--- 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------
>
>
> Summit
> Strategies Ltd
>
> ICT consulting and
> research
>
> Land
> mark Plaza 13th floor
>
> P O Box
> 62454 - 00200
>
> Nairobi
> Kenya
>
> tel +
> 254-20- 3673925
>
> Cell
> +254 722 520090
>
> email -
>
mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke >
>
www.summitstrategies.co.ke>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Inline Attachment Follows-----
>
> _______________________________________________
> kictanet mailing list
>
kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke
> http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet>
> This message was sent to:
benomnta@yahoo.com
> Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/benomnta%40yahoo.com
>
_______________________________________________
kictanet mailing list
kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke
http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet