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 There was a time I was mesmerized by Chania river, we took trips there, to see the water flowing downstream and the rocks. The big boys liked swiming and showing off their skills. The Danube is no comparison to Chania, that is why am allowed to stand by the bridge and get mesmerized once more.
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When business tycoon Chris Kirubi was charged in a Nairobi court, he probably did not think the photojournalists would be so hysterical.
Perhaps because he owns one of the top radio stations, he thought the camera people would cut him some slack.
Gosh, he was so irritated and visibly angry as the journalists hunted him down blocking his space and taking 1000 photos. I must admit the journalists dramatize but that was a sight.
Kirubi is also the Ghanaian representative, something like an ambassador or some diplomatic relation of some sort.
I thought he enjoyed some sort of diplomatic immunity. I wonder what privileges being representative comes with.
Just a thought!
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 We enjoy meeting people, those we know, and those we dont...
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Live blog session 4- Frontline activists meet the academy: tools and knowledge
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Live Blog - Session 2 'Citizen Media and Online Free SpeeAch
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Fellow bloggers and apathy, do they have time for cyber activism. They think that some bloggers write bad stuff and if they are censored, whats the big deal? But when you have international attention, they get interested.
What can other bloggers do to help, first support, especially mainstream media and the internet.
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3:57
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Awab is a dentist from Pakistan, you may wonder what he is doing in blogging, and he will say, he leads by example.
Blogspot ban-drawmuhammadweek.blogspot.com was the blog that led to a blanket ban on all blogspot bans.
Pakistan has an aggregator now, an attempt to help people read blogs in a more effective way. www.pkblogs.com helped where bogspot had failed.
Google also changed the Blogspot IPs which helped with the ban, because people were able to access blogs again.
Musharraf was given the middle finger salute for his efforts (laugh)...hahhahhoo
He wanted Pakistanis not to hear any truth, see or read, he was determined to block everyone.
Sms was used to blog especially after Bhutto assassination and the first days of martial law. pklongmarch.blogspot.com was used for email and sms blogging.
If the number is compromised, one can be tracked down and blocked, so its still a challenge.
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3:46
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Net bullying, mobile phone content is restricted in Japan.
This guy who killed people in Akihabara shopping mall confessed online that he was going to killing people. Now the ISP can give the IP address to the police, now that people have come up with phony threats.
Filtering by the ministry to protect children from all harmful stuff on the internet. A survey found that 67.8 support internet regulation and 76 % said they support filtering.
Others say regulation/censorship will stop innovation and Japan will be left behind by other countries, that the regulation was contradictory and the regulation process is not transparent.
The government loves to be told to filter the web. Web censorship means different things to different people, awareness is key.
Its funny the society is supporting the government on censorship. Thats Japan for you!
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3:08
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The Kenyan courts may not know what is blogging and how it relates to defamation but Egypt has a different story.
They do not filter the internet using firewalls but they torture blogs and use the courts to jail. They create an atmosphere of fear, beat you up so that you can reveal your facebook, blogger or you tube account.
www.tortureinegypt.net covers torture in Egypt and tags the posts with the names of the police officers, and raises the stakes. When you go to court, the evidence is there, which means the same courts will also be used to block the blogger.
A lady blogger had to lose her job, after efforts from her family to stop her from blogging failed. She stood up to her father, which meant she lost a place to stay. Now she works at a radical newspaper/site.
Libel laws in Egypt were designed to protect the system, its criminal and the onus is on the blogger to prove.
for instance, a blogger blogs about a company dumping waste into a public water space. elhakika.blogspot.com was blogging about the environmental effects and was sued for libel.
The laws require the blogger to prove the company is emptying waste into the lake, if you prove 3 out of 4 allegations, you still go to jail for failing to prove one allegation.
In other jurisdictions, the onus would have been on the company to prove that its not emptying waste to the lake. The company would have to prove its clean.
The upshot- use of fear and courts to silence bloggers.
But are bloggers above the law. Should they be supported whether they make mistakes or not? Food for thought......
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2:56
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Sami Ben Gharbia shows a video about torture and police violence in Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia. It represents so many African countries, it has become acceptable and its now wished away. of course the police deny.
The mainstream media denies existence of the incidences but the bloggers and you tube videos are changing repressive regimes.
It reminds me of the stories in Kenya's Mt Elgon area, the cat and mouse games games between the army, the Sabaot land defense forces and the residents. people have come out, stripped in public, showing torture marks, yet the government and the army denies, so who is fooling who?
Now that we have Googlemaps, youtube and other online services, the residents can provide such evidence online, now that its their word against that of the army.
