Hello The media cant regulate itself and the government cant regulate the media. An independent body must do it and must do it in a proffesional manner and not the ECK manner. Robert On Feb 13, 2008 1:49 PM, Harry Hare <harry@africanedevelopment.org> wrote:
David, neither the Government nor the Media Council should do this audit. It should be done by an independent research organization. The media council just like the ECK and other institutions have been too politicized to be objective and credible.
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*From:* kictanet-bounces+harry= africanedevelopment.org@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto: kictanet-bounces+harry=africanedevelopment.org@lists.kictanet.or.ke] *On Behalf Of *David Aduda *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:44 AM *To:* harry@africanedevelopment.org
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Dear colleagues,
Having followed the debate on the media audit, I'm convinced there is consensus that it's important that we review how the media handled the elections, before, during and after. That is perfectly in order. What's alarming is the insistence that the government should do it, whereas there is an organisation, the Media Council, whose mandate includes checking how the media operates with a view to protect the producers and consumers of news.We've expressed our views as media practitioners about our disdain for a governmental audit and Dr Bitange knows about that. Our suggestion remains, let MCK do the audit, otherwise we'll be accused of creating institutions just to kill them.
But it must be noted vilifying the media won't do when all of us know where the problem lies. It's human to take an easy route out of a crisis. The ministry of Information and Communications must not fall into that trap.
Finally, I associate myself with a view expressed earlier by one contributor, namely, moderation in this discourse.
David Aduda Nation Media Group
---------- *From:* kictanet-bounces+daduda=nation.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke on behalf of bitange@jambo.co.ke *Reply To:* bitange@jambo.co.ke *Sent:* Tuesday, February 12, 2008 5:36 PM *To:* David Aduda *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Fibre Optic Cables
We are working towards that. We need private sector to push these developments. Government is not good in business. We can only intervene to facilitate especially the small enterprises.
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-----Original Message----- From: "Eric Osiakwan" <eric@afrispa.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:22:38 To:bitange@jambo.co.ke Cc:KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Fibre Optic Cables
Nothing against all the big guns establishing in Kenya but what about a long term objective of building our own version of Akamai,googles, Limelights etc.
Dont forget the real winners in the knowledge era are those who produce their own not use others. So our long term objective should be to have our own alongside others because it is a free market economy.
Eric here
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com> Reply-To: michuki@swiftkenya.com Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:14:04 +0300
bitange@jambo.co.ke wrote:
Good news is that Etisalat (our partners in Teams) in conjunction with Akamai are building an Internet Point of Presence (POP) in Fujaira thus eliminating long distance needs for Internet in this region.
The long term objective should be to have the likes of Akamai, Limelight and google collocating their nodes in Kenya. This will essentially keep at least 50% of our Internet traffic local.
Regards,
Michuki.
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