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Thursday, January 22, 2015
Nairobi Restaurant Week 2015, Jan. 22 – Feb. 1 2015 @ Participating Outlets
Nairobi Restaurant Week |
Nairobi Restaurant Week is back! Foodies in Nairobi have the
enviable task of indulging their taste buds to a wide course selection from 50*
participating restaurants in Nairobi at totally pocket friendly prices [guess
the organizers know it is January!].
NRW Menus will cost KES 1,500-2,000 depending on the
establishment and will include a Magnum Cream Liqueur complimentary cocktail
(where available).
New to Eating Out /
Restaurant Maneno’s?
Worry not, all you need to do is either walk in to any of
the participating restaurants and ask for the NRW Special Menu – re: the No Reservations Option or you can
make a booking through EatOut Online or by calling 0711 222 222. They should
sort you out!
* NRW 2015 Participating Restaurants
360 Degrees Artisan Pizza, 88 at Villa Rosa Kempinski, About Thyme, Adega, Anghiti Muthaiga, Anghiti Westlands, Artisan at Sankara Nairobi, Asmara, Bamboo at Zen, Bhandini at Intercontinental, Black Gold Cafe at Panari, Brew Bistro Fine Dining, Cafe Maghreb at Serena, Caramel Restaurant & Lounge, Eagles Steakhouse at Ole Sereni, Emerald Garden Thai, Flame Tree at Panafric, Four Café, Haandi, Jiko at Tribe, La Dolce Vita, Limelight at Royal Orchid Azure, Lord Delamere at Fairmont, Lucca at Villa Rossa Kempinski, Mama’s Patisserie, Mambo Italia, Mediterraneo Gigiri,, Mediterraneo Junction, Mediterraneo Westlands, Monikos, Ocean Basket, Pablo’s at Best Western, Pampa Lavington, Pampa Mombasa Road, Que Pasa Bar & Bistro, Saravana Bhavan, Secret Garden, Seven Grill & Lounge, Sierra Brasserie, Sikia Fine Dining at Crowne Plaza, Simba Salon, Soaring Eagle Spur, Soi at DusitD2, Soko at DusitD2, Talisman, Tamambo Blixen, Taste Of China, The Wine Shop, Thorn Tree at Sarova Stanley, Ventana at Bidwood Suite and Vista at Emerald Hotel
Bon Appetit!
Nairobi Restaurant
Week is organized by Taste Events Ltd, (A partnership between EatOut and SHK
Consulting)
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Friday, May 9, 2014
Screenings: 23rd European Film Festival, May 13- Jun.1 2014 @ Alliance Française Auditorium
23rd EU Film Festival |
Dates: May 13 – June 1, 2014
Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Time: weekdays - 5.30 & 7.30 pm and weekends -
3.00, 5.30 & 7.30 pm
Entrance: Kshs 50
AUSTRIA
1. ATMEN (Breathing)
Drama – 2011 – 94 minutes | General Exhibition (GE)
Screenings: 13th May @ 5.30pm & 24th May
@7.30pm
Acclaimed directorial debut from veteran Austrian actor Karl
Markovics. The film is an eloquent portrait of an incarcerated teenager
attempting to win parole by working at a local mortuary. To his horror and
disgust, he has to handle corpses. His co-workers are bullies very like
his prison warders. Yet Roman must endure this job if he is to get parole and
begins to respect the solemn work of handling the dead and starts to come to
terms with his own youthful crime.
Nominated for the
‘European Discovery of the Year’ at the 2011 European Film Awards and Winner
of “Label Europa Cinemas”at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival
1. LA TÊTE LA
PREMIÈRE (Headfirst)
Romance – 2012 – 89 minutes| Above16 (+16)
Screenings: 13th May @ 7.30pm & 24th May @ 3pm
Young Zoé takes to the road in search of a writer she
admires. She believes that a road trip might give purpose to her life. Along
the way, she meets Adrien, a young actor who is intrigued by her elusive
personality and decides to follow her.
