April 2006 - KICTANet

Fw: Summary rpt M&E Kenya
by alice＠apc.org 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Dear all The DFID CATIA team was in the country last week. They conducted interviews with a diverse group of people regarding KICTANet and how effective the network has been in the policy process. Find attached the report. thank you and best regards alice

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inclusion on mailing list
by gathuri njorohio 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Kindly lnclude me in the mailing list I would like to participate in future forums. Eng. njorohio Info highway consultants --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.

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Fw: [ipdet] Fw: Competition for Travel Awards to CES Conference
by alice＠apc.org 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Apologies for cross posting --------------------------------------------------------- Competition for Travel Awards to Canadian Conference in June: Deadline 25 April 2006 The African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) in collaboration with the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) may be in a position to award a limited number of grants to African evaluators to attend the CES Conference in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada from June 4th to 7th 2006 (see www.evaluationcanada.ca and follow link on left to Conference 2006). AfrEA and CES are seeking a mixture of experienced evaluators who can speak with authority on evaluation issues in Africa, and new evaluators who can benefit from the exposure of interacting with other evaluators from another continent. The awards would cover the costs of conference and workshop registration, air travel, accommodation, meals, incidentals, transportation to the airport, and visas. IF you adhere to the following criteria, we invite you to apply: 1. You live in one of CIDA?s 14 eligible African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania or Zambia; 2. You are an evaluation specialist or a post-graduate student in a field relevant to M&E, and with an interest in pursuing a career in evaluation; 3. You are able to arrange for the necessary travel documents in time (approval will only be given in early May); 4. You have the ability to function in English or French (please note: the majority of the conference will be in English); 5. You do not have any other source of funds to attend the Conference; 6. You can commit to actively participating in all aspects of the Conference program and are open to sharing your perspectives at the Conference on evaluation in your region in Africa; 7. You will participate in a workshop to plan for further CES/AfrEA collaboration; and 8. You will share your experience with others upon your return home. Follow the link to download the Application Form http://c2006.evaluationcanada.ca/index.cgi?s=8&ss=1&_lang=en. Please complete the form with all the requested details, and attach any supporting documentation. YOUR APPLICATION MUST BE SUBMITTED TO admin(a)afrea.org AND travel_award(a)evaluationcanada.ca by 25 April 2006. No late applications will be accepted. All successful applicants will be notified in early May. A travel agent will assist in making arrangements. Most delegates will arrive in Charlottetown by Saturday, June 3rd and depart Friday, June 9th. --- --- You are currently subscribed to ipdet as: alice(a)apc.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-ipdet-5022085V(a)lists.worldbank.org

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Fw: [alac] Africa Position Paper on Internet growth through content
by alice＠apc.org 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Would be interesting to know what mistakes made in North America in 1960s and how they were addressed. Would be interesting to know what mistake 'they' made in North America in 1960s and how this addressed it. The desire by AfrISPA is not just more bandwidth but use-value for internet, relevant content addresses the use-value of the internet as illustrated in the paper Muriuki Mureithi > > The major mistake was to assume that the most important use of the net was > to distribute content from a relatively small set of sources out to the > masses, and that the masses would pay for the privilege. In fact, people > put a much higher value on one-to-one or one-to-few communication, and the > number of content providers that successfully sell information can be > counted on your fingers. > > If you look at the history of web portals, early on they tried to present > collections of exclusive content, all failing miserably except for a > handful like the Wall Street Journal which already had vast amounts of > high-quality proprietary material. The most successful portal I know, My > Yahoo, offers its own content but also permits you to integrate any other > source that has an RSS feed, which I think most users do. On my My Yahoo > page, it's about 1/3 Yahoo's content, 2/3 from other sources. > > On the other hand, putting existing off-line content on the net has often > been very successful. Governments have put everything from tax forms to > departmental phone books on-line, which is great. If you are worried > about content, I would suggest concentrating on getting existing off-line > content onto the web, rather than trying to generate new material. Don't > expect the users to pay for it, so the first place to look for funding is > from savings on material that would otherwise have to be distributed by > more expensive means, and material that is directly of high value to > users, e.g., commodity prices to farmers. > > Also, for anything that has multiple chunks of information updated from > time to time, e.g., anything even vaguely blog-shaped, make sure that it > has RSS and Atom available so users can monitor it any way they want. > Don't waste time building blog hosting or blog aggregating sites, since > they are already widely available and an African one would be just like an > American or European one except perhaps for translating the messages into > local languages which they can already do. Maybe you can get Google to > put a blogger.com site in Africa to speed up access for African users. > > Regards, > John Levine, johnl(a)iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for > Dummies", > Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor > "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.

