<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Daniel</div><div><br></div><div>On a light note...some may think or label you Pedantic but I completely feel you..</div><div><br></div><div>We must continuously strive to slay mediocrity in all aspects of our lives. Only then can we aspire to greatness. </div><div><br></div><div>I also applaud my brother Wambua for being positive towards criticism for none of us is perfect.<br><br><div>Ali Hussein</div><div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd</div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">+254 773/713 601113</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">"The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb</span></div><div><br></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Jan 15, 2013, at 8:50 AM, "Wambua, Christopher" <<a href="mailto:Wambua@cck.go.ke">Wambua@cck.go.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Daniel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Many thanks for taking your time
to give us feedback on the typography, presentation and bibliography styles of
our reports. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I shall share your comments, which
you have made in good faith, with my colleagues at the Commission with a view
to ensuring continual improvement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></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""> Daniel Waweru
[<a href="mailto:daniel.waweru@gmail.com">mailto:daniel.waweru@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 15, 2013 2:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Wambua, Christopher<br>
<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Thanks for the report. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">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></span><span style="font-size:18.0pt">) or Bringhurst (</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style</a></span><span style="font-size:18.0pt">) or Butterick (</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><a href="http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?page_id=1300">http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?page_id=1300</a>)
or,</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt"> indeed, with the sort of thing
you can pick up by reading a LATEX manual.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">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. 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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">26 Hai Phen,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 11 January 2013 16:33, Wambua, Christopher <<a href="mailto:Wambua@cck.go.ke" target="_blank">Wambua@cck.go.ke</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Grace/Listers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Best
regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Christopher
Wambua</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Manager/Communications</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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Public Affairs Division </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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Commission of Kenya</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">P.O. Box 14448,
NAIROBI 00800</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">KENYA</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Henry</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Rgds</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">> 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>
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3862231</a><br>
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> <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</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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