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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>Hi
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>The
year 2009 came in fast and furious - am sure you still remember KCA
amendment and the dust it blew on 2<sup>nd</sup> Jan 2009 ----<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>Yes
the year is going and shortly will be history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>In
that history – we , the ICT community , and of course the kictanet
community has participated in the writing( or is it reading) that history
. in 2009 we recognised convergence, brought in electronic
transactions framework , more importantly more bandwidth than we know how to
use it and took a major step to show Africa the way towards digital
broadcasting , coordination efforts in international fora
e.g. IGF, ICANN and on and on-----. A lot or this was
conceived , discussed , killed , resurrected , critiqued , on the kictanet
platform. The greatest value of the list is the perspective of the
vigorous participation on the list or off the list . from a very
high level government perspective in govt led by PS Dr
Ndemo , ICT industry captains led by their CEOs, regulators ,
techies , policy makers , the media , consultants, the academia, consumer
experts, students, development partners , users etc . Once again KICTANET list lived
to its promise – a platform to talk /share even if we do not necessary
agree. The message coming out is Kenya is on the verge of take-off in
2010– we expect to see more in BPO industry , more activity on
local content both in the internet and broadcasting , more effort to
bridge the digital divide in our rural areas and of course realisation of
the promise of much much cheaper bandwidth to the consumer and of course
a very successful ICANN in March 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>With
such activity in 2009 it was only appropriate to close the year
with a visit of one Sir Tim Berners-Lee the inventor of the www. We
are moving, KICTANET’s new year resolution is to bring the inventor
of the internet here early in 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>With that context this is to
wish you much love, light and merriment over the festive celebrations
ahead! May you thoroughly<i> </i>enjoy yourself, and feel the love, bounty, joy
and abundance that is who you are! May you also find time to be at peace with
yourself in stillness, and to reflect and experience more of the beauty of your
heart. In these quieter times may you receive and seed luminous dreams and
wondrous futures, and experience more of the love and truth of your being.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>Cheers
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>Muriuki
Mureithi (MM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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