<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Waudo</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for that information. Very useful.</div><div><br></div><div>The industry and possibly the ICT Ministry need to come together and lobby the necessary arms of government to ensure that we out brakes on the reverse gears... <br><br><div><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><br></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; ">+254 770 906375 / 0713 601113</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><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><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>"I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". ~ Albert Einstein</div><div><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>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Nov 12, 2014, at 8:58 PM, waudo siganga via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><!--/*SC*/DOCTYPE HTML/*EC*/-->
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<div>Interesting article.</div>
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<div>KITOS, hope you are listening...</div>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kenya has in the past few years showed promise of renewed innovative capacity, especially in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But the new tax regime precipitated by the East African Community (EAC) tax harmonisation is about to reverse all the gains we have made thus far. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read on </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15.6px;"><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/ndemo/-/2274486/2516562/-/1xv3f7z/-/index.html">http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/ndemo/-/2274486/2516562/-/1xv3f7z/-/index.html</a></p>
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