[kictanet] Kenic AGM

[Barrack Otieno]

Thats precise Mwendwa, thanks.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:55 PM, lordmwesh <lordmwesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> You have captured most issues Mr. Barrack.
> But I wish to narrow down to this Issues addressed
> 1. Growth prospects. There was a strategy to capture all schools in
> Kenya and give them a domain Target was about 31000 domains. Not very
> sure.
> 2. Register all companies in Kenya. Target, ...
> 3. There was a flame war on representation of registrars on the KENIC
> board which the chairman Mr. Burachara extinguished before any
> substantive agreement. Registrars felt that the current representation
> of DRAKE on the Kenic board was not 'representative' since the drake
> members are not known, they don't have an open forum, and there are no
> elections or apointments  by members from the existing registrars. The
> issue of the Board  being reconstituted might need to be discussed at
> lengths and taken to the secretary before the next AGM. Members were
> to create a mailing list for registrars to be discussing issues they
> feel are important and air them at the AGMs.
> 4.  Google challenged us to pull up our socks on local content. The
> local content would be brought by more domains registered. They
> predicted a market growth in Kenya of $2Billion in digital advertising
> by the end of 5 years, with current advertising revenue per year in
> all media standing at $600Million.
> 5. The recent downtimes at the registry was queried, but Paul Musee
> assured members that the problem has been delt with by providing two
> redundant links to support the main link, and more links are being
> sort from TESPOK members. Any volunteers here?
>
> Moses Kemibaro had a good summary on the AGM. Probably you can look at his blog.
>
> Organisation and Attendance of the general AGM was good.
>
> Kind Regards
> Mwendwa Kivuva
> 0722402248
> Transworld Computer Channels
>
>
> On 29/06/2011, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Walu,
>>
>> Your absence was noticeable, the meeting went on well, most of the matters
>> discussed were inhouse, notable topics were the progress on the local
>> dispute resolution mechanism being established at Kenic to arbitrate on
>> domain related disputes, we were also briefed on the KeNIC Strategic plan
>> which is being implemented in phases and going by what was presented the
>> future looks bright (at least the Financial report demonstrated this),
>> google also did a very interesting presentation highlighting opportunities
>> that the internet is likely to offer in the near future and the need for
>> strategic partnerships (Kenic intends to work with registrars to make sure
>> they hit a target of 50000 .Ke domains) , the organisers promised to put up
>> all this information on their website , i am sure it is being compiled
>> somewhere. And lest i forget we were taken through the new look KeNIC
>> website whose aim is to improve how the TLDs clients interact with it. I
>> looked at the Strategic Plan which seems great, i am still searching for
>> their digital strategy which i hope is tucked somewhere in the website, as
>> you can see, a lot of this were inhouse issues with brief comments on KeNICS
>> role at ICANN. (Participation and Hosting number 37)
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I missed the above AGM that took place last week? Anyone willing to give
>>> us
>>> updates/briefs on key highlights/what transpired or did not transpire?
>>>
>>> Ave scanned their website www.kenic.or.ke but nothing uploaded yet...last
>>> minutes were for 2009, wonder where 2010 minutes are.  Anyway, am
>>> specifically interested in.
>>>
>>> a) what is the .KENIC position with regard to dot.africa?
>>> b) how does KENIC expect to be impacted by the creation of dot.africa?
>>> c) what is the current market structure/position between the tld dot.Ke
>>> and
>>> the secondary domains? 2yrs ago it was quite an issue.?
>>> d) anything else we should know?
>>>
>>> walu.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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