<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Points well made!<br><br><div 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><br></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><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></a></span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></p><font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blog: <a href="http://www.alyhussein.com/" target="_blank">www.alyhussein.com</a></span><br></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</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 dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 27 Jan 2020, at 11:02 PM, Arya Jeipea Karijo <johnpaulem@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Nope not America - </font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I'm surprised they didn't make the cut for failed democracies.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I would consider Finland a normal country, maybe I would also add c<span style="color:rgb(29,33,41)">ountries that are way much smaller than Kenya - both in population and size (Estonia, Croatia and Slovakia are about a tenth of Kenya and Singapore is way smaller than a tenth)</span></font><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(29,33,41)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">But Croatia has 13 times more our GDP per Capita and Slovakia 17 times more and Estonia has 19 more times Kenya\s GDP per Capita - Singapore has 57 times more GDP per capita than Kenya)<br><br>But maybe I am biased - all these countries are led by Women Presidents/Prime Ministers. </font></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(29,33,41)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Halima Yacob, Zuzana Capatova, Kersti Kaljulaid, Kolinda Grabar. Sanna Marin. </font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">But if it was just about women I would mention Ethiopia with Sahle-Work Zewde - but I did not </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin-right:0.2ex;margin-left:0.2ex">😇</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin-right:0.2ex;margin-left:0.2ex">😇</span>😂<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(29,33,41)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(29,33,41)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">But by normal I mean countries that seem to really work hard for the well-being of their citizens - <br><br>Gaddafi's Libya back in the day might have made the cut or Thomas Sankara's Burkina Faso... </font></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(29,33,41)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Rwanda if they can find a way for sustainability and continuity of what they have under Kagame without him can make the cut.</font></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(29,33,41)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;color:rgb(29,33,41)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""></font></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px"><br></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>With kind regards</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jeipea</div><div><br></div><div>Believe in yourself then you can change your world</div><div><br></div><div>____________________________________________</div><div>Skype: john.paul.em</div><div>Cell: +254735586956</div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 12:35 PM Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke">ali@hussein.me.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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Arya</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">On a light note;-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">What do you consider 'normal' countries? Would you, for example, consider America more normal than Kenya? #Asking4AFriend. 😀😀</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
Hussein</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>T<font size="2">el: +254 713 60<font size="2">1113</font></font><br></span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Twitter: @AliHKassim</span><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span></font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>Skype: abu-jomo</span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span>LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"></span></a></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font></p><p style="font-size:small;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:georgia;color:black"><br></span></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span><br><font size="1">Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with.</font></span></span></font><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif;font-size:11pt"></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span>
<span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face",serif"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 12:18 AM Arya Jeipea Karijo <<a href="mailto:johnpaulem@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnpaulem@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">Well there was a "caveat" to the part about government control - it was in "normal societies" - Kenya isn't atypical in terms of governance 😊<br>I think it has worked well for countries like Estonia<br> <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>With kind regards</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jeipea</div><div><br></div><div>Believe in yourself then you can change your world</div><div><br></div><div>____________________________________________</div><div>Skype: john.paul.em</div><div>Cell: +254735586956</div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 3:45 PM Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.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">Well said Arya.<div><br></div><div>Couldn’t agree with you more. Except the part about giving government the control. How has that worked out for us so far? <br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">+254 0713 601113 </span></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">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><blockquote type="cite">On 24 Jan 2020, at 2:59 PM, Arya Jeipea Karijo <<a href="mailto:johnpaulem@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnpaulem@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Ali,<div><br></div><div>This is an interesting topic. I think there is two parts to this and that is how the issue should be addressed.<br><br>There is part one which is about Data Protection and privacy and you can't blame anyone for being alarmed at Google having access to 50 million patient records... the company literally has "made a living" out of having people giving up private data for convenience (including the email I am typing 😊)</div><div><br></div><div>The second part is what technology can do for healthcare (or really any other sector - education, registration of births and deaths) - being able to digitize all our multiple identities including identification, health records and associating this with other records such as land registry records, tax records, criminal records, school records, business ownership records) - the ability to store all this massive amounts of data in the cloud and manipulate it and learn from it (machine learning, A.I etc) holds great potential to improve lives of citizens... actually improve is an understatement - transformation is more appropriate.</div><div><br></div><div>But all this system of digitization of paper, digitalization of process should be led by someone who can be held accountable to citizens - in normal nations this would be the government. Having an entity like Google or Ascencion do the hard work means we have to be prepared to pay the price... same story having Mastercard do Huduma Number.</div><div><br></div><div>Then the final and ultimate step is that while government will be involved in all of the expense and resourcing (all the computing resources need for learning and storage should be gov. owned) the final ultimate step is that the citizen holds the keys and permission to use their data. E.g you would get a notification saying C.I.D are requesting access to your bank or tax data - or you would get a request when the building you enter make a request to receive a visual confirmation that the image their system has captured of you matches the name you gave them - and you would be asked how long they were to hold this data (1 hour, 1 day) - citizen empowerment to control and share their data is the ultimate data protection... empowerment only happens with adequate user education and open and simple user agreements.<br><br>Example of a bad way to digitize was the first attempt at "Huduma number" - ultimatums and deadlines to the holders of data is not a good place to start... a good place to start is to ask yourself "What do I already know about the entity (human being) whose records I am trying to unify and digitize... and then work with that.</div><div><br></div><div>- Oops I guess I went off topic. That is my ten cents on the matter.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>With kind regards</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jeipea</div><div><br></div><div>Believe in yourself then you can change your world</div><div><br></div><div>____________________________________________</div><div>Skype: john.paul.em</div><div>Cell: +254735586956</div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:34 AM Ali Hussein 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"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font size="2">Listers </font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font size="2"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font size="2">In the recent past cries of outrage have been heard from all corners of the world on issues related to privacy and the power of BigTech over our lives. </font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font size="2">Now BigTech is venturing into Healthcare with various initiatives from AI to how the healthcare ValueChain can be improved to bring down costs and make it more efficient.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font size="2">Google’s latest forays into @Healthcare is raising a lot of eyebrows. Are we becoming too cautious at the expense of possible groundbreaking innovation? What can we do to ensure we don’t throw the baby with the bath water? </font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font size="2"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><a href="https://local12.com/news/nation-world/privacy-or-innovation-googles-access-to-patient-health-records-sparks-controversy" target="_blank">https://local12.com/news/nation-world/privacy-or-innovation-googles-access-to-patient-health-records-sparks-controversy</a></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p><div dir="ltr"><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">+254 0713 601113 </span></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">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>_______________________________________________<br>
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