[kictanet] Publication of Piece on protecting the Internet from Dictators

McTim dogwallah at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 23:57:10 EAT 2011


http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1633012.php/Egypt-to-amend-law-that-allowed-government-to-cut-internet
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Cheers,

McTim
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:07 PM, warigia bowman <warigia at aucegypt.edu> wrote:
> Dear Friends
>
> I just want to thank you for your assistance in helping me with the piece on
> the Egyptian Internet Shutdown. I got a lot of press interest from it.
>
> It is going to be published in the Cairo Review here:
>
> http://cairoreview.aucegypt.edu/BowmanTF.html
>
> They have misspelled my name, but they are working on fixing it.
>
> The piece fully cited with attribution is available on my blog.
> www.democratizingegypt.blogspot.com
>
> Yours, Rigia
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Francis Hook <francis.hook at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> In today's Business Daily is the story about the looming exit of Charles
>> Njoroge from CCK.
>>
>> http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/Change+of+guard+looms+at+CCK+as+board+asks+for+Njoroges+exit/-/539550/1125014/-/eo20uc/-/
>> Looking at CCK's Mandate (http://www.cck.go.ke/about/what_we_do.html) and
>> thinking of some aspects of that story (e.g. his appraisal score) and also
>> looking at recent positive developments (anti-competition, lower tariffs,
>> MNP, converged licences, etc), when reviewing Mr Njoroge's tenure vis a vis
>> that mandate, what is the rationale behind his proposed removal?    I
>> understand we cannot all be privy to the details of his appraisal but
>> perhaps it merits some open discussion, more so when looking ahead and
>> trying to read the tea leaves in terms of possible revisions/amendment of
>> various sector regulations.
>> ---
>> Francis Hook
>> +254 733 504561
>>
>>
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