[kictanet] End of Net Neutrality?

[Wamathai (HapaKenya)]

A lot of creators, platforms etc will be affected in the absence of net
neutrality. For this reason, I feel different actors in the space should
join forces and lobby.

On 15 Dec 2017 08:43, "Bernard Kioko via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Thank you Ali.
>
> Reading your response has got me wondering, as an industry which
> organization/association do we use to lobby ?
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 at 07:19, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>
>> Bernard
>>
>> We in Africa first need to acknowledge Net Neutrality as a concept. Today
>> ONLY one country in Africa (Senegal) has even attempted to enact policy and
>> regulation around it. We have ways to go.
>>
>> Kenya, with all our advances have turned a blind eye to it. We need to
>> wake up. This list has consistently for the last 5 years talked about the
>> need to address this issue from a policy and regulatory framework.
>>
>> We have been met with utter silence. The first time this issue was
>> mentioned was in the defunct/dead as a dodo/aborted ICT Policy 2016. And we
>> know (or rather don’t know!) what happened to that document.
>>
>> My take?
>>
>> The free for all, do what you want and we (regulator and policy makers)
>> will just watch helplessly coz after all Net Neutrality is a foreign
>> concept. We don’t understand it. And neither are we bothered. Let the
>> Googles, Facebooks and Netflixes of this world fight it out with their FCC.
>>
>> It doesn’t affect us..
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a
>> habit."  ~ Aristotle
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On 15 Dec 2017, at 6:30 AM, Bernard Kioko via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>> http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-
>> repeal-explainer/index.html
>>
>> Interested to see thoughts on how this affects Kenya. I am thinking maybe
>> hosting locally could avoid this, which would mean growth for local...
>>
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