<div dir="auto">Great,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Demonstrates the importance of Public Participation.</div><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, 8:38 am Victor Kapiyo, <<a href="mailto:vkapiyo@gmail.com">vkapiyo@gmail.com</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">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"><br></div><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" 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">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 noreferrer" target="_blank">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>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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Grace Githaiga<br>
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<br><br>On Thursday, 17-10-2019 at 10:52 Grace Githaiga via kictanet wrote:<br><blockquote style="border:0;border-left:2px solid #22437f;padding:0px;margin:0px;padding-left:5px;margin-left:5px">
<div id="m_-8566142314874387751m_-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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Grace Githaiga<br>
Co-Convenor, Kenya ICT Action Network</div><br>
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Grace Githaiga<br>
Co-Convenor, Kenya ICT Action Network</div><br>
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Grace Githaiga<br>
Co-Convenor, Kenya ICT Action Network</div><br></div></div>
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