspots and place the cops there to use the mentioned facilities...on another note is the KRA database available to Kenya Police? Is the Imigration Database availabe to the Police? because there would no point to visit KRA offices...spend valuable time....doing what? If mkubwa could have been there,could He(Mr. Walubengo) be released? 

  Kind regards,

  On 3/7/07, Alex Gakuru <alex.gakuru at yahoo.com> wrote:
    Brian,

    Integrating below developments from news just received (courtesy of  news at canarie.ca), your suggestion is not a dream but the way to go >>>> 

    /Alex

    ----forward---- 

    http://gigaom.com/2007/03/06/bt-to-invest-in-fon/ 

    BT to Invest in FON?

    FON, the Spanish share-your-Wi-Fi services company, is close to announcing a
    new round of funding that could total to as much as 10 million Euros (shade
    over $13 million.)

    While some of its existing investors - Index Ventures, Skype and Google -
    are coming back with more cash, the word from telecom circles in Europe is
    that British Telecom is going to invest in the wireless router company.

    FON is the latest start-up by Spanish telecom entrepreneur, Martin
    Varsavsky, who has made a name for being a thorn in the side of incumbents. 
    When I visited BT last summer while reporting a story for Business 2.0, the
    senior management of the British incumbent carrier was pretty bullish on the
    whole notion of dual-mode phones and municipal wireless.

    Dual-mode phones are phone that have Wi-Fi and cellular capabilities in one
    single handset, and in an ideal world there is a seamless handoff between
    the two networks once you are in range of a Wi-Fi network

    While this does seem like a distant dream, eventually it will happen. Nokia,
    for instance, is pretty confident that most of its mobile phones in the near
    future will have Wi-Fi capabilities built into them. BT can offer voice (and 
    other services) over Wi-Fi when in range of a FON node, and when out of
    range it can switch to the Vodafone network for cellular access.

    T-Mobile USA is trying something similar up in the U.S. Northwest, though it
    is through a customer's own Wi-Fi network. Free.fr of France has also been
    playing with a similar idea and has bundled FON-like software in its
    residential gateways. 

    --ends--

    Brian Longwe <brian at isisweb.nl> wrote:

      On Mar 7, 2007, at 4:56 PM, John Walubengo wrote: 

        Here is the IT angle - isn't it time their website
        www.kenyapolice.go.ke gave the Citizens the correct
        position regarding Police Procedures for Civil/Criminal 
        offence? I mean I never knew a traffic offence could earn
        you 1-night accomodation with General Ali's (the Police
        Commissioner) guests. Further more, when are those so 
        called Tamper-proof Driving Licences going to hit the
        market?

      Hi John,

      Thanks for sharing (in your v. pleasant style) your experience. Actually I think you are letting us off a bit easily by only suggesting procedures be on the Police website. I would go a bit further.

      Every Mobile Police Unit and/or Traffic stop have a functional laptop with wireless access to various databases:
      - IDs / Passports/ Work Permits / Visa
      - Driving License
      - Car Registration
      - Criminal Records Database

      That way by simply running a couple of simple queries they would immediately know whether you are worthy of being offered free accomodation.

      Regards,

      Mblayo

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