<div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><font face="times new roman,serif">Hi Christopher,</font></font><div><font size="4"><font face="times new roman,serif"><br></font></font></div><div style><font size="4"><font face="times new roman,serif">Thanks for the report. </font></font></div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4">Why are your reports set in standard-issue government style? The typography is awful: sans font, 12pt or larger, which makes continuous reading quite difficult, especially online; the tables with vertical lines; inconsistent bibliography styles; and so on. Almost every serious rule of effective communication in print is violated here.</font></div>
<div style><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div style><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4">It's one thing to find this sort of thing from the Central Bank (or some other equally staid part of government) but one would expect you guys to put out reports that have a passing acquaintance with the canons of effective communication in print: with Tufte (<a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi">http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi</a></font><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:large">) or Bringhurst (</span><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style</a></font><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:large">) or Butterick (</span><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><a href="http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?page_id=1300">http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?page_id=1300</a>) or,</font><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:large"> indeed, with the sort of thing you can pick up by reading a LATEX manual.</span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div style><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:large">For excellent recent government typography, the reports of New Zealand's Waitangi tribunal stand out, and I've attached one of them to this email. </span><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:large">I'm sorry to pick on you --- and I have a spare copy of Bringhurst, if you'd like one -- but I read the report; my eyes bled; and it occurred to me that there was no real reason for you not to do better than this.</span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div style><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:large">Regards,</span></div><div style><br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">Daniel Waweru,<div>26 Hai Phen,</div><div>Bodoni, </div><div>Caissa Superiore,</div><div>Republic of San Serriffe</div><div><br></div></div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 January 2013 16:33, Wambua, Christopher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Wambua@cck.go.ke" target="_blank">Wambua@cck.go.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Grace/Listers,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Unless I am wrong, the report
that you are referring to is available on our website at <a href="http://www.cck.go.ke/about/downloads/Transition_2007.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.cck.go.ke/about/downloads/Transition_2007.pdf</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Initially, the simulcast period
was envisaged to end in June 2012. However due to delays in the deployment of
signal distribution infrastructure and unavailability of set top boxes in adequate
quantities in the local market, the simulcast period was extended to December
31<sup>st</sup>, 2012. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Best regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Christopher Wambua<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Manager/Communications<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Consumer and Public Affairs Division <u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Communications Commission of Kenya<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">P.O. Box 14448, NAIROBI 00800<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">KENYA<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> kictanet
[mailto:<a href="mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Bwambua" target="_blank">kictanet-bounces+wambua</a>=<a href="mailto:cck.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">cck.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Grace Githaiga<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 11, 2013 3:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Wambua, Christopher<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a></span></p><div><div class="h5"><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance<u></u><u></u></div></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Henry<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">No,
I do not have the plan. However, I remember reading about the end of the
simulcast period either in the first report done by the committee appointed to
look into the matter, or there must have been some information in the press
advertised by the digital migration secretariat. Further, the report had talked
of how the frequencies would be handled. There was clearly a plan in place.
Maybe CCK could share it. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Rgds<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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From: <a href="mailto:henry@article19.org" target="_blank">henry@article19.org</a><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com" target="_blank">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a><br>
> CC: <a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br>
> Subject: RE: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance<br>
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:07:57 +0000<br>
> <br>
> Grace <br>
> <br>
> Thanks. Do you have a copy of the plan. Does it make clear which
frequencies are going to be set aside for TV and radio (public, private and
community), security, aviation? Please share.<br>
> <br>
> HENRY O. MAINA<br>
> DIRECTOR<br>
> ARTICLE 19 KENYA/EASTERN AFRICA<br>
> P O BOX 2653,00100<br>
> NAIROBI<br>
> TEL:+254 (20) 3862230/2<br>
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> EMAIL: <a href="mailto:henry@article19.org" target="_blank">henry@article19.org</a><br>
> <br>
> ________________________________________<br>
> From: Grace Githaiga [<a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com" target="_blank">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a>]<br>
> Sent: 11 January 2013 02:53 PM<br>
> To: Henry Maina<br>
> Cc: <a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br>
> Subject: RE: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance<br>
> <br>
> Thanks Henry.<br>
> <br>
> I thought the simulcast period is over? Cant quite remember but there was
a plan that had been released and CCK may have been following it considering
the switch off was meant to happen last year.<br>
> <br>
> Rgds<br>
> GG<br>
> <br>
> From: <a href="mailto:henry@article19.org" target="_blank">henry@article19.org</a><br>
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:26:16 +0000<br>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance<br>
> CC: <a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com" target="_blank">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a><br>
> <br>
> <br>
> D<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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