[kictanet] Local Content Issues and beyond......

[Catherine Adeya]

Okay.......okay....Tandaa and beyond. My honest opinion from this flurry of 
emails is the following:

1. We need to discuss more about local content 
and define it within our
context. I think the piece Eric Aligula sent is a 
good starting point and there
are similar ones. There have been many debates 
around these issues, remember
less than a decade ago the debate was all about 
we in Africa needing
access.....the key word was 'access'.

2.  Then, 
we started getting the 'access' we so desired, the debate moved to "access to 
what?"....that is where the local content issues come in. Aligula's piece 
defined it as Localcontent is the expression andcommunication of a 
community's locally owned and adapted knowledge andexperience that is 
relevant to the community's situation. A great starting point but we do not 
have to stick to that definition but we can refine it in our context and 
maybe that is partially where the challenge lies.

2. The other issue I 
can flesh out is the fact that there are many who are involved in
local 
content development; and either they are not known or they have not 
made
themselves known. Maybe we need to provide a platform for them to 
show-case
what they are doing but within a defined definition.

Ladies 
and gentlemen, debate is healthy, but there are pertinent issues that are 
coming
out that some may deem 'noise' but my research nose smells the 
beginning of a
great venture. Maybe we needed Tandaa to simply get us here. 
Let us refocus.

Nyaki


      
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