<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Wangari</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">This list has been consistent on the issue of Net Neutrality. We have urged policy makers to make this a priority. This is also on the ICT Wish List presented to the new team at the ICT Ministry. We are making steps. Slow ones for sure but I have faith in the new team to elevate this issue to the importance it deserves. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">However some of these issues can become non-issues very quickly if we provide affordable connectivity, get the Universal Service Fund off its fat behind and get moving in the right direction.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Nature dislikes a vacuum and like anything else when we fail to provide an affordable alternative foreign players will come in to entice you with 'free' everything.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Lets be clear:-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Regards</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:57 AM, WANGARI KABIRU <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wangarikabiru@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">wangarikabiru@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr"><span><a href="https://info.internet.org/en/story/where-weve-launched/" target="_blank">https://info.internet.org/en/story/where-weve-launched/</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><div> </div><div>Does this mean that Kenya and the other countries are gullible, have sold out or they have seen ahead of the times?</div><div><br></div><div>I really wish our more learned tech friends here would enlighten us with the interests for Kenya - that is if you understand. We know that the players in discussion may be your friends too or business players.<br></div><div>Otherwise Kivuva continues to be a lone rattling parrot ....<br></div><div><br></div><div>Blessed day.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards/Wangari<br></div></div><span class=""><div>---<br><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="color:rgb(127,0,63)">Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - </span><span style="color:rgb(127,0,63)">"Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth".</span></font><br></div> <div><br><br></div></span><div style="display:block"> <div style="font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div><div class="h5"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, 11 February 2016, 1:43, Ali Hussein via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> </div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div><div><div>All</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Clearly the issue of Net Neutrality is beginning to get the attention it needs. Yet...it's still so misunderstood. Fortunately learning institutions like Strathmore (through bright young minds like Nanjira) are beginning to tackle this issue. They all need our support and input. </div><div><br clear="none"><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b>Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">+254 0713 601113 / 0770906375</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br clear="none"></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></div><span><font></font></span><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span>Skype: abu-jomo</span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span>LinkedIn: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></div><font><br clear="none"></font></div><div><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span><br clear="none"></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><div><br clear="none">On 11 Feb 2016, at 12:21 AM, Judy Okite via kictanet <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>I totally Agree with you Ali and I congratulate the Indian Public!! <br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>just incase you did not get the story,its here....<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/trai-bats-for-net-neutrality-internet-power-to-the-people/article8214991.ece" target="_blank">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/trai-bats-for-net-neutrality-internet-power-to-the-people/article8214991.ece</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>Kind Regards, <br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><h1 style="margin:0px"><font size="1"><i><span style="font-weight:normal">'Chance Favors the prepared mind'</span></i></font><font size="2"><i> </i><span style="font-weight:normal">-<font size="1"> Louis Pasteur</font></span></font><br clear="none"></h1></div></div></div>
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