End of Net Neutrality?

Bernard

The answer depends on who you ask.

1. KITOS
2. TESPOK
3. ICTAK ( That of the ICT Practitioners Bill shame)
4. KICTANET
5. KEPSA

At this point your guess is as good as mine. Which brings me to the question why this case maybe. Why we don’t have an association that can engage Government meaningfully. We, all of us, have ourselves to blame. Each of us is so focused in their own little cocoons and speak with no single voice that the Mandarins and Apparatchiks at MOICT can and will continue to play around with our livelihoods.

Regards

Ali Hussein
Principal
Hussein & Associates
+254 0713 601113

Twitter: @AliHKassim
Skype: abu-jomo
LinkedIn: ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim

\”We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.\” ~ Aristotle

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> On 15 Dec 2017, at 7:24 AM, Bernard Kioko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thank you Ali.
>
> Reading your response has got me wondering, as an industry which organization/association do we use to lobby ?
>> On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 at 07:19, Ali Hussein <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Bernard
>>
>> We in Africa first need to acknowledge Net Neutrality as a concept. Today ONLY one country in Africa (Senegal) has even attempted to enact policy and regulation around it. We have ways to go.
>>
>> Kenya, with all our advances have turned a blind eye to it. We need to wake up. This list has consistently for the last 5 years talked about the need to address this issue from a policy and regulatory framework.
>>
>> We have been met with utter silence. The first time this issue was mentioned was in the defunct/dead as a dodo/aborted ICT Policy 2016. And we know (or rather don’t know!) what happened to that document.
>>
>> My take?
>>
>> The free for all, do what you want and we (regulator and policy makers) will just watch helplessly coz after all Net Neutrality is a foreign concept. We don’t understand it. And neither are we bothered. Let the Googles, Facebooks and Netflixes of this world fight it out with their FCC.
>>
>> It doesn’t affect us..
>>
>> Ali Hussein
>> Principal
>> Hussein & Associates
>> +254 0713 601113
>>
>> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>> Skype: abu-jomo
>> LinkedIn: ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
>>
>> \”We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.\” ~ Aristotle
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On 15 Dec 2017, at 6:30 AM, Bernard Kioko via kictanet <