Just wondering, isn't it time we started recognizing our own in the IT fora, instead of awaiting for the foreign accolades. Apparently,- and I suppose I speak for many on the list, that it's now when we seem to be getting to know what those ahead of us have done. Let's be enlightened. Shem, let's know when the book is out. I for one, remember working somewhere and operating a 9.6kbps Link to MCI, as an intern and it was a really amazing connection. Harry _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Catherine Adeya Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 5:55 PM To: [email protected] Cc: 'Madaraka Party'; 'NYCIV Group'; 'PICTA Kenya-LIst'; 'ProgressiveMinds'; 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions' Subject: Re: [kictanet] Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world (was Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion - December 21-23rd, 2010) ....Walu...so that is how old you are? Well around the same time I was back in Kenya conducting fieldwork for my PhD studies and I kind of reached a dead-end. Someone suggested that I should meet one Shem Ochuodho as he was definetly on the cutting edge of many issues to do with ICT4D. That meeting was the turning point for my PhD...Shem you certainly deserve the honour due to you. I dare add that the great things you did then were slightly overshadowed when you took a plunge into politics.......but that is another matter. This recognition took a while but for what you did then....it is well deserved. Nyaki --- On Tue, 12/14/10, Walubengo J <[email protected]> wrote: From: Walubengo J <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world (was Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion - December 21-23rd, 2010) To: [email protected] Cc: "'Madaraka Party'" <[email protected]>, "'NYCIV Group'" <[email protected]>, "'PICTA Kenya-LIst'" <[email protected]>, "'ProgressiveMinds'" <[email protected]>, "'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 2:35 PM True, ...around the same time in '95, i was a young lecturer at the then Strathmore College (oops, now you know am so old ;-) when Shem literally came to show off "the Internet" to the College students and staff. That afternoon, the Library was converted into an auditorium and Shem had his 2hrs of fame - proudly beaming the graphical internet (through netscape) as he browsed through sites in the US to over 200 curious student and faculty community. walu. --- On Tue, 12/14/10, Harry Karanja <[email protected]> wrote: From: Harry Karanja <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world (was Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion - December 21-23rd, 2010) To: [email protected] Cc: "'Madaraka Party'" <[email protected]>, "'NYCIV Group'" <[email protected]>, "'PICTA Kenya-LIst'" <[email protected]>, "'ProgressiveMinds'" <[email protected]>, "'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 5:05 PM Daktari, that's the name I came to know you by, courtesy of reading your emails on the internet. It was 1995, and my father had just signed up to your fledgling new ISP from all the way in Njoro, Nakuru. We used the DOS interfaced email to keep in touch with family abroad and would enjoy the daily snippets of news you'd send. As one of three internet connections in the whole of Nakuru district, we had all sorts of visitors coming to use the internet from my dad's bedroom J
From that introduction to the internet I've never looked back, and the internet has become my source of livelihood.
Thanks Daktari. Harry Karanja n Director n SoftLaw Limited n Genius Executive Centre n 15th Floor View Park Towers n Utalii Lane n Nairobi CBD n Tel: +254 20 342 225 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shem Ochuodho Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 12:05 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Madaraka Party; NYCIV Group; PICTA Kenya-LIst; ProgressiveMinds; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: [kictanet] Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world (was Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion - December 21-23rd, 2010) Madada Philo na Betty, Ahsanteni for the pongezi's. It was re-freshening to know the CTO (Commonwealth Telecom Organization www.cto.int) domiciled in London, with current CEO being Ghana's former Minister for Communication (Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah) could remember some of Africa's Unsung Heroes. I am working on a book with that name to catalogue the evolution of Internet in Africa - perhaps we should look for royalties from FaceBook, Google, mPesa, YouTube, SEACOM, etc! But the efforts could not have borne fruit without the inputs of several other people, including the techies who alongside Randy Bush burnt mid-night oil (Dr Martin Koyabe - now with British Telecoms, Paul Olendo now @UN, Alfred Orimbo, etc) - for several nights - to get it all work on Kenya's/indeed Africa's then real terrible phone lines. In the same vein, without Steve Goldstein of the US National Science Foundation (who provided the boxes and technology) and Peter Sutherland of UK's Overseas Development Agency (ODA now DfID) who took up the initial leased line phone bills - used to cost US$ 16,000 (yes, 16k) per month for just a mere 64KBps pipe - it wouldn't have happened. When in 2000 CSK (Computer Society of Kenya) felt I deserved 'Father of Internet in Kenya' title, I dedicated the award to three people: Amb. Dr Benjamin Kipkorir (then Kenya's Ambassador in Washington), Micah Cheserem (then Governor, Central Bank), Brig. (Rtd) Wilson Boinnett (then DG, NSIS aka Special Branch). Without these guys' intervention, the KANU regime of the time wouldn't have allowed Internet to happen. Not that they didn't try to block it - the then Head of Public Service wrote a letter (I have a souvenir copy) to all PS's, Heads of Military, Special Branch, etc warning them not to connect to ARCC/Internet/UNEP without direct approval from his office. That partly explains why these three Kenyan Wazalendo's perhaps deserve these awards more than I. Last but not least, Jeddy and the kids who allowed me to use one of the family bedrooms for initial tests when sections of the University felt by staying late in the labs night, we had 'lots of idle time and needed to be given more teaching load' had denied us space to do the experiments. But all the Glory must always go to God the Almighty, Allah - the One and Only! For those who missed the story (courtesy Visioner Augustine Oduor), you can access it on: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/news/InsidePage.php?id=2000024440 <http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/news/InsidePage.php?id=2000024440&cid=159&st ory=Honouring%20the%20man%20who%20linked%20Kenya%20to%20world> &cid=159&story=Honouring%20the%20man%20who%20linked%20Kenya%20to%20world. Best rgrds, Shem 2010 CTO/GoSS African Internaut (Internet Pioneer) Award Recipient _____ From: Philo Ikonya <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 11 December, 2010 18:51:39 Subject: Re: [NVK-Mageuzi] Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion - December 21-23rd, 2010 Adhiambo, thanks very much for letting me know.. I did not know.. Congrats Shem. You did not say it even as I was telling you of my little works?\ Philo Aung San Suu Kyi cannot be silenced because she speaks the truth and because her words reflect basic Burmese and universal concepts - Vaclav Havel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Darwish> --- On Fri, 12/10/10, Betty Otieno <[email protected]> wrote: From: Betty Otieno <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NVK-Mageuzi] Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion - December 21-23rd, 2010 To: [email protected] Date: Friday, December 10, 2010, 11:01 PM Congratulations Shem on the honor you received the other day, pioneer internet related Kenya. Adhiambo -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: [email protected] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jwalu%40yahoo.com -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: [email protected] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/elizaslider%40yahoo.com