[kictanet] Resiliency of our Internet Infrastructure during the COVID -19 Season

Mon Mar 30 09:16:54 EAT 2020

Hon Abshiro,

Even the G20 has gone virtual. Here they were discussing their countries
contributions to the fund researching on a vaccine. Just 2 days before the
UK Prime Minister was taken ill.

Kathy

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 00:48 Abshiro Halake via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Thank you Kaka, Noah, Barrack,
>
> I will look out for the  Gire bill and see what in our context is the
> equivalent. I may need your help with providing the appropriate content. We
> don't have much time so time is of the essence.
>
> Barrack thanks for the recommendation/suggestion of use of Zoom. I am a
> fun but Grace' insights yesterday opened my eyes to the fact that it may
> not be very secure. That said, what is, these days. Will add it to the list
> of apps to consider for sure.
>
> Thanks you all once again.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Abshiro.
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020, 21:31 Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Kaka,
>>
>> You raise very interesting points. I actually think the East African
>> Community should also take up the matter. For Citizens to properly embrace
>> the Internet in the Region, Trust is key. Quality of service, reliability
>> and security of the Networks is a key consideration. We need more
>> investment in connectivity within the EAC Countries and within the region.
>> We also need affordable smart devices. What is the use of connectivity if
>> citizens cannot afford devices that will enable them to make good use of
>> the links. If it means zero rating so be it.
>>
>> Mheshimiwa Abshiro we need the equivalent of the High Perfomance
>> Computing Act aka the Gore bill to move our country forwad in ICT issues.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, 8:14 pm Noah via kictanet, <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> I totally agree with you @Walu and I believe we are on the same page but
>>> my only caution was for us not to focus so much on vendor sythax (which can
>>> be crammed to aid implementation) but rather principles.
>>>
>>> Back to the main topic, Internet infrastructure across East Africa more
>>> than just Kenya needs robust upgrades and improving.
>>>
>>> Bloody Covid19 is already a game changer and I believe we are all taking
>>> lessons from it especially within our space with the ICT infrastructure
>>> which politicians used to think was some luxury for a few elites proving to
>>> be a necessity in such a time.
>>>
>>> *ICT could emerge stronger post COVID-19*
>>>
>>> Some foresee an increase in demand for cloud computing platforms with
>>> enterprise applications proving to be inaccessible during lockdowns and
>>> #karantini.
>>>
>>> Increasing usage of remote and collaboration tools. This requires
>>> bandwidth like serious bandwidth.
>>>
>>> Increase in traffic to video streaming sites and social media platforms
>>> (Isolation is tough hey, humans are not wild beasts or gods, they must
>>> continue socializing)
>>>
>>> Increased usage of apps from grocery delivery apps to essential goods
>>> apps.
>>>
>>> Most importantly the future of education in the face of another future
>>> pendamic [1] with online education becoming defacto especially when schools
>>> in future could possibly be closed beyond just one moon.
>>>
>>> #ICT infrastructure is #critical infrastructure.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Noah
>>>
>>> [1] Hellooooo....., there was the Spanish Flu, then the Influenza, then
>>> the SARS, then the Swine Flu, the Ebola and you guessed it right COVID-19.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, 19:52 Walubengo J, <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> True, BUT assume I am Safaricom with maybe 70% of my infrastructure on
>>>> Huawei and want to hire a Telco Engineer.
>>>>
>>>> I prolly would get a candidate who has the Telco degree (the
>>>> principles) and the Huawei Certification as the added advantage.
>>>>
>>>> The other way around it would be that I hire then send the candidate
>>>> back to finishing school for some hands on training.
>>>>
>>>> Universities providing both principles and skills will have an
>>>> advantage.
>>>>
>>>> On a light note, Imagine teaching Blockchain Technologies using only Satoshi's
>>>> Paper (the principles) <https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf> and not
>>>> having access to say IBM Blockchain platforms
>>>> <https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/what-is-blockchain> to provide
>>>> students with some  Lab exposure. The ones with Lab exposure will often
>>>> stand out.
>>>>
>>>> Having said that, there are those who 'cram' and pass
>>>> vendor-certificate exams without really learning the principles. That is
>>>> also a major risk to employers.
>>>>
>>>> walu.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, March 29, 2020, 07:37:26 PM GMT+3, Noah <noah at neo.co.tz>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> @Walu