2. TURQUAZE (Turquoise)
Drama – 2010 – 96 minutes | Above16 (+16)
Screening: 20th May @ 7.30pm and 30th May @ 5.30pm
The film explores the lives of immigrants who find
themselves torn between two lands and cultures, with roots in
neither. This moving and joyous romantic drama introduces a trio of
Turkish brothers, living in Belgium, who redefine family dynamics after their
father’s death
1. TMAVOMODRÝSVĚT (Dark
Blue World)
War/Drama/Romance – 2011 – 112 minutes | Parental Guidance
(PG)
Screenings: 14th May
@5.30pm and 31st May @ 7.30pm
An epic romantic drama by the Oscar winning director, Jan
Sverák. It is about two Czech pilots, serving together in the UK’s Royal Air
Force during World War II, who fall in love with the same woman. The film flits
between a post-war camp where Franta is a prisoner, an “enemy of the people”
because he flew for the RAF during WWII, and England during the war where
Franta is like a big brother to Karel, a very young pilot.
.
1. KAPRINGEN (A
Hijacking)
Drama/Thriller – 2012 – 103 minutes | Parental Guidance (PG)
Screenings: 27th May @ 7pm – Ciné-Café and 1st June
@ 7.30pm
The cargo ship MV Rozen is heading for harbor when it is
hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Amongst the men on board are
the ship’s cook Mikkel and the engineer Jan, who along with the rest of the
seamen are taken hostage in a cynical game of life and death. With the demand
for a ransom of millions of dollars, a psychological drama unfolds between the
CEO of the shipping company and the Somali pirates.
2. JAGTEN (The
Hunt)
Drama – 2013 – 115 minutes | Above16 (+16)
Screenings: 14th May @7.30pm, 22nd May @5.30pm and
30th May @ 7.30pm
A powerful story of a man wrongly accused of child abuse.
Lucas leads a contented life in a small town. A teacher by training, he has
been left jobless by the closing of the local school. He now works
in a daycare, looking after kids during the day and drinking with their parents
in the evening. Everything changes, however, when — in a moment of anger — one
of Lucas’ charges tells the daycare owner he sexually abused her.
Winner of the ‘Best
Actor’ Award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and the ‘Best Screenwriter’ Award
at the 2012 European Film Awards
1. 9 MOIS
FERME (9 months stretch)
Comedy – 2013 – 82 minutes | Above16 (+16)
Screenings: 15th May @ 5.30pm and 25th May @
7.30pm
The film tells the story of a morally upright judge; Ariane
Felder, who discovers she is pregnant by a criminal wanted for murder.
Ariane can’t remember a thing and tries to find out what could possibly have
happened.
Winner of the 2014
César Awards for Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay
2. LE PONT DES
SAVEURS (The Brige of Flavors)
Screening: 19th May @ 7pm - CINE-CONCERT
The French duo ‘Bridge of Flavours’ made up of saxophonist,
Julien Petit and pianist, Guillaume Cherpitel, present a Ciné-Concert.
The magic of live musical performance set to silent films from the early
20th century including ‘Paris qui dort’ (Paris Asleep) by René Clair and
‘Le voyage dans la lune’ (A trip to the moon) by Georges Méliès, comes to
stage.
Following the success of the Oscar winning film “The
Artist’, the two musicians started experimenting with silent films and through
jazzy compositions influenced by African music, salsa, soul, rock and funk, the
duo invite you to rediscover the special alchemy from the very early days of
cinema.
1. BARBARA
Drama – 2012 – 105 minutes | Above16 (+16)
Screening: 15th May @ 7.30pm and 31st May @ 5.30pm
A psychological and political thriller set in1980s East
Germany. Barbara, a doctor, has applied for an exit visa from the GDR. Now, as
punishment, she has been transferred from Berlin to a small hospital out in the
country. Jörg, her lover from the West, is already planning her escape. Barbara
waits, keeping to herself. Working as a paediatric surgeon under her new boss
Andre, she is attentive when it comes to the patients, but quite distanced
toward her colleagues. But Andre confuses her with his confidence in her
professional abilities, his caring attitude, his smile. Is she under
surveillance? Is he in love? But as the day of her planned escape quickly
approaches, Barbara starts to lose control. Over herself, over her plans?
