Bitange for President? Reality-on Media
Dear P.S Ndemo, I would like to take you back to the question on media. The role played by media, mobile phone sms's, internet, (e-mail, blogs, websites, etc) during both the pre and post-election period in 2007-2008 is well documented, with media picking up and printing/broadcasting uncensored statements by politicians and sometimes government that amounted to hate speech, which helped to create the right kind of environment that exploded into our bloody violence, but also promoting good civic behavior, peace and human rights campaigns. Government has so far responded with various media related policies and the new constitution is set to radically change the environment within which media operates. But taking into consideration the ever changing nature of new technology and how it affects media policy and regulation, how would you ensure that policy and regulation keep up? -What has been the impact, has there been any additional policy/regulatory processes? -How would you/your government address this challenge (hate speech etc) if it were to occur again? Best Alice
Alice, For the first time since I started using Internet, someone has blocked my @jambo.co.ke address. I still cannot figure out what happened. My redundancy @information.go.ke is working. Let me respond to your questions in a roundabout way by narrating my experience this weekend. I went for gym at the club on Saturday morning. As I did my workout, a middle aged woman kept an eye on me. I sensed there might be something strange. As I walked out, she accosted me. She first apologized for taking my time and enquired if I mind talking to her. I said no problem. Following was our conversation: Woman: My name is xxx and work for an AIDs NGO. Have you ever heard of Swaggerific? Me: No. Woman: Then what are you doing at your Ministry? Me: Many things except that name you said. Woman: This is a dance that was introduced by a Jamaican Musician sometime in April and it is all pornography. PS I know during my time we rioted but this is not dancing. Do you have kids? Go check this on google. Are your kids teenagers? Me: Thanks for your information, we do regulate film but we are not the ones regulating or licensing Music. I will find out exactly how musicians are licensed on such performances. Woman: Do not tell me that. You are responsible for Internet. Go delete this rubbish from google. Kids are sending clips of this nonsense to one another. Me: I cannot cheat you that I will be able to delete this offensive content from google. You have a responsibility to take care of your children. I sense that no matter what I say here I am not going to make you happy. Woman: Dakitari listen. Please go watch that. They did it in front of innocent kids. They did it! By this time some gym goers were attentive wondering what our discussion was about. I sort of brought them into the discussion in order to free myself. It worked. Later I googled this new terminology swaggerific concert in Kenya. Even with my liberalist approach to life, it is baad. What should be our policy towards offensive content on Internet? While most conservatives may disagree with me, there is as much good in internet as there is bad. The difference is our approach to Internet. Parents should not allow unrestricted use of internet to minors. I am putting the burden on those close to children. Further there is nothing that young adults do not know. They will get over it as they grow older. This is the essence of freedom of speech. This however is moderated by the values that we instill in our children. You cannot pretend to manage hate speech through arrests. Let a value system evoke our natural conscience to deal with this. Our kind of hate does not run deep as in other countries to warrant censure of Internet. If we make sure that we equitably distribute our national cake, we shall avoid the 2007 crisis. By this I mean it must be seen that we all have equal chances of succeeding. I have done this before and I am capable of doing it in a large scale. On Media, we need to implement the broadcast regulations and the code that has already been developed. The hard part of coming up with a legal framework is over. Much of what the FMs were doing is what fed into internet and SMS. It is therefore imperative that we implement these regulations before 2012. I know we shall have a challenge with several court cases to be introduced in order to block smooth implementation but the power of the people is far much stronger. I will make noise when that comes and I hope I get the public support. I am confident that 2012 is a whole new ball game. We have several legislations that were not there in 2007. We have a new constitution that seems to mitigate against such eventuality. Regards Ndemo.
Dear P.S Ndemo,
I would like to take you back to the question on media.
The role played by media, mobile phone sms's, internet, (e-mail, blogs, websites, etc) during both the pre and post-election period in 2007-2008 is well documented, with media picking up and printing/broadcasting uncensored statements by politicians and sometimes government that amounted to hate speech, which helped to create the right kind of environment that exploded into our bloody violence, but also promoting good civic behavior, peace and human rights campaigns.
Government has so far responded with various media related policies and the new constitution is set to radically change the environment within which media operates. But taking into consideration the ever changing nature of new technology and how it affects media policy and regulation, how would you ensure that policy and regulation keep up?
