[kictanet] Africa's Absence From The Table

[Barrack Otieno]

Rad,
Let us not bash ourselves, Kenya has always been the best i think we are
having one of the biggest delegations at IGF09 from African countries which
attests to this, even those with Library systems tried, that is just an
isolated case, we simply need to bring the vehicle back to the road, The
annual Engineering students expo needs to be scaled down to secondary school
level , we don t need to re-invent the wheel, may be we should call it ICT
congress
Is Kevit online...

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Esther Muchiri
<emuchiri at andestbites.com>wrote:

>  I totally agree with Walu.
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> 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.
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> 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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> *From:* kictanet-bounces+emuchiri=andestbites.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke[mailto:
> kictanet-bounces+emuchiri <kictanet-bounces%2Bemuchiri>=andestbites.com@
> lists.kictanet.or.ke] *On Behalf Of *Walubengo J
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:13 PM
> *To:* emuchiri at andestbites.com
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> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Africa's Absence From The Table
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> 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.
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> 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...
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> walu.
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> --- On *Tue, 11/17/09, Rad! <conradakunga at gmail.com>* wrote:
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> 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
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> 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!
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> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:29 AM, waudo siganga <emailsignet at mailcan.com<http://mc/compose?to=emailsignet@mailcan.com>>
> wrote:
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> Hi Rad! Is the awareness of such opportunities done? Maybe one needs to
> raise the alert before rather than after the horse bolts!?
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> Kind Regards,
> Waudo
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