[kictanet] [isoc_ke] All things Safaricom

Thu Mar 9 21:50:00 EAT 2017

Hi Eric,

The government has to have a stake with the right political sponsorship as it is for Vodafone. There is also a little challenge do we have a working financial reporting Centre the answer is NO. 

This just mambo Jambo...

Best Regards
Baiju

> On 7 Mar 2017, at 16:09, Erick Mwangi via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Listers,
> 
> This article reminds me when I attended an event sometime back where Vodafone were trying to launch M-pesa in SA and the CEO said "M-pesa would only work where FS is not developed and a government willing to look the other way"
> 
> Well here is a report that raises an issue what most of use have always thought re AML.
> 
> https://qz.com/924977/us-state-dept-thinks-africas-leading-mobile-money-platform-is-vulnerable-to-money-laundering/
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>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> Grace
>> 
>> I think Zuckerberg put it well when he said (albeit almost seven years ago) that people really don't expect privacy anymore..
>> 
>> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-privacy
>> 
>> I'm afraid that bird already flew the coop long time ago...
>> 
>> The million dollar question now is how do we take our privacy back..wittingly in unwittingly we gave it away long time ago..
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>>> On 7 Mar 2017, at 1:40 PM, Grace B via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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>>> Is no one worried about one company being too present in many aspects of our Internet experience? If Facebook wifi becomes a big success, shall we be in the same dominance debates we are in at the moment?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 7 Mar 2017 12:59 a.m., "Ali Hussein via isoc" <isoc at lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
>>>> Alex
>>>> 
>>>> No, that's Free Basics. Which is a different product.
>>>> 
>>>> https://info.internet.org/en/story/free-basics-from-internet-org/
>>>> 
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>>>> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."  ~ Aristotle
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>>>> Sent from my iPad
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>>>>> On 7 Mar 2017, at 7:54 AM, alex watila via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> my understanding was that the connectivity provided is only to access Facebook
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 7 Mar 2017 07:29, Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>>> Listers
>>>>> 
>>>>> The other day someone posted this story on the list. Here's more details on this:-
>>>>> 
>>>>> Surf Internet partners with Facebook to offer affordable Internet
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here's an interesting way for Facebook to spread the love..
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards
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