April 2013 Blog Posts (11)

  18 April 2013 ITU released The annual Trends in Telecommunication Reform 2013: Transnational aspects of regulation in a networked society, a document that reflects the collaboration between the world's ICT policy-makers and regulators towards promotion and development of information technologies. The aim of the report is to expose innovations in the IT market that result in new applications and services, and create…

A few years ago the …

Last week I participated in the ICANN 46 meeting in Beijing as a fellow. It was the second experience in this capacity and I won't get into the details of the ICANN fellowship program and fellows bonding spirit which deserves a separate posting (for a quick glimpse on it you may check this…

I recently completed  the Diplo Foundation Internet Governance Advanced course in Privacy (Aug 2012) and the Introduction to Policy Research (Nov 2012). My project proposal sought to draw attention to the quality of the stakeholder consultation process as a precursor to legislative changes. Specific focus was given to the HIPCAR project on St. Kitts-Nevis which has resulted in proposed and in some cases actual legislative changes in the interception of communications, e-commerce, …

How do you explain to lawyers the meaning of botnet? In short, botnets are the…

Recently Kaspersky Lab…

For all those interested in this topic (and with a LinkedIn account): I am running a specialized news group on cyber hate and cyber terrorist content on the Internet. Just about every day I am posting articles, reports, links etc. All with specific information on where this content can be found, what can be done to reduce it etc. The group is called Network TAHITI . Please join! 

The Supreme Court of Kenya on 31^st March gave a ruling on the Presidential Elections petitions, paving way for the Jubilee Coalition government to take over the running of the national government for the next five years. Of interest to many Kenyans as well as the ICT sub-sector is the Jubilee Coalition promise to provide solar powered laptops to every child within the first 100 days in office.

The relevant part of the Jubilee manifesto reads:

“...Work with…