Good people of the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet). I spelt out the name to bring out the philosophy of the network"Action". Unfortunately in the last few years we have not lived to the philosophy of the network and turned into an ordinary busy discussion list. The network gained its clout and reputation by actually taking on policy issues and inputing directly into them and presenting the network position paper/document to the relevant offices/officers followed by serious lobbying. This is how you can influence policy and make a contribution to the policy formulation of any government not just our GoK. If the network truly wants to make a contribution, and I don't mean criticizing everything that government does and what others are offering to do, the secretariat with the assistance of members needs to develop a position paper on the policy pronouncement based on the documentation provided for in the Jubilee Manifesto. The position paper should provide answers to the many questions being asked and provide recommendations of how this policy can be implemented. The draft can be circulated on this list for further input before it is presented to the relevant offices. A sub committee should then be formed and tasked with follow up and lobbying to make sure that the recommendations in the position paper are taken into account, or better still the position paper of turned into the "Government Policy" itself. As the madman of the list (aka Bobby Yaweh) said, Government works through documents, so to get their attention, create a document! Action 101. Harry Hare Director | African eDevelopment Resource Centre PO Box 49475 00100 | Nairobi, Kenya Tel +254 20 4041646 | Cel +254 725 650044 From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:37:06 +0300 To: Cio_Magazine Hare <harry@africanedevelopment.org> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>, "isoc@orion.my.co.ke" <isoc@orion.my.co.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] President Kenyatta secures Microsoft support for computers Agreed Bobby, Are you suggesting an occupy parliament sort of move *Hides*, Matogo's Strathmore offer sounds better maybe you can be the Master of Ceremony and Walu the Moderator any takers/suggestions for panelists?, i agree with the kind of energy demonstrated on the list there are many stakeholders itching to do something and we need a middle ground or a win win situation for that matter. Best Regards On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:28 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hi Barrack,
What we need is a 6 year old who is going to class 1 next year to perform an eloquent poem on what he/she expects when they arrive in class next year with their new electronic learning device (ELD)in hand.
It is unfortunate that even you have decided to take the side road, we have had months to take a position on this issue but as usual we have preferred +1s instead of actually doing something tangible.
What do we expect the President to do when he asks for help and the only people who come to his aid are Microsoft and elk. If you have not noticed the iPad disappeared on day 2 of his term in the same way that Obama's blackberry vanished, the President is and never was on this forum so to get his ear we must go where his attention is, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) has also vanished from this digital domain and gone to the analogue world where government lives and where only documents in hard copy are considered.
I like the way Dr. Ndemo scuttled discussions by insisting that we include the ministry and kie on John Matogo's initiative to host a discussion, John also made the error of asking for financial support of this forum, which has proven itself to be a tweet shop.
Regards
The show is not over until the plus sized person sings. (had to make it politically correct)
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenyag
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>; "isoc@orion.my.co.ke" <isoc@orion.my.co.ke>
Sent: Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 15:09
Subject: Re: [kictanet] President Kenyatta secures Microsoft support for computers
Walu,
I think its time we focused on other issues, seems this project is a foregone conclusion. We will take stock in 2017.
Best Regards
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
Whao!
When I grow up, I want to work for M$oft :-)
Sounds like they are concluding the deal to be on 1million laptops next year - as we are busy tweeting on what Software is relevant for pupils in Standard one. Read on @ http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Uhuru-secures-Microsoft-support-for-computers/-... 1056/1871904/-/7i517tz/-/index.html
walu.
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