[kictanet] Fibre Optic Cables

Wed Feb 13 16:49:43 EAT 2008

David, neither the Government nor the Media Council should do this audit. It
should be done by an independent research organization. The media council
just like the ECK and other institutions have been too politicized to be
objective and credible.

Regards

Harry

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Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fibre Optic Cables

Dear colleagues, 

Having followed the debate on the media audit, I'm convinced there is
consensus that it's important that we review how the media handled the
elections, before, during and after. That is perfectly in order. What's
alarming is the insistence that the government should do it, whereas there
is an organisation, the Media Council, whose mandate includes checking how
the media operates with a view to protect the producers and consumers of
news.We've expressed our views as media practitioners about our disdain for
a governmental audit and Dr Bitange knows about that. Our suggestion
remains, let MCK do the audit, otherwise we'll be accused of creating
institutions just to kill them.

But it must be noted vilifying the media won't do when all of us know where
the problem lies. It's human to take an easy route out of a crisis. The
ministry of Information and Communications must not fall into that trap.

Finally, I associate myself with a view expressed earlier by one
contributor, namely, moderation in this discourse. 

David Aduda 
Nation Media Group 

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Sent:   Tuesday, February 12, 2008 5:36 PM 
To:     David Aduda 
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Subject:        Re: [kictanet] Fibre Optic Cables 

We are working towards that.  We need private sector to push these
developments.  Government is not good in business.  We can only intervene to
facilitate especially the small enterprises.

Ndemo 

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From: "Eric Osiakwan" <eric at afrispa.org> 

Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:22:38 
To:bitange at jambo.co.ke 
Cc:KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> 
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fibre Optic Cables 

Nothing against all the big guns establishing in Kenya but what about a long
term objective 
of building our own version of Akamai,googles, Limelights etc. 

Dont forget the real winners in the knowledge era are those who produce
their own not use 
others. So our long term objective should be to have our own alongside
others because it is 
a free market economy. 

Eric here 

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From: Michuki Mwangi <michuki at swiftkenya.com> 
Reply-To: michuki at swiftkenya.com 
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:14:04 +0300 

> 
> 
>bitange at jambo.co.ke wrote: 
>> Good news is that Etisalat (our partners in Teams) in conjunction with 
>> Akamai are building an Internet Point of Presence (POP) in Fujaira thus 
>> eliminating long distance needs for Internet in this region. 
> 
>The long term objective should be to have the likes of Akamai, Limelight 
>and google collocating their nodes in Kenya. This will essentially keep 
>at least 50% of our Internet traffic local. 
> 
>Regards, 
> 
>Michuki. 
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