[kictanet] Internet capacity to double soon after fifth fibre optic cable lands

Tue Nov 20 20:50:40 EAT 2012

+1 Daktari.

Ali Hussein
CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd
Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd

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On Nov 20, 2012, at 6:28 PM, bitange at jambo.co.ke wrote:

> Grace,
> Yes there are four different Transnational Operators wanting to be in
> Mombasa.  It could be related to the interest in building mega data
> centers here.  These are possibly trying to entice content aggregators to
> have their point of presence here.  There will be some positive to this
> considering the fact that we get the opportunity to develop capacity
> (improveed real employment opportunities), significantly develop our
> energy sector and possibly drastically reduce cost of connectivity.
> 
> My frustration has been how we get our people to begin working on local
> content.  We do not need clouds for content like Sesemi Street when we can
> create local edutainment from local resources.  Remember the local content
> you develop here is good for any African Country.  If we automated our
> Government Records, we shall have the chance to replicate the processes in
> 50 other countries. We shall get to my bet subject of intra Africa Trade. 
> Check this blog and know where the future lies:
> http://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/africas-mics
> 
> After my trip to IGF in Baku, I passed through London at the invitation of
> the John D. and Catherine T. MacAthur Foundation to join a
> multidisciplinary Research Network of thinkers and doers on "Opening
> Government" to analyze and realize the potential impact of technology on
> democratic institutions, specifically how we can use technology to create
> more collaborative ways of governing to solve the World's hardest
> problems.
> 
> There were about 40 Professors meeting at 10 Downing Street.  They were
> mostly from MIT, Stanford, Duke, Havard, Cambridge, Oxford, Southampton
> etc.  Most of the MIT and Stanford have research here or planning to be in
> Nairobi for collaboration.  At least three quarters of them said something
> about Kenya emergence and hoped we can sustain the innovative capacity.
> 
> I realized that we must couple the youth in application development with
> Universities where research is done.  Most of our Universities have become
> teaching institutions that must now move to research.  The realtime data
> most developers have been wanting must be data from research activities
> and some from institutions.
> 
> For example, any hospital must have its capacity data out there.  We need
> to know where the Neuro Surgeons, Cardiologists, Oncologists etc, what
> equipment is available, capability of the labs etc.  This is all knowledge
> such that if I have a heart attack patient I know where to get help
> instead of trial and error and as you know Kenyans do not volunteer to say
> they have no capacity.  This is what a knowledge society looks like.
> 
> One of the Professors presented life data from a mobile phone gathering
> data in a Central American country.  Simple analytic on the data shows
> that teachers go to their respective schools for less than two days a
> week. These are some of the worst performing schools.  There was a high
> correlation of poor performance and affliation to Unions.  Does this
> resonate with Kenya?
> 
> Change is in our hands but we must begin to exercise our responsibility to
> change our country for the better.
> 
> 
> Ndemo.
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> IN SUMMARYInformation and Communication Permanent Secretary Bitange Ndemo
>> on Monday said that a Middle Eastern company was currently contracting
>> suppliers to lay the undersea cableAccording to the PS, the increased
>> network capacity will be in line with rising local demands for high speed
>> dataDr Ndemo also revealed that a project to provide every Internet users
>> with digital identities would be implemented in a bid to combat rising
>> cyber crime
>> http://www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Fifth-fibre-optic-cable-lands/-/1006/1624478/-/item/0/-/1uv0vy/-/index.html
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