Thanks Nanjira for this. Quite informative! I didn't realize this has been the journey. Wah!RgdsG
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:06:49 +0300 Subject: [kictanet] How Facebook Stumbled On Its Quest to Give Internet Away For Free From: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke CC: nanjira@ihub.co.ke To: ggithaiga@hotmail.com
For those still keen on this issue. Goes back to acquisitions of Snaptu and Onavo. Very interesting.
Memorable quote:
""You cannot present a marketing strategy as an important public policy in a country. If it's going to be a market strategy, then do it as a market strategy and we can deal with that. But when you mix it with the public policies, it's a whole world that opens that is not good."
What shall it be, for Kenya? Btw, technology neutrality is listed as a principle in the National Broadband Strategy...
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/how-facebooks-plan-to-give-the-world-...
Regards, Nanjira.
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