Liz, Bomu, Good to see some more research being undertaken around the issue! Penned this last week, based on the latest survey on privacy perceptions that I could find: http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/-/620/3135898/-/4cp715/-/index.html <http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/-/620/3135898/-/4cp715/-/index.html>

On 4 Apr 2016, at 15:24, kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke wrote:

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1. The future of telecommunications and why its here (Ahmed Mohamed Maawy) 2. Fwd: [Members] Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] FIRE Grants announce (Judy Okite) 3. Privacy in the digital age (Liz Orembo) 4. Ethiopia and the Technical Control of OTTs (Mose Karanja)

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Listers,

Recently we have had been talks about the implications of OTA and I had the opinion that OTA can not be a trend that can be rid of. I have put in an article to talk about this in more depth covering why the future of telecommunications is already here and why telcos need to pay more attention, instead:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/telecommunication-revolution-here-ahmed-moham...

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