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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>+ 1 Waithaka. And this should have been or still should be what we should negotiate with Netflix as opposed to insisting on subjecting them to our rules. Netflix should also carry a certain percentage of our local content. <div><br></div><div>Rgds</div><div>G</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 10:22:29 +0300<br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] EU PLANS TO LIFT BARRIERS ON INTERNET SHOPPING AND IMPOSE QUOTAS ON NETFLIX<br>From: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br>CC: ngigi@at.co.ke; kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br>To: ggithaiga@hotmail.com<br><br> <div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;color:rgb(31, 73, 125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lots of sense. Can you imagine if Vioja, Vitimbi, Tahamaki All Episodes were on Netflix?</div> <div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;color:rgb(31, 73, 125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="display:initial;"></div> <div style="font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif;color:rgb(31, 73, 125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Waithaka Ngigi<br><br>Alliance Technologies<br>www.at.co.ke </div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(181, 196, 223);border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0in 0in;font-family:Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro';font-size:10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Ali Hussein via kictanet</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, May 26, 2016 9:52 AM</div><div><b>To: </b>Ngigi Waithaka</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions</div><div><b>Cc: </b>Ali Hussein; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [kictanet] EU PLANS TO LIFT BARRIERS ON INTERNET SHOPPING AND IMPOSE QUOTAS ON NETFLIX</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(186, 188, 209);border-top-width:1pt;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="ecx_originalContent" style=""><div>Ahmed</div><div id="ecxAppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="ecxAppleMailSignature">Makes sense for us too..</div><div id="ecxAppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="ecxAppleMailSignature">#JustSaying..<br><br><div><span style=""><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style=""><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;">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;"><br></div><div><p style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><p style=""><span style="background-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style=""><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><br></div><div><span style=""><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=""><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 26 May 2016, at 8:09 AM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy <<a href="mailto:ultimateprogramer@gmail.com">ultimateprogramer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote><div><div dir="ltr">Well.. they not only have but also actively encourage and develop local capacity to rival such products. For them I suppose it makes sense.<br></div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 6:15 AM, Ali Hussein 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="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><p dir="ltr">The EU announced plans to free internet shopping and ban geo-fencing. Netflix and Amazon are to adhere to a 20% local content requirement (Seems like these guys are case studying Kenya). :-)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Read on:-</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2016/05/eu-plans-free-internet-shopping-set-netflix-quotas/" target="_blank">http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2016/05/eu-plans-free-internet-shopping-set-netflix-quotas/</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">Ali Hussein <br>
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