[kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance

Tue Jan 15 08:50:43 EAT 2013

Daniel

Many thanks for taking your time to give us feedback on the typography,
presentation and bibliography styles of our reports. 

I shall share your comments, which you have made in good faith,  with my
colleagues at the Commission with a view to ensuring continual
improvement.

Best regards

From: Daniel Waweru [mailto:daniel.waweru at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 2:26 AM
To: Wambua, Christopher
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for the report. 

Why are your reports set in standard-issue government style? The
typography is awful: sans font, 12pt or larger, which makes continuous
reading quite difficult, especially online; the tables with vertical
lines; inconsistent bibliography styles; and so on. Almost every serious
rule of effective communication in print is violated here.

It's one thing to find this sort of thing from the Central Bank (or some
other equally staid part of government) but one would expect you guys to
put out reports that have a passing acquaintance with the canons of
effective communication in print: with Tufte
(http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi) or Bringhurst
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style) or
Butterick (http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?page_id=1300) or,
indeed, with the sort of thing you can pick up by reading a LATEX
manual.

For excellent recent government typography, the reports of New Zealand's
Waitangi tribunal stand out, and I've attached one of them to this
email. I'm sorry to pick on you --- and I have a spare copy of
Bringhurst, if you'd like one -- but I read the report; my eyes bled;
and it occurred to me that there was no real reason for you not to do
better than this.

Regards,

Daniel Waweru,

26 Hai Phen,

Bodoni, 

Caissa Superiore,

Republic of San Serriffe

On 11 January 2013 16:33, Wambua, Christopher <Wambua at cck.go.ke> wrote:

Grace/Listers,

Unless I am wrong,  the report that you are referring to is available on
our website at http://www.cck.go.ke/about/downloads/Transition_2007.pdf 

Initially, the simulcast period was envisaged to end in June 2012.
However due to delays in the deployment of signal distribution
infrastructure and unavailability of set top boxes in adequate
quantities in the local market, the simulcast period was extended to
December 31st, 2012. 

Best regards,

Christopher Wambua

Manager/Communications

Consumer and Public Affairs Division 

Communications Commission of Kenya

P.O. Box 14448, NAIROBI 00800

KENYA

From: kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+wambua
<mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Bwambua> =cck.go.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On
Behalf Of Grace Githaiga
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 3:17 PM
To: Wambua, Christopher
Cc: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke

Subject: Re: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance

Henry

No, I do not have the plan. However,  I remember reading about the end
of the simulcast period either in the first report done by the committee
appointed to look into the matter, or there must have been some
information in the press advertised by the digital migration
secretariat. Further, the report had talked of how the frequencies would
be handled. There was clearly a plan in place. Maybe CCK could share it.

Rgds

GG

> From: henry at article19.org
> To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com
> CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> Subject: RE: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:07:57 +0000
> 
> Grace 
> 
> Thanks. Do you have a copy of the plan. Does it make clear which
frequencies are going to be set aside for TV and radio (public, private
and community), security, aviation? Please share.
> 
> HENRY O. MAINA
> DIRECTOR
> ARTICLE 19 KENYA/EASTERN AFRICA
> P O BOX 2653,00100
> NAIROBI
> TEL:+254 (20) 3862230/2
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> EMAIL: henry at article19.org
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Grace Githaiga [ggithaiga at hotmail.com]
> Sent: 11 January 2013 02:53 PM
> To: Henry Maina
> Cc: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> Subject: RE: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance
> 
> Thanks Henry.
> 
> I thought the simulcast period is over? Cant quite remember but there
was a plan that had been released and CCK may have been following it
considering the switch off was meant to happen last year.
> 
> Rgds
> GG
> 
> From: henry at article19.org
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:26:16 +0000
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance
> CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com
> 
> 
> D

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