Kenya : killing two birds with one stone
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2009
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
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The launch of the USD130-million East African Marine Cable (TEAMS) system in Kenya was as much a symbolic as practical event. It was symbolic on a number of levels, most obviously when Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki referred to it as a “nation-building” tool, a statement suggesting more than economic development, following on the country’s bloody election clashes last year. But it is also symbolic because it heralds the real dawn of 21st century connectivity; the beginning of a new converged communications landscape that the now outdated policy and legislative developments of the1990s have struggled to keep up with.
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TELECOM POLICY, TELECOM REGULATIONS, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT), ICT POLICY, KENYA, INTERNET GOVERNANCE, CENSORSHIP, BROADBAND