<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_30923" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_31030"><font size="5" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_31337"><a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/starting-a-digital-economy-trade-agreement" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_31029" class="">http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/starting-a-digital-economy-trade-agreement</a></font></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_31114"><font size="5"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_31112"><font size="5" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_31348">Another great feature for the week!</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_31112"><span style="font-size: x-large;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_33287">Kenya's Civil Society groups need to wake up and has a big role to play into directing the internet arena!</span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_31112"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_30923"><span><br></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding-right: 50px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: SelaneTen, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_30930"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_30947">"Here the multi-stakeholders are the public (government) and private (business) sectors along with civil society, a mixed bag of activists, academics and those in the technical community. Civil society groups in the Internet arena feel they have a stake in discussions concerning the digital space because critical parts of the Internet were invented by them.</i></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding-right: 50px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: SelaneTen, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_30931"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_30945">The TPP, like all previous trade agreements, did not include this noisy, messy, unorganised third group."</i></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_30932"><font size="5"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_30932"><font size="5" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_33320">Be blessed.</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_30932"><font size="5"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_30932"><font size="5">Regards/Wangari</font></div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_30934"><font size="5">---</font><br><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_31215"><span style="color:rgb(127, 0, 63);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_31214">Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - </span><span style="color:rgb(127, 0, 63);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481787858461_31217">"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 class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" 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 dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 10:17, WANGARI KABIRU via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5121147902"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61305"><div style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;" id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61306" dir="ltr"><font color="#281b21" face="sl-Apres, helvetica, sans-serif" id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_63338"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/11/countries_do_not_control_the_internet_companies_do.html" id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_63339">http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/11/countries_do_not_control_the_internet_companies_do.html</a></font><br></div><div id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_63086"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(40, 27, 33);font-family:sl-Apres, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:1.8;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;" id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61306"><i id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61343">"...or instance: Have you ever read your favorite providers’ terms of service? </i><i id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61340">When we click “I agree,” <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://ourinternet-files.s3.amazonaws.com/publications/no24_web_2.pdf" style="color:rgb(102, 0, 51);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;" id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61309">we hand over</a> the right to track us, to profile us, to scan our email and chat content; to remove, edit, or share and sell our content without giving us a cut of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z9x6bk7" style="color:rgb(102, 0, 51);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;" id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61310">the revenues</a>. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/10/youarewhatyoulike_find_out_what_algorithms_can_tell_about_you_based_on_your.html" style="color:rgb(102, 0, 51);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;" id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61311">Facebook “likes” alone</a> can reveal an individual’s gender, age, race, sexuality, political, and religious views. Target correctly<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/how_not_to_be_wrong/2014/06/09/big_data_what_s_even_creepier_than_target_guessing_that_you_re_pregnant.html" style="color:rgb(102, 0, 51);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;" id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61312"> inferred</a> that a teenage girl was pregnant based on big data profiling—as her father found out when he phoned to complain that she’d been sent coupons for baby products....</i></div></div><div></div><div id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61280"> </div><div id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61280" dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(40, 27, 33);" id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_63076"><span id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_65145"><font id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_65144" size="5"><span id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_65160">One of the queries during the ICT review related to dominance to which this article delves into.</span></font></span></span></div><div id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61280" dir="ltr"><font size="5"><br></font></div><div id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61280" dir="ltr"><span id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_65170"><font id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_65169" size="5"><span id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_65168">Be blessed.</span></font></span></div><div id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61280"><font size="5"><br></font></div><div id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61280"><span id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_65166"><font id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_65165" size="5"><span id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_65164">Regards/Wangari</span></font></span></div><div class="yiv5121147902signature" id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61275">---<br><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2" id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61278"><span style="color:rgb(127, 0, 63);" id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61277">Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - </span><span style="color:rgb(127, 0, 63);" id="yiv5121147902yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481656286374_61328">"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></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">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 <a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/wangarikabiru%40yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/wangarikabiru%40yahoo.co.uk</a><br><br>The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. 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