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

[alice at apc.org]

I think this is a great idea. We could begin by creating space for this on 
the KICTANet website that Linuxchix offered to design and maintain.
Dorcas and Wash what do you both think?

alice

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <alice at apc.org>
To: "Kenya ICT Policy - kictanet" <kictanet at kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:11 PM
Subject: Fw: Fw: [Kictanet] Fw: [DigAfrica] How broke company won tender


>I believe some of you on this list are not subscribed to KIP
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Florence Etta" <Fetta at idrc.or.ke>
> To: "KIPlist" <kiplist-cl at lyris.idrc.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: [Kictanet] Fw: [DigAfrica] How broke company won tender
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>
>> Re Media,
>> Maybe this list  ought to consider launching a FAQ session or education 
>> sessions/page. Something to think about how to deal with this on the 
>> move? So perhaps it may not exactly be a response from the media as a 
>> response from this network that may be called for?
>> Cheers,
>> FE
>> At 12:28 PM 9/22/2005 +0300, you wrote:
>>>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"
>>> >> <kiplist-cl at lyris.idrc.ca>
>>> >> 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
>>> >> >
>>> >> > ---
>>> >> > Submitted by: cto at nbi.ispkenya.com 2005-09-22 02:06:01 EDT4
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