[kictanet] landmark visit by Sir Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of the World Wide Web .

[James Rege]

Muriuki,
That is very well summarized about such a personality, whom we are  
lucky to host.  I think we need to market ourselves more in Kenya/East  
Africa (the ICT sector). It will be a good thing to do.  Our KIKTANET  
is very much praised out there as having so many ICT experts, and are  
contributing freely.  And I hope the majority of us can code at least  
in one language,  or be able to route even a video monitor.  We have  
just returned from Washington DC together with my colleague Hon Gumbo  
and Parliament ICT department staff, where we attended the World e- 
Parliament.  There was a lot of talk about ICT development in our  
region.  In fact the feeling is that the region is the one to watch in  
the 21st century, in this regard.  We must encourage our young people  
who from time to time get opportunity to attend the industry  
conferences to work very hard and be our ambassadors.  ICT will sure  
sustain our economy, especially if the AG can kindly give us the FOI.

In Parliament:  Our Speaker, Hon. Kenneth Marende has his head high in  
his attempt to transform the 10th Parliament.  He wants  
Parliamentarians to be ICT savvy — an excellent idea.  The New Media  
networks such as Blog, Facebook, twitter,  and others could surelly be  
ideal for Parliamentarians and institutions to embrace in enhancing  
transparency and democracy, although some contributors may not be  
genuine and serious in their contributions ( we also need to look at  
cyber law and protectionism).  I noticed that City Council is now  
blogging, and for the first time I learned that there is a law out  
there since 1940s which stipulates that if your dog bucks in the city,  
you could pay a fine...  It shows that our institutions are serious in  
becoming transparent.

Hon James Rege, MP, Karachuonyo



> Hi colleagues
>
> Kenya will proudly host Sir Tim Berners-Lee  the inventor of the  
> World Wide
> Web  who lands in Kenya on 19th to 22nd . Please see his rich resume  
> at
> http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ .   For the internet  
> enthusiasts and
> indeed everybody  now enjoying the rich experience of the World Wide  
> Web ,
> this   visit is an opportunity to  review how we are exploiting  the
> invention for   our development especially now that fibre has
> revolutionalised  access to bandwidth.  As we celebrate  the visit,  
> it is
> also an opportunity to  reflect on what contributions we are making to
> further the invention.
>
> In his four day visit  Sir Berners-Lee will meet the cross section  
> of the
> Kenya society ,  high level government  officials ,  parliament and in
> particularly committee responsible for ICT, academia , the ICT  
> industry,
> civil society,  the techies and very significantly the physically  
> challenged
> . I believe a number of KICTANET fraternity will meet  and interact  
> with him
> in some of these events. However, due the  limited time of his  
> visit, he may
> not meet with all of you. As in the past, we want to use this list  
> for you
> to share the thoughts you would have wanted to share with him during  
> his
> visit.  We shall collate these  thoughts and pass them to him   
> during or at
> the conclusion of  his visit.  You may wish to  read about  and  
> refine your
> thoughts around the World Wide Web Consortium ( www.w3.org) and the  
> World
> Wide Web Foundation  (www.webfoundation.org)  institutions he  
> established
> and  continues  to support to further  the potential of the web to
> humanity.
>
> Cheers
> Muriuki Mureithi
>
>
>
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