<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hello Noah , </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">The govt has done well and continues to connect villages with the stima last mile project , the project has seen thousands of schools, remote towns and villages connected to the grid ,adding internet to the list of public utilities helps to drive need to have everyone connected to the grid and in the end making both universally accessible . </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Regards<br><br>Jeremiah Ngure<br></div><div>Telenet Solutions Ltd <br>+254721840146 <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 1:26 PM Noah 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">Is stima aka electricity universally accessible and affordable to even the poor and most vulnerable?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Like i said earlier, ICT infrastructure needs a lot of stima and for internet to be universally accessible and affordable the electricity needed to power up the silicon chips must also be universally accessible and affordable across each county and kitongoji.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If folks and their kids in kitongoji are still using candles and other rudimentary sources of power because they cant afford it or due to lack of it while folks in cities can easily access stima then the universality of internet becomes impossible if not discriminatory.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Noah</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, 10:13 S.M. Muraya 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">Hi Muthoni,<br><div><br></div><div>This also addresses the Senate query posted by Liz Orembo concerning how our industry can help with emergencies such as the pathogenic one we are in right now. Will try to summarize some thoughts in one <u>long</u> paragraph :) </div><div><br>Energy (to power the internet) is connected to water infrastructure (cooling data centres). Data centres (even in a single container) require physical planning (national & county level approvals always require kickbacks). County offices have been burning (arson - evidence destruction/ data protection). Schools are under counties, therefore ward level internet infrastructure (providers) also needs protection. Community policing (public participation) is required. Technology to enable public participation (including online learning) is not being prioritized until now. Local radio stations may be the most important but are not enough. Infrastructure to download recorded (digital) data should be available in all public schools. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.govtech.com/em/safety/Arson-Homeland-Security.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.govtech.com/em/safety/Arson-Homeland-Security.html</a> <br></div><div></div><div><br></div><div>Now think of all the on going criminal cases in Kenya relating to the above, sure to be delayed/destroyed in our courts. In this decade, will we "succeed" like in the past 5 decades in fighting AGAINST (transparency, education) in Kenya? Remember these 2012 threads? Bitange Ndemo at his best! </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/2012-January/015115.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/2012-January/015115.html</a> - enjoy - over 10 pages - clicking next "thread" <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 12:17 AM Dorcas Muthoni 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 dir="auto">Hi John, <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for mentioning the other pioneers I may have missed. Big thanks to them too.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards, Muthoni</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, 20:05 John Kariuki, <<a href="mailto:kariuki_jn@yahoo.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kariuki_jn@yahoo.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">Hi Muthoni, <div id="gmail-m_339649091259797316m_-6108109538114882318gmail-m_2930503531386093837m_-3945591418678213361yMail_cursorElementTracker_1586018999570"><br id="gmail-m_339649091259797316m_-6108109538114882318gmail-m_2930503531386093837m_-3945591418678213361yMail_cursorElementTracker_1586018944866">I agree with you on the need to consider Internet as a Public Utility. It is not difficult to implement it. It is not expensive either. Bundles will never fully meet users needs for internet service. Remember the cost curve of ICTs. Regarding the beginning of internet in Kenya in the early nineties, there was some work done by USAID (Leyland Initiative) lead by John Mark though not often acknowledged. Even more work was done by African Online. It is worth checking on it. </div><div id="gmail-m_339649091259797316m_-6108109538114882318gmail-m_2930503531386093837m_-3945591418678213361yMail_cursorElementTracker_1586019746132"><div id="gmail-m_339649091259797316m_-6108109538114882318gmail-m_2930503531386093837m_-3945591418678213361ymail_android_signature"><a id="gmail-m_339649091259797316m_-6108109538114882318gmail-m_2930503531386093837m_-3945591418678213361ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 20px"> <div style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(109,0,246)"> <div>On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 16:53, Dorcas Muthoni via kictanet</div><div><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding:10px 0px 0px 20px;margin:10px 0px 0px;border-left:1px solid rgb(109,0,246)"> <div id="gmail-m_339649091259797316m_-6108109538114882318gmail-m_2930503531386093837m_-3945591418678213361yiv6149672140"><div>Hi all,<div><br></div><div>This is an article I wrote recently: <a rel="nofollow noreferrer noreferrer" href="http://www.afchix.org/blog_post/internet-should-be-public-utility/" target="_blank">http://www.afchix.org/blog_post/internet-should-be-public-utility/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Happy to here your thoughts.</div><div><br></div><div>The regulatory framework needs to be future looking. The COVID-19 situation is bringing us back to the table to revise what we otherwise thought was reasonable use and penetration of the Internet in Kenya and across Africa.</div><div><br></div><div>Good time to revive like APC, KICTANET etc to revisit <span style="font-family:sans-serif">policy advocacy on universally accessible</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif"> and affordable Internet access. </span>Internet should be considered as critical as other services like water, electricity, sewerage etc.</div><div><br></div><div>We all know the school calendar is in total jeopardy and talks on having kids repeat 2020 on the table. </div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Universally accessible</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif"> and affordable Internet access is what will give us a continuity strategy for education and support telemedicine. These are some of the areas where growth must happen.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Regards, Muthoni</span></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a><br>Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/kictanet" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/kictanet</a><br>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/KICTANet/</a><br><br>Unsubscribe or change your options at <a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/kariuki_jn%40yahoo.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/kariuki_jn%40yahoo.com</a><br><br>The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. 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