[Kictanet] Fw: [DigAfrica] How broke company won tender

[Alex Gakuru]

Media!
We recently heard Mr. Kiboro state "the challenge of reporting on issues you
do not fully understand" at the recent international conference. Is this
your wake up call to submerge yourself in ICT multi-stakeholder processes
taking place in Kenya to enable you report more fully and accurately when
you choose to report on ICTs?

We don't mind the "Shock and Awe" headlines BUT in this sector, logic rules.
Ours is Boolean world and we tend to go a bit deeper.

Any journalist out there who could respond?

Regards,

Alex


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <alice at apc.org>
To: "KIPlist" <kiplist-cl at lyris.idrc.ca>
Cc: "Kenya ICT Policy - kictanet" <kictanet at kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Kictanet] Fw: [DigAfrica] How broke company won tender


> Brian,  I think it was clear that your reference was to the conclusion
> arrived at by the author of the article.
> But you do bring into light certain aspects that the author left out which
> is helpful in understanding the situation.
> However, I think, it would be even more helpful if journalists could go
the
> extra mile to explain the mechanisms/structures of the industry being
> reported on and allow readers to make the mental exercise of jumping into
> conclusions!
>
>
> thanks
> alice
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brian Longwe" <cto at nbi.ispkenya.com>
> To: "KIPlist" <kiplist-cl at lyris.idrc.ca>
> Cc: "Kenya ICT Policy - kictanet" <kictanet at kictanet.or.ke>; "KIPlist"
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> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [Kictanet] Fw: [DigAfrica] How broke company won tender
>
>
> >
> > On 21 Sep 2005, at 22:06, Brian Longwe wrote:
> >
> >> I'm not taking sides here, just asking questions that I think should
> >> straighten what is clearly spurios reasoning...
> >
> > I don't normally reply to my own emails - but I just realised that my
> > mention of spurious reasoning yesterday might have been misconstrued
> > to be referring to the comments made by my colleagues Alice and
> > Florence. I would like to make a correction - I was not referring to
> > them but rather to the conclusion reached in the press article by the
> > author, which seem to have been based on questionable sources of
> > information.
> >
> > Apologies to all for any misunderstanding :-)
> >
> > Brian
> >
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> > Submitted by: cto at nbi.ispkenya.com 2005-09-22 02:06:01 EDT4
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