<div dir="auto">Convergence that was brought by the Internet has taken away most of the jobs that the regulators were doing. It is only natural that they justify their existence. Even self regulation requires regulation :-)<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 10:41 Mwanah Cephas Okoth via kictanet, <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Yes Ali,<div><br></div><div>Been trying to wonder -- what's the end game here. Is it really value addition or just mere regulation?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 6:15 AM Ali Hussein via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">@GG<div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing. I’m curious as to what the world is coming to. Everyone wants to snoop and regulate. Can the CA tell us what’s the major value proposition to increasing snooping on us?</div><div><br></div><div>Regulators need to spend more time enabling the sector they are supposed to grow and the CA has really been progressive in many ways. Once in a while though they try to go back to the bad old KANU days. The onus is on us to remind them that Kenyans shut that door kitambo sana.<br><br><div id="m_-4580720570577509524m_-1604959854826365967AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><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)">AHK & 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" rel="noreferrer">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 1 Nov 2018, at 10:57 PM, Grace Githaiga via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
<div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:colfaxregular,"avantgardegothicitcw01b 731069","nimbus sans tw01",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><p style="margin-bottom:15.6px;color:rgb(93,93,93);font-size:17px;font-family:georgia,"itc century w01 light";line-height:25px">Kenya is considering regulating online services such as WhatsApp and Skype in a radical move that could force the internet-based service providers to share data with the government.</p></div><div><p style="color:rgb(93,93,93);font-family:georgia,"itc century w01 light";font-size:17px;margin-bottom:15.6px;line-height:25px">The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) is in search of a consultant to study and determine how the so-called over-the-top services (OTTS) operated by groups such as Facebook, which runs WhatsApp, and Skype owner Microsoft, could be regulated.</p><font color="#333333" face="colfaxregular, avantgardegothicitcw01b 731069, nimbus sans tw01, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Read on: <a href="https://www.nation.co.ke/business/Telcos-regulator-seeks-to-monitor-WhatsApp/996-4833020-fn9u7s/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.nation.co.ke/business/Telcos-regulator-seeks-to-monitor-WhatsApp/996-4833020-fn9u7s/index.html</a></span></font><br><br><br></div>
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