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

[Barrack Otieno]

Most welcome Solomon

Kind Regards

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Solomon Mburu Kamau
<solo.mburu at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Barrack and Judy,
>
> I'll give my final submissions on the discussions tomorrow.
>
> I had taken a 'forced abscence of leave!'
>
> Hoping that will not be too late to make my submissions!
>
> Thank you.
>
> On 14/07/2010, Judy Okite <judyokite at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >> --
> >> Barrack O. Otieno
> >> +41767892272
> >> Skype: barrack.otieno
> >>
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> >
> > --
> > “To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and
> > what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”
> > Kofi Annan
> >
>
>
> --
> Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau
>
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