Silver Bear for Best
Director at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival (2012)
GREECE
1. ΝΎΦΕΣ(Brides)
Drama/ Romance – 2004 -128 Minutes | Above16 (+16)
Screenings: 12th May @ 6.30pm, 20th May @5.30pm
and 24th May @5.30pm
Set in the turbulent social and political climate of 1922,
Brides tells the story of 700 young women, some of them teenagers, from Greece,
Russia, Turkey and Armenia, who were loaded on a ship heading for New York.
They were proxy brides carrying a wedding gown and a photograph of their future
husbands. The film illuminates the migrant experience through a moving tale of
love, duty and sacrifice.
2004: Greek State Film
Awards for Best Film
2. Ο
ΒΥΣΣΙΝΌΚΗΠΟΣ (Cherry Orchard)
Drama – 2000 – 141 minutes | Parental Guidance (PG)
Screenings: 16th May @ 5.30pm and 28th May @
5.30pm
LyubovRanevskayaleft Russia to escape troubling memories of
the death of her son. Now her family is riddled with debt and Lyubov and her
teenaged daughter have come home to the family estate looking for a way to pay
their bills. Much to their dismay, the Ranevskayas are forced to sell their
land to a crude businessman who intends to build a housing development in what
was once the family’s cherry orchard.
1. LA GRANDE
BELLAZA (The Great Beauty)
Drama/ Comedy – 2013 - 142 minutes | Above16 (+16)
Screenings: 16th May @ 7.30pm, 26th May @ 7.30pm
and 1st June @ 3pm
Journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way
through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success
of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's
literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a
shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life,
turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the
extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a
timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Winner of the 2014
Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film, the 2014 Bafta Award for the Best not
in the English Language
NETHERLANDS
1. DE
MARATHON (The Marathon)
Comedy/ Sport-Drama – 2012 – 107 minutes | Above16 (+16)
Screenings: 17th May @ 3pm and 28th May @ 7.30pm
For four disillusioned men there is more at stake than
merely finishing the Rotterdam marathon.
Gerard, Leo, Kees and Nico - four friends born and bred in
Rotterdam - work side by side in Gerard’s garage, but business has suffered a
down-turn. Through Youssoef, the foursome comes up with the inspired idea to
get a sponsor and take part in the Rotterdam Marathon in order to save the
garage from going under. In the midst of all the preparations for this ultimate
run and the saving of the garage, there is actually more at stake for the four
guys than just getting to the finish...
1. TIGRE V
MESTE (Tigers in the City)
Comedy/Drama – 2012 – 90 minutes |Above 18(+18)
Screenings: 17th May @ 5.30pm and 29th May @
5.30pm
Three friends about to turn 30 call themselves animal names:
BADGER, HYENA and PIGEON. They like to spend time together in their favorite
bar in the Bratislava city Zoo, but they all feel that something is missing –
they starve for a soul mate for life. After years of fantasizing about a woman’s
voice on the radio, Badger finally decides to meet her. Badger’s life takes an
unexpected twist, when his friends discover, that a man is trying to kill him.
The man is a Russian ex-hit-man hired to kill Badger for his extensive zeal as
a state prosecutor, working against local mafia. At the same time, the killer
happens to be the husband of the radio speaker, with whom Badger just started a
romance. The circle is closed. Now it’s not only a question of falling in love
anymore. It’s about staying alive
1. BLANCANIEVES
Drama/Fantasy – 2012 – 104 minutes
Screenings: 23rd May @7.30pm and 29th May @7.30pm
Set in southern Spain in 1920s, Blancanieves is a tribute to
silent films. It is a silent-movie melodrama version of Snow White and
the Sven Dwarfs. Carmen is the beautiful daughter of a once dashingly
handsome bullfighter, now a widower and invalid, married to a scheming
nurse. After her stepmother’s bungled murder plan, Carmen is discovered
in the woods by a travelling band of bullfighting dwarfs who discover Carmen’s
extraordinary talent for bullfighting.
