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For the ICANN local organizing committee, today is a great day, it is the last day of the meeting, which by any standards can be considered a success considering the security video produced by ICANN just before the meeting.  read more »

In the months leading up to the ICANN meeting in Nairobi, majority of discussions and conference calls were dominated by security concerns and emergency meetings with some people wondering whether the meeting will take place or not.  read more »

There are many African governments and citizens who do not understand the role of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.  read more »

When the Kenya ICT Board was set up about two years ago, there was a lot of optimism in the Business Process Outsourcing sector; the board was composed of the "dream team" and who is who in Kenya's marketing.

The board was tasked with the sole responsibility of marketing Kenya as an outsourcing destination; and many people in the business were hoping that their fortunes will turn around.  read more »

I have been accused of not being patriotic in the past for criticizing some of the steps that Africa takes and the way some of the representatives behave. But I ask myself; should I just follow blindly without asking the questions so that I can be in the good books or be deemed patriotic enough?  read more »

There is no doubt that Kenya and Africa in general will benefit from holding the ICANN meeting, the region still suffers from elementary problems; from policy makers who understand little about redelegation of domains apart from shouting hard, to the public that has misconceptions about their own Top Level Domains.  read more »

In the past month, the Ugandan ICT fraternity has been filled with discussions regarding the newly formed National Information Technology Authority (NITA-U). A number of issues have been raised regarding the constitution of the Board, the planned abrogation of the Act when appointing the Executive Director, the conflict of interest among some of the directors appointed onto the board e.t.c.  read more »

A while back on this blog, I wrote about the need for Uganda to create a Digital Army . While I believe that one can not do away with the need for the physical man to man way of carrying out intelligence activities, it is more than necessary lately to integrate ICTs in information gathering.  read more »

“Gone are the days when men were men and used to write their own device drivers” by Linus Torvalds. In my early days of appreciating Open Source Software, I used to take pride in such bravado statements considering that I was an emerging techie who was always fiddling with software.  read more »

The other day someone commented on my facebook status that Kenyans love free things, just because I suggested that the big hotels should emulate high level restaurants and give free wi fi.  read more »