Dear Waudo Thanks a lot for the update from Cairo, and congratulations to all the Kenyans there for the great work. Regarding participation of parliamentarians at the Mombasa policy workshop, I agree with you and Ambassador Mary Odinga. But this issue can only be responded to adequately by the PS Ministry of Information Communications Engineer James Rege's office. Florence Etta, Shem Ochudho and I are members of the organising committee for the workshop but to date we have not attended a meeting to begin to deal with these issues. Kind regards A. Wanjira Munyua National Coordinator, Catalysing Access to ICTs in Africa (CATIA) Association for Progressive Communications (APC) alice@apc.org http://www.apc.org http://www.catia.ws ----- Original Message ----- From: "waudo siganga" <emailsignet@mailcan.com> To: <alice@apc.org>; "KIPlist" <kiplist-cl@lyris.idrc.ca>; "Kenya ICT Policy - kictanet" <kictanet@kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 1:58 PM Subject: Parliamanterians at Policy Meeting

Dear Alice, All

I had a meeting yesterday with our Ambassador (Mary Odinga) here in Cairo and in the discussions arose the question of whether arrangements have been made to ensure Parliamentarians will be at the Mombasa Policy meeting. I did need not have any information on this but the ambassador was of the opinion we must ensure the invitation is sent out to Parliamentarians. Any info?

In the meantime Brian Longwe made a very well received presentation to the Africa ICT ministers on the Africa Regional IxP program. It's also relieving to see Mungusi back at CCK. He is amongst the Kenyans here in Cairo.

Kind Regards Waudo Siganga UN WGIG -- waudo siganga emailsignet@mailcan.com