Winner of the 2013
European Film Award for the Best Costume Designer and the 2013 Goya Awards for
Best Film, Best New Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Original
Score, Best Original Song
2. LAS AVENTURAS DE
TADEO JONES (The Adventures of Tad Jones)
Animation/Adventure/Comedy – 2012 – 92 minutes
Screenings: 18th May @3pm and 31st May @3pm
Tad is a celebrity archeologist and adventurer just like his
hero Max Mordon... in his dreams! In reality, Tad is a Chicago construction
worker. One day, however, he is mistaken for a real Professor and takes his
place on a flight to Peru in search of the Lost City of Paititi. Professor
Lavrof and his beautiful daughter Sara are waiting for the famous professor to
crack the code. Unfortunately for Tad, Sara is engaged to real-life hero Max
Mordon, but Max has secretly betrayed the Professor by teaming up with the evil
Kopponen and his shady Odysseus corporation. Time for Tad to step up.
Winner of the
2013 Goya Award for the Best Animation Film and Best New Director
SWEDEN
1. HIMLENÄROSKYLDIGTBLÅ (Behind
Blue Skies)
Screenings: 17th May @ 7.30pm and 26th May @
5.30pm
Martin escapes his alcoholic father for the summer job of
his life at the exclusive Royal Yacht Club in the idyllic archipelago of
Stockholm in 1975. He meets true love for the first time and is being groomed
by Gösta, a playboy in the centre of high society. Martin is inevitably
drawn into one of the greatest scandal of all times in Swedish crime history.
1. LES GRANDES
ONDES (Longwaves)
Comedy – 2013 – 85 minutes | Above16 (+16)
Screenings: 18th May @ 5.30pm and 22nd May @
7.30pm
It is April 1974 and Julie Dujonc-Renens, young feminist
journalist and the cunning Joseph-Marie Cauvin, leading reporter for the Swiss
radio, have been sent to Portugal to investigate Switzerland’s aid to poor
countries. Sparks fly during the bus trip with Bob, sound engineer approaching
retirement. The projects financed by Switzerland prove to be calamitous and the
workers’ revolution that suddenly breaks out doesn’t help, obliging our heroes
to disregard first the radio’s management, and then their own codes of conduct.
1. NEXT GOAL WINS
Comedy – 2014 – 90minutes | General Exhibition (GE)
Screenings: 18th May @ 7.30pm and 25th May@ 5.30pm
NEXT GOAL WINS is a hilarious and moving exploration of what
it really means to be a winner in life.
1. THE CAPTAIN OF
NAKARA
Comedy/Romance – 2012 – 87 minutes | Parental Guidance (PG)
Screenings: 21st May @ 7pm – Ciné Café and 25th May
@ 3pm
Director: Bob Nyanja. Starring : Bernard Safari,
ShirlenWanjari, Charles Kiarie
Afraid of losing the woman of his dreams, Muntu, a small fry
criminal, pretends to own a profitable market stall. His honest attempts to
turn his lies into reality fail, due to the ubiquitous local corruption.
Impersonated as “Captain of Nakara”, wearing a stolen military uniform, Muntu
manages to succeed in defending his rights, his happiness – and ends up elected
as Kwetu’s president!
2. VIVA RIVA!
Drama/Thriller – 2010 – 98 minutes |Above 18(+18)
Screenings: 23rd May @ 5.30pm and 1st June @ 5.30pm
Set in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The efforts of
an 'operator' named Riva to obtain a secret cache of valuable petrol bring him
up against the local crime boss - and his beautiful girlfriend.
Monday, May 5, 2014
NETmundial 2014: The Birth of Multistakeholderism on World Stage
Brazilian President Rousseff Opening NETmundial |
The NETmundial conference (www.netmundial.br) which was held in São
Paulo on April 23-24, 2014 was a culmination of events brought about by
revelations of former NSA contractor turned whistle blower Edward Snowden.
This meeting which was organised by the
Brazilian Government and ICANN sought to address two issues namely;
- Internet Governance Principles, and
- the Roadmap for the future evolution of the Internet Governance Ecosystem
Normally, these two issues would not appear to be
contentious, neither would they be areas where governments/states seek to have
a greater say. However, in light of the startling revelations about NSA mass
surveillance on the American public plus a number of world leaders. It was
inevitable that issues of internet governance had to crop up especially given
the role internet currently plays in a globalised world.
