Dr. Ochuodho, Congratulations are perfectly in order! Last evening, while attending to one of my "Juakalis" I got that info and was very delighted. What thrills me is the sacrifice some of you visioners have made to make some of these things work. As important as the symbolism of the code numbers assigned are, I am alive to the tribulations that the technical people and the kind of capacity building processes required to make this a reality. I am yet to see an Engineer and IT geek that is so committed, yet humble to work behind the scenes in difficult conditions to achieve results timely as you have! Congratulations again my senior for guiding this process! I do not want to believe that you did all this simply because they are your Luo brothers :)...As the commentator said, the code issue may look like a small things but to me as a communications facilitator, I very well understand what it takes/means to be shut out of Gateway-God forbid if such a thing was to happen. Anyhow, my understanding is that in about a month we should be able to permanently divorced from the 249! That gets me to wonder, how do we as Kenyans, recognize our heros? For me, this is a case I want to put to the NVK-M (at least the Juba Caucus) for consideration. Stay well bro, and God be with the Republic of South Sudan Silas --- On Tue, 7/19/11, Shem Ochuodho <shemochuodho@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Shem Ochuodho <shemochuodho@yahoo.com> Subject: [g47-kenya] Fw: ITU: Country Code 211 Officially Assigned to South Sudan To: "NVK-Mageuzi Members List" <nvk-mageuzi@yahoogroups.com> Cc: "Madaraka Party" <madaraka-kenya@yahoogroups.com>, "ProgressiveMinds" <progressiveminds@yahoogroups.com>, "NVK-Mageuzi Juba-Caucus" <NVK-M-Juba-Caucus@yahoogroups.com>, "NVK Youth" <nvk-youth@yahoogroups.com>, "G-47 Kenya" <g47-kenya@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 8:17 AM   Fyi!   Shem J. Ochuodho, MSc (Eng), PhD, LLD (Hon) Senior Advisor Ministry of Telecom & Postal Services Government of South Sudan (GoSS), Juba Commonwealth Telecom Organization (CTO/GoSS) 2010 African Internaut Award Recipient Kenya Community Abroad (KCA) 2007 Excellence Award Winner AfricaOnline 2005 Industry Pioneer Award Recipient Father of Internet in Kenya (Computer Society of Kenya - CSK 2000) Cell: +249-955-021-040/+256-477-232025/+254-725-016679 Skype: shem.ochuodho