Mexico and Cybersecurity : Policies, challenges, and concerns

Online in various forms since 1995, Kenya has long strived to lead East Africa's information and communication technology (ICT) development and in many ways has achieved the distinction: Kenya was one of the first countries in Africa if not the world to establish national cyber governance and associated institutions. This chapter examines Kenya's national cyber security policy evolution from Kenya's first Internet connection in 1995 through the 2017 Kenyan elections, with particular focus on the dichotomy between Kenya's internet-mediated economic growth, cyber crime efforts, and digital human rights abuses since the release of Kenya's 2014 National Cyber Security Strategy. Kenya’s historically permissive Internet governance has fostered remarkable economic advances while at the same time scoring high marks in independent security assessments. Kenya has sought regional ICT leadership since connecting its first collective modem in 1995 and by many measures has succeeded.