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The Kenya Communications (Amendment) Bill, and by extension the Amendment Act, 2008 has for a while variously been misrepresented as the “Media Bill”. In fact, there is a Media Act contained in the Constitution, passed in 2007.

In Brief

The Act mainly establishes the Media Council of Kenya. It describes its membership, functions and powers. Within the Council, a Complaints Commission is established which deals with filed complaints against media entities.

What does it stipulate? Continue reading

It’s about that time of the year again when reviews of the Best Of are carried out. Lifehacker has the rundown of the most popular and, most importantly, free apps for Windows PCs. Check it. You just might find that app you’ve always been looking for.

Here are three posts that I’d recommend for your reading today:

Erik Hersman opens up a discussion on building of mobile apps in Africa, offering his thoughts on what people should know when considering building mobile phone services or produts in Africa. You are encouraged to contribute! Ken Banks also had an excellent article on this topic any serious mobile app developer should read.

It has been an eventful year in tech and Appfrica has a great editorial round-up of the Top Ten events in 2008 that defined this year in African technology. Read what you missed out on or recount the most memorable, including Ushahidi and Obama’s use of technology.

Lastly, GigaOm has some eye-candy showing the globalization of the internet through deployment of fibre optic networks.