Hi ,guys i also had a chance to attend some sessions on cyber security and
cyber crime, the question that was put to us was...as we strive to put more
content to the internet and give people universal access to it - the core
business of WMF,we should spare a moment and make deliberate efforts to
secure our cyberspace ,the panelist noted that @ the moment many countries
don't have cyber security strategies ,legislation .
We realized in most developing countries the law enforcers and the
judicial system know little about cyber crime thus the need for capacity
building ,the dark side is many cyber crimes go unpunished.
@ the moment if a cyber crime originates from onother country its
difficult to nail the offender simply because ,they other country would
rightly say they are under no obligation to reveal the identity of the
offender ,our take was we should ratify the Budapest convention .
i met ,Adrian Dwyer ,the executive director of international
association of internet hotlines we discussed the possibility of launching a
24/7 hotline for reporting harmful content .
i also met Vint Cerf the guy behind TCP/IP and for sure without TCP/IP
the growth of internet to what its now would have been impossible ,there
will be a fireside chart with him @ ihub today ,
will do a session today till noon, thanks Steve and Abbas
for your timely comments.
rgds.
Branton.
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:07 PM, stephen wanjau <wanjaustev(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi nice people today has also been a great day at IGF
.
Most importantly though I met a wikipedian from Argentina and she was very
happy to learn of our intentions and plans in Kenya.
She told me that she has been involving her post graduate studies' in
writing high quality articles in Spanish and posting them to Wikipedia. I
got the contacts and more details shall follow later. ...........
Being a facilitator at the meeting's live stream I had a chat with the
camera guys and I briefly talked to them about WTN....they were very very
happy on hearing the news!!!!! So +1...
Best regards,
Stephen.
On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:
Hi,
To be precise, the session that we attended yesterday was "Economic
aspects
of local content creation and local Internet infrastructure" .
I was initially invited by Florence as a panelist
to this session, but
unfortunately, due to miscommunication, it didn't happen.
Anyway, on the
panel we had some folks from Google, UNESCO, Egypt and the Kenyan government
-- each talking about their various efforts to promote local content
creation. I'll try and trace some of the meeting notes and post them to the
mailing list.
I've just arrived at the IGF today and
I'm in a session on Emerging
Issues. BTW, I've also met Branton Obwari --
so he'll probably give us an
update on the sessions he's attending.
Sincerely,
Abbas Mahmood,
Learners' Voice 2011 Member: World Innovation Summit for Education
http://www.wise-qatar.org
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From: wanjaustev(a)gmail.com
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10 <tel:2011%2010>:07:50 +0300
To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] IGF
Hi Nice People,
I am happy to report to you some few details that were talked about at a
session
that I was privileged to attend at the IGF (Internet Governance
Forum). I am attending the conference as an expediter and where it suites I
double up as a Wikimedian….: P
On that notable note, there was a session that was about local content on
the
internet .One of the participants described the internet as a key player
in making content available. To me I see it as Creation (writing articles
uses internet), preservation (saving on WMF servers, uses internet),
dissemination (ISPs) and utilization of data (internet users accessing the
data).
But it was noted that the internet is only relevant to the locals if we
have
home-grown content on the internet.
Wikipedia was also mentioned more than a few times where it was being
used to
survey the article viewed per language and in what region.
The grandfather of TCP/IP, Vint Cerf <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf> was in the house and he closed the
meeting after saying that;
“Purpose for measurement is not in numbers but is on the inside.”
PS. Abbas in case I forgot anything from the session we attended please
add.
Regards,
Stephen
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