Dear all Below, the vision, mission and objectives for this year's Power Up with ICTs activities. Once again the Kenya ICT Federation is coordinating, which has received initial support from the Open Society Institute Eastern Africa (OSIEA) and the Embassy of Finland in Kenya. This year’s power up with ICTs will organise pilot ICT Policy and implementation related meetings at constituency levels. It is aimed at enabling communities to engage and invest in our government’s intentions stipulated in the ICT policy documents and E-government strategy as well to present opportunities for our ICT industry to serve ICT enabled development in various districts. These forums will also provide an opportunity to contribute informed input for the implementation plans for the ICT bill. A working group for this activity was formed during the last planning meeting. The group has fine-tuned the vision and mission developed by KIF, and is now working on developing this year’s programme as well as additional fundraising activities. KICTAnet Members of this group are 1. E-government directorate (Andrew Limo) 2. TESPOK: (Joseph Mucheru) 3. KIF: (Marcel Werner) 4. Summit Strategies (Muruiki Mureithi) 5. KEPSA (Kevit Desai) 6. APC/CATIA/KICTAnet Alice Munyua 7. AeRC (Andrew Karanja) 8. KICTAnet Secretariat (Evelyne Majale and Judy Kimiti) Comments/additions on the vision/mission and objectives are welcome. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- POWER UP WITH ICT 2006 Project/team Leader: Kenya ICT Federation Vision All Kenyan regions and all sectors of the society will participate in the information society and utilise ICTs to enhance equitable national development Mission To Stimulate application of ICTs among all citizens and to catalyse the ICT industry to serve Kenyans development needs Objectives (short Term) 1.. To promote usage of ICT based solutions across key socio-economic sectors. 2.. To stimulate interest in ICT applications by decision makers in key cities and towns.