<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Listers</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Please spare sometime to read this interesting report and lets have a conversation around it.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Remember that '<b>the </b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good (wo)men to do nothing'.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri-Identity-H;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri-Identity-H;">".....Social network sites (SNS), such as Facebook, Youtube and Twitter, which are popular in East
Africa, are helping to trigger non-institutionalised democratic participation by providing
communication spaces through which individuals articulate “democratic ideas". Along with
other digital technologies, SNS are providing a voice to those individuals</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic; vertical-align: 4pt;">1</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri-Identity-H;">who were
previously left out of traditional media. Consequently there has been an expansion in the
breadth of opinion expressed in the public domain thereby contributing to building a
democratic culture. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri-Identity-H; color: rgb(220, 42, 0);">However, many challenges stand in the way of East African citizens’
enjoyment of their right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through digital
technologies. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri-Identity-H;">These challenges include unfavourable legal regimes and affronts by both state
and non-state actors, poor infrastructure and the high accessibility costs that have tended to
create a wide digital divide. They also include </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri-Identity-H; color: rgb(220, 42, 0);">irresponsible behaviour by internet users who
are often unaware of online ethics or legal regimes that govern the internet and other
non-traditional media..."</span><br><div class="page" title="Page 4"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><font face="Calibri-Identity-H"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Read on:</span></font></p>
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</div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.cipesa.org/2014/05/launch-of-the-internet-freedoms-in-east-africa-2014-report/">http://www.cipesa.org/2014/05/launch-of-the-internet-freedoms-in-east-africa-2014-report/</a></span></div><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);"><b><br></b></span></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);"><b><br></b></span></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);"><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);">+254 770 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></body></html>