Eric M.K Osiakwan wrote:
> Oyi, i thought we had gone past this old school, not to be taken serious way of doing things......i hope he did not leave with the perception that Kenya is a closed remote controlled society.
> The Ghana episode is @
http://www.ghanaconnect.org.gh/sir-timothy-john-“tim”-berners-lee-meets-internet-community-ghana with photos @
http://gasconi.jalbum.net/TimBerners-%20Lee%27s%20Visit/ and videos @
http://www.ghanaconnect.org.gh/videos
> Eric here
> On 26 Nov 2009, at 07:58, Harry Hare wrote:
>> Actually sending media invites out then, decide mid-way that you don't need
>> the media but instead of saying so you send them in a wild goose chase was
>> totally unacceptable especially for an individual who believes in openness.
>>
>> The handlers did a perfect job on miss-handling the good Prof...sort of
>> defeatist if you asked me.
>>
>> Kindest Regards
>> Harry
>>
>>
>> On 11/26/09 10:35 AM, "michael Ouma" <
benomnta@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mr Mureithi:
>>
>> i still feel the rest of the media, i.e print journalists,
>>> were not given sufficient time to interview and seek views of Prof Barnes on
>>> saturday and during the whole trip.
>>
>> the first communication we'd from DFID
>>> was that there'd be a media briefing at 9am on saturday, then the time was
>>> pushed to 11.30am, then 12.30pm. then after Barnes was done with Jeff, the
>>> rest of us were only given 10 mins for our interview, 5mins of which were
>>> still spent on setting the ground rules for the interview like the number of
>>> questions to ask, how not to take photos and the like.
>>
>> as much as i agree
>>> that Jeff (K24) needed the almost 2hours he'd for his 'capital talk'
>>> interview, the rest of us should also have been considered, and the
>>> appropriate ans sufficient time accorded to us so as to enable us to also
>>> inform our readers about Prof Barnes visit to the country.
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>>>
>> Michael Ouma
>> Journalist
>> Kenya
>> Tel:+254-725-537823
>>
>>
>> "There are risks and
>>> costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks
>>> and costs of comfortable inaction," - JF Kennedy.
>>
>>
>> --- On Wed, 11/25/09,
>>> muriuki mureithi <
mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> From: muriuki
>>> mureithi <
mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke>
>>> Subject: [kictanet] Sir Tim
>>> Berners-lee web inventor on K24 Capital Talk on Monday 30th
>>> To:
>>>
benomnta@yahoo.com
>>> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions"
>>> <
kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>>> Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 11:59
>>> AM
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi
>>> all stakeholders of
>>> the web
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sir
>>> Tim Berners-Lee, the www inventor in 1989 and
>>> Time magazine
>>> member
>>> of 100 Most Important People of the
>>> 20th
>>> century
>>> honoured Kenya by a visit last week facilitated by
>>> KICTAnet. On
>>> the
>>> conclusion of the trip, he gave a wide ranging
>>> one-on-one interview
>>> to
>>> K24’s Jeff Koinange Capital Talk to be aired on
>>> Monday 30th
>>> at 2000
>>> hrs and 2200hrs. Make a date to hear first hand the
>>> inventor of the
>>> www.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In
>>> his itinerary, he met and interacted with the
>>>
>>> cross-section of Kenyan web
>>> stakeholders – government, parliament,
>>> academia,
>>> techies, industry
>>> and civil society. This was a fact finding
>>> mission to
>>> understand how his
>>> invention is being exploited. He also
>>> profiled Web
>>> Foundation (
www.webfoundation.org
>>> ) that he launched
>>> in
>>> Sharm el Sheikh IGF on 15th Nov,
>>> Web Science Research
>>> Initiative
>>> (
www.wsri.org) and clarified
>>> some
>>> of the outputs of www consortium (w3c)
>>> in
>>> standard setting especially
>>> for the virtually impaired.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> He
>>> met government officials led by
>>> Vice President Hon
>>> Kalonzo
>>> Musyoka, Permanent Secretary Dr Bitange Ndemo and
>>> CCK DG Mr Charles
>>>
>>> Njoroge among others over lunch, had an interactive session
>>> with
>>> Parliamentary
>>> committee responsible for ICT led by Hon Eng James
>>> Rege. He
>>> also gave a
>>> one hour lecture to the academic community
>>> (view the video
>>> lecture
>>> at
www.kenet.or.ke) and
>>> met
>>> Skunkworks at Strathmore
>>> University as well as
>>> TESPOK. A
>>> recurring theme was the
>>> opportunity
>>> provided by the www
>>> but can only be fully exploited by the
>>> development of
>>> content –
>>> just do it, put data on a web page and
>>> contribute to
>>> the growth of the
>>> web now estimated at 10 raised to power 18
>>> pages and
>>> growing rapidly.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From
>>> the high and mighty, Sir
>>> Tim went to the grassroots.
>>> First stop was first
>>> hand interaction with
>>> the virtually impaired at the
>>> Kenya Society of the Blind.
>>> Yes, the blind
>>> who constitute up to 3% of the Kenyan
>>> population need to
>>> access the web
>>> and software to help them is available both
>>> for the computer and
>>> the cell
>>> phones. According to the virtually impaired ,the
>>> cost was a
>>> barrier,
>>> good pc software cost about $500 while for
>>> the cell phone cost $300,
>>> and
>>> open source was not as good. Equally, most of the
>>> Kenyan web
>>> developers
>>> do not incorporate features for
>>> virtually impaired.
>>>
>>> In
>>> addition,
>>> Sir Tim saw applications of the web as a social
>>> intervention to
>>> create
>>> jobs, reduce crime and organise a neighbourhood
>>> by the excellent
>>> work by
>>> Kimathi Information Centre, and the
>>> power of the community radio
>>> to
>>> extend the power of the web to those in the slums as
>>> ably illustrated by
>>> the
>>> SIDAREC radio – Ghetto 99.9. To crown the visit
>>> to SIDAREC,
>>> he
>>> talked live on Ghetto 99.9 FM and praised
>>> the efforts of the
>>> SIDAREC to
>>> empower the poor with information.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> His
>>> visit comes at time
>>> when Kenya has just plugged into
>>> submarine optic fibres
>>> cables and a
>>> repealed Kenya Communication Act
>>> chaperoning Kenya
>>> to the information
>>> society era. From the many
>>> interactions in his
>>> itinerary it was clear
>>> that all sectors
>>> of the society are
>>> highly sensitised on the
>>> opportunities created by www
>>> and ways to
>>> exploit the web. The only way
>>> to honour Sir
>>> Tim’s visit is to ACT now.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Muriuki
>>> Mureithi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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