Folks, I quick post as food for thought..... We all all know that poverty is the worst form of violence. We discussed this more than 15 months ago proposing some ICT related solutions... <http://www.bdix.net/pipermail/ke-internetusers/2007-April/date.html> Hitting the nail on the head, January's "tribal clashes" were no more than a violent ventilation of crippling poverty only wrongly directed at the visible but wrong "enemy" - your neighbour. The real enemy is poverty and the weapon to fight it is global competitiveness. Starting by thinking outside confines of Kenyan borders. Full stop. To dismantle institutionalised poverty (infra)structure requires cool, calm, and collected cunningness. We cannot now rush to self-isolate ourselves and risk a second wave of western media coverage xenophobia. Again occupying every world newspapers front pages and dominating their TV screens. Tourists again afraid to come and further diminishing our global competitiveness poverty rising further defeating desired objective. It's not about Florence Etta. Have we fully considered how other foreign development friends (in education, water, sanitation, health, etc ) may now feel after this? How many they are, what would be the consequences? We should avoid rushed venting of misplaced wraths on our visible friends solely on "foreign", "residency status" etc. We should embrace new friends and ditch bad local ones to avoid making a bad situation even worse then look for new tangible enemies to blame. Let us make the meeting an internationally acceptable multi-stakeholders forum, that we presented kictanet as during "best practice MSFs" at last years IGF. I had the presentation somewhere, I will look for it hopefully post here... On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:42 PM, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
Dear all, It will be a great honour to host a stakeholders' meeting during the week of July 28th to kick off the ICT Policy review process. I note that some of you have strong views on our general economic orientation. This in my view may not be solvable easily.
We must look into our history in order to shape our future. First the facts: The policy of Africanization failed. The pursuit of Panafricanism is good for Africa (see what Anan, Adeniji, Krigler etc have done to us when we could not agree), Kenyans are playing a key role in many countries and we shall hurt them if we pursue isolationist ideology, Kenya has highly qualified people who can easily be MDs in communication industry and that will happen as it has already happened with KQ, all operators in this country have a local equity participation that can be reviewed upwards whenever Kenyans demand so and in the past we have had to review the policy downwards to get to where we are.
Will make more contribution on economic orientation later.
Ndemo
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