<div dir="auto">Congratulations to Dr. Ndemo <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I highly applaud this appointment and Daktari's destination in particular, Brussels. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">While I recognise the posting is to the Kindom of Belgium and Luxembourg, Brussels is also the "seat" of the EU. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">At at a time when very crucial Tech & Digital Rights legislations are being negotiated there, Daktari is the right person to be in Brussels to gather policy and regulatory insights that we will need to import here. I have in mind the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, the AI Act, the transatlantic Trade and Technology Council negotiations particularly on international data transfers, semiconductor technologies and so on.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">All these are policies we will have to implement here sooner rather than late. We need such an ICT evangelist there.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Congratulations once again.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">JG Mbugua </div><div dir="auto">@jgmbugua </div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 24 Apr 2022, 13:49 Barrack Otieno 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Congratulations <a class="gmail_plusreply" id="m_-5117588846578314513plusReplyChip-0" href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">@bitange@jambo.co.ke</a> , all the best in the new posting.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 1:38 PM Ali Hussein 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: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-family:georgia,serif">Wash</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Thank you for posting this. I can confirm that we at KICTANet didn't abandon him and we continued to engage with him throughout. 😀</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Congratulations Ambassador/Prof Bitange Ndemo. Well deserved. Brussels being the seat of the EU this is a plum posting and very well deserved. As we say in Kiswahili:-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Kongole (congratulations) Kaka!! </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 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 size="2" face="georgia, serif">Ali
Hussein</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><span>Fintech | </span>Digital Transformation</font></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" rel="noreferrer">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span><a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><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><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 4:10 PM Odhiambo Washington 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">Listers,</span><div><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">I believe it is in order to congratulate one of us on his deserving appointment.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. BITANGE NDEMO has finally landed a government appointment as Kenya's new ambassador to Brussels-Belgium.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr.NDEMO said after he was sacked as PS by the Jubilee govt in 2013 many of his friends deserted him.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(5,5,5);font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">He added that he used to receive about 40 calls in a day but none was forthcoming until he thought his cellphone was defective and took it to a fundi :-)</span></div><div><font face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#050505"><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color="#050505"><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Ndemo did not abandon KICTANet even after he was abandoned by his friends after he lost his govt job.<br clear="all"></span></font><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Best regards,<br>Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br>Nairobi,KE<br>+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223<br>"<span style="font-size:12.8px">Oh, the cruft.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">", </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">egrep -v '^$|^.*#' </span><span style="background-color:rgb(34,34,34);color:rgb(238,238,238);font-family:"Lucida Console",Consolas,"Courier New",monospace;font-size:13.6px">¯\_(ツ)_/¯</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> :-)</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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