The Kenya Human Rights Commission, instead of empty talk, should empower the residents with technology, to burst the bastards.
I wonder what the police and the army will say, if such videos stream online. Will they vilify the commission and anybody else castigating the army and torture of Mt Elgon residents.
We need to embarrass the security forces.
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2:45
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Future
GV now translated to Malagasy, spoken in Madagascar.
Translation, lingua has incorporated many other languages.
GV advocacy, led by Sami Ben Ghabia from Tunisia. He leads the underground bloggers, how people can use online media to speak out, governments are also working hard to control what is coming out.
People doing stuff to protect online speech and the technical improvements to beat the tough firewalls.
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2:39
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Intro by Rebecca MacKinnon
The desire to improve coverage of international news, increased research and the need to improve use of internet inspired Global Voices online.
From 2004, the group has grown and more continue to volunteer services.
from 2006, it has grown from just being a website to a forum against censorship, advocacy and community media, beyond the educated elite. Rising voices reaches to voices that may be underrepresented in the mainstream media.
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 Outside the Hungarian Opera house, I have to do the village pose wherever I go.
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  Germany won, we were all happy... so the beer was on the table....
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 At the airport you can buy flowers. I thought such was for coffee. Lessons, I can see.
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8:40
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we met at Cairo Airport and the Sudan and Kenya team decided to get together. Daudi, Denno and Andrew.
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It was befitting that Bitange Ndemo, Paul Kukubo and Eunice Kariuki chose to come to Barcamp in Casual wear, it was hard to notice them, that is if you do not know them, they gelled so well with the crowd.
During the discussion on our education system, Ndemo drew on his experience as a university lecturer, saying that of all the students in a class, only 5 per cent are exceptionally bright and know more than the lecturer, 40 percent are average and 55 per cent are happy to drag along and get the certificate (read those who dab and engage in all manner of crime just to get the certificate).
It was nice to hear Ndemo admitting that our university lecturers are frozen in time and do not appreciate technological developments. He argued that most bright students fail, not because they do not know, but mainly because the lecturers may not understand what the students are writing. Not all the bright students get first class, he said.
Ndemo was concerned with spirit of entrepreneurship saying that it needs to be inculcated at an early stage like in the US where kids engage in business and understand the principle of profit and loss.
“Here people take the capital and imagine that it’s the profit, and that’s why businesses fail”
He was contributing on the debate about lack business skills and lack of capital within IT sector, especially young people starting up.
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Techies, government, businesspeople, students.....they all came to share and listen...
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It was my first Barcamp, can’t explain why I missed it last year, but I made it this time.
It was nice listening to people, the applications and the innovations they are developing. It’s sad that people think Kenya does not have solutions for some of the problems.
For instance, one guy from Moi University explained how they developed certain applications for the university, yet the university ignored them and invited multi million bids for the work they could do.
The students went a step further and simulated the university’s lighting system and showed how it could be controlled from one computer.
What did the university say? We are not interested.
Somehow the students lost faith and started doing other things.
But Kiania Dee wondered whether the students had proved a business case, arguing that there is need to teach entrepreneurship skills to engineering students. Others thought poverty and hunger for employment had killed innovation.
It was argued that most engineering students are snapped by companies like Pricewaterhousecoopers immediately after university and family responsibilities force them to abandon their dreams.
It was very enlightening.
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The other day I went to one of my tribal banks for a transaction and was amazed at how interconnectivity has eased the level of transactions.
I think they did well to invest in a bigger local loop pipe because earlier it was taking ages to communicate with a rural branch. So I was happy the teller got the information from my rural branch so fast……but she said….aaiiih (I hate it when people say that coz it doesn’t end well, it’s a sign someone will complicate your life).
So it happened that I have to go talk to the manager to sort me out. Of course there was a queue but was moving.
There was this guy ahead of me on the queue who looked rough, with un-tucked, halfway buttoned shirt, a khaki trouser, and funny rubber shoes. He looked like the lorry operators who have money but you can never tell.
Anyway, he started a conversation how he dreads it when a woman is the one in front of him on the queue, apparently because women take long before they can sort out the actual problem that took them to the manager.
“Wanaenda kuongea juu ya pumwani maternity, sijui watoto wamezaliwa wengi,” he said with a grin on his face.
“That’s rude and unfair,” I said, waiting for details. He just laughed and was joined in the conversation by another young man who said how the woman ahead in the queue had said she was to take some time.
Well, the woman took some time and I understood what the maternity guy meant, when she came out, she smiled and said, “sija kaa” and we just smiled back, after all, she was out.
