Sir Tim Berners-lee web inventor on K24 Capital Talk on Monday 30th
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
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. 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 ---------------------------------- Summit Strategies Ltd ICT consulting and research Land mark Plaza 13th floor P O Box 62454 - 00200 Nairobi Kenya tel + 254-20- 3673925 Cell +254 722 520090 email - mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke www.summitstrategies.co.ke
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 "There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction," - JF Kennedy. --- On Wed, 11/25/09, muriuki mureithi <mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote:
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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Actually sending media invites out then, decide mid-way that you don't need the media but instead of saying so you send them in a wild goose chase was totally unacceptable especially for an individual who believes in openness. The handlers did a perfect job on miss-handling the good Prof...sort of defeatist if you asked me. Kindest Regards Harry On 11/26/09 10:35 AM, "michael Ouma" <benomnta@yahoo.com> wrote:
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 "There are risks and
costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction," - JF Kennedy.
--- On Wed, 11/25/09,
muriuki mureithi <mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote:
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 K24¹s 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 Tim¹s visit is to ACT now.
Cheers
Muriuki Mureithi
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ICT consulting and research
Land mark Plaza 13th floor
P O Box
62454 - 00200
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tel + 254-20- 3673925
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Harry , Micheal I totally agree it was not properly handled and it was a pity for an otherwise successful programme. I was not handling that component Cheers Muriuki -----Original Message----- From: kictanet-bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.k e] On Behalf Of Harry Hare Sent: 26 November 2009 10:59 To: mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Sir Tim Berners-lee web inventor on K24 Capital Talk on Monday 30th Actually sending media invites out then, decide mid-way that you don't need the media but instead of saying so you send them in a wild goose chase was totally unacceptable especially for an individual who believes in openness. The handlers did a perfect job on miss-handling the good Prof...sort of defeatist if you asked me. Kindest Regards Harry On 11/26/09 10:35 AM, "michael Ouma" <benomnta@yahoo.com> wrote:
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 "There are risks and
costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction," - JF Kennedy.
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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 K24¹s 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 Tim¹s visit is to ACT now.
Cheers
Muriuki Mureithi
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62454 - 00200
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Oyi, i thought we had gone past this old school, not to be taken serious way of doing things......i hope he did not leave with the perception that Kenya is a closed remote controlled society. The Ghana episode is @ http://www.ghanaconnect.org.gh/sir-timothy-john-“tim”-berners-lee-meets-internet-community-ghana with photos @ http://gasconi.jalbum.net/TimBerners-%20Lee%27s%20Visit/ and videos @ http://www.ghanaconnect.org.gh/videos Eric here On 26 Nov 2009, at 07:58, Harry Hare wrote:
Actually sending media invites out then, decide mid-way that you don't need the media but instead of saying so you send them in a wild goose chase was totally unacceptable especially for an individual who believes in openness.
The handlers did a perfect job on miss-handling the good Prof...sort of defeatist if you asked me.
Kindest Regards Harry
On 11/26/09 10:35 AM, "michael Ouma" <benomnta@yahoo.com> wrote:
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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costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction," - JF Kennedy.
--- On Wed, 11/25/09,
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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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Land mark Plaza 13th floor
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62454 - 00200
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So was Sir Tim's visit a success or not? Did it put Kenya 'on the map' in any way? Was it beneficial? Would we like more of such visits despite some of the bad international press we havew had? Fellow Listers, dont we have something to celebrate? Nyaki Eric M.K Osiakwan wrote:
Oyi, i thought we had gone past this old school, not to be taken serious way of doing things......i hope he did not leave with the perception that Kenya is a closed remote controlled society. The Ghana episode is @ http://www.ghanaconnect.org.gh/sir-timothy-john-“tim”-berners-lee-meets-internet-community-ghana with photos @ http://gasconi.jalbum.net/TimBerners-%20Lee%27s%20Visit/ and videos @ http://www.ghanaconnect.org.gh/videos Eric here On 26 Nov 2009, at 07:58, Harry Hare wrote:
Actually sending media invites out then, decide mid-way that you don't need the media but instead of saying so you send them in a wild goose chase was totally unacceptable especially for an individual who believes in openness.
The handlers did a perfect job on miss-handling the good Prof...sort of defeatist if you asked me.
Kindest Regards Harry
On 11/26/09 10:35 AM, "michael Ouma" <benomnta@yahoo.com> wrote:
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
"There are risks and
costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction," - JF Kennedy.
