Joly, Thanks for your observations. They indeed qualify for immediate attentions and corrections. To me, the imbalance is between the context & contents in regards to this reporting. The journalist maintained the maiden spirit of informing his target constituency even though the end product wasn't handled for inexpensive digest. Notably, these are some of the underscores that can easily translate into instant misinformation! Thanks David and Grace for your adds on this. Regards. @richard On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> wrote:
In my search online for mentions of the launch event, all I could come up with is
http://www.humanipo.com/blog/2926/Kenyan-chapter-of-Internet-Society-launche...
Author Kamau Mbote is to be commended in covering the event, however the article is somewhat mis-informative..
1) It lists IS as the acronym for the Internet Society. 2) It says "a global lobby group advocating Internet freedoms, is opening an office in Kenya this week" = not entirely accurate. 3) It doesn't make clear the relationship of George Kithi to ISOC-KE (and the link to the story is messed up - it is here<http://www.humanipo.com/blog/2914/CCK-monitoring-of-Internet-and-mobile-usage-unlawful-says-lawyer> ) while implying controversial statements are ISOC-KE policy. 4) It concludes- "Kenya joins the 193 Internation Telecommunications Union (ITU) member states in having an IS presence." - which is just plain nonsense!
Perhaps someone could contact Mr. Mobote and set him straight?
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