When I went in and found that the manager was a woman, I thought, that guy was actually a chauvinist; he knew the manager was female and could be dragged to maternity matters. Anyway, he was a nice guy, full of jokes.
My day at the bank ended well. The manager very helpful!
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0:52
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Investing in Safaricom was supposed to be easy, a matter of buying shares in Kenya’s most profitable company and getting refunds for shares not allocated. It was well known that it was going to be oversubscribed.
It started with controversy over government’s decision to offload the shares and whether it was right. It was a campaign tool, and some people were urged not to buy the shares but the boycott call was later retracted.
Then the IPO kicked off, long queues and endless advertisements of how our lives are going to change. Yes, it is good that we get to own shares but at what cost?
The allocations did not justify the hype. Queue a whole day, get a loan from the bank at 15% per annum interest, and then get allocated 420 shares. But again, those who feel the allocations are low should buy now that they are floated.
Then the next scene in the drama is the refunds. Brokers holding the money, Safaricom pointing fingers at unscrupulous brokers, CBK acknowledging the problem, asking the Capital Markets Authority to intervene and the CMA is just silent, how much more drama do we need.
It was argued that the IPO will benefit the ordinary person but now the only thing I see is the people trying to get their refunds to pay off the loans and the high interest rates and others sitting back waiting for the chaos to end before making the claims.
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With debate going on about OOXML and Kenya taking a neutral position, Dorcas Muthoni breaks down the technical jargon for easier understanding.
What is an Office Document Standard?
A standard file format that would allow office documents such as spreadsheets and word processing files to be opened by applications from different vendors.
Why Open Standards
Creating an open office file format suggests that documents created in an application that supports that file format could be opened in other applications that support it as well. E.g. A document written using OpenOffice for example, could be opened in Ms Office without affecting the layout or formatting.
With an open standard;
You can choose any operating system or application and still be able to read and edit all your old documents e.g. whether it is Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Unix.
You can collaborate with others regardless of which software they are using e.g. whether it is LotusNotes, OpenOffice, Ms Office, StarOffice, GoogleApps .
You can use any software of your choice to exchange documents within your organization, with your clients, partners, government and everyone else.
The goal of an open standard is to free corporate data from proprietary file formats so they can be accessed for years to come no matter what office software a company or government is using. Companies and governments are currently saving data in proprietary file formats, such as those written in Microsoft's Office software (.doc, .xls, .ppt, and lately .docx, .xlsx, .pptx), and locking themselves into using that software indefinitely.
A relative example is, we all develop our websites and expect to successfully access them using various browser software (Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, Safari, Internet Explorer etc). We successfully manage to do this because of HTML, XML and Browser open standardization.
The same should happen for office documents and hence definition of open document standards.
What is ODF
ODF(OpenDocument Format) an ISO standard created with the aim to provide an open XML-based document file format for office applications to be used for documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical elements. ODF is defined via an open and transparent process at OASIS ( The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) and has been approved unanimously by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as an international standard in May 2006. Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel ODF reuses established standards like HTML, SVG, XSL, SMIL, XLink, XForms, MathML, and Dublin Core.
ODF leaves space for all present and future vendors do implement it and makes sure that end users won't suffer from any sort of vendor lock-in. In contrast to earlier used binary formats which were cryptic and difficult to process, ODF's use of XML makes accessing the document content simple.
ODF guarantees long-term viability. The OASIS ODF TC, the OASIS ODF Adoption TC, and the ODF Alliance include members from Adobe, BBC, EDS, EMC, GNOME, Google, IBM, Intel, KDE, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, Software AG and Sun Microsystems. Since June 2006 the ODF Alliance has already more than 300 members.
What is OOXML
A format proposed by Microsoft that comes closest to ODF in function, but it fails the test for an Open Standard in various ways, including an unclear legal status as well as inclusion of and reference to proprietary technologies. It has all signs of a vendor-specific format that only Microsoft will be able to implement completely.
Microsoft, which dominates the office software market with its Office suite, is a member of OASIS and was fully aware of the technical committee that came up with ODF. However, they opted to make Ms Office 2007 heavily reliant on XML and also initiated a parallel technical committee to develop a standard file format the MS OOXML.
Ms Office 2007 does not support ODF. What Microsoft has done is to push MS OOXML through a fast track process to have the standard certified by ISO. The standard is being reviewed by technical committees (TC) formed through national standards bodies. The TCs pass a vote through a ballot process. The ballot resolutions are then forwarded to ISO, if the outcome is greater support for MS OOXML, then the standard will be passed.