--- On Wed, 11/25/09,
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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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Catherine There is a lot to celebrate for the visit by sir Tim. His presence and discussions with the those I have mentioned earlier and Minister , Deputy Speaker and the CEO Kenya ICT Board raised the discussion on the power of the web to high level. In all the sessions one issue always posed is the future of the web, if he was to re-invent the web whether what he would change etc . he was candid and this is significant in our planning KICTANet would like to thank PS Ndemo, CCK DG Mr Njoroge, KICTB CEO Mr Kokubo ,the British High Commission , TESPOK Chair Mr Bedi and Strathmore University for the support and contributions that made the trip the success it was Cheers MM -----Original Message----- From: kictanet-bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Catherine Adeya Sent: 26 November 2009 14:57 To: mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke Cc: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke Subject: Re: [kictanet] Sir Tim Berners-lee web inventor on K24 Capital Talk on Monday 30th So was Sir Tim's visit a success or not? Did it put Kenya 'on the map' in any way? Was it beneficial? Would we like more of such visits despite some of the bad international press we havew had? Fellow Listers, dont we have something to celebrate? Nyaki Eric M.K Osiakwan wrote:
Oyi, i thought we had gone past this old school, not to be taken serious way of doing things......i hope he did not leave with the perception that Kenya is a closed remote controlled society. The Ghana episode is @ http://www.ghanaconnect.org.gh/sir-timothy-john-“tim”-berners-lee-meets-internet-community-ghana with photos @ http://gasconi.jalbum.net/TimBerners-%20Lee%27s%20Visit/ and videos @ http://www.ghanaconnect.org.gh/videos Eric here On 26 Nov 2009, at 07:58, Harry Hare wrote:
Actually sending media invites out then, decide mid-way that you don't need the media but instead of saying so you send them in a wild goose chase was totally unacceptable especially for an individual who believes in openness.
The handlers did a perfect job on miss-handling the good Prof...sort of defeatist if you asked me.
Kindest Regards Harry
On 11/26/09 10:35 AM, "michael Ouma" <benomnta@yahoo.com> wrote:
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
"There are risks and
costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction," - JF Kennedy.
--- On Wed, 11/25/09,
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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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Nyaki, Its tough to please everyone , let me congratulate the organizers of Sir Tims visit as well as his handlers, in future i hope the government can seize such opportunities to allow such eminent persons to address Primary and Secondary school students , this would serve as an inspiration to them, for our dear friends from the fourth estate, it would be great to square out the issue through the right channel, maybe the media council if there are any complaints, otherwise MM and team keep it up, that was a good start. Regards On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Catherine Adeya <elizaslider@yahoo.com>wrote:
So was Sir Tim's visit a success or not? Did it put Kenya 'on the map' in any way? Was it beneficial? Would we like more of such visits despite some of the bad international press we havew had? Fellow Listers, dont we have something to celebrate? Nyaki
Oyi, i thought we had gone past this old school, not to be taken serious way of doing things......i hope he did not leave with the perception that Kenya is a closed remote controlled society. The Ghana episode is @ http://www.ghanaconnect.org.gh/sir-timothy-john-“tim”-berners-lee-meets-internet-community-ghana with photos @ http://gasconi.jalbum.net/TimBerners-%20Lee%27s%20Visit/ and videos @ http://www.ghanaconnect.org.gh/videos Eric here On 26 Nov 2009, at 07:58, Harry Hare wrote:
Actually sending media invites out then, decide mid-way that you don't need the media but instead of saying so you send them in a wild goose chase was totally unacceptable especially for an individual who believes in openness.
The handlers did a perfect job on miss-handling the good Prof...sort of defeatist if you asked me.
Kindest Regards Harry
On 11/26/09 10:35 AM, "michael Ouma" <benomnta@yahoo.com> wrote:
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,
Eric M.K Osiakwan wrote: 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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costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction," - JF Kennedy.
--- On Wed, 11/25/09,
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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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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 "There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction," - JF Kennedy. --- On Wed, 11/25/09, muriuki mureithi <mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote:
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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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
"There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction," - JF Kennedy.
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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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I can understand some journalists might be upset if felt they were unable to go about their business. However, considering what an amazing and unique resource this list is, it is surprising that what should be considered successes are often received with complaints. Please re-read MM's original email. Best, Adam
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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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I agree with you Adam. We should celebrate the fact that its not just Ocampo interested in our great country. Best Alice -----Original Message----- From: Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:45:05 To: <alice@apc.org> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Sir Tim Berners-lee web inventor on K24 Capital Talk on Monday 30th _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: alice@apc.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/alice%40apc.org
Thanks Mureithi. You deserve a pat on the back for making this happen. On the media, it was the Web Foundation's desire not to have media coverage and even the interview with Jeff was only a last minute concession. We all thought it was a missed opportunity but not much we could do about this. Victor ________________________________ From: kictanet-bounces+v-gathara=dfid.gov.uk@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+v-gathara=dfid.gov.uk@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of muriuki mureithi Sent: 25 November 2009 22:59 To: Victor Gathara Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: [kictanet] Sir Tim Berners-lee web inventor on K24 Capital Talk onMonday 30th 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 ---------------------------------- Summit Strategies Ltd ICT consulting and research Land mark Plaza 13th floor P O Box 62454 - 00200 Nairobi Kenya tel + 254-20- 3673925 Cell +254 722 520090 email - mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke www.summitstrategies.co.ke ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ DFID, the Department for International Development: leading the UK Government's fight against world poverty. Find out more at http://www.dfid.gov.uk. The road to Copenhagen: the UK Government's ambition for a global deal on climate change. Find out more at http://www.actoncopenhagen.gov.uk and about DFID's work at http://www.dfid.gov.uk/climate. ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Peapod. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.peapod.co.uk/cleanmail
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Adam Peake -
alice munyua -
Barrack Otieno -
Catherine Adeya -
Eric M.K Osiakwan -
Harry Hare -
michael Ouma -
muriuki mureithi -
Rebecca Wanjiku -
Victor Gathara -
Zachary Ochieng