[kictanet] The Net reveals the ties that bind....what will it take to live in a networked world?

[aki]

My thoughts on content.

Local content is an issue that will need to be nurtured to ensure that kenya
does not become a hub for some activites. While govt agencies may have or
lack the proper methods to enforce/prosecute content sites/owners, all the
ICT sector players would need to work together to apply " Terms of Service
Use and Abuse " policies. Freedom of expression will be the key subject but
to what level do the sites become unacceptable.

- Will kenyan networks become a hub for terror organizations? Some of these
organizations/groups hosting blog sites/forums have been successfully routed
out of networks in the US. This forced some of the groups to host with
providers in the ME. What the govt agencies could not do, private
individuals and citizens with the knowledge in the ICT Industry did engage
and forced the service providers to shutdown these sites.

- A recent example of abuse of terms of service was shutdown by WordPress is
a blog site known as API run by a kenyan . Though the information is
un-verified, it seems this site is well known and did generate plenty of
traffic in the run up to the US elections.

Some strategies used by some content owners to generate traffic to their
sites is summarized as below :

- Political issues in their own opinions
- Hate issues
- Tribal issues
- Clanism issues
- Hate communications
- Extremist issues
- Slander and cheap insults to whomever they consider an enemy of their view
point

The most basic strategy used by individuals worldwide is simple : Create a
blog/content site with the usual outllook. Once the individual or site has
reached a number of viewers using ideologies, then open up the " real "
issues to the audience. Some of the points are listed above.

There are also plenty of other sites that developed excellent content and
fully deserve the traffic to their sites.
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