ICTs for civic and political engagement
Warigia, thank you for passing along my request. I've joined your forum to help me become better informed about current examples of online engagement in Kenya - I have a hunch I will humbly learn far more than I will ultimately share with my upcoming speaking trip. This is me: http://stevenclift.com - I've spoken across almost 30 countries on "e-democracy" but this is my first opportunity to visit Sub-Saharan Africa. I run, http://E-Democracy.org which created the world's first election information website in 1994 and today focuses on hosting local online discussion that matter. We have a special Ford Foundation funded effort in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis which has large Somali and Oromo populations: http://e-democracy.org/inclusion So I've put out a few global queries: Digitial Inclusion Network: http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/inclusion/messages/topic/2AiHjJ1MZ8Hr8d... Democracies Online Exchange: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/3Y7NmSTaw3sb7cm7SGvtKz See the links for the great responses so far. Here is a query for your network ... I am interested in discovering both local and national Kenyan or African politicians who are quite active with social media. Being able to point out examples at a more local level where the feedback loop and closeness to the public is often stronger is quite useful. I am also interested in any political, government, or NGO-based "engagement" or "consultation" sites that have jumped on the mobile bandwagon. I am particularly interested in any mobile website or apps that are taking advantage of the increasingly popular smartphone broader net access beyond SMS. I am interested to understand what percent of Kenyan mobile phones are used to access the Internet in some way beyond SMS. Any suggestions? Links? Comments? Thanks for having me as a guest here. Sincerely, Steven Clift Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.Org Follow me - http://twitter.com/democracy New Tel: +1.612.234.7072
Hi Steven, *> I am interested in discovering both local and national Kenyan or **African politicians who are quite active with social media.* Hon Martha Karua is active on twitter -> http://twitter.com/#!/martha_w_karua . President Kikwete as well for his re-election campaign - http://twitter.com/kikwete2010 I'm sure there are a few more.. <http://twitter.com/#!/martha_w_karua>*> I am interested to understand what percent of Kenyan mobile phones are used to access the Internet in some way beyond SMS.* Opera's monthly 'State of the Mobile Web' might be indicative of the level of mobile internet usage in Kenya -> http://www.opera.com/smw/2010/08/ (August Report). Moses Kemibaro did a blog post<http://www.moseskemibaro.com/2010/10/01/state-of-the-kenyan-mobile-web-august-2010/>on this a little while ago. Hope that's a start :) Kind Regards, -- Josiah Mugambi On 7 Oktoba 2010 8:31 alasiri, Steven Clift <clift@e-democracy.org> wrote:
Warigia, thank you for passing along my request.
I've joined your forum to help me become better informed about current examples of online engagement in Kenya - I have a hunch I will humbly learn far more than I will ultimately share with my upcoming speaking trip.
This is me: http://stevenclift.com - I've spoken across almost 30 countries on "e-democracy" but this is my first opportunity to visit Sub-Saharan Africa. I run, http://E-Democracy.org which created the world's first election information website in 1994 and today focuses on hosting local online discussion that matter. We have a special Ford Foundation funded effort in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis which has large Somali and Oromo populations: http://e-democracy.org/inclusion
So I've put out a few global queries:
Digitial Inclusion Network:
http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/inclusion/messages/topic/2AiHjJ1MZ8Hr8d...
Democracies Online Exchange: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/3Y7NmSTaw3sb7cm7SGvtKz
See the links for the great responses so far.
Here is a query for your network ...
I am interested in discovering both local and national Kenyan or African politicians who are quite active with social media. Being able to point out examples at a more local level where the feedback loop and closeness to the public is often stronger is quite useful.
I am also interested in any political, government, or NGO-based "engagement" or "consultation" sites that have jumped on the mobile bandwagon. I am particularly interested in any mobile website or apps that are taking advantage of the increasingly popular smartphone broader net access beyond SMS. I am interested to understand what percent of Kenyan mobile phones are used to access the Internet in some way beyond SMS.
Any suggestions? Links? Comments?
Thanks for having me as a guest here.
Sincerely, Steven Clift
Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.Org Follow me - http://twitter.com/democracy New Tel: +1.612.234.7072
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On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Josiah Mugambi <jmugambi@gmail.com> wrote: Opera's monthly 'State of the Mobile Web' might be indicative of the level
of mobile internet usage in Kenya -> http://www.opera.com/smw/2010/08/ (August Report). Moses Kemibaro did a blog post<http://www.moseskemibaro.com/2010/10/01/state-of-the-kenyan-mobile-web-august-2010/>on this a little while ago.
Hope that's a start :)
Am I the only one appalled at the data gathered by the browser maker? On my PC, Neither FFox or Chrome "phone home" the amount of data used, what pages I visit, etc. I wonder how many Opera Mini users actually read this: http://www.opera.com/privacy/ "Privacy in the Opera Mini browser Opera Mini will keep a record of the user’s phone make and model for use with maintaining the history, cache, and cookies. The user’s phone number is not stored except where required by the operator. Make and model data may be used for the purposes of debugging, maintenance, optimization of the service, or maintaining the customer relationship. The history, cache, and cookie information can be removed using *Tools > Settings > Privacy* from the menu in Opera Mini. Additionally, as authorized, we may also use personal data to send users information regarding update downloading, upgrades, enhancements, surveys, or advertisements about our products." -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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