<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Dr. Rigia,<br><br>sounds like i had read this before - wasnt this part of your PhD thesis? Either way, nice piece. <br><br>As for the Universal Fund - what i could pick from the grapevine was initially that the commission to handle the fund had not been instituted (wonder if it is now); also picked that operators did not buy the idea of submitting funds to this commission - only to go back and "beg" for their funds in order to use them in rural area. And then ofcourse reservations on how open and transparent such a commission is likely to be given that it would be overseeing quite some hefty amount of monies (read corporate governance issues aka corruption opportunities)<br><br>Anyway, I think the whole thing may have been overtaken by events - especially the new constitutional dispensation which may demand further rethinking on such a commission
(structure, operation, nomination of the commissioners etc).<br><br>walu.<br><br>walu.<br><br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 11/16/11, warigia bowman <i><warigia@aucegypt.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: warigia bowman <warigia@aucegypt.edu><br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Why Kenya has not Operationalized the Universal Access Fund?<br>To: jwalu@yahoo.com<br>Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 11:48 AM<br><br><div id="yiv840887481"><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues, <br><br>Attached please find a peer reviewed article I published on Kenya's ICT Policy process where I address this issue. <br><br>You can download this article as well as others I wrote here<br>
<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.warigiabowman.com/index.php?page=working-papers">http://www.warigiabowman.com/index.php?page=working-papers</a><br><br>Yours, Rigia<br><br><div class="yiv840887481gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Edith Adera <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:eadera@idrc.or.ke" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=eadera@idrc.or.ke">eadera@idrc.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv840887481gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="yiv840887481MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Listers,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="yiv840887481MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="yiv840887481MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Writing a journal paper and just discovered that Kenya has <b><u><span style="color: red;">NOT</span></u></b> operationalized the Universal Access Fund! This is indeed VERY unfortunate (and a shame), yet we speak on this list about ICTs transforming our economy. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="yiv840887481MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="yiv840887481MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Bwana Ndemo, you might enlighten us on why this state of affairs? What is the bottleneck?<span class="yiv840887481HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>
<span class="yiv840887481HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="yiv840887481MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="yiv840887481MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Edith<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="yiv840887481MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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