It’s called regulatory capture!
Eric Aligula Magolo, PhD
Programmes Coordinator & Ag.
Head, Infrastructure and Economic Services Division
Kenya Institute for Public Policy
Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)
P.O. Box 56445, 00200 Nairobi, Kenya
Telephone: +254-20-2719933/4
Fax:
+254-20-2719951
E-mail: jairah@kippra.or.ke
URL:
www.kippra.org
Proudly Kenyan
“In the long history of the world, only a few
generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of
maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility……….I welcome it.”
John F. Kennedy
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good
men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"Far better to dare mighty things, to win
glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with
those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in
the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Ex Africa semper
aliquid novi"
From: kictanet-bounces+jairah=kippra.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+jairah=kippra.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Walubengo J
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
11:21 AM
To: Eric Aligula
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions
Subject: [kictanet] The broadband
mess in Kenya - and I’m so angry
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Kenya
is in dire need of investment in technology. That is why I am angry that the
factors hindering growth are actually "policy" related to this
sector, and not due to lack of innovators or investors. There are many
innovators and investors willing to take the challenge of helping Kenya come
out of the dark ages of narrowband and into the grace of broadband. The
problem rises from the differences between the Communication Commission of
Kenya (CCK) and other 3G service providers. There seems to be a great cloud
of varying information which hardly gets to the man on the street. The
unclear issues include the following: Stroy
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