<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Water for all 2000<br><br>Priorities<br><br><div> </div>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>Kenya<br><br><div>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Vitalis Olunga <volunga@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, 19 March,
2010 9:54:33<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b><span> Re: [kictanet] <a target="_blank" href="http://www.broadband.gov/plan/goals-action-items.html">http://www.broadband.gov/plan/goals-action-items.html</a></span><br></font><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Dear All,</div>
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<div>These goals could be adapted as a guiding priciple toward the development of a Universal Broadband Access Policy </div>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Harry Delano <harry@comtelsys.co.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> volunga@yahoo.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, March 17, 2010 8:20:48 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b><span> Re: [kictanet] <a target="_blank" href="http://www.broadband.gov/plan/goals-action-items.html">http://www.broadband.gov/plan/goals-action-items.html</a></span><br></font><br>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="484570817-17032010"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Mr. Eric,</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="484570817-17032010"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I find these goals and call to action much more in tandem with what we would like to achieve here,closer at home - especially while visualizing "2030"</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="484570817-17032010"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">and also, as we endeavour to be the leading Technological Hub on the continent..</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="484570817-17032010"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Again, we perhaps may not peg our benchmarks on what the West wants to achieve, since quite frankly, they are still ahead. However, this </font></span><span class="484570817-17032010"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">offers </font></span><span class="484570817-17032010"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">some </font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="484570817-17032010"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">insight</font></span><span class="484570817-17032010"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"> into what we should aspire to rollout. We may not achieve this over a fortnight, or not perhaps in the next 10yrs, or even by 2030. </font></span><span class="484570817-17032010"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">But at least </font></span><span class="484570817-17032010"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">let's </font></span></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Eric M.K Osiakwan<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 17, 2010 12:40 PM<br><b>To:</b> harry@comtelsys.co.ke<br><b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br><b>Subject:</b><span> [kictanet] <a target="_blank" href="http://www.broadband.gov/plan/goals-action-items.html">http://www.broadband.gov/plan/goals-action-items.html</a></span><br></font><br></div>
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<h2 style="padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(67, 129, 199); line-height: 25px; font-family: Georgia,serif;">GOALS & ACTION ITEMS HIGHLIGHTS</h2>
<h3 style="padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; margin: 5px 0px; color: rgb(28, 54, 87); line-height: 19px;"><span class="plan-goals" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(80, 161, 24);">Goal No. 1:</span> At least 100 million U.S. homes should have affordable access to actual download speeds of at least 100 megabits per second and actual upload speeds of at least 50 megabits per second.</h3>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">In order to be a world leader in access to broadband by 2020, the plan has recommendations to foster competition, drive demand for increased network performance and lower the cost of deploying infrastructure. These will help inform consumers about broadband performance, expand services and infrastructure, and reform access to rights-of-way to lower barriers to entry for firms.</p>
<h3 style="padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; margin: 5px 0px; color: rgb(28, 54, 87); line-height: 19px;"><span class="plan-goals" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(80, 161, 24);">Goal No. 2:</span> The United States should lead the world in mobile innovation, with the fastest and most extensive wireless networks of any nation.</h3>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Without enough spectrum, the wonderful potential that wireless and mobile broadband promise will remain unrealized. The Plan recommends making 500 megahertz of spectrum available by 2020, including 300 megahertz within the next five years, for both licensed and unlicensed use. In addition, the Commission recommends initiatives to ensure greater transparency and access in allocating spectrum for various uses.</p>
<h3 style="padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; margin: 5px 0px; color: rgb(28, 54, 87); line-height: 19px;"><span class="plan-goals" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(80, 161, 24);">Goal No. 3:</span> Every American should have affordable access to robust broadband service, and the means and skills to subscribe if they so choose.</h3>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Not only is our world increasingly accessible online, but Americans have more opportunity for civic engagement than ever. But for these exciting online tools to be useful, every American must: have access to a network; be able to afford that access; and have the opportunity to develop digital skills. The Plan proposes reprioritization of resources and strategic targeting of efforts in order to achieve the goal of a 90% broadband adoption rate by 2020.</p>
<h3 style="padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; margin: 5px 0px; color: rgb(28, 54, 87); line-height: 19px;"><span class="plan-goals" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(80, 161, 24);">Goal No. 4:</span> Every community should have affordable access to at least 1 gigabit per second broadband service to anchor institutions such as schools, hospitals, and government buildings.</h3>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">The plan makes recommendations to upgrade the E-rate and improve the Rural Health Care support programs. Reforming incentive structures, licensing, and data interoperability, ensure that public priorities take advantage of the benefits broadband networks offer. And once community anchors are connected to gigabit speeds, it will become less expensive and more practical to get the same speeds to homes.</p>
<h3 style="padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; margin: 5px 0px; color: rgb(28, 54, 87); line-height: 19px;"><span class="plan-goals" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(80, 161, 24);">Goal No. 5:</span> To ensure the safety of American communities, every first responder should have access to a nationwide, wireless, interoperable broadband public safety network.</h3>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Often, first responders from different jurisdictions cannot communicate effectively with each other at the scene of an emergency. A nationwide broadband safety network should be robust enough to maintain performance in the aftermath of a disaster, and should allow every first responder to communicate with each other and share real-time data over high-speed connections.</p>
<h3 style="padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; margin: 5px 0px; color: rgb(28, 54, 87); line-height: 19px;"><span class="plan-goals" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(80, 161, 24);">Goal No. 6:</span> To ensure that America leads in the clean energy economy, every American should be able to use broadband to track and manage their real-time energy consumption.</h3>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">The United States must lead by encouraging renewable power, grid storage, and vehicle electrification. Real-time data can also inform automated thermostats and appliances, allowing consumers to save energy and money while reducing the need for expensive new power plants. Consumers should be able to access real-time usage information from smart meters and historical billing information over the Internet.</p></span></div>
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