<div dir="ltr"><div><br>Grace, thanks for sharing the reports.</div><div><br></div><div>Mercy and Kivuva, thanks for the moderation and putting up the reports. Mubarikiwe SANAA!</div><div><br></div><div>Victor, while the assurance is great after all the noise that was made, has this been
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communicated as the bills were? I think it is TOO EARLY BREATHE A SIGH OF RELIEF knowing our political class. We could wake up to a BILL PASSED AWAITING PRESIDENTIAL ASSENT... God forbid!</div><div><br></div><div>THK<br><br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:11 PM Victor Kapiyo 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I think it is worth mentioning that the ICT Committee assured the community that the bill in the regulation of bloggers would not proceed any further owing to its unconstitutionality.<div dir="auto">Regards </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Victor</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 12 Nov 2019, 08:36 Barrack Otieno via kictanet, <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Thank you Kivuva and Mercy for a great job.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 12 Nov 2019, 1:20 am Grace Githaiga via kictanet, <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>Listers<div><br></div><div>We appreciate your participation in these two bills (20 and 61). Please find attached the reports of the discussions, which have already been shared with the Bunge ICT Committee. </div><div><br></div><div>We acknowledge Mercy Mutemi and Mwendwa Kivuva for facilitating the debates. </div><div>
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<br><br>On Thursday, 17-10-2019 at 10:52 Grace Githaiga via kictanet wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 2px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(34,67,127);padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;margin:0px 0px 0px 5px">
<div id="gmail-m_-1019620195368325198m_-6781328695545412057m_-5354758820239318579Signature"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Dear Listers</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Greetings.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Further to sharing of two KICA Bills here, we would like to submit a memorandum on both as part of public participation. We plan to hold a two day moderated debate next week on Wednesday October 23rd and Thursday 24th.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The two bills propose to amend KICA on different issues. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">1. The first one published on March 15, 2019 proposes to amend KICA by inserting a new section 25A, which will allow Telco companies to engage in any other business, so long as they are licensed. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">2. The second Bill published on July 24, 201 9 proposes to amend KICA in section 2, which basically is the regulation of social media (including bloggers and watsapp admins). </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Mercy Mutemi will moderate the social media one on Wednesday, while Mwendwa Kivuva will handle the Telcos one on Thursday. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We hope to have a discussion on the same with the National Assembly ICT committee at a date to be announced here. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Looking forward to a vibrant debate.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Warmly</div><div dir="ltr">Grace</div>
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