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Artificial Intelligence at KeSIG
By Margaret Mwangi Artificial intelligence that is popularly known as “AI’’is one of the topic that we had during the 2019 Kenya School of Internet Governance. The Artificial Intelligence technology is here to stay and no longer a thing of the past. What started as a...
Data Governance and Artificial Intelligence
By By Dorcas Ng’ang’a As day one of KESIG was coming to a conclusion, we pondered on the issue of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and policy concerns. In anticipation of KIGF, several questions were posed to us on data governance. In this article I deliberate on the...
Kenya IGF week 2019
The Kenya IGF week shall be held from 29th July to 1st August 2019 at the Panafric Hotel, in Nairobi. The IGF week has a series of activities including the Kenya School of Internet Governance (KeSIG), policy briefs dissemination workshops, and culminates in the...
Kibera’s free internet: TunapandaNET community network
By Nzambi Kakusu. TunapandaNET is a low cost community wireless network developed in 2015 by Tunapanda Institute to help the local youth access educational information. Tunapanda Institute, a non-profit social enterprise whose goal is to build a digital ecosystem in...
Connecting Everyone to the Internet
A brief review of Kenya’s Broadband Strategy 2018–2023The Internet has increasingly become a civil right as the government continues to digitalize its critical services. Every Kenyan applying for driving license, passport and filing returns will be...
Community network global inception meeting
By Nzambi Kakusu. KICTANET was the local host of the community network learning grants' five day global inception meeting that was organized by Association for Progressive Communications (APC) from 30th April to 3rd May 2019 in Kenya. The main agenda was to kick off...
The global disease: Online gender inequality
By Cecilia Maundu. Just because it’s online does not make it any less real. Online gender based violence has become the order of the day in Kenya. More often than not, people choose not to speak about it because it is regarded“virtual” hence not “real” violence. But...
Why Internet community networks?
KICTANet moderated the session on Community Networks and Alternative models for Internet Access Provision at the Digital Rights Forum 2019 (#DRIF19) in Lagos, Nigeria. @jossiemiliza Provides a definition of 'community networks' @ #DRIF19 with @LORDMWESH Chairing the...
Cybersecurity in Kenya: Priorities 2019
KICTANet, Partners Work to Boost a Cyber Resilient Kenya Kenya needs to enhance its capacity in the legal, institutional and capacity in addressing challenges within the cybersecurity space. There is an urgent need to understand...
KICTANet is a multi-stakeholder Think Tank for ICT policy and regulation. The Think Tank is a catalyst for reform in the Information and Communication Technology sector. Its work is guided by four pillars of Policy Advocacy, Capacity Building, Research, and Stakeholder Engagement.
KICTANet’s mission is to promote an enabling environment in the ICT sector that is robust, open, accessible, and rights-based through multistakeholder approaches.
During the 2022 – 2024 strategic period, KICTANet has prioritised the promotion of effective multistakeholder participation; an enabling legal, policy and regulatory environment; building capacities and empowered communities; and institutional strengthening. KICTANet’s guiding philosophy encourages synergies in ICT policy-related activities and initiatives. As such, the network provides mechanisms and a framework for continuing cooperation, engagement and collaboration in ICT matters among industry, technical community, academia, media, development partners, civil society and government.
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Strategic Priority.
- Convening power. To strengthen and promote engagement, collaboration and relationships with relevant stakeholders (state, business and non-state actors).
- Promoting an enabling environment. To catalyse policy, legislative and regulatory reforms in the ICT sector.
- Building capacities and empowered communities. To build the capacity of the stakeholders across government, business society and civil society and the citizens.
- Institutional strengthening.
The report outlines the work undertaken in between 2007 and 2016 which is underpinned by crowd sourcing and community engagement
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FACTS AND FIGURES
Achievement of the Network over the Years
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Persons trained
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Different conversation threads
Impressions on ICT policy discussions
Our Pillars
KICTANet’s organisational strategy:
Policy Advocacy
Capacity building
Research
Stakeholder engagement
We facilitate stakeholder engagement through collaborative initiatives in face-to-face Town Hall meetings, and in the KICTANet?s interactive mailing list where multiple stakeholders engage regularly on ICT policy issues.