This is welcome and hope that both the agenda and programme will be shared onlist in advance to enable everyone best prepare for the meeting to be most fruitful. Our default assumption should be that the diaspora is interested. Recalling their sizable remittances, cultivating their goodwill and facilitating their hustle-free investment would solve some "localisation" challenges and exclusion perceptions. Wonder if Josiah Mugambi, Riyaz and team might be able to get skunkworks motives expressed then? --- On Mon, 7/14/08, Brian Munyao Longwe <brian@caret.net> wrote:
From: Brian Munyao Longwe <brian@caret.net> Subject: [kictanet] Kenya ICT Sector Stakeholder Public Forum (was Re: Legislation and Discipline & Ethics) To: alex.gakuru@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Monday, July 14, 2008, 6:39 AM Hi all,
We are proposing a Public Forum on Thursday 31st of July to be held at a suitable venue in Nairobi. The objective will be to provide all the different ICT stakeholder organisations within Kenya a chance to introduce themselves and their policies to the public.
There will also be opportunity to evaluate Kenya's ICT ecosystem, especially with regards to the different entities, their missions, roles and goals. As well as provide organisations such as KEPSA with an opportunity to share their view/vision on how they expect ICT sector input/engagement.
Formal announcement will be posted once details have been worked out, but in the meantime please pencil this into your schedules. We can also explore the possibility of an IP stream for the Diaspora... if there is interest in tracking this.
Warm regards,
Brian