<div dir="ltr">All good questions! And I will add one more: How do the relevant Kenyan regulatory authorities plan to address this issue of media convergence?<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Mildred Achoch.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Rock 'n' roll film festival, Kenya TV Channel! <br><a href="http://kenyarockfilmfestivaljournal.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://kenyarockfilmfestivaljournal.blogspot.com</a><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Ali Hussein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck and swims like a duck... :-)</div><div id="m_6307365243438198662AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_6307365243438198662AppleMailSignature">In today's complicated world however, where whole industries have been disrupted its more difficult to pigeon hole a company into an industry.. The loose definition is usually taken from the business model of companies - Say if more than 50% of your revenue comes from advertising space on your platform then you are a media company; from Software and Hardware then you are an IT/Technology Company; from voice calls/data a telco company etc. </div><div id="m_6307365243438198662AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_6307365243438198662AppleMailSignature">This however is the traditional definition hence why I'd agree with Zuckerberg in his assertions that whilst Facebook is a media company it's simply not a traditional media company.</div><div id="m_6307365243438198662AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_6307365243438198662AppleMailSignature">So if we look at the local context I'd like to pose some questions:-</div><div id="m_6307365243438198662AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_6307365243438198662AppleMailSignature">1. Which industry is Safaricom in? Media? Telecommunications? Banking? Entertainment? </div><div id="m_6307365243438198662AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_6307365243438198662AppleMailSignature">2. How about Equity Bank? Telco, Banking?</div><div id="m_6307365243438198662AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_6307365243438198662AppleMailSignature">3. Wananchi? <span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Media? Telecommunications? Content disruption? </span><br><br><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span><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="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.<wbr>com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span><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><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On 4 Jan 2017, at 10:15 AM, Mildred Achoch via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><wbr>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Happy new year everyone,<br><br></div>This may be of interest:<br><div><div><br>"Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, appears to have finally conceded that the social network is a media company, just not a “traditional media company”."<br><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/22/mark-zuckerberg-appears-to-finally-admit-facebook-is-a-media-company" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/<wbr>technology/2016/dec/22/mark-<wbr>zuckerberg-appears-to-finally-<wbr>admit-facebook-is-a-media-<wbr>company</a><br><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div>Mildred Achoch.<br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_6307365243438198662gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Rock 'n' roll film festival, Kenya TV Channel! <br><a href="http://kenyarockfilmfestivaljournal.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://<wbr>kenyarockfilmfestivaljournal.<wbr>blogspot.com</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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