If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck and swims like a duck... :-)

In today's complicated world however, where whole industries have been disrupted its more difficult to pigeon hole a company into an industry.. The loose definition is usually taken from the business model of companies - Say if more than 50% of your revenue comes from advertising space on your platform then you are a media company; from Software and Hardware then you are an IT/Technology Company; from voice calls/data a telco company etc. 

This however is the traditional definition hence why I'd agree with Zuckerberg in his assertions that whilst Facebook is a media company it's simply not a traditional media company.

So if we look at the local context I'd like to pose some questions:-

1. Which industry is Safaricom in? Media? Telecommunications? Banking? Entertainment? 

2. How about Equity Bank? Telco, Banking?

3. Wananchi? Media? Telecommunications? Content disruption? 

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On 4 Jan 2017, at 10:15 AM, Mildred Achoch via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Happy new year everyone,

This may be of interest:

"Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, appears to have finally conceded that the social network is a media company, just not a “traditional media company”."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/22/mark-zuckerberg-appears-to-finally-admit-facebook-is-a-media-company

Regards,

Mildred Achoch.

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