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

[Edith Adera]

Hon. Rege,

You are onto something interesting here...parliament using new media (blogs, twitter, sms-based interactios etc) to engage with citizens to enhance democracy and accountability in Kenya. 

As Chair of the Parliamentary committee on communication, would you be willing (together with the Speaker) to champion this idea with support? 

Look forward to your views.

Edith

 

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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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