Hi Christopher,

Thanks for the report. 


Why are your reports set in standard-issue government style? The typography is awful: sans font, 12pt or larger, which makes continuous reading quite difficult, especially online; the tables with vertical lines; inconsistent bibliography styles; and so on. Almost every serious rule of effective communication in print is violated here.

It's one thing to find this sort of thing from the Central Bank (or some other equally staid part of government) but one would expect you guys to put out reports that have a passing acquaintance with the canons of effective communication in print: with Tufte (http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi) or Bringhurst (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style) or Butterick (http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?page_id=1300) or, indeed, with the sort of thing you can pick up by reading a LATEX manual.

For excellent recent government typography, the reports of New Zealand's Waitangi tribunal stand out, and I've attached one of them to this email. I'm sorry to pick on you --- and I have a spare copy of Bringhurst, if you'd like one -- but I read the report; my eyes bled; and it occurred to me that there was no real reason for you not to do better than this.

Regards,


Daniel Waweru,
26 Hai Phen,
Bodoni, 
Caissa Superiore,
Republic of San Serriffe



On 11 January 2013 16:33, Wambua, Christopher <Wambua@cck.go.ke> wrote:

Grace/Listers,

 

Unless I am wrong,  the report that you are referring to is available on our website at http://www.cck.go.ke/about/downloads/Transition_2007.pdf

 

Initially, the simulcast period was envisaged to end in June 2012. However due to delays in the deployment of signal distribution infrastructure and unavailability of set top boxes in adequate quantities in the local market, the simulcast period was extended to December 31st, 2012.

 

Best regards,

 

Christopher Wambua

Manager/Communications

Consumer and Public Affairs Division

Communications Commission of Kenya

P.O. Box 14448, NAIROBI 00800

KENYA

 

 

 

From: kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+wambua=cck.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Grace Githaiga
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 3:17 PM
To: Wambua, Christopher
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] Digital migration and mass ignorance

 

Henry

No, I do not have the plan. However,  I remember reading about the end of the simulcast period either in the first report done by the committee appointed to look into the matter, or there must have been some information in the press advertised by the digital migration secretariat. Further, the report had talked of how the frequencies would be handled. There was clearly a plan in place. Maybe CCK could share it. 

Rgds

GG

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> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:07:57 +0000
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> Grace
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> Thanks. Do you have a copy of the plan. Does it make clear which frequencies are going to be set aside for TV and radio (public, private and community), security, aviation? Please share.
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> Thanks Henry.
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> I thought the simulcast period is over? Cant quite remember but there was a plan that had been released and CCK may have been following it considering the switch off was meant to happen last year.
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> Rgds
> GG
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