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Re: [Kictanet] Minutes KICTAnet Planning meeting March 20, 2006 held at the jacaranda hotel
by Wainaina Mungai 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

I agree. The new structure is great and bound to be more effective. All the best to the team. Regards --- Wainaina Mungai http://www.madeinkenya.org SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. > -------Original Message------- > From: Bill Kagai <billkagai(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Kictanet] Minutes KICTAnet Planning meeting March 20, 2006 held at the jacaranda hotel > Sent: 07 Apr '06 11:39 > > Very Good Minutes!!! > Explore ways of getting Kictanet members to contribute to the > acivities...but...so far so good. > > -- > -- > With Kind Regards, > Bildad Kagai > MD - Circuits & Packets Communications Ltd > Suite B2, Tetu Apartments, State House Avenue > P. O. Box 20311 - 00200 > Nairobi, Kenya > Tel. 254 20 2728332 > Fax. 254 20 2726965 > Cell. 254 722 379409 > E. bill(a)circuitspackets.co.ke > URL. www.circuitspackets.co.ke > > > On 4/7/06, alice(a)apc.org <alice(a)apc.org> wrote: > > Dear All > > > > Find attached minutes of the March 20th meeting held at the jacaranda hotel. > > > > > > regards > > alice > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > kictanet mailing list > > kictanet(a)kictanet.or.ke > > http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet > > > > Please unsubscribe or change your options at http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/billkagai%40gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > kictanet mailing list > kictanet(a)kictanet.or.ke > http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet > > Please unsubscribe or change your options at http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/wainaina%40madeinkenya.org >

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Re: [Kictanet] Minutes KICTAnet Planning meeting March 20, 2006 held at the jacaranda hotel
by Wainaina Mungai 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

I agree. The new structure is great and bound to be more effective. All the best to the team. Regards --- Wainaina Mungai http://www.madeinkenya.org SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. > -------Original Message------- > From: Bill Kagai <billkagai(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Kictanet] Minutes KICTAnet Planning meeting March 20, 2006 held at the jacaranda hotel > Sent: 07 Apr '06 11:39 > > Very Good Minutes!!! > Explore ways of getting Kictanet members to contribute to the > acivities...but...so far so good. > > -- > -- > With Kind Regards, > Bildad Kagai > MD - Circuits & Packets Communications Ltd > Suite B2, Tetu Apartments, State House Avenue > P. O. Box 20311 - 00200 > Nairobi, Kenya > Tel. 254 20 2728332 > Fax. 254 20 2726965 > Cell. 254 722 379409 > E. bill(a)circuitspackets.co.ke > URL. www.circuitspackets.co.ke > > > On 4/7/06, alice(a)apc.org <alice(a)apc.org> wrote: > > Dear All > > > > Find attached minutes of the March 20th meeting held at the jacaranda hotel. > > > > > > regards > > alice > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > kictanet mailing list > > kictanet(a)kictanet.or.ke > > http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet > > > > Please unsubscribe or change your options at http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/billkagai%40gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > kictanet mailing list > kictanet(a)kictanet.or.ke > http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet > > Please unsubscribe or change your options at http://kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/wainaina%40madeinkenya.org >

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Re: [Kictanet] KICTANet Proposed Logo
by John Walubengo 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

looks cute. walu. >>> <alice(a)apc.org> 04/07/06 11:56AM >>> Dear all Early this year there was a KICTANet logo competition. The jury selected the attached. best regards alice

