<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>So listers</div><div><br></div><div>As a follow up this story Zuckerberg posted a response. Excerpts below:-</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><adage_no_lookbook_links style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102830259184701" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 216);">Thursday night post</a>, in which he belatedly addressed a Monday Gizmodo report alleging that Facebook has an anti-conservative bias -- see <a href="http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 216);">"Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News"</a> -- is a rather curious display of damage control.</adage_no_lookbook_links></p><figure class="caption rightrail has-caption" style="margin: 0px 40px 25px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; width: 255px; max-width: none; float: left;"><img src="http://gaia.adage.com/images/bin/image/rightrail/zuckerberg_2.JPG?1416415314" width="255" height="170" alt="Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg." title="Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg." class="rightrail" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><figcaption style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg</span></figcaption></figure><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's a short post, just 309 words, and it mostly says nothing -- opening as it does with "I want to share some thoughts on the discussion about Trending Topics" and quickly swerving into boilerplate Facebook Utopianism: "We believe the world is better when people from different backgrounds and with different ideas all have the power to share their thoughts...." And 62 words into the post he even pulls out the mom card, as in, "We are one global community where anyone can share anything -- from a loving photo of a mother and her baby to intellectual analysis of political events."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moms.</em> Moms are the best, aren't they? Wait, where were we?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oh right. Here, halfway into Zuckerberg's gentle musings, is where it gets a bit slippery and weird:</span></p><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 17px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; clear: both; line-height: 25px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week, there was a report suggesting that Facebook contractors working on Trending Topics suppressed stories with conservative viewpoints. We take this report very seriously and are conducting a full investigation to ensure our teams upheld the integrity of this product.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We have found no evidence that this report is true. If we find anything against our principles, you have my commitment that we will take additional steps to address it.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So... "We have found no evidence that this report is true..." but Facebook is "conducting a full investigation" -- "conducting," present-tense. So Mark Zuckerberg is jumping to conclusions and making pronouncements ("We have found no evidence that this report is true" plants the seed that the Gizmodo report is false) while an investigation is ongoing -- without revealing how the investigation is being conducted, who's runnng the investigation, etc.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Quick, look over here -- at the next paragraph!</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read the rest:-</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/mark-zuckerberg-ju/304000/">http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/mark-zuckerberg-ju/304000/</a></p>The age old question on how much influence media should be allowed to have on people's social and political thoughts is now coming to the fore for this most influential platform. The critical part is the use of Algorithms to suppress 'undesirable' content.</div><div><br></div><div>What do you think guys?