Why should we reject a proprietary standard like OOXML
We live in a digital age where paper documents increasingly get replaced by electronic records. We may even see the day we no longer use paper and pen to keep records. In this situation long-term data becomes critical. This is especially the case for legal contracts and government documents which stay valid and relevant over decades, or even centuries. Just like there were many vendors supplying paper and pens through out the history, and not a single one, so do these formats and applications which are used to make them need to be vendor independent. That is the only guanrantee of long-term access to data, even if companies disappear, change their strategies or dramatically raise their prices.
The Kenyan technical committee (hosted by KEBS) reviewing the MS OOXML standard was inappropriately constituted and is highly imbalanced. Microsoft recommended business partners to this committee and the first vote returned a yes resolution because of this imbalance. On March 19th 2008, the committee passed an Abstain resolution which Microsoft is now strongly appealing against.
Further, the MS OOXML standard is defined in 6,000+ pages and with the fast track process, it is barely possible to review the standard comprehensively. This standard must be reviewed via the regular standard process.
MS OOXML is a proposed parallel standard without a justification.
OOXML has patent issues
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Media audit was a great idea. It would have been good to have a clearer picture of how the media performed. I was waiting to see which media house will be indicted. It did not matter who is doing it, at least we would have had a process in place, capable of being improved on in future.
But the credibility of such a process seems to be dented. Why?
The on going tug-of war between the Media Council and the Director of Information Ezekiel Mutua seems laughable, they all want to impose their superiority.
When Mutua says “I am the appointing authority and can disband” it sounds like the whole issue is all about who has the power to do what to who and nothing to do with the media audit.
Wachira Waruru on the other side seems to be looking down on the person issuing the threats and wants to prove that nothing can be done.
From the time he was Secretary General of the Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ), Mutua has locked horns with media owners. He has been confrontational and demanded improvement on journalists’ packages, albeit for those working in “big media houses”.
He may have his own shortcomings like all of us but Mutua cannot be faulted for shying away from confronting media owners during his time at KUJ. He demanded action and faced managers in ways probably others did not.
The way he was bundled out of Nation left a lot to be desired, he was deemed to have rubbed the powers the wrong way.
From such confrontations and the call for the media to self regulate like the Law Society of Kenya, Mutua seemed to have the interests of journalists at heart. Even though he says only fools do not change their minds, I expected him to be a fool in the cause!
That is why his remarks about the media came as a shocker to me and made me feel that the confrontation had not to do with the media and the audit but the control of the whole process.
Eric Orina has had a long running feud with Mutua so I could not listen to him much. Yes I was prejudiced because there was no way Orina was going to be objective in handling the matter.
The beef is rather manifest.
The fiasco means that the audit will proceed but with a lot of controversy, and will be trashed by either party. Either way, it will be hard to know and quote the true position.
At the end of the day, the battle was that of personalities and nothing to do with the media audit.
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When the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) board was disbanded by former Information and Communication Minister Raphael Tuju, there was outcry from the local and international Information Society.
I recall that Steve Lang, an editor from South Africa called me, wondering whether the gains of WSIS had been reversed. Kenya played a pivotal role within WSIS, chairing the all important Internet Governance track. There was hope that the move was all for the better.
But with time, it seems what was supposed to be changed actually never changed per se. The industry hoped that CCK would play a more pivotal role in regulating the telecoms industry.
In the CCK website, it talks of tariff regulation within the telecoms sector as well as the postal sector. The write up is so brief and there is no evidence that CCK has done anything to address interconnectivity tariffs within Celtel and Safaricom.
By interconnectivity tariff, my lay understanding would have expected CCK to address why it is cheaper for callers within one network to call each other and more expensive to call across networks.
Sample this: one can call at shs 4 within Celtel or shs 8 per minute within Safaricom (take your pick). Why does it cost me shs 40 to call Celtel from Safaricom? Or better still, why is it damn expensive to call across networks?
The 26% duty aside, it means that terminating a call in any of the two networks is actually low and I am only charged high because the two networks want to limit me within their network hence the high charges.
As a consumer and tax payer, it is reasonable for me to expect CCK to address these pricing issues. I am not expecting CCK to set the prices but what is regulation about? Bring the respective heads to a negotiating table and document it on the website, that way, we know who is stubborn, Safaricom or Celtel.
I am sure it will not be rude to demand an online source in this information age; otherwise the post office will take longer to deliver it to me.
This is just one issue, am sure marketing needs another post.
CCK marketing has a serious job to do, yes, they sponsored the Africa Cup of Nations and I enjoyed my game, but please get over that football referee/ moving goal posts advert.
