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The Diary of A Global Citizen
Ephraim Percy Kenyanito is a Legal Researcher/ Policy Analyst working on the connection between African ICT & Media Law, Human Rights, Intellectual Property Rights and International Development. Based in Nairobi, Kenya he has been working as the Sub-Saharan Africa Policy Analyst at AccessNow.Org and is also an affiliate at the Internet Policy Observatory (IPO) (at the Center for Global Communication Studies, University of Pennsylvania). He is a member of the UN Secretary General’s Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group on Internet Governance; the Freedom Online Coalition’s Digital Development and Openness Working Group; the Global Internet Policy Observatory’s (GIPO) Advisory Group; the Index on Censorship Youth Advisory Board; the Advisory Group for Code Red (a global initiative to accelerate reform of security organisations); and the interim steering committee for the Youth Coalition on Internet Governance (a Dynamic Coalition of the UN IGF).Previously, Ephraim worked on Democratic Governance, Transparency and International Development with a diverse-range of organizations (Transparency International, MercyCorps and Centre for Law and Research International, East African Community Secretariat and the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Trade, Global Voices Online, The Daily Journalist, European Journalism Centre’s “ThinkBrigade Project” and through “The Diary of a Global Citizen”). He also served as an Independent Expert of the Implementation Advisory Group for Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice (IAG-CCT) at ICANN among other working groups. He holds a Bachelor of Laws- LL.B (with Honours) and has previous training in Internet Policy and Media Law from University of Oxford and University of Pennsylvania. His LL.B thesis examined the Relationship Between Domain Names And Geographical Indications with a special focus on .wine and .vin applications.
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Census 2019: Do you know your rights?
Census 2019: Do you know your rights?
Sigi Mwanzia contributed to this post. This article was originally published at page 20 of the Star Newspaper of December 17, 2018
Kenya plans to roll out a national census at midnight August 24, 2019, at a cost of Sh18.5 billion. The census seeks to collect various data, including marital status, ethnicity, disability, number of children in households, deaths in the family and ownership of…
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Banks should protect the data of customers and their next of kin
Banks should protect the data of customers and their next of kin
Hibo Hussein contributed to this post. This article was originally published at page 11 of Business Daily Africa Newspaper of December 11, 2018
This week, banks have approached the High Court to declare unconstitutional some clauses in the Finance Act 2018 that requires them to record details of customers’ next of kin and to keep updated next of kin registers of their customers. The clause makes…
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Seven steps to reform the CA
Seven steps to reform the CA
This article was originally published at page 21 of the Star Newspaper of October 1, 2018
The past month has been eventful for the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), with the election of John Omo as the secretary general of the African Telecommunications Union. He will represent the CA and the government at the union. Kenya will therefore lead all the regulators in Africa through the…
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Data Breaches Imperil Privacy
Data Breaches Imperil Privacy
This article was originally published at page 21 of the Star Newspaper of September 20, 2018
We have recently witnessed data breaches that have led to the publication of private facts about many Kenyans. These private facts have been obtained from telephone conversation records , intrusion into individual digital photo libraries, and breach of public institution’s databases.
We also suffer a…
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Access at 51st ICANN International Public Meeting
Access at 51st ICANN International Public Meeting
With numerous internet governance discussions scheduled, the 51st International Meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been going on this week in Los Angeles, USA. Access staff is there, participating in a variety of pre-events, workshops, and high-level meetings, and we want you to follow these discussion.
ICANN is the international non-profit organization…
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Access at the Internet Governance Forum
Access at the Internet Governance Forum
With the theme of “Connecting continents for enhanced multistakeholder Internet governance,” the ninth annual meeting of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is taking place in Istanbul, Turkey, 2-5 September 2014. Access staff is there, participating in a variety of pre-events, workshops, and high-level meetings.
The IGF is the annual policy dialogue which bring together…
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Access Now brief: how African countries can shape cybercrime laws that protect rights
Access Now brief: how African countries can shape cybercrime laws that protect rights
Today Access Now releases a policy brief analyzing draft cybercrime laws in four African Union countries to help legislators meet human rights obligations as they craft laws under the African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data.
We urge all AU countries to ratify the convention, and to implement it in a way that upholds their obligations under the African Charter on Human and…
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Telcos warned against shutting down DR Congo networks
Telcos warned against shutting down DR Congo networks
Peter Micek contributed to this post.
Update 12/20/2016: Vodafone Group and Orange have confirmed the order from the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which specifically targets social networks that use Voice over internet protocol (VoIP), images, and video. Access Now has offered circumvention advice for users in the Congo in this post here (français | English) and we continue to…
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Access Now at the 2016 Internet Governance Forum
Access Now at the 2016 Internet Governance Forum
Peter Micek contributed to this post.
The United Nations is holding the 11th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) on December 6-9, 2016 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Access Now staff will be there to lead or participate in pre-events, workshops, and high-level meetings. We are also delivering the #KeepItOn petitionthat asks government leaders at IGF to commit to ending internet shutdowns, a…
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Testimony about the Cyber Security and Protection Bill before before the Kenyan Senate ICT- Committee
Testimony about the Cyber Security and Protection Bill before before the Kenyan Senate ICT- Committee
On 05th July 2016, the Kenyan Senate ICT Committee published the Cyber Security and Protection Bill. This was followed by a public hearing on the same draft bill on 19th October, 2016.
Here is a call for public input into the process:
Please see below my prepared statement that I presented on key clauses:
Ephraim Percy Kenyanito LL.B (Hons)
ICT Policy specialist,
experienced in human…
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What’s happening in Ethiopia and how can we protect human rights?
What’s happening in Ethiopia and how can we protect human rights?
Protests, internet shutdowns, deaths — and a new law that threatens digital rights when the people of Ethiopia need them most
Ethiopia has issued a six-month state of emergency in the country following months of citizen protests. The state of emergency comes in an environment of increasing repression. Government forces have killed more than 500 people since November 2015and authorities have…
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Internet shutdown in Zimbabwe: what happened?
Internet shutdown in Zimbabwe: what happened?
Only five days after the United Nations passed an historic resolution specifically condemning internet shutdowns, reports from Zimbabwe suggest that the government may have ordered WhatsApp blocked. Zimbabweans and local news outlets reported an internet shutdown in the context of massive social unrest. Thousands of people are protesting about bad governance and a collapsing economy in President…
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Kenya: draft laws for the internet need redrafting
Kenya: draft laws for the internet need redrafting
Access Now files comments on the regulations with Kenya’s Communications Authority
Last week, Dennis Itumbi, the Kenyan Presidency State House Director for Digital and Diaspora Media, hinted that the Kenyan government was preparing a bill to regulate the use of the social media, with the aim of preventing hate speech. The announcement came as a surprise, given the recent landmark legal rulingin…
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Uganda blocks social media (again), harms human rights
Uganda blocks social media (again), harms human rights
Peter Micek and Deji Olukotun contributed to this post.
Today the government in Uganda blocked social media services in anticipation of the swearing-in ceremony for President Yoweri Museveni that will take place tomorrow. Uganda’s telecommunications regulator, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), confirmed the block, citing “national security” as the reason. This is the second time this…
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