-What has been the impact, has there been any additional policy/regulatory processes?
-How would you/your government address this challenge (hate speech etc) if it were to occur again?
Best
Alice
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Alice, The question of media is often a tricky one. In my view our media has greatly matured. Kenyans gave media freedoms and limitations in the constitution. No one should interfere with this. I will assume they are a responsible professional group. In any case as "President" I shall preserve and protect the constitution. Of course technology has its impact on any professional organization but it never negates rules of natural justice. In England for example where they do not have a prescriptive constitution like ours, people are being prosecuted for their tweets. If you recall in 2007, our diaspora brothers and sisters indeed fueled the crisis from their comfort zones. We hope this time around distance does not fool them to fuel a crisis at home. I am confident the social media will not be misused as it was in 2007. There are strict broadcast regulations that feeding broadcast from the social media shall lead to dire consequences. As a citizen I shall continue to ask media to be more analytical and do more research in order to build this noble profession. I am a bit disappointed that journalists do not interrogate political statement so that the general public can benefit. For example, when URP stated that they are running on family values. Good journalism demands that the term Family be defined. Other questioned should have included: What does family constitute? Is what they mean in consonant with the African values? Further when ODM stated that employment creation will be their platform. We need to know how employment will be created. Whether an experiment like Kazi Kwa Vijana constitute employment creation. What demonstratable experience we can latch on as prove of delivering these promises? Unless media helps us to get to the bottom of these promises, we shall find ourselves with empty rhetoric. From when I was little politicians promised roads, schools, water for all etc. But even today these promises remain a pipe dream. We have broken street lights that cannot be repaired because there is no trained electrician. We have broken sewers because we have no trained plumbers. We import chairs from Italy as we have no carpenters. We have broken medical equipment that we pay a fortune to get technicians from abroad. And more. In my own estimate we need 400,000 artisans if we need to be in middle income country. One of the greatest weakness of media is what they call news. In most cases news depends on the magnitude and how that even varies from the norm and of course timing. Take for example the unfortunate event at Village market. If the even would have taken place on January 23 (during the ICC ruling) it will not have been covered and all will be fine for Nancy. It so happened that Nancy was a very senior woman (a noticeable variance) in Kenyan leadership that some media may have tried to show that even women are equally as bad. Most men waheshimiwas have altercations with airport security but none has ever been pursued as the Village Market event. Media has not given this parallel so far. The same waheshimiwas with greater responsibility have threatened police with guns but it never gets that far. Do not get me wrong here that I am supporting Nancy. I am raising points that media (which brought out the issue) should have considered. Unless we do proper analytics, some of us may never understand the intricacies of gender discrimination. Our Media is still better than most. Let us continue to constructively criticize it for a better future. Ndemo. Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: Alice Munyua <alice@apc.org> Sender: kictanet-bounces+bitange=jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.keDate: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:59:33 To: <bitange@jambo.co.ke> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Reality-on Media _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/bitange%40jambo.co.ke The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
Alice, The question of media is often a tricky one. In my view our media has greatly matured. Kenyans gave media freedoms and limitations in the constitution. No one should interfere with this. I will assume they are a responsible professional group. In any case as "President" I shall
Well said Dr. Ndemo. Best Regards On Sunday, January 15, 2012, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote: preserve and protect the constitution.
Of course technology has its impact on any professional organization but
it never negates rules of natural justice. In England for example where they do not have a prescriptive constitution like ours, people are being prosecuted for their tweets. If you recall in 2007, our diaspora brothers and sisters indeed fueled the crisis from their comfort zones. We hope this time around distance does not fool them to fuel a crisis at home.
I am confident the social media will not be misused as it was in 2007.
There are strict broadcast regulations that feeding broadcast from the social media shall lead to dire consequences.
As a citizen I shall continue to ask media to be more analytical and do
more research in order to build this noble profession. I am a bit disappointed that journalists do not interrogate political statement so that the general public can benefit.
For example, when URP stated that they are running on family values.
Good journalism demands that the term Family be defined. Other questioned should have included: What does family constitute? Is what they mean in consonant with the African values?
Further when ODM stated that employment creation will be their platform.
We need to know how employment will be created. Whether an experiment like Kazi Kwa Vijana constitute employment creation. What demonstratable experience we can latch on as prove of delivering these promises?
