<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Barrack</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Couldn't agree with you more. Though technology can change habits it needs to be anchored on solid a social pillar. The other day I read a quote from Chris Kirubi about social media. What struck me is what he said,about technology. Although the quote was about social media and Brand Strategy I loved what he said about Technology being the tail NOT the dog.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"You don't need a social media strategy - you need a brand strategy that leverages social media. Don't get off the brand strategy just because there's a new communications channel, that's how you lose the plot as a brand. <b>Technology is the tail, not the dog</b>," Chris Kirubi, Chairman of Coca Cola Nairobi (via Tim Sanders). </span><br><br>So who wags who? The dog or the tail? Food for thought.<br><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">+254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a></span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></p><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blog: <a href="http://www.alyhussein.com/" target="_blank">www.alyhussein.com</a></span><br></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><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 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". ~ Albert Einstein</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sent from my iPad</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br>On Apr 15, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Barrack Otieno <<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span>Mwendwa,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Our biggest challenge in achieving vision 2030 is in the Social and</span><br><span>Political pillar. We need a concerted effort that will ensure that we</span><br><span>are a value driven society, this is the only way we will tame social</span><br><span>vices that have resulted in the current mess we are in. That said it</span><br><span>can be done.</span><br><span>Technology is a means to an end not an end in itself.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Best Regards</span><br><span></span><br><span>On 4/15/14, Crystal Watley Kigoni <<a href="mailto:crystal@voicesofafrica.org">crystal@voicesofafrica.org</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>If anyone recalls I asked for assistance in 2011 to build a database of all</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>the refugees in the country with distributed points of registration</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>starting in the camps. I wrote to Ndemo who was PS at the time and the idea</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>was ignored.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>IT can change a lot, but it requires real effort and implementation. Good</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>ideas alone are not enough.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Best wishes,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Crystal Watley Kigoni</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://tz.linkedin.com/pub/crystal-kigoni/<http://ke.linkedin.com/pub/crystal-kigoni/>">http://tz.linkedin.com/pub/crystal-kigoni/<http://ke.linkedin.com/pub/crystal-kigoni/></a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.voicesofafrica.org">http://www.voicesofafrica.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Twitter: @VoicesofAfrica</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/VOA4SD">https://www.facebook.com/VOA4SD</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>+255686247626</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva <</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:Kivuva@transworldafrica.com">Kivuva@transworldafrica.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Government to register all Kenyans afresh in digital database</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Digital-database-for-all-kenyans/-/1950946/2279712/-/format/xhtml/-/uityfn/-/index.html">http://mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Digital-database-for-all-kenyans/-/1950946/2279712/-/format/xhtml/-/uityfn/-/index.html</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I've always wondered why it's virtually impossible to get UK or US</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>citizenship through the back door, unless you get into a phony</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>marriage with a delinquent from those countries. Will setting up a</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>biometric database prevent rogue employees at the department of</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>registration from getting bribes to register foreigners as Kenyan</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>citizens? As far as I can remember, when I applied for the kipande,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>all my 10 digits' prints were taken.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>--</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>______________________</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://twitter.com/lordmwesh">twitter.com/lordmwesh</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>kictanet mailing list</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Unsubscribe or change your options at</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/crystal%40voicesofafrica.org">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/crystal%40voicesofafrica.org</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>development.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>bandwidth,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Barrack O. 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