Hence, with the issue of internet governance on the fore, the
main question was how the world was going to address this issue. Was this issue
going to be solved through a multilateral approach? In which case you have the
tried and tested approach, where you would have world governments/states
discussing issues on internet governance. In such a scenario a key constituent
would have been locked out. Therefore, the less tried multistakeholder approach
which is usually synonymous with civil society had to be tried.
In an audacious gamble the Brazilians choose to try the
multistakeholder on issues of internet governance in a world conference where government’s
delegations would also be present. The Gig as it were was aptly named - the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the
Future of Internet Governance [some delegates went as far as calling it the
‘world cup’ before the world cup]. For those not in the know Brazil will be
hosting the world cup from June this year].
The NETmundial conference organisers invited delegates from
four main background categories, namely;
- Government
- Private Sector
- Academia
- Civil Society and
- Technical Community
In the run up to the conference there had been a call for
submissions and under this there were 187 submissions made in time which formed
the basis of NETmundial draft outcome document which had been updated as of
March 14, 2014. This document was then made available for public comments. The
document attracted over 1370 comments.
The submission made have been excellently analysed here
The Conference
I arrived in São Paulo a day before the conference kick-off
and thus I missed the usual pre-conference roundtables and opening cocktails
which normally give you a pulse of the meeting before kick-off and the expectations
we all have before such events. However, I was able to chat with a number of
folks before the conference kick off at my hotel and most of us were
pessimistic about any outcome document given the diversity of delegate’s
backgrounds.
Day 1 – Wednesday,
April 23 2014
The first think that captured you when you arrived the meeting venue itself, the Grand Hyatt. The majestic
building at the heart of São Paulo business district meant the Brazilians meant business!
The registration was very smooth and took very few minutes
plus, the security was adequate.
The opening ceremony went on quite well with speeches from;
Virgilio Almeida [NETmundial Chairman who has a striking resemblance to the
former Brazilian President Lula], Wu Hongbo [UN Under-Secretary-General who
made the announcement of the appointment of Janis Karklins as IGF chair],
Nnenna Nwakanma from Civil Society who gave an excellent speech, Vint Cerf from
the Private Sector, Tim Berners Lee [Academia] and Fadi Chehadé [Technical
Community]
The Brazilian President H.E. Dilma Rousseff accented to the Marco
Civil Act before giving her address and formally opening the meeting.
After tea break, there was a long session dedicated to
‘welcome remarks’ mostly from government representatives and other stakeholders
present. Out of this session, of note was Michael Daniel Speech – special
assistant to the president & cybersecurity coordinator [US], on USgovernment’s announcement earlier this year of its decision to relinquish the
oversight responsibility on IANA exercised by the USA’s government.
As has been pointed out in other articles, this session
could have been better used but it is understandable that when you have
governments represented – such ‘welcome remarks’ sessions are inevitable.
The real business of NETmundial forum got cracking in the
afternoon with setting of the goals session immediately after lunch and the
first working session dealing with internet governance principals following.
The submissions were open to the floor under four
categories; Governments, Civil Society, Academia and Private Sector.
For those not physically present there was the remote hubs participation – through video and online participation through a text stream.
Under the working session 1 – Principles part 1. Most of the
submissions centered on human rights with South American CSO’s delegates pushing
for a stronger wording of the human rights clause. Other principles had a
number of submissions with cybersecurity strongly following esp. issues of
internet surveillance. Culture and linguistic diversity also had a number of
submissions.
Day 2 – Thursday, April 24 2014
On Day 2, it was a continuation of the working sessions with
working session 2 – Road Map part 1 taking place in the morning. This session
was initially scheduled for Day 1 but took place on Day 2 due to time
constraints on Day 1 and the fact that the executive committee had to retire for
deliberations on Day 1 submissions.
Thereafter, there were two more working sessions; principles
part II and road map part II.
