[kictanet] Day 5 - Statistics on Affordability - CCKInternetStudy Report

Sat May 5 10:41:50 EAT 2007

Whao! 

quite a burst of energy here.  Looks like the technical
holdup or hiccup brought the best out of some of us ;-) 
Very important specifics/To-DO-Lists outlined here. 
Including ofcourse the self-appointed CEO role...

walu.

--- Alex Gakuru <alex.gakuru at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> So many issues discussed while I was way, rather long
> even after trying so hard to be brief feel free to ask
> for details if need be.  I have touched on 
> 
> 1. Local content.
> 2. Demand
> 3. Education
> 4. Infrastructure  
> 5. Financing and Sustainability
> 6. WB (Development Sector)
> 7. Roles
> 8. Way Forward, 
> ------------------------------------
> 1. Local content. Multi-pronged approach 
> 
> a) Every government department to have a website in six
> months 
> update at least once/month 
> b) Companies without website to be given a "website dev.
> tax rebate" 
> (they go on line first?)
> c) Every school to have a domain. 
> d) KENIC slashes domain name costs >> envisaged en-masse
> new 
> registrations justifies this  
> e) Pornography: Have any e-preparedness? Fatma shared a
> horrifying 
> perception encounter  
> 
> 2. Demand
> a) Involve non traditional and enlist new communities of
> users(e.g. 
> religious faithful for verses) 
> b) CCK ensures users have "full" internet ( i.e. VoIP no
> crippled by 
> any provider). 
> c) MVoIP means cheap communication >> already in high
> demand  
> d) 45% of Europeans watch TV online 
>
<http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/03/45-of-europeans-watch-tv-online/>
> 
> 3. Education
> a) Everybody avoids this, even their own staff
> skills>>poach from competitors>> 
> so introduce training levy collected from to all
> providers.  
> b) Levy funds common good education diverse outlets
> (e-media, print, 
> posters, big street adverts ...)   
> c) Consumer education>> trust foundation for continued
> use of services 
> (not a petulant expense)
> d) Funds communication research    
> 
> 4. Infrastructure  (PS captured my sentiments) and I
> believe government 
> works for common good of everyone. I add,  
> -  MVoIP cheap communication >> sustainable smallNETs(my
> 22 March 
> presentation)
> - Have we entered a new age of communication industry
> (google “P2P”, “joost”)
> - Embracing “Open Access” is good because infrastructure
> dominance will 
> not withstand consumer choice freedom pressure.
> 
> 5. Financing and Sustainability
> a) I acknowledge sustainability challenges already exist 
> "FACING ECONOMIC REALITIES OF MUNI WI-FI"
>
<http://news.com.com/Facing+economic+realities+of+muni+Wi-Fi/2100-7351_3-6181058.html?tag=nefd.lede>
> b) This does not take away UA obligations >> info access
> and communication is 
> a basic human right
> c) Business now to think not out of the box, but above
> it. Think 
> about making just one (1) bob profit from every Kenyan
> every day>> 
> that company is shillings 30 million richer every day
>  
> 6. WB (Development Sector)
> - WB subsidy welcome. Was fast packaged delivered in
> 4months when they 
> usually take 18 months.
> - Usually, development sector support in ICT comes too
> little too late, 
> nonetheless appreciated. 
>  
> 7. Roles
> 
> We all have contributory but different roles to play
> although market 
> dominance wrangles cloud vision. Consumers are yearning
> to participate!
>  
> 8. Way Forward, 
> 
> Government immediately forms a muti-stakeholder iCt
> strategy working 
> committee a lean, mean-working group (and lets say I am
> the CEO:-)  
> Parliament is already considering a separate ICT-specific
> committee>>
> legislators value sector.
> 
> This is what we will achieve:- 
> 
> - to develop local sensitive e-comm. framework (selfishly
> I'd like to shop 
> at "Uchumi online") 
> - get those satellite mounted tracks across Kenya
> educating
> - set-up sustainable small rural community networks and
> underserved 
> urban areas>>residential
> - Give free/help public institutions and schools with
> website templates
> - Venture where no-one is looking (e.g. train senior
> citizens on ICTs use, 
> Create SME portal and lobby government for "Universal
> Access" to business 
> for small and disadvantaged businesses, say only 10% or
> shs 50 billion annual 
> budget>> change public procuments act?)
> - User-centric, demand triggering active engagement with
> industry, government, 
> well-wishers....
> 
> Walu, do I have this hypothetical job?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Alex
> 
> Fatma Bashir <fbashir at cyberschooltech.com> wrote: Joan,
> 
> I dont have statistics but working in the education
> sector, I see what KDN 
> sees in the schools, schools will be the incubation
> ground for the demand 
> for ICT in the rural areas (60% of schools are in rural
> areas). In about a 
> year and a half years time the picture will start
> changing as high school 
> graduates will be computer savvy and naturally opt to
> continue pursuing 
> interests ranging from search of opportunities for
> enterpreneurship to 
> formal job hunting using the internet or just keeping
> intouch!.
> 
> Further more when we look at schools and their
> facilities, they can easily 
> become the information centres for the communities around
> them and also 
> offer affordable capacity building to the parents of the
> students nearby. 
> Then they will start to look for ways to make some money
> and the 
> international/local content picture will start to swing
> in our favor.
> 
> Imagine one day you will go online and order your chopped
> sukuma wiki and 
> packet of carrots from the local mama mbogo outside your
> estate, she will 
> deliver to your house you will pay her on your way back
> home or GOd knows 
> even online?. its the form form leaver who will have
> designed the website 
> for her and its the nearby school that will have taught
> her computer 101.
> 
> whats missing is the segment that should be dealing with
> Capacity Building 
> in an informal way or even sensitizing and awareness ( ie
> we dont have to 
> attend college proper we can just go to the neighbourhood
> place and learn 
> some basics) I think that this is where the Lag might be
> felt by the likes 
> of KDN...and others.
> 
> Fatma
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joan Walumbe" 
> To: 
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Day 5 - Statistics on
> Affordability - 
> CCKInternetStudy Report
> 
> 
> > Walu,
> >
> > I agree with you that affordablity is a factor
> especially for rural
> > communities when it comes to access to the internet.
> But 
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