>>>>
>>>> I agree that a cocktail of standard principles and *mutlivendor* sythax
>>>> should be the approach that can go on to see us provide better skills
>>>> transfer.
>>>>
>>>> I only caution us from repeating the old and outdated approach of only
>>>> focusing training on one vendor since this only goes to help promote the
>>>> vendors products in our markets rather provide true knowledge.
>>>>
>>>> Employers should careless about Cisco or Juniper or Huawei but rather
>>>> seek knowledgeable candidates who understand technology rather than people
>>>> who have  crammed how to implement a specific vendor sythax.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Noah
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, 19:26 Walubengo J, <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> @Noah,
>>>>
>>>> Maybe we can do both.  Teach the principles as well as offer exposure
>>>> to one or several of the vendor technologies (whichever that maybe).  I
>>>> always find such an approach much more enriching and complimentary in my
>>>> classes.
>>>>
>>>> Teaching 'principles' without offering some practical vendor sessions
>>>> is like teaching Wordprocessing - without using MS-Word/OpenOffice/etc
>>>> because you are trying too hard to be vendor-agnostic ;-)
>>>>
>>>> In short, I do appreciate the need to teach principles but also
>>>> appreciate the need to use vendor specific examples/labs to drive the point
>>>> home.
>>>>
>>>> walu.
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, March 29, 2020, 07:03:16 PM GMT+3, Noah via kictanet <
>>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The intermittent ip networks and grid-power aside.
>>>>
>>>> Am curious to know why in this day and time and day, we are still
>>>> focusing on vendor specific trainings.
>>>>
>>>> During earlier 2000's we focused so much on the Cisco's, then somehow
>>>> the Junipers and today we are seeing the Huawei syntax.
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn't we be focusing in todays Africa on teaching standard
>>>> protocols even at a fundamental level and cocktail of vendors sythax rather
>>>> than continually pushing some specific vendors technology which indirectly
>>>> markets their kit as defacto to those we keep imbibing the skills too.
>>>>
>>>> Just my thoughts....
>>>>
>>>> Noah
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, 11:28 Kelvin Kariuki via kictanet, <
>>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is very true Barrack,
>>>> I have been teaching a live online class on a Huawei Certification in
>>>> the past week
>>>> using Zoom and some of my students, who are on different parts of the
>>>> country,
>>>> have really had issues keeping up because of poor internet connections
>>>> and
>>>> regular disconnections. Thank God Zoom has a feature to record the
>>>> classes
>>>> but for sure this is something that we need to look into.
>>>>
>>>> PS: All my students are using Safaricom as Huawei Kenya offered them
>>>> with
>>>> credit cards to buy internet bundles in order to be able to learn
>>>> online. The training
>>>> I'm doing is Huawei Certified ICT Associate (Routing & Switching)
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:14 AM Ali Hussein via kictanet <
>>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Barrack
>>>>
>>>> You got that right. Both Safaricom and Zuku have been intermittent over
>>>> the past few days. Let's not even start with Kenya Power...
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> *Ali Hussein*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tel: +254 713 601113
>>>>
>>>> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>>>>
>>>> Skype: abu-jomo
>>>>
>>>> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
>>>> <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely
>>>> mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the
>>>> organizations that I work with.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 1:07 PM Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
>>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Listers,
>>>>
>>>> It seems the quality of our Infrastructure is taking a hit as more
>>>> people are working from home. Talking to friends from different corners of
>>>> the countries across different Networks, there seems to be a challenge. I
>>>> hope the Communications Authority is paying attention. The Internet and
>>>> Infrastructure service providers should not just focus on free Internet and
>>>> double speeds, quality of the connection is critical.
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Barrack O. Otieno
>>>> +254721325277
>>>> +254733206359
>>>> Skype: barrack.otieno
>>>> PGP ID: 0x2611D86A
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> --
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Kelvin Kariuki
>>>> Assistant Lecturer
>>>> Multimedia University of Kenya
>>>> Faculty of Computing and Information Technology
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