[kictanet] Africa's Absence From The Table

[Esther Muchiri]

I totally agree with Walu.

 

Something must be changed in our education system to allow for creativity
and 'hunger' for additional knowledge in addition to 'drilling' the youth to
pass exams. 

 

Rad has said that Kenya is leading in Africa on the use of Facebook! The
question is - what information is being exchanged? Are the youth (graduates)
aware that Facebook has other useful content in addition to socialization?
Hmmm

 

 

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Behalf Of Walubengo J
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:13 PM
To: emuchiri at andestbites.com
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Africa's Absence From The Table

 


i agree. its not awareness...i remember pushing another similar challenge
from Microsoft, "Imagine Cup 2009" at Multimedia University. It got a
serious mute response...i think our students from primary school are drilled
to focus on and pass exams....anything that has little or no impact on their
exam tends to be neglected. 

We seem to have failed to cultivate a culture of intellectual "activism" in
our education system. When I was growing up we used to have something called
"science-congress" where all high-schools would compete from district,
provincial and finally national level to show-case their innovations. Not
quite sure if this still happens...

walu. 

--- On Tue, 11/17/09, Rad! <conradakunga at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Rad! <conradakunga at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Africa's Absence From The Table
To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 11:43 AM

I do not believe awareness is an issue. I recall reading some statistics
some time back to the effect that Kenya is one of the heaviest facebook
users in Africa. It is the same internet. Why are we unable to capitalize on
it? The challange has been in the public domain for years!

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:29 AM, waudo siganga <emailsignet at mailcan.com>
wrote:

Hi Rad! Is the awareness of such opportunities done? Maybe one needs to
raise the alert before rather than after the horse bolts!? 

 

Kind Regards,
Waudo

 


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