<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387461" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387485">mmh,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387461" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387461" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387506">Very quiet in here..I know s</span>ilence means consent but will be good to know how many agree/disagree with the findings. For example in point (a).</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387461" dir="ltr"><br></div><div style="line-height: 16pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387563"><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387564"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(251, 0, 7);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387565">a) 52% of the respondents felt that the Universal Service Fund(USF) had not met its objective. 40% felt that it had to a moderate extent while 8% felt it had a very large extent.</span></i></div><div style="line-height: 16pt;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387566"><br></div><div style="line-height: 16pt;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387566"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387597"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387596">It would be nice to know why those who felt USF has NOT performed to elaborate why. Better still, the 8% who thought they had performed to give us a few examples.</span></font></div><div style="line-height: 16pt;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387566"><font color="#fb0007"><i><br></i></font></div><div style="line-height: 16pt;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387566"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387743"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387742">We only have 1day on this since tomorrow we look at the next set of results.</span></font></div><div style="line-height: 16pt;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387566"><font color="#fb0007"><i><br></i></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387461" dir="ltr">walu.</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387509"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387514" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387513"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387512"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387511"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387510"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387602"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>; ISOC Kenya Chapter <isoc@lists.my.co.ke> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 28, 2016 9:00 AM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387780"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387779">Subject:</span></b> Day 1 of 3: 2016 ICT Year in Review Feedback - Policy, Legal & Regulatory Issues<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387517"><br><div id="yiv6263416651"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387520"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_387519"><div id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231625">Listers, (apologies for cross-posting)</div><div id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231625"><br></div><div id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231625">Thanks again for those who spared time to provide feedback - so that the rest of us can read and interrogate the same :-)</div><div id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231625"><br></div><div id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231625">Over the next 3 days I shall share the feedback and basically hope to get further reactions from the floor. I attach the feedback document but with summaries below:</div><div id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231625"><br></div><div id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231625"><b id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232637">1. Policy & Legal Feedback</b></div><div id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231625"><br></div><div style="line-height:16.0pt;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231886"><i id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231887"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#FB0007;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231888">a) 52% of the respondents
felt that the Universal Service Fund(USF) had not met its objective. 40% felt
that it had to a moderate extent while 8% felt it had a very large extent.</span></i></div><div style="line-height:16.0pt;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231890"><i id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231891"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#FB0007;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231892"> </span></i></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.0pt;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231894"><i id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231895"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#FB0007;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231896">b) 61% of the respondents felt that ICT Policies and initiative
had not impacted the counties. 23% of the respondents felt that these had
moderately impacted the counties, while 10% felt they had an impact to a very
large extent.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231897"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.0pt;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231899"><i id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231900"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#FB0007;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231901">c) 41% of the respondents felt that the multi-stakeholder approach
between ICT stakeholders and government was moderately achieved. 31% felt
it was not achieved while 25% felt it was, to a very large extent.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231902"></span></div><div id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231768">
</div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.0pt;" dir="ltr" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231904"><i id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231905"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#FB0007;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231906">d) Policy/Legal Issues not yet addressed include: Cyber Crime
/Cyber Security Bill and its position in Senate and National Assembly, Data
Protection Bill, ICT Practitioners Bill, Privacy Issue Linkages between
National & County Governments on ICT matters, Quality of Internet,
Infrastructure Sharing</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231907"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.0pt;" dir="ltr" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231904"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#FB0007;">Regulatory Feedback</span></i></div><div id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232052"><span lang="EN-US" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232053"><b id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232639">2. Regulatory Feedback</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.0pt;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232055"><i id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232056"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#FB0007;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232057">a) 48% of the respondents felt that the question of affordable
communications/internet pricing had not been well addressed. 30% felt that the
question of affordable pricing has been moderately addressed while 20% felt it
has been addressed to a very large extent.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232058"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.0pt;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232060"><i id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232061"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#FB0007;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232062">b) 68% of the respondents felt that the issue of dominance in
the sector was affecting pricing of communication services to a very large
extent. 16% felt it moderately affected pricing while 13% felt it was really
not an issue.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232063"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.0pt;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232065"><i id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232066"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#FB0007;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232067">c) 48% of the respondents felt that the urban-rural digital
divide had not been adequately addressed while 34% felt that it had been
moderately addressed while only 7% felt it had been addressed to a very large
extent. </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232068"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.0pt;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232070"><i id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232071"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#FB0007;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232072">d) 65% of the respondents felt that the regulator had not
addressed the issue of inclusivity with regard to persons with disabilities
(PWD). 27% felt this had been moderately addressed while only 5% felt it has
been addressed to a large extent.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232073"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.0pt;" dir="ltr" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231904">
<i id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232075"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#FB0007;" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232076">e) Areas needing Regulatory
Interventions: Operator Dominance Issues, Internet Pricing & Affordability
issues, White Spaces, Operationalization of Universal Service Fund &
Access, Failed Number Portability, Data protection for Subscriber Data,
Conflict between regulatory bodies, Last mile connectivity and Way-leaves,
Net-Neutrality, Support for ICT-startups, Support for Digital evidence in
courts, Inclusion & Support for Persons With </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#FB0007;"><br></span></i></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.0pt;" dir="ltr" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231904"><font face="Helvetica Neue" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232141"><span id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232140">Irrespective of whether you participated in the questionnaire or not, you are invited to comment, support, oppose and/or seek clarifications on the views of stakeholders.</span></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.0pt;" dir="ltr" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231904"><font face="Helvetica Neue" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232213"><span id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_232212">Tommorrow we shall post the feedback on Human Capital & Infrastructure.</span></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.0pt;" dir="ltr" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231904"><font color="#fb0007" face="Helvetica Neue"><i><br></i></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.0pt;" dir="ltr" id="yiv6263416651yui_3_16_0_1_1480152253176_231904"><font color="#fb0007" face="Helvetica Neue"><i><br></i></font></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>