Joly,<br><br>Thanks for your observations. They indeed qualify for immediate attentions and corrections. <br><br>To me, the imbalance is between the context &amp; contents in regards to this reporting. The journalist maintained the maiden spirit of informing his target constituency even though the end product wasn&#39;t handled for inexpensive digest. Notably, these are some of the underscores that can easily translate into instant misinformation!<br>
<br>Thanks David and Grace for your adds on this.<br><br>Regards.<br><br>@richard<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Joly MacFie <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com" target="_blank">joly@punkcast.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br>In my search online for mentions of the launch event, all I could come up with is<br><br><a href="http://www.humanipo.com/blog/2926/Kenyan-chapter-of-Internet-Society-launches-this-week" target="_blank">http://www.humanipo.com/blog/2926/Kenyan-chapter-of-Internet-Society-launches-this-week</a><div>


<br></div><div>Author Kamau Mbote is to be commended in covering the event, however the article is somewhat mis-informative..</div><div><br></div><div>1) It lists IS as the acronym for the Internet Society.</div><div>

2) It says &quot;a global lobby group advocating Internet freedoms, is opening an office in Kenya this week&quot; = not entirely accurate.</div><div>3) It doesn&#39;t make clear the relationship of George Kithi to ISOC-KE (and the link to the story is messed up - it is <a href="http://www.humanipo.com/blog/2914/CCK-monitoring-of-Internet-and-mobile-usage-unlawful-says-lawyer" target="_blank">here</a> ) while implying controversial statements are ISOC-KE policy.</div>


<div>4) It concludes- &quot;Kenya joins the 193 Internation Telecommunications Union (ITU) member states in having an IS presence.&quot; - which is just plain nonsense!</div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:21px"><br>


</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:21px">Perhaps someone could contact Mr. Mobote and set him straight?</span></font></div>


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