[kictanet] Media

[Edith Adera]

Dr Ndemo,

It appears that you're not open to suggestions as much as you seem to ask
for suggestions from your last communication.

In other words, I'm suggesting that the purpose of the study and how the
results would be applied be included as part of the TOR. I don't see where
I'm being critical. 

Kind regards

-----Original Message-----
From: bitange at jambo.co.ke [mailto:bitange at jambo.co.ke] 
Sent: 14 February 2008 18:06
To: Edith Adera
Cc: bitange at jambo.co.ke; 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'
Subject: RE: [kictanet] Media

Dear Edith,
I can only work within my boundaries.  The Clergy have made their
apologies and practically pre-empted detailed findings as to how they
behaved.  The review of politicians is ongoing and are faced with a
possibility of constitutional and legal changes.  Some investigative
journalist may find it interesting to put all these efforts into
perspective.

Rather than criticise, please make recommendations.  I would not be
participating in this forum if I did not want stakeholder views.  The
semantics have nothing to do with the objectives of the exercise.  We
simply want to make informed policy decisions.  We are not Policing
anybody here.  The police will or may have already moved on those who
broke the law.

Ndemo.



> Dr Ndemo,
>
> The wording of the TOR appears more of "an inquiry into" rather than what
> has been the subject of discussion - "evaluation of". Again, the main
> purpose of this "something" including how the results will be used need to
> be spelt out from the outset. It's not included in the TOR.
>
> An integrated approach to examining the issues, in my view, would be more
> helpful than specifically targeting the media per se....as the study would
> appear to have pre-empted the findings without allow an objective and
> holistic assessment of what occurred taken into consideration what I
> called
> "key boundary partners". Is there room to change the approach?
>
> Edith
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bitange at jambo.co.ke [mailto:bitange at jambo.co.ke]
> Sent: 14 February 2008 13:39
> To: Edith Adera
> Cc: bitange at jambo.co.ke; 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'
> Subject: RE: [kictanet] Media
>
> Dear Edith,
> History is always a good teacher.  When Rwanda had a political crisis,
> some FM station worsened the situation.  In our case, no one denies the
> fact that we were in a crisis towards the end of December.  It was
> desperate and we too desperate measures.  No one can say what would have
> happened if we let media inflame passions of our people.  Further you very
> well know that media was liberalized withou putting a legal framework in
> place.  We for example have no regulatory mechanism for electronic media.
> We are the least regulated (electronic media) country in the World. This
> is not good for a developing country like ours.
>
> Media h


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