To those interested on catching up on the latest Freedom House's Intenet Freedom Report launch, watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3oiURFvhQU Grace Githaiga will be commenting via Hangouts. The global report, just released, is here: https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/freedom-world-2015#.VjDFKa4rLd... The Kenyan part is attached. On 14 October 2015 at 18:14, <kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

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1. Fwd: Freedom on the Net 2015 Report Launch (Mose Karanja) 2. Proposed Amendments to KICA in Statute Law Misc. Amendment Bill 2015 (Victor Kapiyo) 3. Re: Proposed Amendments to KICA in Statute Law Misc. Amendment Bill 2015 (Ali Hussein)

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mose Karanja <mosekaranja@gmail.com> To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Cc: Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:00:42 +0300 Subject: [kictanet] Fwd: Freedom on the Net 2015 Report Launch The Freedom House Internet Freedom report will be released two weeks from now. Our very own Grace Githaiga will be Hanging Out with the launch team. You can stream it live using the link provided.

Moses

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Freedom House <fhevents@freedomhouse.org> Date: 13 October 2015 at 20:48 Subject: Freedom on the Net 2015 Report Launch

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser <http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=i%2FBKfMSKmfV1J01VIDxA1I8qOD5HqIaT> . Freedom House Events *Freedom on the Net 2015*

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Victor Kapiyo <vkapiyo@gmail.com> To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Cc: Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:44:52 +0300 Subject: [kictanet] Proposed Amendments to KICA in Statute Law Misc. Amendment Bill 2015 Dear all,

Pls see below, link to the Statute Law Misc. Amendment Bill 2015, which proposes to amend several laws, including KICA.

According to the objects and reasons:

Kenya Information And Communications Act, of 1998 - Firstly to align it with the Competitions Act, 2014 in respect of the criteria for being a dominant market undertaking and secondly to harmonize the regulation making power so that it is exercised by the Cabinet Secretary in consultation with the Authority.

The Competition Act (No. 12 of 2010 - The Bill seeks to amend the Competition Act so as to clarify that the power to Prescribe, as specified in the Act is to be exercised by the Cabinet Secretary in consultation with the Authority.

http://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/pdfdownloads/bills/2015/StatuteLaw__Miscell...

Victor Kapiyo

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Cc: Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:00:23 +0300 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Proposed Amendments to KICA in Statute Law Misc. Amendment Bill 2015 Victor

Thanks for sharing. Even without reading the proposed amendments I raise a serious red flag regarding the proposed abrogation of powers that have to do with regulation to the executive. What then is the purpose of a supposedly independent CA?

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On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Victor Kapiyo via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

...

Dear all,

Pls see below, link to the Statute Law Misc. Amendment Bill 2015, which proposes to amend several laws, including KICA.

According to the objects and reasons:

Kenya Information And Communications Act, of 1998 - Firstly to align it with the Competitions Act, 2014 in respect of the criteria for being a dominant market undertaking and secondly to harmonize the regulation making power so that it is exercised by the Cabinet Secretary in consultation with the Authority.

The Competition Act (No. 12 of 2010 - The Bill seeks to amend the Competition Act so as to clarify that the power to Prescribe, as specified in the Act is to be exercised by the Cabinet Secretary in consultation with the Authority.

http://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/pdfdownloads/bills/2015/StatuteLaw__Miscell...

Victor Kapiyo

==================================================== *“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude” Zig Ziglar*

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