I totally agree with Walu. Something must be changed in our education system to allow for creativity and 'hunger' for additional knowledge in addition to 'drilling' the youth to pass exams. Rad has said that Kenya is leading in Africa on the use of Facebook! The question is - what information is being exchanged? Are the youth (graduates) aware that Facebook has other useful content in addition to socialization? Hmmm From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Walubengo J Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:13 PM To: [email protected] Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Africa's Absence From The Table i agree. its not awareness...i remember pushing another similar challenge from Microsoft, "Imagine Cup 2009" at Multimedia University. It got a serious mute response...i think our students from primary school are drilled to focus on and pass exams....anything that has little or no impact on their exam tends to be neglected. We seem to have failed to cultivate a culture of intellectual "activism" in our education system. When I was growing up we used to have something called "science-congress" where all high-schools would compete from district, provincial and finally national level to show-case their innovations. Not quite sure if this still happens... walu. --- On Tue, 11/17/09, Rad! <[email protected]> wrote: From: Rad! <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Africa's Absence From The Table To: [email protected] Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 11:43 AM I do not believe awareness is an issue. I recall reading some statistics some time back to the effect that Kenya is one of the heaviest facebook users in Africa. It is the same internet. Why are we unable to capitalize on it? The challange has been in the public domain for years! On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:29 AM, waudo siganga <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Rad! Is the awareness of such opportunities done? Maybe one needs to raise the alert before rather than after the horse bolts!? Kind Regards, Waudo -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: [email protected] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jwalu%40yahoo.com