As mentioned in previous email, today we have to tackle feedback from the two thematic areas - Human Capital and Infrastructure so that we can finalize tommorrow and consolidate further comments in time for the Friday 2nd for the Face2Face cocktail.

Feel free to comment on either or both, just keep the correct subject lines for easier processing.

The Infrastructure feedback was as follows:

a) 49% of the respondents felt that the quality of their communication service was adequate to a moderate extent. 29% felt it was adequate to a very large extent while 21% felt it was not adequate.

b) 45% of the respondents felt that the issue of infrastructure sharing (e.g sharing common data ducts) had not been achieved. 40% felt it had been moderately achieved while 13% felt it was achieved to a large extent.

c) 38% of the respondents felt that the cost of user devices (phones, laptops, etc) was to a moderate extent affordable and reliable. 30% felt they were to a large extent affordable while another 30% felt they were not affordable to a very large extent

d) 40% of the respondents felt that the digital migration has had a positive impact to a very large extent. 33% felt the impact was moderate while 15% felt there was no impact.

e) The following were some of the infrastructure issues that were not yet addressed.

Internet prices still too high, QoS should be standardized across all regions, Set-Top-Box for digital TV still expensive, No policy on Green Energy and e-Waste, Sections of rural Kenya still have no access, Have policy on Community Networks to support marginalized areas, Poor utilization of NOFBI, County wayleave permits too expensive,Lack of infrastructure sharing, Provide free Public Wifi hotspots,

Floor is open, we shall have upto mid-day tomorrow on both thematic areas.