Post on marketing to follow.
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The other day I was listening to Michael Joseph (MJ) Safaricom CEO talking about Safaricom's recent switch to better equipment to address the perenial congestion within the network.
Though I did not listen to the whole speech, he made an interesting observation that Nairobi CBD has the highest number of callers in the whole world. That could as well be true because many offices in London, New York and J'burg have land lines.
But the question is, if MJ knows this, why not invest in several base stations instead of only one. With the kind of profits Safaricom makes, I am sure that investment will be worth it.
It has been argued that Kenyans have peculiar calling habits and even when the network is congested, we still insist on sticking to the network even when the network gives almost zero call completion rate.
I have always wondered why interconnectivity between Celtel and Safaricom is so expensive. Forget about the 26% duty levied by the government, if i can call Safaricom to safaricom at shs 8 per minute, why do I have to pay shs 23 per minute to call Celtel?
Assuming that at shs 8 the network is making money, it means terminating a call to the other network is cheaper.
In other countries, interconnectivity is easier but it seems in Kenya the desire to outdo each other in profits outweighs the overall goal of ensuring access.
I wonder what CCK has to say in all this, or maybe they have done a study which is busy gathering dust somewhere.
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 hospital film crew1 Originally uploaded by phat_controller The film crew hears stories from the actual beneficiaries.
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 pilot5 Originally uploaded by phat_controller Lawrence was the pilot, very humorous. He said he does not know Swahili, but he does. We went to one lunch joint and he asked for "kuku matiti" (chicken breast). So much for the little swahili words......
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 cloudstz3 Originally uploaded by phat_controller It helps when one has a serious camera. Tony showed us how to go about it.
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 woman in red bike tanz Originally uploaded by phat_controller On the way to one remote hospital, Tony spotted this mama and was very amused.
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 gladys flying3 Originally uploaded by phat_controller There is nothing that scared Gladys as turbulence in the small plane. During turns, and those times that it hit the clouds, we all looked at Gladys to see her facial expression.
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 gladys amref plane Originally uploaded by phat_controller Gladys demonstrates the reality of the "village" pose as we gunned to outdo each other. With this pix, we can actually prove that we have touched a plane. Mtajua aje? Gladys has committed her time to improving access to computers and other pieces of technology that make it better for us to get quality life.
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 becky plane1 Originally uploaded by phat_controller I knew that planes can land on murram roads but I did not know that they land on grass. Ofcourse the grip would be affected if it rains. This was in Bukoba. Its such a nice, green place and I had to show off my primary/ high school photo pose.
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 becky4 Originally uploaded by phat_controller I sat at the Lake Victoria beach waiting for sunset.
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 becky flag1 Originally uploaded by phat_controller First stop was in Mwanza, we could not take off because of bad weather, but we did the following day.
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 becky flying1 Originally uploaded by phat_controller From the grin, it looks like it was my first time on the plane. But again, I dont show my teeth often. We were on our way to Northern Tanzania to witness how telemedicine is changing people's lives. Medical help has become more accessible to the poor. These are baby steps but even the longest journey started with a single step. For Computer Aid and AMREF, the journey has just began. There are about 160 rural hospitals that expect to enjoy the facilities. I will help tell the story to the world.
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From: REBECCA WANJIKU'S BLOG
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Dennis Wambugu is a very disappointed man. He is disappointed because Kenyans do not seem to host most of their websites at the local Internet Service Provider (ISP). Wambugu, who heads Get2Net, a local ISP, feels that too many Kenyan websites are hosted abroad yet the same services can be provided locally. He argues that Kenyan businesses and organizations need to make deliberate efforts to support the local industry, like most South African entities do. Wambugu vented his frustrations when questioned whether Get2net would have the capacity to host a website and guarantee that it will always be accessible. While he had a right to be frustrated at the lack of faith in local web hosting, the local ISPs have left a lot to be desired, in their support and back up of client’s content. The costs are also inhibitive. Sample this: yahoo.com charges shs 1,300 ($20) annually to host a site while a local ISP charges at least shs 24,000 ($ 370) to host the same site annually. But Wambugu defends the local costs saying that yahoo.com can afford to charge shs 1,300 because they have a million sites to host. This means that the company can make $ 20 million from hosting a million sites annually. Compared to local companies, he says that the higher the number of clients hosting locally, the lesser the charges. This is because companies can invest in better servers and expect to recoup the costs within the year. But people wonder; why spend a lot of money hosting locally while a minimal cost will give massiv | |
