<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I do not have the clean PDF yet. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">However, I have uploaded a version to Researchgate. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 3:01 PM David Otwoma <<a href="mailto:otwomad@gmail.com">otwomad@gmail.com</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="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Good Morning Rigia,<div><br></div><div>Thank you very much for your email.</div><div><br></div><div>I was only able to read the abstract. One striking conclusion of it is "<span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(28,29,30);font-family:"Open Sans",icomoon,sans-serif">this paper documents that the Ugandan government has employed ICTs in oppressive ways, including for the surveillance of opposition leaders, and for social control."</span></div><div><font color="#1c1d1e" face="Open Sans, icomoon, sans-serif" size="3"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#1c1d1e" face="Open Sans, icomoon, sans-serif" size="3">Have you read "Mindf*ck" </font><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mindf-Cambridge-Analytica-Break-America/dp/1984854631" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Mindf-Cambridge-Analytica-Break-America/dp/1984854631</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thos last two observation i.e. surveillance and social control can take. Most of the surveillance relies on data we ourselves share e.g. in Facebook, twitter etc. but what is frightening is the targeting of profiled subjects with certain messages to twist their mindsets and act as we witnessed for example in our 2013 and 2017 elections. How we view the other gender! Our balkanising those not sharing our culture, language etc. The foregoing can happen in Uganda, USA, you name the place.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope to be able to receive your full paper.</div><div><br></div><div>Seasons greetings with best wishes for 2020.</div><div><br></div><div>David </div><div><br></div><div>--<div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--<br>David Otwoma, PhD<br>Chief Scientist,<br>National Commission for Science Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI)<br>Utalii House, P.O Box 30623-00100 Nairobi, Kenya<br>Safcom tel: +254 722 141771,<br>Orange tel: +254 (0)20 2346915,<br>email: <a href="mailto:otwooma@gmail.com" target="_blank">otwooma@gmail.com</a> & <a href="mailto:otwoma@uonbi.ac.ke" target="_blank">otwoma@uonbi.ac.ke</a><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=100000614284149" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=100000614284149</a><br><a href="http://www.nacosti.go.ke" target="_blank">http://www.nacosti.go.ke</a><br>&<br><span>Chairman,<br>Eastern Africa Association for Radiation Protection, <br><a href="http://www.eaarp.org/" target="_blank">http://www.eaarp.org/</a><br><br></span><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 9:01 PM Warigia Bowman 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="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Dear colleagues, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Please take a look at my latest article. Special thanks to Bob Lyazi. All opinions are my own. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><h1 style="color:rgb(28,29,30);font-family:"Open Sans",icomoon,sans-serif;font-size:1.38em;margin:0px;line-height:30px;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Bowman, Warigia M. (2019)</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span></span></h1><h1 style="font-size:1.38em;font-family:"Open Sans",icomoon,sans-serif;margin:0px;line-height:30px;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">"Technological Distribution in Uganda: Information and Communications Technology and the State in an Eastern African Nation,"</span></h1><h1 style="color:rgb(28,29,30);font-family:"Open Sans",icomoon,sans-serif;font-size:1.38em;margin:0px;line-height:30px;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><i>Review of Policy Research</i>, Vol. 36 (6):<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;box-sizing:border-box">835-865</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Open Sans",icomoon,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(118,118,118)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></span> <div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.15;font-family:"Open Sans",icomoon,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(118,118,118);display:inline-block;opacity:1;box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12358" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-m_-4882702692583590709gmail-m_7743353306252769483gmail-m_-4622476867117506285gmail-m_8518639705002381170gmail-m_3357334569059451520gmail-LPlnk566161" style="color:rgb(0,82,116);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:600;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12358</a></div></span></span></h1><div><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thanks. 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