[kictanet] Kenya IGF 2010 Mailing List Discussions Day 1 of 8 Theme : Review of the 2009 IGF Mailing List Discussions

[Barrack Otieno]

To add some fluff to the opening remarks, the Internet Governance Forum (
www.intgovforum.org) has held 4 Global summits since its inception, the last
one being in Sharm El Sheikh where Kenya was ably represented. The Summits
have deliberated on Management and Governance of the Internet Security,
Critical Internet Resources, Internet Access among other issues. Some of the
key achievements realised nationally include.
Raising awaress and Capacity Building
Hosting of the IGF meeting which for the first time included Members of
Parliament from the UK and all East African Countries
Discourse on IG issues on the KICTANet Mailing list.
It is important to note that the number of stakeholders interested in IG
discussions has grown over time, one peculiar issue is the absence of a
strong voice from young people who are a major stakeholder and consumer of
internet products and services, it appears that the youth are more
interested in the technical aspects as opposed to policy and regulatory
issues which in itself is a worrying trend that needs to be revised, the
question to be answered however is how can the Youth and Children voices be
heard?, we have had interesting initiatives over the past one year by ICWE
Africa and a number of NGOs to address the issues of child security on the
internet, which is a great milestone, there was a proposal to have local
capacity building sessions which must have stalled, probably Walu could give
us an idea at what is going on at the Multimedia University or Strathmore
which had been identified as centres.

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Listers,
>
> Another year has gone by and it is time to review the deliberations that
> were made during last years discussions which was moderated by Walu and
> Mwende Njiraini. While reflecting on this it is important to note that the
> IGF process is not a decision making mechanism but a platform for
> multistakeholder dialogue, the idea is to bring together organisations and
> persons involved in Internet public policy formulation. It is this
> organisations and persons that make the decisions or implement the changes
> that are required in the public space. This notwithsatnding, the Kenya IGF
> has made immense contribution to the East African IGF which is by far one of
> the best regional initiatives globally and provides a benchmark for other
> Regional initiatives that are coming up in Africa and the Global IGF
> process. Last years report is attached to this thread and i would like to
> invite listers to skim through it an identify issues that might need to be
> revisited and or reviewed. In addition you may propose areas that need to be
> taken into consideration as we prepare for the face to face discussions at
> the end of this Month. Please note that discussions around this theme will
> take one day however you may continue with the thread even after we have
> moved to the next theme which will look at Infrastructure issues.
>



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