Dr Ochuodho,<div><br></div><div>With all due respect i find your statements to be in bad taste (Mediocrity and God help Kenya), i resisted making a post because we respect you for your role in the internet space in Kenya and for your information Stephano and co paid tribute to your role and that of Charles Musisi in the internet space in this part of the world alongside many other African oldies, 犲 would wish to state a few things and i have no intention of starting a flame war for that matter you may correct me if i am wrong.</div>
<div><br></div><div>First i was among the many young people at the i-hub for the side event after which we had a fireside chat. Our very own engineer James Rege Chair of the Parliamentary commitee on energy ©đas at hand and he took the trouble to travel with Vint in the same car (devoid of all the Parliamentary trappings) to spend time with the youth and i can assure you they did not dissapoint.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The event was one of its kind and all the young people present attested to this, to know where you are going you need to know where you have come from, why must we learn about people like Musisi from visitors from Europe?, i asked engineer Rege the same question when he told us the history of the telecom industry in Kenya and we agreed that there is need to document such information for future generations and i challenge you and the other African oldies to do the same, how else will knowledge be transfered to future generations.</div>
<div><br></div><div>At another regional meeting that had Youth from all over East Africa courtesy of IDRC and Makerere University 慯here was unanimity on the need for the Youth and oldies to work together to transfer knowledge but where are the African oldies have you abandoned us in pursuit of self actualisation?, well Egypt was a good scenario of the potential of youth and technology.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It is common knowledge that the world abhors a vacuum and this is a challenge to the oldies in Africa to take your rightfull place and mentor the youth, a parent has to be deliberate in terms of making time and and investing resources to bring up great sons and daughters and as the bible describes them , they are arrows in his hands.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Finally i wish to thank Vint Cerf and all those who made the the event a success, we hope to have another one soon with African oldies, God Bless Africa.</div><div><br></div><div>Proudly Kenyan<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Shem Ochuodho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shemochuodho@yahoo.com">shemochuodho@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Congrats 'Uncle Vint' and 'Uncle Stefano'.....<br><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">
<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br>But where were/are the African 'Oldies': 'Mzee' Mike Lawrie,� Ibikun Odusote, Bill Sangiwa, Tieni Bah, Prof. Venancio Mansingue,� Musa Fall, Charles Musisi, Mark Bennett, Nejib Abida, etc?<br>
<br>Mediocrity the bane of Africa's problem. God help Kenya!<br>Shem<br><br><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">
<font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Grace Githaiga <<a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com" target="_blank">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:shemochuodho@yahoo.com" target="_blank">shemochuodho@yahoo.com</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 29 September 2011, 21:05<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [kictanet] Vin Cerf @ ihub: Internet Oldies meeting young techies<br></font><br><div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b>Vin Cerf at犲hub: Internet Oldies meeting young techies </b></font></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><b>By Mutwiri Mutuota</b></font></span></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></span>�</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">NAIROBI, Kenya, September 29- The pioneers
of the information age met with their young disciples on Thursday in an eye
opening assembly held as a side event of the ongoing 6th Internet Governance
Forum (IGF) in Nairobi.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The session was held appropriately at a
venue where technologists, investors, tech companies and hackers congregate in Nairobi , known as iHub,
the global IT gurus led by Google vice-president and one of the acknowledged
founders of the internet, Vint Cerf.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">孏he enormous social impact of the internet
was evident even before the e-mail was invented in 1971. Now, internet and
mobile technology drives the world and the potential for industry are
limitless,� Cerf stated in one of his moving insights into the gift his
invention alongside Bob Khan in the early 70s gifted the world.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">While re-counting in detail how the thesis
developed by the two computer scientists turned to be a tool that billions
transact their daily lives almost 30 years on, Cerf challenged Africa to be at
the forefront of capitalising on the expanding cloud computing opportunities
for business and economic growth.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">As young techies gathered scrambled to
store the large volume of information being passed from the living IT icon, the
gathering also proved to be a think tank on the next generation innovations
that will maintain the info age bubble.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">𨧻 hope than on January 1, 2013, IPv6 will
be turned on to run alongside IPv4 to mark exactly 30 years since internet was
turned on. I𠍿 so excited and I cannot wait for this to be realised," Cerf
enthused.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">For the uninitiated, Internet Protocol
version 6 (IPv6) is the next edition that is designed to succeed the 32-bit
predecessor, IPv4 and it will see the Internet operating by transferring data
between hosts in small packets that are independently routed across networks.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The award winning Google vice-president who
joined the tech giant in 2005, said the company had designed products specific
to the needs of Africans with the continent𠏋 native languages incorporated to
make them appeal to all spectrums of the populations.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">㜁e have made it easy for African
businesses to advertise on Google Ads by developing the system that sees users
pay for the adverts once they are clicked on. This model has appealed to many
enterprises particularly those in Africa ,�
Cerf offered.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">He added: 㜁e continue to encourage more
user friendly content and creating volume for locally generated content since I
believe content generated in Africa for example should circulate within Africa,
not through Europe or America .�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Adel El Zaim from the Global Alliance for
ICT and Development in the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs who was
also in the assembly dwelt on the economic aspect of the advancements in
information technology.</font></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"></span>�</div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">𨧻t is the responsibility of individual
entrepreneurs to archive their data on the internet but research on how content
is being uploaded, the risks that posses and how it is stored and privacy
should be done to give the correct picture on the risks,� said El Zaim.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">鏠loud computing should be opened up to be
free to all but there is need for reaching acceptable level of internet and
mobile technology. There is also need to understand better how technology can
be used and for business opportunity in Africa ,
local content products should be offered by using local languages,� he added.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Laura Abba, who was involved in the RINAF
project mooted in the 90s that was tailored to usher Africa into the ICT age
recalled the efforts that were spearheaded by the UN led initiative that fast
tracked internet development in the continent.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">孏oday the internet is no longer about the
infrastructure but the content. When we started this project, 90 percent of
content concerning Africa was generated in Europe
and other parts of the world but this has changed and should be encouraged,�
Abba told the gathering.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Engineer James Rege, the Member of Kenyan
Parliament for Karachuonyo Constituency who is one of the first IT specialists
in the country observed that Africa and謭enya in particular was catching up in IT innovations.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">鐈owever, there is need for democracy in
communication. Development of ICT in Africa
has been hampered by political hurdles and they need to be freed,� Rege
advised.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">𡌃ven old women in Karachuonyo have email
accounts蟵nd I urge慯ech companies such as Google慯o戹iew Kenya as a remote part coming up
and should help� it advance,� the legislator added. <span>�</span></font></font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">He singled out the Kenya ICT Board for the
positive steps it had taken to ensure the country was in tune with development
as well as generation of local content for the Internet.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Kaburu Kobia, who is in charge of
generating local content at the board acknowledged more Kenyans were
contributing content conversant to them particularly in social networks such as
Facebook.</font></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></span>�</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">There was concern about ownership of data in the cloud.</font></span></div>
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</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">𨯗t Google we believe you own your data. With
cloud computing, there will be substantial amount of support since data will be
shattered into small pieces,� Cerf explained.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Cloud computing will see shared resources,
software, and information provided to computers and other devices as a utility like
the electricity over a network.</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">㜁e need to find standards where clouds can
communicate with each other, use the high speeds between them in the backbone of
the internet to transfer data and I𠍿 very much in favour of use of clouds for
this purposes".</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">�</font></span></div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">𠐓ut with concerns on cyber security, we
all need to ensure it is compliant with the rules in the jurisdiction they
operate with the kind of protection people should have,� the tech sage added.</font></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font></span>�</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
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