<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div><div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">John, Alice</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I would add to your lecturers's statement: "….you need to be <i>very, very </i>worried".</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif">Or </font>what else exactly would such an association serve except their self-interest? Yet the challenge is on regulators to watch the association. I guess non-profits like ISOC may have their work cut out to defend civil society interests against these kinds of business associations. </div><div><br></div><div>But the statement "<i>The Internet Association is dedicated to advancing public policy solutions to strengthen and protect an open, innovative and free Internet</i>" gives me some hope, though I don't remember a business that really makes any customer king beyond its own interests!</div><div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Regards,</font></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Vika</span></font></font></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> John Kariuki <<a href="mailto:ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk">ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> John Kariuki <<a href="mailto:ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk">ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Friday 03 August 2012 7:32 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Vika Mpisane <<a href="mailto:vika@zadna.org.za">vika@zadna.org.za</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [kictanet] Internet Giants form new Lobbying Group - Internet Association<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><span style="RIGHT: auto">Alice, Listers</span></div><div style="RIGHT: auto"><span style="RIGHT: auto"></span> </div><div style="RIGHT: auto"><span style="RIGHT: auto">My ICT regulatory class lecturer once told us:</span></div><div style="RIGHT: auto"><span style="RIGHT: auto">" If you see market players,who should be competing(read -f<var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var>ighting) seating together and agreeing on the way forward(read-pursuing common self-interest),then as a regulator or consumer,you need to be worried!"</span></div><div style="RIGHT: auto"><span style="RIGHT: auto"></span> </div><div style="RIGHT: auto"><span style="RIGHT: auto">Enjoy,</span></div><div style="RIGHT: auto"><span style="RIGHT: auto">John Kariuki<var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var></span></div><div style="RIGHT: auto"><br></div><div style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><div style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"><div style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class="hr" readonly="true" contenteditable="false"></div><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</span></b> "<a href="mailto:alice@apc.org">alice@apc.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:alice@apc.org">alice@apc.org</a>><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk">ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk</a> <br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> <br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 3 August 2012, 7:00<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> [kictanet] Internet Giants form new Lobbying Group - Internet Association<br></font></div><br>Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay jointly formulated "Internet Association" beyond the likes of ISOC or any
other group:<br><br>About The Internet Association<br><br>Source: <br><br><a href="http://internetassociation.orgthe/" target="_blank">http://internetassociation.orgthe/</a> Internet Association is the unified voice of the Internet economy, representing the interests of America's leading Internet companies and their global community of users. The Internet Association is dedicated to advancing public policy solutions to strengthen and protect an open, innovative and free Internet.<br><br>Here is a more detailed article on the subject:<br><br><a href="http://www.itproportal.com/2012/07/26/google-facebook-ebay-amazon-join-other-leading-internet-companies-form-lobby-group/" target="_blank">http://www.itproportal.com/2012/07/26/google-facebook-ebay-amazon-join-other-leading-internet-companies-form-lobby-group/</a><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a><br><br>Unsubscribe or change your options at <a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ngethe.kariuki2007%40yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ngethe.kariuki2007%40yahoo.co.uk</a><br><br>The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.<br><br>KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth,
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