[kictanet] Reality-on Media

Mon Jan 16 16:35:23 EAT 2012

Depends who defines it. This is what the World Bank uses:
http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications

On 16 January 2012 16:07, Pamela <pamela at cardiacimplants.com> wrote:

>  Dear Listers,****
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> Just catching up on the blog, been going through old mail and have been
> seeing how Kenya can be propelled to a middle income country, via ICT (ICT
> & Vision 2030), and of course going by the excerpts of the ‘economists’ on
> the list.****
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> Question: What is the definition of a Middle Income Country Today?****
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> Pamela****
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> (economic consumer)****
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> *From:* kictanet-bounces+pamela=cardiacimplants.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke[mailto:
> kictanet-bounces+pamela=cardiacimplants.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke] *On
> Behalf Of *Barrack Otieno
> *Sent:* Monday, January 16, 2012 7:25 AM
> *To:* pamela at cardiacimplants.com
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Reality-on Media****
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> Well said Dr. Ndemo.
>
> Best Regards
>
> On Sunday, January 15, 2012,  <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:
> > Alice,
> > The question of media is often a tricky one.  In my view our media has
> greatly matured.  Kenyans gave media freedoms and limitations in the
> constitution.  No one should interfere with this.  I will assume they are a
> responsible professional group.  In any case as "President" I shall
> preserve and protect the constitution.
> >
> > Of course technology has its impact on any professional organization but
> it never negates rules of natural justice.  In England for example where
> they do not have a prescriptive constitution like ours, people are being
> prosecuted for their tweets.  If you recall in 2007, our diaspora brothers
> and sisters indeed fueled the crisis from their comfort zones.  We hope
> this time around distance does not fool them to fuel a crisis at home.
> >
> > I am confident the social media will not be misused as it was in 2007.
>  There are strict broadcast regulations that feeding broadcast from the
> social media shall lead to dire consequences.
> >
> > As a citizen I shall continue to ask media to be more analytical and do
> more research in order to build this noble profession.  I am a bit
> disappointed that journalists do not interrogate political statement so
> that the general public can benefit.
> >
> > For example, when URP stated that they are running on family values.
>  Good journalism demands that the term Family be defined.  Other questioned
> should have included:  What does family constitute? Is what they mean in
> consonant with the African values?
> >
> > Further when ODM stated that employment creation will be their platform.
>  We need to know how employment will be created.  Whether an experiment
> like Kazi Kwa Vijana constitute employment creation.  What demonstratable
> experience we can latch on as prove of delivering these promises?
> >
> > Unless media helps us to get to the bottom of these promises, we shall
> find ourselves with empty rhetoric.  From when I was little politicians
> promised roads, schools, water for all etc.  But even today these promises
> remain a pipe dream.
> >
> > We have broken street lights that cannot be repaired because there is no
> trained electrician.  We have broken sewers because we have no trained
> plumbers.  We import chairs from Italy as we have no carpenters. We have
> broken medical equipment that we pay a fortune to get technicians from
> abroad. And more.  In my own estimate we need 400,000 artisans if we need
> to be in middle income country.
> >
> > One of the greatest weakness of media is what they call news.  In most
> cases news depends on the magnitude and how that even varies from the norm
> and of course timing.
> >
> > Take for example the unfortunate event at Village market.  If the even
> would have taken place on January 23 (during the ICC ruling) it will not
> have been covered and all will be fine for Nancy.  It so happened that
> Nancy was a very senior woman (a noticeable variance) in Kenyan leadership
> that some media may have tried to show that even women are equally as bad.
> >
> > Most men waheshimiwas have altercations with airport security but none
> has ever been pursued as the Village Market event.  Media has not given
> this parallel so far.  The same waheshimiwas with greater responsibility
> have threatened police with guns but it never gets that far.
> >
> > Do not get me wrong here that I am supporting Nancy.  I am raising
> points that media (which brought out the issue) should have considered.
>  Unless we do proper analytics, some of us may never understand the
> intricacies of gender discrimination.
> >
> > Our Media is still better than most.  Let us continue to constructively
> criticize it for a better future.
> >
> >
> > Ndemo.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my BlackBerry®
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alice Munyua <alice at apc.org>
> > Sender: kictanet-bounces+bitange=jambo.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.keDate:
> Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:59:33
> > To: <bitange at jambo.co.ke>
> > Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> > Subject: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Reality-on Media
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