unfortunate demise of Dr Juma Oketch. I believe we owe
him him a hello send off as kictanet.
/FYI
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Date: Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Subject: [ke-internetusers] Next week, Freedom of
Information law discussions
Folks,
There's a proposed law called "Freedom of
Information" and a Bill has
been prepared to that effect.
I understand this law will repeal archaic "Sirikali"
(Official Secrets
Act) and armed with it, you can demand information
you need from
government and it will be criminal for civil
servants to deny you the
information!
To help us understand the need for this law, its
genesis, the
implications, how it affects us and what its means
for Civil Servants,
government and companies, Chris Gitari and Peter
Gitonga both of
lead an FOI
discussion here next week. They are the experts so
they will
co-moderate the session as lay me from over here
deep down the
trenches contributes by asking questions like you;)
It is proposed be a 5-day discussion from Monday 2nd
February to
Friday 6th as follows:
Day 1 (Mon) - DEFINING FREEDOM OF INFORMATION & THE
PURPOSE OF A FOI BILL
Day 2 (Tue) - THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION & ACCESSING
OF INFORMATION
Day 3 (Wed) - APPEALS, OFFENCES, PENALTIES &
MISCELLANEOUS
Day 4 (Thur) - CASE STUDIES
Day 5 (Fri) - HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FREEDOM OF
CAMPAIGN
So prepare yourselves to find out about Freedom of
Information (aka
FOI) next week and we all ask them as many question
as we can.
Feel free to invite others to subscribe to this list
and to contribute
to the conversation.
Regards,
Alex
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