[kictanet] 2nd Internet Governance Online Discussion Report

[Solomon Mburu]

Dear Walu,

I should commend your effort in consolidating our comments during the Online
Discussion Forum.

My comments, as I had addressed, were well captured.

Keep it up!

2009/8/11 Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com>

> Apologies, had send this earlier with the "wrong title" -guess I am not
> good at night-running on the web like Nyaki...
>
> Nway, Attached is the online discussion report on Internet Governance
> issues. Listers should confirm that their views were correctly captured
> before we meet in the upcoming .KE Internet Governance meeting.
>
> walu
>
> ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬Executive Summary Starts¬¬¬¬¬¬¬
>
> KICTANet commissioned the 2nd online discussion on Internet Governance,
> aiming to continue raising awareness of the global Internet Governance
> issues while reviewing corresponding country positions based on new
> developments. Specifically, discussions were centered around Infrastructure
> & Content Issues (Undersea Cable, ccTLDs, IXPs, IPv6), Cyber-Security
> (Consumer and Data Privacy, National Security Strategies) and
> Socio-economic issues (ePayment Platforms).
>
> The anticipated landing of several undersea cables on the East African
> Coast raised discussions on the impact (or lack of) these would have on
> Access, Affordability, Content and Quality of the Internet Service. It was
> felt that reliable and affordable last-mile (Local-Loop) solutions would
> need to be provisioned in order to realise affordable Internet Services. The
> current mobile (3G) service was welcome but not sufficient to
> drive down the costs as much as Fiber-To-The Homes (FTTH) and Fixed
> Wireless technologies would. In other words, International Bandwidth prices
> may drop but expensive last mile solutions would continue to justify high
> costs of Internet services – even with competition at both the local and
> international market layers.
>
> With regard to the Quality (Broadband) Issues, participants felt that
> Quality of the Services was subjective and an aspect of User expectations
> and Usage patterns. However, members agreed that Broadband Service was a
> factor of BOTH Reliability and Affordability. Providing reliable but
> expensive (exclusive) services would therefore fail the test of Broadband
> services. Furthermore, it was noted that most Service Providers
> gave poor contention-ratios on their uplinks to the Internet leading to
> highly degraded Internet services.
>
> The discussion on the management of the Country Code Top-Level Domain
> (ccTLD) was one-sided with most participants registering their reservation
> about the new law that required all second-level domain registrars to be
> licensed. This issue continues to remain cloudy particularly because the
> Regulator is yet to publish the regulatory details of how a split dot.KE
> registry would be managed as well as the criterion for applying, approving
> and revoking licenses.
>
> With respect to IPv6 some participants felt that it was not important while
> others warned that it was a threat in terms of missing opportunities that
> the next generation internet presents. The role of the Internet eXchange
> Point (IXP) was widely acknowledged and the Government departments
> challenged to move content online in order to enhance and optimise the use
> of the Kenyan IXP.
>
> With regard to Security, it was noted that the provisions of KCA
> (amendment) Act, 2009 represented the primary threats, an indication that
> the government recognized cyber security related issues. However, a culture
> of cybersecurity could be established through management tools such as data
> classification, security awareness training, risk assessment and risk
> analysis. These tools would facilitate the identification of threats,
> classification of assets and rating of assets vulnerabilities in order to
> implement effective security controls. In addition Users should be
> encouraged to develop a culture of reading terms and conditions websites –
> particularly eCommerce based sites.
>
> Participants indicated that privacy and security on the internet was
> usually not a concern until a user encountered an infringement. Resolution
> to violation to right of privacy and security was limited by the fact that
> most citizens do not have the time or money to start legal proceedings.
> ‘Social re-engineering’ was proposed as the best method to overcome
> these challenges.
>
> The determination of the level of cybersecurity preparedness was emphasized
> given that the availability of high capacity and quality international
> bandwidth delivered by submarine cable would increase the vulnerability of
> services and networks in the country. It was proposed that the level of
> cybersecurity preparedness could be determined with use of the ITU National
> Cybersecurity/critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP)
> Self-Assessment Tool. Additionally, participants supported the
> establishment of the national CERT using the public private partnership
> (PPP) model.
>
> Participants noted that the national and regional Internet Governance
> Forums were an indication of the success of the IGF in providing an
> inclusive governance process. Participants supported the continuation of the
> IGF as it was based on a multi-stakeholder processes and provided a globally
> unique environment for a constructive and open exchange of ideas.
>
>
>
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