Unless media helps us to get to the bottom of these promises, we shall
find ourselves with empty rhetoric. From when I was little politicians promised roads, schools, water for all etc. But even today these promises remain a pipe dream.
We have broken street lights that cannot be repaired because there is no
trained electrician. We have broken sewers because we have no trained plumbers. We import chairs from Italy as we have no carpenters. We have broken medical equipment that we pay a fortune to get technicians from abroad. And more. In my own estimate we need 400,000 artisans if we need to be in middle income country.
One of the greatest weakness of media is what they call news. In most
cases news depends on the magnitude and how that even varies from the norm and of course timing.
Take for example the unfortunate event at Village market. If the even
would have taken place on January 23 (during the ICC ruling) it will not have been covered and all will be fine for Nancy. It so happened that Nancy was a very senior woman (a noticeable variance) in Kenyan leadership that some media may have tried to show that even women are equally as bad.
Most men waheshimiwas have altercations with airport security but none
has ever been pursued as the Village Market event. Media has not given this parallel so far. The same waheshimiwas with greater responsibility have threatened police with guns but it never gets that far.
Do not get me wrong here that I am supporting Nancy. I am raising points
that media (which brought out the issue) should have considered. Unless we do proper analytics, some of us may never understand the intricacies of gender discrimination.
Our Media is still better than most. Let us continue to constructively
criticize it for a better future.
Ndemo.
Sent from my BlackBerry®
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Alice, The question of media is often a tricky one. In my view our media has greatly matured. Kenyans gave media freedoms and limitations in the constitution. No one should interfere with this. I will assume they are a responsible professional group. In any case as "President" I shall preserve and protect the constitution.
Of course technology has its impact on any professional organization but it never negates rules of natural justice. In England for example where
Dear Listers, Just catching up on the blog, been going through old mail and have been seeing how Kenya can be propelled to a middle income country, via ICT (ICT & Vision 2030), and of course going by the excerpts of the 'economists' on the list. Question: What is the definition of a Middle Income Country Today? Pamela (economic consumer) From: kictanet-bounces+pamela=cardiacimplants.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+pamela=cardiacimplants.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Barrack Otieno Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 7:25 AM To: pamela@cardiacimplants.com Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Bitange for President? Reality-on Media Well said Dr. Ndemo. Best Regards On Sunday, January 15, 2012, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote: they do not have a prescriptive constitution like ours, people are being prosecuted for their tweets. If you recall in 2007, our diaspora brothers and sisters indeed fueled the crisis from their comfort zones. We hope this time around distance does not fool them to fuel a crisis at home.
I am confident the social media will not be misused as it was in 2007.
There are strict broadcast regulations that feeding broadcast from the social media shall lead to dire consequences.
As a citizen I shall continue to ask media to be more analytical and do
more research in order to build this noble profession. I am a bit disappointed that journalists do not interrogate political statement so that the general public can benefit.
For example, when URP stated that they are running on family values. Good
journalism demands that the term Family be defined. Other questioned should have included: What does family constitute? Is what they mean in consonant with the African values?
Further when ODM stated that employment creation will be their platform.
We need to know how employment will be created. Whether an experiment like Kazi Kwa Vijana constitute employment creation. What demonstratable experience we can latch on as prove of delivering these promises?
Unless media helps us to get to the bottom of these promises, we shall
find ourselves with empty rhetoric. From when I was little politicians promised roads, schools, water for all etc. But even today these promises remain a pipe dream.
We have broken street lights that cannot be repaired because there is no
trained electrician. We have broken sewers because we have no trained plumbers. We import chairs from Italy as we have no carpenters. We have broken medical equipment that we pay a fortune to get technicians from abroad. And more. In my own estimate we need 400,000 artisans if we need to be in middle income country.
One of the greatest weakness of media is what they call news. In most
cases news depends on the magnitude and how that even varies from the norm and of course timing.
Take for example the unfortunate event at Village market. If the even
would have taken place on January 23 (during the ICC ruling) it will not have been covered and all will be fine for Nancy. It so happened that Nancy was a very senior woman (a noticeable variance) in Kenyan leadership that some media may have tried to show that even women are equally as bad.
Most men waheshimiwas have altercations with airport security but none has
ever been pursued as the Village Market event. Media has not given this parallel so far. The same waheshimiwas with greater responsibility have threatened police with guns but it never gets that far.
