<p>McTim,</p>
<p>Kivuva said, he is overthinking :-), seems there is some sense in the article as Engineer Kariuki postulates.</p>
<p>Regards</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 23, 2016 9:24 PM, "McTim via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Listers,<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:22 PM, John Kariuki via kictanet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</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:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div><span>Barrack,</span></div><div><span>I must thank you very much for drawing attention to Mike Gursten's comments.For me the most telling clause is the following:</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div>'<span style="font-size:12pt">The A4AI “Best Practices” are a clear attempt to superimpose a
neo-liberal market fundamentalism on what would otherwise be a well-meaning
attempt to reduce the cost of Internet access for the next billions of users.'</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Michael Gurstein is being disingenous, don't fall for his trolling. He has a hidden agenda that has to do with a long and boring history of the Civil society Internet governance Caucus/Best Bits and JustNet Coalition.</div><div><br></div><div>Suffice it to say that it is a smear campaign that is unfortunately MGs style.</div><div><br></div><div>Ask yourself where KE would be without the market forces that brought about Safcom and all the other players in fixed and mobile Internet access industries.</div><div><br></div><div>We would be in the dark ages, a la Addis Ababa.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>McTim</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><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:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr">The subject of "neo-liberal market fundamentalism" is at this time globally 'politically incorrect' despite increasing evidence of its massive failures in a very large number of cases.I would therefore urge listers to take an interest in the comments and discuss them.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I would also recommend further reading on the subject in the book 'Market Failure and the Delusions of Privatisation' by Warwick Funnel,Robert Jupe and Jane Andrew.,Pluto Press.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">John Kariuki<br><br></div><div style="display:block"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Barrack Otieno via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk</a> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> Barrack Otieno <<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" target="_blank">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 17:13<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [kictanet] Fwd: [Internet Policy] Blogpost: A4AI: Who Could Oppose a More Affordable Internet? The Alliance for an Affordable Internet (A4AI) and the Neo-liberal Stealth Campaign to Control the Internet Throughout the Developing World<br> </font> </div> <div><div><div><br>Listers,<br><br>Might be of interest to some of you.<br><br>Regards<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Michael Gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">gurstein@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 14:35:12 -0700<br>Subject: [Internet Policy] Blogpost: A4AI: Who Could Oppose a More<br>Affordable Internet? The Alliance for an Affordable Internet (A4AI)<br>and the Neo-liberal Stealth Campaign to Control the Internet<br>Throughout the Developing World<br>To: Internet Policy External <<a href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>><br><br><br><<a href="https://gurstein.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/a4ai-who-could-oppose-a-more-affo" target="_blank">https://gurstein.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/a4ai-who-could-oppose-a-more-affo</a><br>rdable-internet-the-alliance-for-an-affordable-internet-a4ai-and-the-neo-lib<br>eral-stealth-campaign-to-control-the-internet-throughout-the-developing-worl<br>d-and-make/> A4AI: Who Could Oppose a More Affordable Internet? 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