Dear Waudo, My understanding is that this is a "public forum" and therefore will have list members and non-members who may be members of other lists and organisations. Please see what Brian posted on 14th July which triggered this effort. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi all, We are proposing a Public Forum on Thursday 31st of July to be held at a suitable venue in Nairobi. The objective will be to provide all the different ICT stakeholder organisations within Kenya a chance to introduce themselves and their policies to the public. There will also be opportunity to evaluate Kenya's ICT ecosystem, especially with regards to the different entities, their missions, roles and goals. As well as provide organisations such as KEPSA with an opportunity to share their view/vision on how they expect ICT sector input/engagement. Formal announcement will be posted once details have been worked out, but in the meantime please pencil this into your schedules. We can also explore the possibility of an IP stream for the Diaspora... if there is interest in tracking this. Warm regards, Brian From: waudo siganga [mailto:emailsignet@mailcan.com] Sent: 21 July 2008 12:14 To: Harry Hare Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Forum Agenda - Lets focus Hi Harry - Thank you for your initiative. As we follow up I think we need to first establish who is going to be the audience. Is it Kictanet list members, public, or who?. And if public how do we market? Defining the audience will help us to ensure we have an agenda that sufficiently interests them otherwise we may end up with an empty hall. As an indicator I noted that hardly 30 people from the list voted for the facilitator out of a list population of, I presume, over 500. So should we focus or broaden the agenda given the statistics so far?. Waudo On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:28:16 +0300, "Harry Hare" <harry@africanedevelopment.org> said: Dear Colleagues, Now that we have democratically identified a facilitator for the forum, can we collectively discuss the agenda of the meeting? This will help in making sure that we achieve what we want to do at the forum. So to begin with, I had floated some issues, so probably we could use the next few days to "panel beat" and come up with a concise programme for the forum. I reproduce the ideas I had floated earlier for you indulgence. Harry +++++++++++++++++ 1. Forum Objectives "Clearly articulate the purpose of the forum and the expected outputs, this is important so that we can have a focussed discussion" 2. Association presentations "Brief presentations by the associations sharing their mandate, governance, objectives, activities, achievements, plans and membership composition" 3. General Discussion "Questions, Answers, Concerns etc raising from the association presentations@ 4. Way forward "General discussion on how associations could collaborate and offer high quality leadership to the sector. Agree on joint activities that have a national appeal that can work as bonding sessions" African eDevelopment Resource Centre eDevelopment House 604 Limuru Road, Old Muthaiga PO Box 49475 00100 Nairobi, Kenya Cel +254 725 650044 Land +254 20 3741646/7 <http://www.africanedevelopment.org/> www.africanedevelopment.org June/July 2008 Training Opportunities VSAT Feild Eng. 18-20 June Supply Chain Management 24-27 June Fibre Optic Technician 1-4 July Knowledge Management 8-11July Space is limited Book Now! P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail People make a plan work, a plan alone seldom makes people work (Confucius). No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.3/1563 - Release Date: 20/07/2008 12:59

Harry, Indeed it would be a public forum - but to what extend has the message gone outside Nairobi given that most listservers have subscribers in NRB? Maybe there's need to have the traditional notice in the print media. As for the Agenda proposed and copied below, 1. Forum Objectives 2. Association presentations 3. General Discussion 4. Way forward I would add - 3.5. How to Organise the different Associations for effective engagement with Govt. walu. nb: meanwhile, unconfirmed reports from my moles indicate that a new DG for CCK has been unveiled. Anybody with such a copy? --- On Mon, 7/21/08, Harry Hare <harry@africanedevelopment.org> wrote:

From: Harry Hare <harry@africanedevelopment.org> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Forum Agenda - Lets focus To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 1:30 PM Dear Waudo,

My understanding is that this is a "public forum" and therefore will have list members and non-members who may be members of other lists and organisations.

Please see what Brian posted on 14th July which triggered this effort.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hi all,

We are proposing a Public Forum on Thursday 31st of July to be held at a suitable venue in Nairobi. The objective will be to provide all the different ICT stakeholder organisations within Kenya a chance to introduce themselves and their policies to the public.

There will also be opportunity to evaluate Kenya's ICT ecosystem, especially with regards to the different entities, their missions, roles and goals. As well as provide organisations such as KEPSA with an opportunity to share their view/vision on how they expect ICT sector input/engagement.

Formal announcement will be posted once details have been worked out, but in the meantime please pencil this into your schedules. We can also explore the possibility of an IP stream for the Diaspora... if there is interest in tracking this.

Warm regards,

Brian

From: waudo siganga [mailto:emailsignet@mailcan.com] Sent: 21 July 2008 12:14 To: Harry Hare Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Forum Agenda - Lets focus

Hi Harry - Thank you for your initiative. As we follow up I think we need to first establish who is going to be the audience. Is it Kictanet list members, public, or who?. And if public how do we market? Defining the audience will help us to ensure we have an agenda that sufficiently interests them otherwise we may end up with an empty hall. As an indicator I noted that hardly 30 people from the list voted for the facilitator out of a list population of, I presume, over 500. So should we focus or broaden the agenda given the statistics so far?.

Waudo

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:28:16 +0300, "Harry Hare" <harry@africanedevelopment.org> said:

Dear Colleagues,

Now that we have democratically identified a facilitator for the forum, can we collectively discuss the agenda of the meeting? This will help in making sure that we achieve what we want to do at the forum.

So to begin with, I had floated some issues, so probably we could use the next few days to "panel beat" and come up with a concise programme for the forum. I reproduce the ideas I had floated earlier for you indulgence.

Harry

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1. Forum Objectives

"Clearly articulate the purpose of the forum and the expected outputs, this is important so that we can have a focussed discussion"

2. Association presentations

"Brief presentations by the associations sharing their mandate, governance, objectives, activities, achievements, plans and membership composition"

3. General Discussion

"Questions, Answers, Concerns etc raising from the association presentations@

4. Way forward

"General discussion on how associations could collaborate and offer high quality leadership to the sector. Agree on joint activities that have a national appeal that can work as bonding sessions"

African eDevelopment Resource Centre eDevelopment House 604 Limuru Road, Old Muthaiga PO Box 49475 00100 Nairobi, Kenya Cel +254 725 650044 Land +254 20 3741646/7 <http://www.africanedevelopment.org/> www.africanedevelopment.org

June/July 2008 Training Opportunities

VSAT Feild Eng. 18-20 June Supply Chain Management 24-27 June Fibre Optic Technician 1-4 July Knowledge Management 8-11July

Space is limited Book Now!

P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

People make a plan work, a plan alone seldom makes people work (Confucius).

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