<div dir="auto">Dear Listers, <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I trust you are all well and keeping safe. The senate is resuming its sessions next week on Tuesday and I am not certain what if any, the Parliamentary Service Commission has put in place for our physical attendance. We will of course attend and do what we have to do but.....</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As ICT Comitee leadership, I am grappling with a few questions which I will throw at you for brainstorm and perhaps solutions. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have been asking myself aloud if it is/not possible to have legislative sessions that meet remotely?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What secure commercial software and teleconferencing tools can we use for our legislative and oversight work.? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If we worked on and made the necessary amendments to our standing orders to allow for a remote Senate, would anyone of your companies be willing to help run a pilot of this for us? What goes into such a plot? costs and other? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Your ideas, are most welcome. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kind regards, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Senator Abshiro. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020, 14:22 Barrack Otieno via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Interesting feedback teacher Karis and Ali,</div><div><br></div><div>I also got some feedback from local ISP's that are trying to ensure they provide quality services. While at that @ Teacher Karis, you raised the issue of training, could this issue be attributed to network misconfiguration or simply inadequate bandwidth?, i hope our friends from Safaricom will weigh in as well to share the challenges they are facing in the spirit of right of reply.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:28 AM Kelvin Kariuki via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">This is very true Barrack, <div>I have been teaching a live online class on a Huawei Certification in the past week</div><div>using Zoom and some of my students, who are on different parts of the country, </div><div>have really had issues keeping up because of poor internet connections and </div><div>regular disconnections. Thank God Zoom has a feature to record the classes </div><div>but for sure this is something that we need to look into. </div><div><br></div><div>PS: All my students are using Safaricom as Huawei Kenya offered them with </div><div>credit cards to buy internet bundles in order to be able to learn online. The training</div><div>I'm doing is Huawei Certified ICT Associate (Routing & Switching)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:14 AM Ali Hussein via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Barrack</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">You got that right. Both Safaricom and Zuku have been intermittent over the past few days. Let's not even start with Kenya Power...</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Regards</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">Ali
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<span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 1:07 PM Barrack Otieno via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Listers,</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Best <br></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Barrack O. Otieno<br>+254721325277<br>+254733206359<br>Skype: barrack.otieno<br>PGP ID: 0x2611D86A<br> <br><br><br><br></div></div></div>
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