[kictanet] Kenya IGF 2010, Discussions :Day 8 of 8 Summary

[Judy Okite]

Dear Barrack,

indeed it has been a 'knowledge construction', period, I take this
opportunity to thank all who have made it a rich discussion.

what I have been able to pick from the exchange:

a) Infrastructure issues: Unified Licensing., Fibre Optic cable- Kenyans are
wary about it- we are moving,but not moving yet!

b) Critical Internet Resources, Management of the dot KE cctld-  there is a
LAW but only on paper.

c) IPv6- there is no driving force.

d) ecrimes, privacy, data security.- in most instances people always assume
that it is the consumers that need the law to protect them, but I will say
certainly NOT all the stakeholders in a given scenario, need protection.

Maybe I will pose my layman question to our learned friends, the lawyers,
'what causes demand for a law to be put in place?'

Kind Regards,


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Listers,
>
> Today we conclude 8 days of interesting discourse on Internet Governance
> issues in Kenya. As mentioned by some contributors in earlier posts, being a
> new area, there is a great need for capacity building and awareness to
> ensure that the country is able to reap the benefits of the new
> info-economy. We would like to invite listers who might not have had the
> chance to make their posts to do so under the respective subject lines in
> the next two days before compilation of the final report that will be
> presented during the face to face discussions scheduled for the end of this
> month.
> In a nutshell we explored the following areas:
>
>    1. Internet Governance rationale - What is internet governance and why
>    internet governance at this point in time.
>    2. Infrastructure issues: Unified Licensing., Fibre Optic cable
>    3. Critical Internet Resources
>    4. Management of the dot KE cctld
>    5. IPv6
>    6. ecrimes, privacy, data security.
>
> Despite the limited time frame the discussion was exciting, i am sure the
> many that followed the debate silently would not their heads in agreement.
> Today and tomorrow will be dedicated to exploring other areas that might of
> interest in so far Internet Governance in Kenya is concerned one of them
> being cloud computing was which pointed out by Dr. Waudo Siganga.
>
> Thank you
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