Francisca

Cloud and Network Security Analyst | Knowledge Management | Internet Governance | #privacy and #dataprotection enthusiast | Always learning

[Francisca @_FObiero]

@georgediano *,*

[KICTANet @KICTANet]

🔐 Today at @HuaweiKenya's Tiara Centre, @KICTANet's @TatuaDigital brings together Kenya's Human Rights Defenders & Social Justice Organisations for a full-day forensic workshop on spyware threats, malware analysis, and secure incident response.

From passive OSINT investigations to live phishing simulations and device hardening, HRD technical teams will build the skills to triage, document, and escalate sophisticated cyberattacks.

Thank you @HuaweiKenya for the space. 🙏 @_ail

#AfTPS2026 #KeIGF2026 #DigitalRights #CyberSecurity

[KICTANet @KICTANet]

🔐 Today, as part of the side events during the Africa Tech Policy Summit (AfTPS) 2026, KICTANet through the Tatua Digital Resilience Centre is hosting the HRD Forensic Technical Workshop (Tatua AfTPS Training) at the Huawei Technologies Centre.

💻 The workshop brings together Human Rights Defenders (HRDs), Social Justice Organisations (SJOs), CSOs, and technical teams to strengthen capacity in digital forensics, spyware detection, secure communications, incident response, and digital resilience.

🛡️ As cyber threats targeting civic space continue to grow, this training is equipping frontline organisations with practical skills to safely detect, document, triage, and respond to sophisticated cyberattacks.

🤝 We are grateful to all facilitators, partners, and participants committed to strengthening safer and more resilient digital spaces in Kenya.

#AfTPS2026 #Tatua #KICTANet #DigitalRights #CyberSecurity #DigitalResilience

^NM

[KICTANet @KICTANet]

Thrilled to welcome participants, partners, policymakers, innovators, and the broader digital ecosystem to the Africa Tech Policy Summit happening today.

As Dr. Grace Githaiga, CEO of KICTANet, opens the summit with welcoming remarks, we gather at a critical moment for Africa’s digital future.

Today’s conversations will shape how we approach:
🔹 Digital rights and inclusion
🔹 AI governance and emerging technologies
🔹 Data protection and cybersecurity
🔹 Internet governance and policy innovation
🔹 Building a people-centered digital economy for Africa

The Africa Tech Policy Summit brings together diverse voices from across the continent and beyond to collaborate on policies that are inclusive, innovative, and future-focused.

Looking forward to meaningful dialogue, bold ideas, and actionable outcomes that will help shape Africa’s digital transformation.

#AfTPS2026, #KEIGF2026

[KICTANet @KICTANet]

From startup funding gaps to AI policy and youth inclusion, Kenya's top voices in tech policy set the agenda at KeIGF 2026 as Nairobi prepares to host the Global IGF in December.
https://t.co/3a7xnelEM0 #KeIGF2026 #AfTPS2026

[KICTANet @KICTANet]

🔥 The fireside chat "From Policy to Practice: Building Trust Through Innovation in African FinTech" at #AfTPS2026 was exactly what African FinTech needed, raw, real, and zero platitudes. Here's what went down. 🧵 #AfTPS2026 #KeIGF26 #AfricanFinTech #InternetGovernance https://t.co/7hAPtT1krg

[KICTANet @KICTANet]

Amb. @bantigito brought the historical fire 🔥

Innovation always precedes regulation, that's how @SafaricomPLC M-Pesa happened. The real danger?
Over-regulating AI before we even understand it.

His warning: Europe's AI Act is already stifling innovation. Africa must not repeat that mistake. #AfTPS2026 #KeIGF26 #AfricanFinTech #InternetGovernance

[KICTANet @KICTANet]

💡 "Youth voices matter, but if they're not coordinated, they become noise."

Kenya Youth IGF exists to make sure African youth speak with ONE coordinated, consolidated voice in global internet policy rooms.

We're LIVE. Join us 👇
https://t.co/Od8kr5W5St
#KenyaYouthIGF #AfTPS2026 🇰🇪

[Keith ANDERE @AndereKE]

The 6th edition of the #KenyaYouthIGF happening today in Nairobi, Kenya as a flagship event to the #ATPS2026 #IGF2026

[KICTANet @KICTANet]

🇰🇪 Kenyan youth are building AI systems, training machine learning models, feeding global tech — from their bedrooms.

Yet Kenya is not benefiting in any structured way.
"We are creators contributing to someone else's power to control us."

This is the conversation. 👇 https://t.co/Od8kr5W5St
#KenyaYouthIGF #AfTPS2026

[KICTANet @KICTANet]

"For almost 20 years the IGF had no permanent mandate. Now we can plan strategically, commit to long-term partnerships, and deliver real impact."

