Hi Harry - Thank you for your initiative. As we follow up I think we need to first establish who is going to be the audience. Is it Kictanet list members, public, or who?. And if public how do we market? Defining the audience will help us to ensure we have an agenda that sufficiently interests them otherwise we may end up with an empty hall. As an indicator I noted that hardly 30 people from the list voted for the facilitator out of a list population of, I presume, over 500. So should we focus or broaden the agenda given the statistics so far?. Waudo On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:28:16 +0300, "Harry Hare" <harry@africanedevelopme nt.org> said: Dear Colleagues, Now that we have democratically identified a facilitator for the forum, can we collectively discuss the agenda of the meeting? This will help in making sure that we achieve what we want to do at the forum. So to begin with, I had floated some issues, so probably we could use the next few days to panel beat and come up with a concise programme for the forum. I reproduce the ideas I had floated earlier for you indulgence. Harry +++++++++++++++++ 1. Forum Objectives Clearly articulate the purpose of the forum and the expected outputs, this is important so that we can have a focussed discussion 2. Association presentations Brief presentations by the associations sharing their mandate, governance, objectives, activities, achievements, plans and membership composition 3. General Discussion Questions, Answers, Concerns etc raising from the association presentations@ 4. Way forward General discussion on how associations could collaborate and offer high quality leadership to the sector. Agree on joint activities that have a national appeal that can work as bonding sessions African eDevelopment Resource Centre eDevelopment House 604 Limuru Road, Old Muthaiga PO Box 49475 00100 Nairobi, Kenya Cel +254 725 650044 Land +254 20 3741646/7 [1]www.africanedevelopment.org June/July 2008 Training Opportunities VSAT Feild Eng. 18-20 June Supply Chain Management 24-27 June Fibre Optic Technician 1-4 July Knowledge Management 8-11July Space is limited Book Now! P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail References 1. http://www.africanedevelopment.org/ People make a plan work, a plan alone seldom makes people work (Confucius).