<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Hi Aki,</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">The KICTB have sponsored the setting up and equip of about 17 news capture locations countrywide with a target of one in every constituency. A lot of the footage captured will never see the light of day especially if we are looking to sell it to the likes of NTV and such other broadcasters.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman',
'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">What KICTB is doing boils down to a wastage of resources if the footage captured remains on their hard drives, worse still will be the damage caused to the confidence of the youth who will have been trained on how to use the digital recording and editing equipment, a situation that can be seen in the group from kibera.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">I can watch Youtube videos satisfactorily on my 512 kbps WiMax link which would mean that with the right </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">infrastructure</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new
roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> and traffic prioritisation on the KIXP node will allow the site like eziki to offer a platform for all that footage being generated all those </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">amateurs out there and thus create an alternative source of information. </font></div><div></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">However ground breaking open data might be the fact that it is historical in nature has its drawbacks therefore we need a more require and </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">independent source of </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"
size="3"> verification. I believe that one of the statistician's mantras is to collect more information than you need in the same vein we need a quantity of footage and quality will follow.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">The cost of setting up a server able to serve over 1000 videos will cost less than 1 million shillings, KICTB can participate by covering the cost of a 1Gbps pipe into KIXP while Dr. Ndemo can through in NOFBI bandwidth for uploading the videos from across the country.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Lets stop looking for reasons why we cannot and
instead spend our energies in finding out what we need to do to make it happen.</font></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> </div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Robert Yawe</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">KAY System Technologies Ltd</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Phoenix House, 6th Floor</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Kenya</font><br><br><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Tel: +254722511225,
+254202010696<div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> aki <aki275@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, 28 July, 2011 12:08:01<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Local Content - Beyond lip service<br></font><br><div>Dear Robert,</div>
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<div>Its a very good idea and I can relate to it because I'm doing/done some dev work on multimedia as such. There are many platforms that allow one to create a youtube versions but I can see the developer has put in a lot of effort. Unfortunately one may require millions of USD as startup capital. If the server was placed in Kenya, I think the minimum required link capacity would be around a monthly 1Gigabit/s which is not cheap either. Bandwidth costs are against us but also how does the developer platform seek to compete with this : e.g. Rihana's video (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp4UwPZfRis&feature=relmfu">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp4UwPZfRis&feature=relmfu</a> ) is enough to bring our entire country internet capacity to a standstill, the youtube farm servers must be maxing out on everything and under processes stress. She is the content that many content developers
can only dream of as content distribution. In this video, there are almost <u>74million</u> views over a short time. This file is about 40Mbtes X 74,000,000 views = Tera Bytes of internet bandwidth needed!. Its possible that the entire Seacom/Teams bandwidth gone with just 1 video and we may probably blow a Mux somewhere along the route! </div>
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<div>So while we continue to develop platforms, let us also keep a watch out for the real content that can really really drive traffic and we will surely get there. I think it would be interesting if KICTB made next year as Digital TV development, which I believe is our immediate development platform for content due to simplex data directions. Unfortunately slow wireless speeds do not help and non-unlimited internet access also means that end viewers could run of out credit while watching local youtube, so it will be a gradual process.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:15 AM, robert yawe <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><span>I have been following the activities of a local developer who has made great strides in creating a platform for hosting local content through his web site <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.eziki.tv/">www.eziki.tv</a>.</span></div>
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<div>Unfortunately due to the high cost of local hosting he has been forced, like many other brilliant young men and women, to host overseas where the cost are low but then they suffer the hit from bandwidth limitations.</div>
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<div>This young man has taken initiative and put down his resources to prove a concept and I believe he deserves direct local investment from funds such as Tandaa, Kazi Kwa Vijana and many others instead of us asking dreamers to present proposals and business plans for cloud based products.</div>
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<div>I would like to propose we pick up this has a project and bring the site back home and empower the team to move to greater heights before some VC from the US grabs him then we start lamenting.</div>
<div><br>Please visit the site and see what is on offer, you can also view my channel <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.eziki.tv/quadrantshiftafrica">http://www.eziki.tv/quadrantshiftafrica</a> on which I will move most of my rants and raves for posterity and for easier access by those who have an issue with reading long text.</div>
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<div>Samsung and LG should look at this modem and see how to incorporate it in the new IP TVs and publicise access to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://eziki.tv/">eziki.tv</a> as well as youtube and all those other sites.</div>
<div><br></div>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>Kenya<br><br></div></div></blockquote></div>
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