— Herman Johansson, IGF Secretariat Geneva | Kenya Youth IGF 2026

📲 Follow the full conversation live: https://t.co/cyS9TTfs9N #AfTPS2026 🇰🇪

[PAYAIG @PAYA_IG]

🚀 Applications are OPEN for the #PAYAIG 2026 Fellowship!
Are you 18–35 and passionate about #CyberDiplomacy, #AIGovernance, or #DigitalRights?
Join a pan-African network shaping the future of digital governance.
📅 Deadline: 15 May 2026
👉 https://t.co/oqI8BcL2id

[KICTANet @KICTANet]

Kenya’s digital future starts with YOU 🇰🇪

📢 Kenya Youth IGF 2026 is calling for:
✔ Topic proposals
✔ Speaker suggestions

Theme: Digital Future Youth

💡 Shape conversations on:
#DigitalRights #AI #Inclusion #Cybersecurity

⏳ Takes minutes. Impact lasts.

👉 Submit here: https://t.co/fIUSKp9QGf

#KenyaIGF26 #KenyaYouthIGF26 #InternetGovernance #DigitalPolicy #DigitalRights #AI #TechPolicy #ATPS2026

^NM

[Nasambu @FlavNasmbu]

🚨 KENYANS, WE MUST PAY ATTENTION TO THIS

Parliament is proposing changes to the Citizenship & Immigration Act that should concern us all.

After independence, the law allowed migrants who had lived in Kenya to apply for citizenship within a limited window of 7 years post-independence.

Now the proposed amendment removes that deadline entirely and introduces a vague test of “habitual residence since 1963.”

How will anyone verify residence from 60+ years ago?

And who has never 'found' a country 6 decades post-independence?

Yet citizenship automatically means:
• The right to vote
• The right to influence elections
• The right to shape who governs Kenya

Mnaona kwenye wanaenda na hii maneno!!

⚠️ Parliament is considering this amendment right now.
📅 Deadline for public participation: 24th March

YOU MUST SPEAK ON THIS!!

Silence on laws like this today can shape who votes tomorrow.

#PublicParticipation #ProtectKenya #CitizenshipLaw

@Njeriwamwea84 @BundiKirianki @eastersins @GyanWahome @KijanayaKabras @mi6rima @MugureNjehia @Wanjiru2027 @abbiezuena

[Francisca @_FObiero]

@awsdevelopers @ifeanyi_otuonye AWS

[Wangari 𝜗𝜚 @i_am_wangarii]

Who amongst y'all is hiring?? I'm almost losing it.

[KICTANet @KICTANet]

🚨Day 1 of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence marks the start of a global call to protect the rights, safety, and dignity of women and girls everywhere.

We reaffirm our commitment to building safe, inclusive, and rights-respecting digital spaces, especially as Technology-Facilitated GBV (TFGBV) continues to silence and harm women across East Africa.

Through the KICTANet Gender Programme, we address these challenges by strengthening digital resilience, expanding digital literacy, driving community dialogues, and advancing tools such as the OGBV Online Map Tracker. Our research and policy advocacy continue to push for legal and institutional reforms that ensure survivors can access justice and protection.

Aligned with this year’s theme “Invest to Prevent Violence Against Women & Girls”. We recognise that preventing TFGBV requires intentional effort, collaboration, and sustained action.

Today, we commit to speaking up, reporting online abuse, supporting survivors, and championing safer digital spaces for all women and girls. Your action today sets the tone for the next 16 days — and beyond.

📍 Report online abuse here:

1. OGBV Online Map Tracker – https://t.co/cPHM2dEA9r

2. Swahili Tipline – https://t.co/WDdNP4R5re

#16DAYSOFACTIVISM #ENDOGBVKE

^NM

[TechSistersKenya @TechSistersKE]

Tracy was last seen at Quickmart with friends (details unknown) on Wednesday 29th Oct. Her family is seeking any info on her whereabouts.
If you saw her during/after that time, please reach out.

Help us share widely - every post counts. 💜
#MissingPerson #FindTracy

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims gathered at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal on the eve of her feast day, which is May 13th, joining in prayer, processions, and devotion at the very site where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to three shepherd children in 1917. United in faith and hope, the crowds honored her message of peace and conversion, filling the shrine with candlelight and the sound of the rosary, an incredibly powerful testament to the enduring impact of Fatima’s call to prayer for the world.
#OurLadyofFatima #Fatima #portugal #feastday #feastofourladyoffatima #catholic #catholicchurch #catholicism

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.