[kictanet] 2nd Internet Governance Online Discussion Report

Thu Aug 13 16:52:38 EAT 2009

Thanx Mburu

But dont forget - this was a Collabo - infact my co-moderator, Mwende did quite a big chunk of the Synthesis...

walu.
nb: Those who were "silent" participants during the eDiscussions will have a chance to "shout" during the face-2-face discussion next week Wed 19th at Jacaranda hotel.

--- On Thu, 8/13/09, Solomon Mburu <solo.mburu at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Solomon Mburu <solo.mburu at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] 2nd Internet Governance Online Discussion Report
> To: "Walubengo J" <jwalu at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 4:14 PM
> 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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