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Fw: [alac] Africa Position Paper on Internet growth through content
by alice＠apc.org 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

AFRISPA, More comments on your intrenet report. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John R Levine" <johnl(a)iecc.com> To: <alice(a)apc.org> Cc: "ALAC" <alac(a)icann.org> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [alac] Africa Position Paper on Internet growth through content >> Primarily their interest is driven by the value of content >> that they locate which is relevant to their lives and business. > > That's surprising. Here in the U.S., despite the myth that "content is > king" the reality is that what people are willing to pay for is person to > person communication. See, for example > http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_2/odlyzko/ > > Regards, > John Levine, johnl(a)iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for > Dummies", > Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor > "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.

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Fw: [alac] Africa Position Paper on Internet growth through content
by alice＠apc.org 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hi All, especially AFRISPA folks, Comments on your "strategies for increased internet growth" report from ALAC ICANN members alice ----- Original Message ----- From: "John L" <johnl(a)iecc.com> To: <shahshah(a)irnic.ir> Cc: <alice(a)apc.org>; "ALAC" <alac(a)icann.org> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [alac] Africa Position Paper on Internet growth through content >> Well it isn't so clear that a statistical study was done. This seems to >> be >> a call by African ISPs for what they consider important. They may be >> advocating more use of Internet for educating and informing, or a call >> for >> 'content' may just mean a desire for more 'bandwidth'. Further, because >> so >> much of email is web-based, it is hard to differentiate. > > I can't tell from the report what they consider important either. > > I just hope they're not repeating the mistakes we made here in North > America in the 1990s. > > Regards, > John Levine, johnl(a)iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for > Dummies", > Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor > "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.

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Fw: VACANCY: Information & Networking Officer - BRIDGE gender and development programme
by alice＠apc.org 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING - please circulate widely VACANCY: Information & Networking Officer (Ref 140) BRIDGE gender and development programme The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is a leading centre of research, teaching and communications on international development issues. BRIDGE is an innovative gender and development research and communications unit within IDS that supports policymakers and practitioners with accessible and diverse gender information. We now need to recruit a talented and highly motivated individual to join this groundbreaking team. The successful candidate will take responsibility for the continued evolution of our electronic information strategy - in particular the development of the Siyanda website (please visit www.siyanda.org) Siyanda offers: a comprehensive database of summaries and links to gender materials from across the world; a database of gender experts; and opportunities for networking with colleagues. You must have an excellent knowledge of internet-based information systems along with a strong background in gender and development issues, debates, information and networks. Your experience of building networks of partner organisations through electronic means will ensure Siyanda remains relevant and vibrant. In turn, you will demonstrate the competence to identify and develop information strategies, for both on- and offline communication. Starting salary: £20,044 - £25,565 (depending on experience) Closing Date: Thursday 4 May 2006 (12.00 GMT) Interview date: 23 and 24 May 2006 OFFICIAL APPLICATIONS FORMS ONLY, CVs will not be accepted For further information and to download an application form please log on to http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/recruit/index.html Alternatively to receive a hard copy please email Human Resources, hr(a)ids.ac.uk Or call our confidential answer phone 01273-678682 [Int +44 1273] Human Resources Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9RE, UK We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of sex, race, religion or religious beliefs, disability, HIV/AIDS, sexual orientation and age. Paola Brambilla Communications Assistant/Consultant BRIDGE Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex Brighton, BN1 9RE email: P.Brambilla(a)ids.ac.uk <mailto:P.Brambilla@ids.ac.uk> Visit our websites! http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/ <http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/> to download our Bridge reports http://www.siyanda.org/ <http://www.siyanda.org/> for a great range of gender focused development material ______________________________________________________________________ This message is for the addressee only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of IDS. Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE Tel: +44 (0)1273 606261; Fax: +44 (0)1273 621202 IDS, a charitable company limited by guarantee: Registered Charity No. 306371; Registered in England 877338; VAT No. GB 350 899914 --- You are currently subscribed to inbrief as: alice(a)apc.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-inbrief-325803F(a)lyris.ids.ac.uk

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