</div><div><br><div><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><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></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 0713 601113 / 0770906375</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></span></p><font><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>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</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><div><br>On 12 May 2016, at 6:04 PM, jude mwenda via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">There is some substantial amount of literature pointing to biases in algorithms. Some good case in point is the use of recruitment algorithms by tech firms based in the valley[1] or Google's photo service that misrepresented people of color. These are basically societal and implicit biases taking up digital forms imo. There is also the other case where false positives are introduced by design to provide some semblance of pseudo-privacy. i.e when someone who has been receiving online baby recommendations on a service like Amazon finds motor oil embedded as one of the highly recommended picks. So yes they could be twisted to lie.<div><br></div><div>[1]. <a href="https://civic.mit.edu/blog/chelseabarabas/calculated-bias-the-pitfalls-and-potential-of-algorithmic-recruitment">https://civic.mit.edu/blog/chelseabarabas/calculated-bias-the-pitfalls-and-potential-of-algorithmic-recruitment</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 May 2016 at 10:43, Nanjira Sambuli 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 style="word-wrap:break-word">Ali, response to that…of course there’s biased, no such thing as ‘algorithmic neutrality’: <a href="http://www.wired.com/2016/05/course-facebook-biased-thats-tech-works-today/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/2016/05/course-facebook-biased-thats-tech-works-today/</a> <div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 12 May 2016, at 16:21, <a href="mailto:kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a> wrote:</div><br><div><div>Send kictanet mailing list submissions to<br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a><br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="mailto:kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="mailto:kictanet-owner@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet-owner@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of kictanet digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Is Facebook biased on its newsfeed? (Ali Hussein)<br> 2. Re: Is Facebook biased on its newsfeed? (Ahmed Mohamed Maawy)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 16:52:08 +0300<br>From: Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br>Subject: [kictanet] Is Facebook biased on its newsfeed?<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:94EF7EBE-92E4-43E7-BE18-3865ABC08F9C@hussein.me.ke" target="_blank">94EF7EBE-92E4-43E7-BE18-3865ABC08F9C@hussein.me.ke</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<span class=""><br><br>Listers<br><br>This mail is coped from the <a href="http://fortune.com">Fortune.com</a> Data Sheet.<br><br></span>The ?Trending? topics section of Facebook seems such a trivial thing, and in many ways it is. It looks and feels like an afterthought?ironically, it started as an attempt to copy Twitter?and many users probably don?t even notice it?s there. But now, it has triggered a national discussion around bias and the power of social platforms.<br><br>In case you missed the brouhaha, it started with a report from Gizmodo that profileda team of anonymous journalists working at Facebook who curate the news that shows up in the Trending section. A subsequent report quoted one of the journalists as saying the team routinely removed certain right-wing political sites from the section, even when the social network?s data showed they were trending.<br><br>The revelation seemed harmless enough, at first: Journalists hired to edit things were actually editing them! But the comment soon snowballed into a debate over Facebook?s role in news consumption, and whether its sheer size and influence brings with it some level of responsibility.<span class=""><br><br>Facebook responded to the story by saying that its policy is to remain as neutral as possible editorially, and that it will look into reports of misbehavior. Then it issued a second, even more heartfelt response, after the Senate Commerce Committee sent a letter asking the company to answer some questions around political influence and the Trending section.<br><br></span>The real issue, of course, isn?t the tiny section of the Facebook home page that follows trending topics. It?s the fact that the kind of editorial selection those journalists engaged in is happening every minute of every day on the main news feed, courtesy of the Facebook ranking algorithm. And that algorithm, since it is programmed by human beings, inevitably contains biases of all kinds.