Zach, Mike and Harry, Seems you guys have not noticed that some journalists are more equal than others. Its sad but even the ICT sector behaves like politicians who cant start functions unless some media houses are there or give special preference to some my 2 cents. www.wanjiku.co.ke Tel. 254 720 318 925 ________________________________ From: Zachary Ochieng <zzachmbir@yahoo.com> To: rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com Cc: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke Sent: Thu, November 26, 2009 12:03:02 PM Subject: Re: [kictanet] Sir Tim Berners-lee web inventor on K24 Capital Talk on Monday 30th Well put, Mike. We wonder what is so special about K24 that warranted the rest of us to be treated that way. Both KICTANET and DfID went out of their way to shield Sir Tim from the journalists at the Fairview Hotel despite an earlier invitation extended to the members of the fourth estate. A man of Sir Tim's stature deserves comprehensive and balanced coverage from all the media houses. His handlers could do better. Zachary. --- Be the change you want to see in the world. --- On Thu, 26/11/09, michael Ouma <benomnta@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: michael Ouma <benomnta@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Sir Tim Berners-lee web inventor on K24 Capital Talk on Monday 30th To: zzachmbir@yahoo.com Cc: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke Date: Thursday, 26 November, 2009, 16:35
Hi Mr Mureithi:
i still feel the rest of the media, i.e print journalists, were not given sufficient time to interview and seek views of Prof Barnes on saturday and during the whole trip.
the first communication we'd from DFID was that there'd be a media briefing at 9am on saturday, then the time was pushed to 11.30am, then 12.30pm. then after Barnes was done with Jeff, the rest of us were only given 10 mins for our interview, 5mins of which were still spent on setting the ground rules for the interview like the number of questions to ask, how not to take photos and the like.
as much as i agree that Jeff (K24) needed the almost 2hours he'd for his 'capital talk' interview, the rest of us should also have been considered, and the appropriate ans sufficient time accorded to us so as to enable us to also inform our readers about Prof Barnes visit to the country.
thanks.
Michael Ouma Journalist Kenya Tel:+254-725-537823
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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
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