[kictanet] WCITleaks just launched

Thu Jun 7 10:46:34 EAT 2012

Ali, Walu, Kivuva et al
I, Barrack and KENIC are finalizing on the themes for this year's Kenya IGF whose proposed date is Friday July 6th and will be posting to the list later this afternoon on suggested topics for discussion and tentative program. The ITRs is number one on our agenda. We still have a chance to influence the government's position before the Dubai meeting in December.  As usual we will commence with online discussion sometime next week and then have a F2F meeting on July 6th. 
Ali, this will be a very good opportunity for you and all others to make concrete suggestions. Thanks for the links and more coming later today.
RgdsGG

Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 08:10:04 +0300
From: ali at hussein.me.ke
Subject: Re: [kictanet] WCITleaks just launched
CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke; kictanet-bounces+alice=apc.org at lists.kictanet.or.ke
To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com

Alice

Thanks. That's duly noted. Whilst we do that we must continue to agitate for transparency in the process.

For more information on ITRs see attached PowerPoint and links;-

http://www.itu.int/oth/T3F01000001

http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/oth/3F/01/T3F010000010001PDFE.pdf
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/itr/

http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/stratpol/ITRs/itrs_past.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-T#International_Telecommunication_Regulations_.28ITRs.29

What should definitely raise our attention is this little bit of information from wikipedia - ' At the December, 2012, World Conference on International Telecommunications,[24] ITU secretary-general Hamadoun Touré will convene member-state delegations in Dubai
 to renegotiate the ITR treaty. "The sprawling document, which governs 
telephone, television, and radio networks, may be extended to cover the 
Internet, raising questions about who should control it, and how", 
assessed one journalist looking forward to the conference earlier that 
year.[25]'

Listers,
 if I sound like a bull-dog with a bone in its jaw please forgive me. 
I'm just more convinced than ever that the current status quo of 
Internet Governance and Freedom (albeit with more inclusiveness of the 
people of the world and less US Government 'control') needs to be 
preserved after the events of last night at Pivot East Awards held at 
Ole Sereni Hotel. For those of us who may have missed this event Pivot 
East is an event in which developers of mobile applications pitch 
or “sell” their ideas to groups of venture capitalists and industry 
players. The best Pitch gets rewarded by a cash prize that can be used 
as “seed” money to start or develop the business idea.
The
 overall winner of this event was a gaming app called Ma3Racer. Simply 
put the game takes our chaotic matatu industry and general state of driving in the country and puts it into perspective in a very engaging mobile game. What is amazing about this game is that not only is it very local in content (I'm sure Daktari Ndemo is smiling.. :-) )  but it has to-date been downloaded 800,000 times in over 200 countries as far as Mongolia!! 

Now imagine if some misinformed functionary decided or decides that this kind of content is not kosher and decides to pull down the site/app?

During yesterday's World IPv6 day at the iHub I was duly impressed by Dr.Ndemo's key note address about the necessity to retain the freedom of expression and communication (read the internet) while at the same time protect ourselves from the minority elements who are hellbent on abusing these freedoms. This kind of balanced approach I am hoping is what we all want and what we all should be fighting for otherwise I can assure you there will be no ma3racers, cellulants, pesapals, Seven Seas, Virtual Cities, iHubs, mlabs and other labs to be proud of.

Can we be proactive about this? May I suggest ISOC takes this discussion to the next level with an open hour or two at ihub? Is this possible Barrack? As a member of ISOC, Kenya Chapter I offer my services however you can use them.

Thank you all for listening/reading through my rumblings...:-)

Ali Hussein

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:19 AM,  <alice at apc.org> wrote:

Dear Ali and all,

While we request for documents to be made available I would first urge listers to read what is publicly available, for example the ITR's etc.  My assumption is that once what is available is understood then we would know what documents we want to have access to.

Best

Alice

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