Do not get me wrong here that I am supporting Nancy. I am raising points
that media (which brought out the issue) should have considered. Unless we do proper analytics, some of us may never understand the intricacies of gender discrimination.
Our Media is still better than most. Let us continue to constructively
criticize it for a better future.
Ndemo.
Sent from my BlackBerryR
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Depends who defines it. This is what the World Bank uses: http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications On 16 January 2012 16:07, Pamela <pamela@cardiacimplants.com> wrote:
Dear Listers,****
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Just catching up on the blog, been going through old mail and have been seeing how Kenya can be propelled to a middle income country, via ICT (ICT & Vision 2030), and of course going by the excerpts of the ‘economists’ on the list.****
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Question: What is the definition of a Middle Income Country Today?****
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Well said Dr. Ndemo.
Best Regards
Alice, The question of media is often a tricky one. In my view our media has greatly matured. Kenyans gave media freedoms and limitations in the constitution. No one should interfere with this. I will assume they are a responsible professional group. In any case as "President" I shall
On Sunday, January 15, 2012, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote: preserve and protect the constitution.
Of course technology has its impact on any professional organization but
it never negates rules of natural justice. In England for example where they do not have a prescriptive constitution like ours, people are being prosecuted for their tweets. If you recall in 2007, our diaspora brothers and sisters indeed fueled the crisis from their comfort zones. We hope this time around distance does not fool them to fuel a crisis at home.
I am confident the social media will not be misused as it was in 2007.
There are strict broadcast regulations that feeding broadcast from the social media shall lead to dire consequences.
As a citizen I shall continue to ask media to be more analytical and do
more research in order to build this noble profession. I am a bit disappointed that journalists do not interrogate political statement so that the general public can benefit.
For example, when URP stated that they are running on family values.
Good journalism demands that the term Family be defined. Other questioned should have included: What does family constitute? Is what they mean in consonant with the African values?
Further when ODM stated that employment creation will be their platform.
We need to know how employment will be created. Whether an experiment like Kazi Kwa Vijana constitute employment creation. What demonstratable experience we can latch on as prove of delivering these promises?
Unless media helps us to get to the bottom of these promises, we shall
find ourselves with empty rhetoric. From when I was little politicians promised roads, schools, water for all etc. But even today these promises remain a pipe dream.
We have broken street lights that cannot be repaired because there is no
trained electrician. We have broken sewers because we have no trained plumbers. We import chairs from Italy as we have no carpenters. We have broken medical equipment that we pay a fortune to get technicians from abroad. And more. In my own estimate we need 400,000 artisans if we need to be in middle income country.
One of the greatest weakness of media is what they call news. In most
cases news depends on the magnitude and how that even varies from the norm and of course timing.
Take for example the unfortunate event at Village market. If the even
would have taken place on January 23 (during the ICC ruling) it will not have been covered and all will be fine for Nancy. It so happened that Nancy was a very senior woman (a noticeable variance) in Kenyan leadership that some media may have tried to show that even women are equally as bad.
Most men waheshimiwas have altercations with airport security but none
has ever been pursued as the Village Market event. Media has not given this parallel so far. The same waheshimiwas with greater responsibility have threatened police with guns but it never gets that far.
Do not get me wrong here that I am supporting Nancy. I am raising
points that media (which brought out the issue) should have considered. Unless we do proper analytics, some of us may never understand the intricacies of gender discrimination.
Our Media is still better than most. Let us continue to constructively
criticize it for a better future.
Ndemo.
Sent from my BlackBerry®
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In my view, you can tell if an economy is a middle income or not by checking the availability of toilet paper in the bathroons especially public toilets. There is a very high correlation of income and such essentials. In developing countries you hardly get toilet at it is stolen by the have nots. Kenya flip flops between low income and lower middle income status. That is why sometimes you get the toilet paper. The World Bank definition is too complex for ordinary people to understand. Take your own sample when you travel and for sure my model works. Ndemo. Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: "Pamela" <pamela@cardiacimplants.com> Sender: kictanet-bounces+bitange=jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.keDate: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:07:51 To: <bitange@jambo.co.ke> Cc: 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Reality-on Media _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/bitange%40jambo.co.ke The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
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Pamela