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<div>On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:07 +0300, "Edith Adera" <eadera@idrc.or.ke> wrote:</div>
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<div class="me60908breadcrumbs"><!--/*SC*/ reopen inline tag after block /*EC*/--><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: #000000; font-size: small"><!--/*SC*/defang_font face="tahoma" style/*EC*/--><span style="font-family: tahoma">We need to take pride in our "own" and promote INNOVATION by young Kenyans. I would like to appeal to <!--/*SC*/defang_strong/*EC*/--><span style="font-weight: bold"><!--/*SC*/defang_font color="#ff0000" style/*EC*/--><span style="color: #ff0000">ALL<!--/*SC*//defang_font/*EC*/--></span><!--/*SC*//defang_strong/*EC*/--></span> mobile operators in Kenya to launch a campaign via mobile to get millions of Kenyans to vote for Evans. If we can have a mobile to web-link (i.e. get people to vote via sms..which is then automatically channelled to the voting site <a target="_blank" href="http://heroes.cnn.com/vote.aspx">heroes.cnn.com/vote.aspx</a> that will be great). I think we have enought techy innovators within the mobile companies to make this happen!<!--/*SC*//defang_font/*EC*/--></span><!--/*SC*/ close inline tag into block /*EC*/--></span></div>
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