[kictanet] [ISOC_KE] Kenya IGF/ EAIGF - Where Were The Service Providers

Sun Jul 22 09:42:28 EAT 2012

Dear All,

Just to clarify that indeed the Telecommunication Service Providers through
one of her members Internet Solutions Sponsored the Internet for Kenya IGF
and East African IGF. They also chaired a couple of sessions. I suppose the
questions may have been targeted to specific service providers who didn't
have representatives hence the confusion, i recall a similar question being
posed about KeNIC which was actually a key sponsor of the two events, i
suppose in future we may want to allow the service providers to run some
videos on what they do. For more information on Tespok please visit their
website www.tespok.co.ke., KeNIC www.kenic.or.ke.

Best Regards

Best Regards

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:24 AM, WANGARI KABIRU
<wangarikabiru at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Happy Sunday!
>
> First things first is a Question to the Kenya IGF and EAIGF conveners for
> the year 2012; Why were Kenyan Internet Service Providers and related
> providers not at the local IGFs.
>
> a) Were they invited to the IGFs
>
> b) Did they decline the invite to the IGFs
>
> c) Did they stay silent
>
> d) Is there another platform that addresses the forum issues which the
> Service Providers take part in
>
>
> I raised this question at the Forum and to date we have no satisfactory
> response.
>
> Considering that the regulators and Government through CCK, the Ministry
> of Information and Communications, e-government took the time to be there
> (every day), is it that the Forum(s) is not of value to Service Providers?
>
> The Service Providers are at present a (the) major 'governor" to internet
> and internet governance in Kenya.
>
> We are dealing with issues of children access, and in Kenya's current
> situation cyber crime, terrorism, cyber wars all driven through the
> internet -  a major threat to peace as we get into the election period.
>
> The Post office cannot be delivering smelly rotten eggs into your postal
> box and not be made  accountable for blindly receiving the courier parcel
> in the first place!
>
> As a stakeholders Forum, this was truly a glaring missing link.
>
> Addressing this concern will enable ISOC KE as the convener of subsequent
> IGFs to know how to suitably engage with Service Providers among other
> players.
>
> Have a pleasant day.
>
> Regards/Wangari
>
> ---
> Pray God Bless. 2012Wangari circa - "Heaven moves into the world through
> thespirit of those who are willing to serve".
>
>
> --- On *Fri, 20/7/12, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [ISOC_KE] How Safaricom Steals Your Internet Bundle
> To: "kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>,
> isoc at orion.my.co.ke
> Date: Friday, 20 July, 2012, 23:29
>
>
> 99% of Kenya’s 6.5m <http://cck.go.ke/news/2012/Mobile_Subscribers.html> internet
> users access it via mobile, of which Safaricom owns 77% marketshare.
>
> In Kenya, when you buy a 1.5Gb internet bundle from Safaricom you pay
> 1000ksh (~$12). You’ve paid for the data, and there is no additional cost
> to Safaricom if you were to use that data today or a year from now. The
> whole concept of data bundle expiry is ridiculous, as noted by Safaricom
> CEO Bob Collymore when he visited the iHub:
>
> “When you go into a petrol station and fill up your car, does the owner of
> the petrol station tell you to bring it back on Wednesday to take back
> what’s left in the vehicle? Of course not. So I ask, why the hell are we
> doing that?”
>
>
> Read on
>
> http://whiteafrican.com/2012/07/18/how-safaricom-steals-your-internet-bundle/
>
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