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Kenya has been in campaign mood for the past few months and the controversy surrounding use of technology in the 2017 General Elections in Kenya adds a spanner to the works. In the immediate previous elections, technology was employed in three areas: Biometric Voter Registration (…

There is a  Kenyan audio doing rounds on the Internet about a girl being withdrawing consent in what sounds like a pre-consented sexual encounter. A lot has been said about the violence in the video and I will not belabour that point. It does bring to mind the question of technology and violence against women (techvaw).

Definitions

Violence against women is any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental…

This topic attempts to provide the space to discuss a variety of

emerging issues in the Internet space.



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1. The mandate of WSIS, a meeting of the UN that took place in 2005 in

Tunis is coming to an end. The WSIS process gave birth to the Internet

Governance Forum (IGF) which is up for renewal at  end of this year.

From IGF discussions, there are no concrete proposals…

1. Is there an over arching national policy to guide infrastructure

deployments within the country?

2. What is the current state of fiber optic cable across the country?

Is there any redundancy on the cables laid across the country?

3. Are there policies in place for infrastructure sharing to avoid

each operator laying their own cable thus passing the cost to the…