<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto">Interesting Liz.<div><br></div><div>From where I seat the answer is an emphatic yes! </div><div><br></div><div>I however, fear that we then must take our public officials through an intensive course of Social and Online Etiquette.</div><div><br></div><div>One great benchmark is Chief Kariuki of Nakuru. He has taken the use of Social Media to serve citizens to another level.<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b><br></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><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.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 style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><img src="cid:06F805BE-5FB9-4AA9-94E3-3F256C2A3627" alt="image1.jpeg" id="06F805BE-5FB9-4AA9-94E3-3F256C2A3627"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 16 Oct 2019, at 9:02 AM, Liz Orembo via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:14px">Listers,</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:14px">A very interesting read by Tevin Mwenda, </span></div><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:14px"><div><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:14px"><br></span></div>Can social media accounts of public officials in Kenya be construed to be channels that can be used by the public to access information from their elected leaders and other public leaders regarding them? </span><div><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:14px">Are those public officials allowed to block someone from accessing them when they use the same channels to interact with citizens?</span> </div><div><br></div><div>Full article here: <a href="https://www.kictanet.or.ke/?p=40802">https://www.kictanet.or.ke/?p=40802</a> <br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><div><font style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif" size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best regards.<br>
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