[kictanet] merry xmas and great new year @2010

[CLEM NYANDIERE]

MM,
You summed up the year's events and what you expect in the new year 2010.
Some us did more of the reading than commented. The year had some black spots we need to check in coming year. Some of these are common with email exchanges-- tendency to be impersonal.

I personally pray that in the new year, we engage in MORE constructive LESS destructive discussions. 

At one point some of us contemplated quiting the group as there was increased personalisation of issues and hitting out at colleagues in the sector. 

In the new year, I have told myself to read and reread every email I will post here so that I annoy others LESS. I will also avoid using the forum to pour down frustrations from other sources.

In this forum, we have our teachers as well as our students; employers as well as employees; admirers as well as those we admire....but some of us are probably strangers to each other! My two heroes and one heroine for 2009  were the CEO of Safaricom, PS Ministry of Information and Communications, and the Deputy CEO ICT Board (gracious lady). You probably know why they stand out. 

Merry Christmas and Happy 2010

Clement





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From: muriuki mureithi <mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke>
To: c_nyandiere at yahoo.com
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Thu, December 24, 2009 3:55:11 PM
Subject: [kictanet] merry xmas and great new year @2010

  
Hi 
The
year 2009 came in  fast and furious  - am sure you still remember KCA
amendment and the dust it blew on 2nd Jan 2009   ----
 
Yes
the year is going  and shortly will be history.
 
In
that history – we , the ICT community ,  and of course the kictanet
community has participated in the writing( or is it  reading) that history
.  in 2009 we   recognised convergence, brought in electronic
transactions framework , more importantly more bandwidth than we know how to
use it  and took a major step to show Africa the way towards digital
broadcasting  ,   coordination efforts in international fora
e.g. IGF, ICANN   and on and on-----.  A lot or this was
conceived , discussed , killed , resurrected , critiqued , on the kictanet
platform. The greatest value of the  list  is the perspective of the
vigorous participation  on the list or off the list . from a very
 high level government perspective   in govt  led by PS Dr
Ndemo ,  ICT industry captains led by their  CEOs, regulators ,
techies , policy makers , the media , consultants, the academia, consumer
experts, students, development partners , users etc . Once again KICTANET list lived
to its promise – a platform to talk /share even if we do not necessary
agree. The message coming out is Kenya is on the verge of take-off  in
2010– we expect to see more in BPO industry ,  more activity on
local content both in the internet and broadcasting ,  more effort to
bridge the digital divide in our rural areas  and of course realisation of
the promise of much much cheaper bandwidth to the consumer  and of course
a very successful ICANN in March 2010
 
With
such  activity in 2009 it was only appropriate  to close the year
with a visit of one Sir Tim  Berners-Lee the inventor of the www.  We
are moving,  KICTANET’s new year resolution is to bring the inventor
of the internet here early in 2010
 
With that context  this is to
 wish you much love, light and merriment over the festive celebrations
ahead! May you thoroughlyenjoy yourself, and feel the love, bounty, joy
and abundance that is who you are! May you also find time to be at peace with
yourself in stillness, and to reflect and experience more of the beauty of your
heart. In these quieter times may you receive and seed luminous dreams and
wondrous futures, and experience more of the love and truth of your being.
Cheers 
Muriuki
Mureithi (MM)


      
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