Dakitari, From my experience, you will never achieve universal understanding of any concept. Otherwise we should have understood that heaven is what we make it here on earth. But you still find people hoping that in the end we shall move to some place without problems and never have to work. This is not possible so individually we need to get hold of one person and fully make him/her understand and possibly take the plunge. In the next few years the concept will spread even better than our original thoughts about it. Implementation in Kenya never works at concept level but through actual learning (or copying) experiences. Regards Ndemo. Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: Catherine Adeya <elizaslider@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 03:41:10 To: <bitange@jambo.co.ke>; <kictanet-bounces+bitange=jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Universal Access in Kenya (Is it really working?) Dakatari, Actually my concern is that even those who should understand are constantly asking questions...which means the concept it not very clear to them. Those of us who may understand constantly try to explain but what we get are more questions than answers...maybe that is why I expressed it as a concern...justifiably. I believe many, including Edith, are already doing what they can in the rural areas to get people to understand but I am not sure what is needed to get more people to do more albeit pro bono. Nyaki ________________________________ From: "bitange@jambo.co.ke" <bitange@jambo.co.ke> To: Catherine Adeya <elizaslider@yahoo.com>; kictanet-bounces+bitange=jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Tue, December 7, 2010 12:45:04 PM Subject: Re: [kictanet] Universal Access in Kenya (Is it really working?) Dakitari, Paul has given some good details. The question now is not whether we understand the concept or not. It is those who are in this list and those would read the advert to find innovative ways of each talking to rural folks from wherever they come from into understang first risk and two enterpreneurialism. Our main goal is to ensure countrywide distribuition. It is hopeless to expect Government to conduct the awareness exercise at this late hour. Government indeed went around the country to train and explaing the concept. As I said before some folks did not find it attractive. On the Opetator DV, the regulator as a member of the taskforce wrote to them. CCK has the figures and the abilty to audit what has been done. Finaly we all have the responsibility to educate our people on such matters "ask not what the country has done to you but what you have done to your country". I think this was what Kennedy roughly said. Ndemo. Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: Catherine Adeya <elizaslider@yahoo.com> Sender: kictanet-bounces+bitange=jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:46:23 To: <bitange@jambo.co.ke> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Universal Access in Kenya (Is it really working?) _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: bitange@jambo.co.ke Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/bitange%40jambo.co.ke ---------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------- "easy access to the world"