<br><br>The bottom line is that Facebook is more than just a social network where people exchange photos of their pets?it is the largest and most influential media entity the world has ever seen. The sooner Facebook acknowledges that, and becomes part of the discussion around how it can manage its social responsibilities, the better off we will all be.<span class=""><br><br><br>Ali Hussein<br>Principal<br>Hussein & Associates<br><a href="tel:%2B254%200713%20601113" value="+254713601113" target="_blank">+254 0713 601113</a> / 0770906375<br><br>Twitter: @AliHKassim<br>Skype: abu-jomo<br>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a><br><br><br></span>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Gy?rgyi<br><br>Sent from my iPad<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <<a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/attachments/20160512/abe66492/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/attachments/20160512/abe66492/attachment-0001.html</a>><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 17:20:30 +0300<br>From: Ahmed Mohamed Maawy <<a href="mailto:ultimateprogramer@gmail.com" target="_blank">ultimateprogramer@gmail.com</a>><br>To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Is Facebook biased on its newsfeed?<br>Message-ID:<br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><<a href="mailto:CAPZHszN5Wt3M2g0OzRrc0%2BAEAOaVNYy1T9PNnD0aom2rAm-4yA@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">CAPZHszN5Wt3M2g0OzRrc0+AEAOaVNYy1T9PNnD0aom2rAm-4yA@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<span class=""><br><br>There are a number of elements at play here:<br><br></span> 1. Obviously to a great degree this algorithm has massively helped<span class=""><br> Facebook. Not that I am totally on their side, what I mean to say is that<br> lets give credit where its due. Without this algorithm we would have seen<br> massive fallout and loss of klout. This is something Twitter did not figure<br> out so well. LinkedIn is still the place professionals like to hang out,<br> but its not the place professionals like to stay. Just stating how it came<br> to be that Facebook is air and air is life (so to speak).<br></span> 2. If truly there is a bias to all this (which I am yes, yet to<span class=""><br> comprehend how this bias is visible) it can mean 2 things:<br></span> 1. Either content producers are not building influence better than<span class=""><br> those who rank at the top. Or<br></span> 2. If not, there is a genuine market opportunity in this gap.<span class=""><br><br>But algorithms are algorithms, and my experience developing algorithms<br>tells me computer algorithms can not easily be twisted to lie, especially<br>in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.<br><br>But these are all books on their own anyway.<br><br>Just my 2 cents.<br><br>On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Ali Hussein via kictanet <<br><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote type="cite">Listers<br><br>This mail is coped from the <a href="http://fortune.com">Fortune.com</a> <<a href="http://fortune.com" target="_blank">http://fortune.com</a>> Data Sheet.<br><br>The ?Trending? topics section of Facebook seems such a trivial thing, and<br>in many ways it is. It looks and feels like an afterthought?ironically, it<span class=""><br>started as an attempt to copy Twitter<br></span><<a href="http://link.fortune.com/click/6706588.20757/aHR0cDovL3RlY2hjcnVuY2guY29tLzIwMTQvMDEvMTYvZmFjZWJvb2stdHJlbmRpbmcv/55ba80258cc2b2e72d8b457aBf20eece1" target="_blank">http://link.fortune.com/click/6706588.20757/aHR0cDovL3RlY2hjcnVuY2guY29tLzIwMTQvMDEvMTYvZmFjZWJvb2stdHJlbmRpbmcv/55ba80258cc2b2e72d8b457aBf20eece1</a>>?and<br>many users probably don?t even notice it?s there. But now, it has triggered<span class=""><br>a national discussion around bias and the power of social platforms.