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

Tue Mar 31 16:47:10 EAT 2020

Listers,

Interesting perspectives on what we can do to improve the resilience of the
Internet in this season. You can access the blog here
<https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/02/is-the-internet-resilient-enough-to-withstand-coronavirus/>
.

Best Regards

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 7:48 PM Abshiro Halake via kictanet <
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> Thank you all for the flow of information. Much appreciated indeed.
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 13:14 Walubengo J via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> I would hesitate to write-off any product based on security concerns.
>>
>> Security is as good as you configure it to be.  TEAMS can be as less
>> secure as the alleged insecurity of ZOOM depending on how it was
>> implemented and configured.
>>
>> In short, security is one independent conversation that cannot be
>> collapsed into a singly product name.
>>
>> Otherwise you create a false sense of security....e.g, I use TEAMS so I
>> am safer than those who use alternatives eg. ZOOM.
>>
>> When I was growing up, I used to have similar thinking.  .. since I used
>> LINUX, I always had this false sense of being more secure than those who
>> used WINDOWS platforms ;-).
>>
>> Security is more about the hardening, updating, configuring, maintaining,
>> etc of your digital assets as opposed to the product itself.
>>
>> walu.
>> nb: ofcourse some products are outrightly nefarious and would still be
>> unsafe even if you spend hours hardening them to be safe.
>>
>> On Monday, March 30, 2020, 12:11:53 PM GMT+3, Erick Mwangi via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Thanks GG. Zoom is a mine field.
>>
>> I would advise folks to stay off zoom for any 'serious' discourse ( its
>> ideally for social interactions).
>>
>> There are a ton of options depending on industry (Skype for Business will
>> be obsolete very soon) TEAMS is one suggestion in terms of ease and setting
>> up.
>>
>> Eric
>> E Njoroge Mwangi
>> Technology| FINTECH | Big Data
>>
>> Cell +44 7539372742
>> Skype: Erick.mwangi
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 7:17 AM Kathy Mwai via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
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>>
>>
>>
>>
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