1st International Dance For Peace and Governance Conference and Festival In Eastern Africa

THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON E-COMMERCE AND INTERNET SECURITY IN EAST AFRICA

Information and Communication Technology has been recognised as the engine of development all over the world. ICT sector provides endless opportunities for Africa and its growth in East Africa provides even greater benefits. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) may arguably be the most powerful tool for social and economic change. E-commerce provides great opportunities for businesses in East Africa.

However, governments, businesses and the development sector in Africa and all over the world however, have to grapple with serious challenges arising from the massive computer application insecurities such as stolen data, viruses, hackers, spam mail, government monitoring and privacy invasion among other threats. These threats are not only expensive to an organization in its efforts to deliver effective and efficient services to its clients but is time wasting and potentially destructive to organizations.

Purple Images Productions proposes to organize the first conference to promote e-commerce as a tool of business and national development in the region. The main objective of the conference will be to create national forum to review and evaluate ICT development in organizations in relation to the internet and general computer security threats globally and in the region.
Conference Presentation Topics:
E-Commerce

INTERNET SECURITY & E-COMMERCE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
The following are the categories for the awards dinner ceremony:

(To be nominated for awards, send a profile of your e-commerce business on showing the successes of your business to: info@purpleimages. com)
Booking and Conference Costs
• Delegates to pay Kshs. 12,000 ($ 200) per person. The fee will cater for meals and materials. Delegates must also meet the costs of their travel and accommodation in Kenya.

To be part of this great event, please register by completing the conference application form. Payment of the participation fee stipulated above is required to guarantee a slot in the limited places available. This fee covers lunches, teas & conference materials.

Registration of delegates and the stakeholders is in process. There is a technical committee to receive and review abstract papers from the presenters and workshop facilitators. After reviewing the abstract papers on the different themes of the conference, the final list of the facilitators and delegates will be sent out alongside the final conference programme.

All correspondence should be emailed to the attention of:
Ms. Mercy Kariuki
The Conference Coordinator
The 1st International Conference on E-commerce and Internet Security in East Africa
Mbuchia House, 3rd Flr, West Wing, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya
P.O BOX 58182 - 00200 Nairobi
Telephone: 254-20-4450937/ 4452674
Cell: 0720-425175/ 0722 634947
Email: purplemedia2000@yahoo.com or info@purpleimages.com

DRAFT LIST OF TOPICS AND CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

	TOPIC	ORGANIZATION	CONTACT PERSON
E-COMMERCE
1	The Challenges of Poor Connectivity in Africa	CCK	Ms Rachel Alwala and Hon Dr Shem Ochuodho
2	Small and Medium Enterprises and ICT The Impact of Cultures on e-business	ICT BOARD Member	Dr Hon Shem Ochuodho
3	Telecommunications/ICT Markets and Trends in Kenya and E-commerce and youth employment Opportunities and Challenges	KAZI AFRICA	Mr Robert Alai
4	Building an entrepreneurial culture among the youth using ICT	ICT VILLAGE.COM	Mr. Kiai Kimacia
5	Business Process Outsourcing: The Challenges, Threats and Opportunities	Kenya BPO Society and KENCALL	Ms Peres Were
6	Financing and Management Challenges facing e-businesses in East Africa	KEPSA IFC/ WORLD BANK	Mr Anthony Weru Ms Judy Ndung’u Jean Phillipe Prosper
7	Marketing issues facing e-business enterprises in East Africa	KAZI AFRICA	Mr Robert Alai

COMPUTER AND INTERNET SECURITY
8	Website security: opportunities and challenges	Message Labs Africa	Nahashon Onyalo
9	E-commerce business management	East African Business Council KICTANet	Mr Hirji Shah
10	Marketing security and risk management challenges	KICTANet	Mr Dismas Majale
11	E-government, E-commerce and E-banking Security: Emerging threats and technology trends	Kenya Directorate of E-Government
12	Computer and internet crimes; the need for legislation	Advocate –ICT & E-Commerce	Mr C. Dulo
13	E-commerce security policies, Alignment of business and IT security efforts and intellectual property rights protection	JKUAT ICT Consumer Assoc. of Kenya	Prof. Fiona Thairu Mr . A. Gakuru
14	In house security threats to business, database security, forensics, identification and authentication, intrusion detection	CCTV and University of Johannesburg..	Prof Les. Labuschagne.