[kictanet] Experts' warnings of web's future

[Brian Munyao Longwe]

V. Nice Wesley,

This is a v important point...

.... I remember in science fiction reading and futuristic views of  
tech in the nineties the adage " the network is the computer"

This is becoming more and more true.

Sine both of us have a foot in the Skunkworks/dev and Kictanet/policy  
lists and in view of the recent discussions in S/works around policy I  
would like to present both a challenge and an opportunity.

Could we consider a Dev/Policy think-tank (3:1, dev:policy) that can  
look at the opportunity to define such platforms for Kenya's national  
development? I think a good starting point would be the Pasha  
programme as this will be an e-cosystem that spans the entire country  
and could potentially have incredible impact.

In fact, could I talk at the next skunks meet about the Pasha tech  
infostructure concept? I can assure you it is networking/deployment on  
an unprecedented level.

B

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On 12 Jul 2008, at 9:36 AM, wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000 at yahoo.com>  
wrote:

> Good people,
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7466085.stm
>
> In summary the first part of the article (what I was interested in)  
> talks about how platforms are taking over the net and are squeezing  
> out the liberty to develop apps that use the net. Platforms include  
> facebook, google apps and apple.
>
> One of the main arguments is that e.g. in Facebook the developer has  
> to agree to the terms of the platform which might not be very  
> favourable.
>
> "...[There are] rights to charge the makers of applications for the  
> privilege of allowing that application to continue to exist on  
> Facebook at any rate Facebook chooses. Rights to terminate any  
> application that they don't like, for any reason..."
>
> Good Weekend.
>
> Ohh, almost forgot
>
> Sent from my Dell Inspiron 1520
> 8~D
>
>
>
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