<br><br>In case you missed the brouhaha, it started with a report from Gizmodo that<br>profiled<br></span><<a href="http://link.fortune.com/click/6706588.20757/aHR0cDovL2dpem1vZG8uY29tL3dhbnQtdG8ta25vdy13aGF0LWZhY2Vib29rLXJlYWxseS10aGlua3Mtb2Ytam91cm5hbGlzdHMtMTc3MzkxNjExNw/55ba80258cc2b2e72d8b457aB4ee70a20" target="_blank">http://link.fortune.com/click/6706588.20757/aHR0cDovL2dpem1vZG8uY29tL3dhbnQtdG8ta25vdy13aGF0LWZhY2Vib29rLXJlYWxseS10aGlua3Mtb2Ytam91cm5hbGlzdHMtMTc3MzkxNjExNw/55ba80258cc2b2e72d8b457aB4ee70a20</a>>a<span class=""><br>team of anonymous journalists working at Facebook who curate the news that<br>shows up in the Trending section. A subsequent report quoted one of the<br>journalists as saying the team routinely removed certain<br></span><<a href="http://link.fortune.com/click/6706588.20757/aHR0cDovL2dpem1vZG8uY29tL2Zvcm1lci1mYWNlYm9vay13b3JrZXJzLXdlLXJvdXRpbmVseS1zdXBwcmVzc2VkLWNvbnNlci0xNzc1NDYxMDA2/55ba80258cc2b2e72d8b457aBf141c2b3" target="_blank">http://link.fortune.com/click/6706588.20757/aHR0cDovL2dpem1vZG8uY29tL2Zvcm1lci1mYWNlYm9vay13b3JrZXJzLXdlLXJvdXRpbmVseS1zdXBwcmVzc2VkLWNvbnNlci0xNzc1NDYxMDA2/55ba80258cc2b2e72d8b457aBf141c2b3</a>> right-wing<br>political sites from the section, even when the social network?s data<span class=""><br>showed they were trending.<br><br>The revelation seemed harmless enough, at first: Journalists hired to edit<br>things were actually editing them! But the comment soon snowballed into a<br></span>debate over Facebook?s role in news consumption, and whether its sheer size<span class=""><br>and influence brings with it some level of responsibility.<br><br>Facebook responded to the story<br></span><<a href="http://link.fortune.com/click/6706588.20757/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmFjZWJvb2suY29tL3RzdG9ja3kvcG9zdHMvMTAxMDA4NTMwODIzMzc5NTg/55ba80258cc2b2e72d8b457aBf49ae890" target="_blank">http://link.fortune.com/click/6706588.20757/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmFjZWJvb2suY29tL3RzdG9ja3kvcG9zdHMvMTAxMDA4NTMwODIzMzc5NTg/55ba80258cc2b2e72d8b457aBf49ae890</a>> by<span class=""><br>saying that its policy is to remain as neutral as possible editorially, and<br>that it will look into reports of misbehavior. Then it issued a second,<br>even more heartfelt response, after the Senate Commerce Committee sent a<br>letter<br></span><<a href="http://link.fortune.com/click/6706588.20757/aHR0cDovL2dpem1vZG8uY29tL3NlbmF0ZS1nb3AtbGF1bmNoZXMtaW5xdWlyeS1pbnRvLWZhY2Vib29rLXMtbmV3cy1jdXJhdGktMTc3NTc2NzAxOA/55ba80258cc2b2e72d8b457aB1d911177" target="_blank">http://link.fortune.com/click/6706588.20757/aHR0cDovL2dpem1vZG8uY29tL3NlbmF0ZS1nb3AtbGF1bmNoZXMtaW5xdWlyeS1pbnRvLWZhY2Vib29rLXMtbmV3cy1jdXJhdGktMTc3NTc2NzAxOA/55ba80258cc2b2e72d8b457aB1d911177</a>> asking<span class=""><br>the company to answer some questions around political influence and the<br>Trending section.<br><br></span>The real issue, of course, isn?t the tiny section of the Facebook home<br>page that follows trending topics. It?s the fact that the kind of editorial<span class=""><br>selection those journalists engaged in is happening every minute of every<br>day on the main news feed, courtesy of the Facebook ranking algorithm. And<br>that algorithm, since it is programmed by human beings, inevitably contains<br>biases of all kinds.<br><br>The bottom line is that Facebook is more than just a social network where<br></span>people exchange photos of their pets?it is the largest and most<br>influential<br><<a href="http://link.fortune.com/click/6706588.20757/aHR0cDovL3d3dy52b3guY29tLzIwMTYvNS8xMC8xMTY0MDE0MC9mYWNlYm9vay1tZWRpYS1pbmZsdWVuY2U/55ba80258cc2b2e72d8b457aBca65e309" target="_blank">http://link.fortune.com/click/6706588.20757/aHR0cDovL3d3dy52b3guY29tLzIwMTYvNS8xMC8xMTY0MDE0MC9mYWNlYm9vay1tZWRpYS1pbmZsdWVuY2U/55ba80258cc2b2e72d8b457aBca65e309</a>> media<span class=""><br>entity the world has ever seen. The sooner Facebook acknowledges that, and<br>becomes part of the discussion around how it can manage its social<br>responsibilities, the better off we will all be.<br><br></span>*Ali Hussein*<br>*Principal*<br>*Hussein & Associates*<span class=""><br><a href="tel:%2B254%200713%20601113" value="+254713601113" target="_blank">+254 0713 601113</a> / 0770906375<br><br>Twitter: @AliHKassim<br><br>Skype: abu-jomo<br><br>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a><br><br><br>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking<br></span>what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Gy?rgyi<span class=""><br><br>Sent from my iPad<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a><br><br>Unsubscribe or change your options at<br><a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ultimateprogramer%40gmail.com" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ultimateprogramer%40gmail.com</a><br><br>The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform<br>for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and<br>regulation. 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