[kictanet] Kenya Elections API

Wed Dec 19 16:23:22 EAT 2012

+1.

Thanks Ory, at least its a development in the right direction, using
technology to manage elections , it will be a lot easier than the PDF's to
check data.

Gideon Rop,
DotConnectAfrica.

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>    1. Kenya Elections API (Ory Okolloh)
>    2. Did Kenya win or lose Internet calls battle @ WCIT? (Walubengo J)
>    3. World Conference on International Telecommunications -    Did
>       Kenya Win or Lose? (Walubengo J)
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> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:04:00 +0200
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> Hi listers,
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> Work in progress but in the spirit of launch and iterate, announcing the
> Kenya Elections API - more to come in the new year.
> http://api.iebc.or.ke
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> Best,
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> Ory
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> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:43:57 -0800 (PST)
> From: Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com>
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> Subject: [kictanet] Did Kenya win or lose Internet calls battle @
>         WCIT?
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> GG,
>
> Here's another view....
>
> >>>>>>>>
>
>
> As Kenyans focused locally on political coalitions, marriages
> and divorces, governments convened and concluded a meeting in Dubai
> known as the World Conference on International Telecommunications, 2012.
> Governments were revising a 1982 Treaty,  which describes how
> international telecommunication services will be governed over the next
> one to two decades.
>
> ITUs role was best appreciated in 1970s through
> the 1980s & 1990s when telcos were largely government owned and by
> extension, the same governments as members of ITU would make binding
> decisions on how these telecommunication companies (e.g. the defunct
> Kenya Posts & Telecommunication Companies, KPTC) would interconnect
> internationally to others.  ITU would therefore define the technical
> standards and protocols for the interconnection as well as the
> international charges....
> more @
>
> http://tinyurl.com/cmpy36u
>
> or
>
>
> http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion---Analysis/Did-Kenya-win-or-lose-Internet-calls-battle/-/539548/1645934/-/vwo47gz/-/index.html
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>
> walu.
>
>
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> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 1:07 AM
> Subject: [kictanet] The highlights and low points of WCIT
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> The logic of
> forcing the world?s governments into a box to rewrite a global treaty that
> has
> stood for 24 years in just 14 days may be questionable,?
>
> but it definitely creates
> an event and along with that moments that stand out and set the general
> tone
> and atmosphere of the meeting itself.
>
> Here are the
> main ones from WCIT 2012:?
> http://news.dot-nxt.com/2012/12/14/highlights-and-low-points-wcit
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> Here is the un-edited version. The Editor, stripped off all the technical
> jargon from the published version - as usual :-). But am sure this forum
> can soak in the slight tech-jargon.
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> walu.
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> #######
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> World Conference on International Telecommunications - Did Kenya Win or
> Lose?
>
> As
>  Kenyans focused locally on political coalitions, marriages and
> divorces, governments convened and concluded a meeting in Dubai known as
>  the World Conference on International Telecommunications, 2012 (WCIT,
> pronounced "weakit"). Governments were revising a 1982 Treaty which
> describes how International Telecommunication services will be governed
> over the next one to two decades. Historically, the International
> Telecommunication Union (ITU) was founded in Paris in 1865 as the
> International Telegraph Union and took its present name in 1932, and by
>  1947 it had became a specialized agency of the United Nations in charge
>  of Telecommunications.
>
> ITUs role was best appreciated in 1970s
> through the 1980s & 1990s when Telco companies were largely
> government owned and by extension, the same governments as members of
> ITU would make binding decisions on how these telecommunication
> companies (e.g. the defunct Kenya Posts & Telecommunication
> Companies, KPTC) would interconnect internationally to others. ITU would
>  therefore define the technical standards and protocols for the
> interconnection as well as how the various Telcos would settle the
> international charges arising from the telecommunication traffic
> exchanged.
>
> Basically this meant that when a telephone call was
> made from London to Nairobi, it would mainly be originated by the
> government owned British Telecoms (BT) and would terminate onto the
> government owned KPTC network. The originator of the call, BT would then
>  pay KPTC for
>  terminating the call according to the widely cited "Sender-Pays" model.
>  Needless to say, KPTC and other Telcos in developing countries made
> billions of shillings in this arrangement simply because there were more
>  calls originating from abroad and terminating locally as compared to
> those originated locally and terminated abroad. This meant that
> developing countries were the Net beneficiaries of this charging and
> accounting arrangement.
>
> So what has changed? The simple answer is
>  the Internet. The Internet has changed the rules of the game. Majority
> of todays telephone calls, Voice over the Internet Protocol (VoIP) are
> carried over the Internet instead of the traditional, ITU defined
> protocols that carried Voice communications. Biggest example ofcourse is
>  "Skype", which boasts of close to a billion registered users who make
> international voice calls - without following the "Sender-Pays" model.
> The pay structure for the Internet based applications is
>  based on the "Bill and Keep" model whereby the ISPs charge users for
> local Usage while they look for a foreign ISP to terminate their traffic
>  preferably for free (Peering Agreement) or at minimum fee (Transit
> Agreement).
>
>
> The crux of the matter is that these Peering and
> Transit agreements are negotiated and made privately between various
> ISPs and OUTSIDE the realm of ITU and its membership. Since membership
> of ITU is made up of Governments, one can begin to see how the battle
> lines become clear. One one hand, you have Developing
> Countries/Governments largely fronting for their Telecommunication
> Companies who have since lost a huge chunk of their revenues because the
>  money they used collect when voice traffic was not Internet based has
> dried up. On the other hand, you have Developed Countries/Governments
> fronting for Internet based companies who are making billions by
> transmitting Voice communication over the Internet without due regard to
>  "Sender-pays" arrangements.
>
> Everything was going as planned
> until one of the developing countries, Kenya, declined to sign the
> Telecommunication Treaty. It was immediately lumped together with the US
>  and Europeans and celebrated as the beacon of light in an otherwise
> group of developing countries bent on controlling and stifling the
> Internet. In the same breath, African countries demonised Kenya for
> failing to stand up for a chance to restore billions of shillings that
> used to be collected by the Telcos during "Sender-pays" models.
>
> Did
>  Kenya win or lose at the WCIT -2012? Only time will tell, but for now,
> one can say that Kenya may have won a battle for the Internet community,
>  but may have lost the war - in as far as the regional, geo-political
> dimensions are concerned.
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