The afternoon session was occupied with discourse on Beyond
NETmundial – NETmundial and Internet Governance Ecosystem. The critical
question asked during this sessions was how the NETmundial input would find its
way to IGF and other high level forums that would influence a binding document
in future. Also, issues emerging under this session were the
transition/handover of US government oversight responsibilities plus the
reforming of ICANN to deal with the new responsibilities envisioned.
Thereafter, it was a long wait for the final outcome
document, initially scheduled to be announced during the closing sessions
scheduled for 1700 Hrs but which took place from 2000 Hrs as a result of last
minute negotiations.
The closing session was chaired by Virgilio Almeida –
NETmundial chairman and it is at this point it was announced that a final
document had been agreed upon by most of the stakeholders present. This
document was read out by Adam Peake and Jeanette Hofmann who had been
instrumental to achievement of this feat. This final document was aptly named
the São Paulo Multi-stakeholder Statement
by Virgilio Almeida (http://netmundial.br/netmundial-multistakeholder-statement/).
The São Paulo
Multi-stakeholder Statement
Going through the São Paulo Multi-stakeholder Statement one
of the things that you notice from its preamble is that the document is a
non-binding outcome document. Thus, we are still a long way in the journey for
a binding Internet Governance Principles however this is a good starting point.
- Under the Internet Governance Principles
The document identifies a set of common principles and
important values. Also, it goes further to state the internet is a ‘global
resource’ which should be managed for the public interest.
The document goes further to enumerate nine key principles;
- Human rights & shared values,
- Protection of intermediaries,
- Culture & linguistic diversity,
- Unified & unfragmented space,
- Security, stability & resilience of the internet,
- Open & distributed architecture,
- Enabling environment for sustainable innovation & creativity,
- Internet governance process principles and
- Open standards
Under the above principles, of note is the comprehensive
human rights & shared values principle which references human rights
identified in this document to the human rights enumerated in the universal
declaration of human rights.
Unified &unfragmented internet space. Prior to this
meeting there were fears that the internet as we know it today would be under
the threat of countries or regions coming up with their own ‘internets’. This going
forward seems to be an issue that was resolved at NETmundial.
Security, stability & resilience of the internet. This
principle had a quite a number of submission made during the plenary with
issues of net neutrality and incorporation of states and Corporates being
floated. However, the final document did not factor this in and this clause
remains as had initially been formulated.
The internet governance process principles are very well
articulated in this document and of note is this clause -
‘Open,
participative, consensus driven governance: The development of international
Internet-related public policies and Internet governance arrangements should
enable the full and balanced participation of all stakeholders from around the
globe, and made by consensus, to the extent possible’.
Under this clause the only issue I have is the definition of
consensus.
2. Roadmap for the future evolution of the
internet governance
The roadmap for the future evolution of internet governance
is very well articulated in the document and points out;
‘Internet
governance framework is a distributed and coordinated ecosystem involving
various organizations and fora’.
It also points out the Tunis Agenda as a model for
multistakeholder-ism and calls upon the participatory nature for internet
governance.
Under the roadmap the following issues are addressed at
length;
i.
Issues that deserve attention of all
stakeholders in the future evolution of Internet governance.
ii.
Issues dealing with institutional improvements.
iii.
Issues dealing with specific Internet Governance
topics
iv.
Points to be further discussed beyond
NETmundial:
v.
Way Forward
Of note were the points meriting further discussion such as
roles and responsibilities of stakeholders, jurisdiction issues, benchmarking
systems and net neutrality
Politics of
NETmundial plus Overall Winners and Losers
NETmundial had its fair share of political dynamics at play.
For a political scientist one could not help noticing that in an election year
President Rousseff had to portray a strong image esp. against US. With the
enactment of Marco Civil Act during the opening ceremony of NETmundial, this
was to shove up her support.
The rejection of the final document by Cuba
and Russia was by all means not a coincidence. On the final day of NETmundial
the Russian president had been quoted as saying the internet is a CIA project!
