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background-color: #e5e5e5; font-size: 1px; line-height:0px"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424166914493_11508" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424166914493_11575" dir="ltr">or<br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424166914493_11426" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424166914493_11425"> <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424166914493_11424" href="http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/walubengo/-/2274560/2625982/-/10br00sz/-/index.html">http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/walubengo/-/2274560/2625982/-/10br00sz/-/index.html</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424166914493_11425"></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424166914493_11425">walu.</span></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424166914493_11235" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424166914493_11234" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424166914493_11233" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424166914493_11236" size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Odhiambo Washington via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> jwalu@yahoo.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, February 17, 2015 12:09 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Kenya Union of ICT Practitioners<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv7843913189"><div><div dir="ltr">Evans,<div><br clear="none"></div><div>You are right on the rename.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>So are the CSK and the ICT Association bona fide representative bodies for the ICT Professionals?</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>And I'd have loved to see them in the mix, even as johhny-come-lately, if they were never represented in the Digital Migration Committee.</div><div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv7843913189gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv7843913189gmail_quote">On 17 February 2015 at 10:57, Evans Ikua via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv7843913189gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>@ Wash, I believe what you are referring to here is an ICT industry (Professional) Association, in whichever form. A Union is a body of people who are employed by a certain organization, or groups of organizations, with the sole purpose of collectively bargaining for their interest.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>The question then should be, what is the stand of the CSK or the other new entrant ICT Association with regard to the digital migration stand off?<br clear="none"></div>Evans<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv7843913189gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv7843913189gmail_quote"><div><div class="yiv7843913189h5">On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Odhiambo Washington via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"></div></div><blockquote class="yiv7843913189gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="yiv7843913189h5"><div dir="ltr">KUIP - will it/does it exist?:)<div><br clear="none"></div><div>What is their stand on the current Digital Migration stand-off?</div><span><font color="#888888"></font></span><div><br clear="all"><div><br clear="none"></div>-- <br clear="none"><div>Best regards,<br clear="none">Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br clear="none">Nairobi,KE<br clear="none">+254733744121/+254722743223<br clear="none">"I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler."<br clear="none"></div>
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