<div dir="auto">Seems I may have been late to the party and started a similar thread.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Please ignore.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 16 Sept 2022, 07:05 Ali Hussein 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 dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Egline</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I beg to differ. It was an official account disguised as a personal account. There was NOTHING personal about what was being posted there. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I say that the Government needs an OFFICIAL POLICY on these issues. We have so much to rectify. To date, we still have Cabinet Secretaries and Senior Government Officials using Gmail and yahoo email addresses. This is a bigger issue than just social media.</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" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><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 face="georgia, serif" size="2">Ali
Hussein</font></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><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></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">Ali's Profile</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 Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 1:32 PM Egline Jeptoo 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="auto"><div>Hi Barrack,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Interesting conversation. In this context the deleted account was a personal account and not the ministry's account. As much as in they were posting day to day activities, it was a personal account and the Ministry account with previous activities and information is till active. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Next question arising from the comments on the Tweet would then be, with the Twitter accounts that are public property is it right to block citizens?</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 15 Sep 2022, 13:23 Watoto Watch Network 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="auto">Hi Barrack,<div dir="auto">I feel we might be a bit petty because...Is it a requirement in the first place to have a personal social media account if you are holding a particular position in Govt?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Lillian</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 15 Sep 2022, 12:55 Barrack Otieno 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Listers,</div><div><br></div><div>An interesting conversation is going on on Social Media following the decision by a Cabinet Secretariat to delete his Social Media Account. In fact a Senior Counsel has already weighed in on the <a href="https://twitter.com/ahmednasirlaw/status/1570270811164151813?s=48&t=CanZRu7f1CrD5Bk23aQneQ" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">issue</a>. Is there merit in the concerns being raised or are we being petty?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Barrack Otieno<br></b></div><div><b>Trustee</b></div><div><b>Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTAnet)</b><br></div><div><b>Skype:barrack.otieno</b></div><div><b>+254721325277</b></div><div><b><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrack-otieno-2101262b/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrack-otieno-2101262b/</a><br></b></div><div><b><a href="http://www.kictanet.or.ke" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">www.kictanet.or.ke</a></b><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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