India on the other hand is going
through an election and thus perhaps this was at the back of the government
delegates hence they needed time to consult with the new administration. China
on the other hand did not raise any objections during the closing ceremony but
it remains to be seen their next moves. China has been a strong proponent of
multilateral approach to issues of internet governance.
Winners
- President Rousseff – Brazilian President
- Mr. Fadi Rousseff – President & CEO of ICANN
- ICANN - Organisation
- Brazil – Country [leader in South America]
- Internet Governance Forum – Institution [funding and lifespan]
- Africa
- European Union
Losers
- US Government [oversight responsibilities of IANA]
- Russian Government
- China
- Cuba
The final outcome document can be accessed here
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Book Launch: The African Human Rights - Judicial System by Dr. Luis Franceschi, the Dean of Strathmore Law School
Book Launch Poster |
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Event: Party/DJ sets - Ten Cities Rooftop Party, Mar. 8 2014 @ The Mall, Roundabout – Westlands
Ten Cities Roof Top Party Poster |
Date & Time: Saturday, March 8 2014 9.00 pm
Venue: The Mall, Roundabout, Westlands
Entry: Kshs 300
DJ Set’s by: DJ Satelite – Luanda, Trust the DJ –
Johannesburg, Afrologic – Lagos and Just a Band – Nairobi
Performance by: Fena Gitu & Wangechi
About
TEN CITIES is coming back to Nairobi.
After last year’s pumping warehouse concert in April, it’s time for another
episode. Therefore we are inviting TEN CITIES participants from sub-Sahara
Africa creating a unique night-out experience Nairobi hasn’t seen before.
Expect diverse and raving DJ sets from Afrologic(Lagos), Trust The
DJ(Johannesburg), DJ Satelite(Luanda) and Just A Band (Nairobi) that will
navigate you through genres like Kuduro, Kwaito, Afro Beat, Dub, House, Techno
and much more.
TEN CITIES is a music and research project that brings
together musicians and writers from ten cities in Africa and Europe. The
project initiates music production and details the unwritten history of club
culture in Cairo, Johannesburg, Luanda, Lagos and Nairobi as well as in Berlin,
Bristol, Kyiv, Lisbon and Naples. TEN CITIES is a process, focusing on creating
and producing, carried forward by travels and visits. During this process, the
project aims to create networks that are open and involves a constantly
increasing number of participants.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Brookings Institute Memo to the US President – Big Bets and Black Swans: Securing the Future of the Internet by Peter Singer & Ian Wallace
At the beginning of every year the Brooking Institution
releases the Big Bets and Black Swans –
a memo addressed to the US president with policy insights and actionable
recommendations on challenges lying ahead. Of interest to me is that this year’s memo among
other things addresses the internet.
Peter Singer and Ian Wallace memo to the president looks at
how the Barack Obama administration can secure the future of the internet as we
know it today. This comes against the backdrop of Edward Snowden’s jaw dropping revelations about the activities of the National Security Agency. This
revelations have kick started a debate among nation states and internet
stakeholders on the future of internet. One of these stakeholder meetings is
set to take place in Sao Paulo - Brazil in April 23-24, 2014. This stakeholder meeting
is an ICANN organised meet with the support of Brazilian government which had big
fallout with Obama administration over NSA spying concerns of President Dilma
Rousseff.
One of the main agenda of the ICANN Brazil Gig is to come up
with principles of ‘internet governance’. Peter Singer and Ian Wallace in their
memo to the president rightfully point out that once Edward Snowden raised the damning
report of NSA activities Washington has taken a back seat on matters of
protecting the internet since they do not have the moral authority to pontificate
on such matters given what NSA has been doing. However, the two authors seek to
have the president raise the priority of internet policy and strategy. In so
doing the United States would play a pivotal role in the raging debate on ‘internet
governance’.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Speech on Innovation, Technology and the 21st Century Global Economy by IMF MD Christine Lagarde at Stanford University
IMF Boss Christine Lagarde in Kenya I Photo Courtesy of IMF Flicker Images |
Find the full speech here'there are over 200 Million people looking for work across the globe. If the unemployed formed a country, it would be the 5th largest in the world' - Christine Lagarde, MD IMF
Monday, February 10, 2014
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