<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span>Hi All,</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span>Hope you all had a nation building weekend, just came a cross and interesting issue that is developing in the USA</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; font-size: 16px; ">"Obama's latest proposal is a $2.4 billion program to provide cell phones for the poor.</span><span
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; font-size: 16px; "><a href="http://www.moneynews.com/AndrewPacker/Entitlement-Mentality-Destroying-America/2012/02/14/id/429343?s=al&promo_code=E33D-1#ixzz1mtbDYBwR" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Entitlement Mentality Destroying America</a>"</span><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; font-size: 16px; "><br></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font face="'Times New Roman'"><font size="3">Carrying our a simple calculation that fund can equip 25.5 million (8.5% of the population) poor </font>Americans<font size="3"> with an android/windows smartphone. I doubt if the objective is to have them become more active on Facebook or Twitter but as a tether. </font></font></div><div style="text-align: left;
"><font face="'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><br></font></font></div><div style="text-align: left; "><font face="'Times New Roman'"><font size="3">From where I stand, the US government must have seen the benefits of using the mobile platform as learnt from the story of Kenya to meet social programme objectives such as healthcare (m-bima), market information (m-mukulima) and banking the unbanked (m-pesa, m-kesho).</font></font></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; "><font face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; "><font face="'Times New Roman'">On the mobile front we have become inventors more the rest of the world more like Phillips was with the VCR, we hatch and prove new concepts then move on to other areas without innovating. </font></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; "><font face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;
"><font face="'Times New Roman'">Regards</font></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>Kenya<br><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696</div></div></body></html>