[kictanet] Sir Tim Berners-lee web inventor on K24 Capital Talk on Monday 30th

Thu Nov 26 10:58:37 EAT 2009

Actually sending media invites out then, decide mid-way that you don't need
the media but instead of saying so you send them in a wild goose chase was
totally unacceptable especially for an individual who believes in openness.

The handlers did a perfect job on miss-handling the good Prof...sort of
defeatist if you asked me.

Kindest Regards
Harry

On 11/26/09 10:35 AM, "michael Ouma" <benomnta at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Mr Mureithi:

i still feel the rest of the media, i.e print journalists,
> were not given sufficient time to interview and seek views of Prof Barnes on
> saturday and during the whole trip.

the first communication we'd from DFID
> was that there'd be a media briefing at 9am on saturday, then the time was
> pushed to 11.30am, then 12.30pm. then after Barnes was done with Jeff, the
> rest of us were only given 10 mins for our interview, 5mins of which were
> still spent on setting the ground rules for the interview like the number of
> questions to ask, how not to take photos and the like.

as much as i agree
> that Jeff (K24) needed the almost 2hours he'd for his 'capital talk'
> interview, the rest of us should also have been considered, and the
> appropriate ans sufficient time accorded to us so as to enable us to also
> inform our readers about Prof Barnes visit to the country.

thanks.

> 
Michael Ouma
Journalist
Kenya
Tel:+254-725-537823

"There are risks and
> costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks
> and costs of comfortable inaction," - JF Kennedy.

--- On Wed, 11/25/09,
> muriuki mureithi <mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote:

> From: muriuki
> mureithi <mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke>
> Subject: [kictanet] Sir Tim
> Berners-lee web inventor on K24 Capital Talk on Monday 30th
> To:
> benomnta at yahoo.com
> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions"
> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 11:59
> AM
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> Hi
> all stakeholders of
> the web  
> 
>    
> 
> Sir
> Tim Berners-Lee, the www inventor in 1989 and
> Time magazine
>   member
> of  100 Most Important  People of  the
> 20th
>  century
>  honoured Kenya by a visit last week facilitated by
> KICTAnet. On
> the
> conclusion of the trip, he gave a wide ranging
>  one-on-one interview
> to
> K24¹s Jeff Koinange  Capital Talk to be aired on
> Monday 30th
> at 2000
> hrs and 2200hrs. Make a date to hear first hand the
> inventor of the
> www.
> 
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>    
> 
>  In
> his  itinerary, he met and interacted with the
>
> cross-section of Kenyan  web
> stakeholders  government, parliament,
> academia,
> techies, industry 
> and civil society. This was a fact finding
> mission to
> understand  how his
> invention is being exploited. He also
> profiled  Web
> Foundation (www.webfoundation.org
> ) that he launched
> in
> Sharm el Sheikh  IGF  on 15th Nov,
> Web Science Research
> Initiative
> (www.wsri.org) and clarified
> some
> of the  outputs of www consortium (w3c)
>  in
> standard setting especially
> for the virtually impaired. 
> 
>    
> 
>
>  He
> met government  officials led  by
>   Vice President  Hon
> Kalonzo
> Musyoka, Permanent Secretary Dr Bitange Ndemo and
> CCK DG Mr Charles
>
> Njoroge among others over lunch, had an interactive session
> with
> Parliamentary
> committee  responsible for ICT led by Hon Eng James
> Rege. He
> also gave a
> one hour lecture  to the academic community 
> (view the video
> lecture
> at www.kenet.or.ke)  and
>  met
> Skunkworks at  Strathmore
> University as well as 
> TESPOK.   A
> recurring theme    was the 
> opportunity
> provided by the www
> but can only be fully exploited by the
>  development of
> content 
> just do it, put data on a  web page and
> contribute to
> the growth of the
> web now estimated at 10 raised to power 18
> pages and
> growing rapidly. 
> 
>    
> 
> From
> the high and mighty,  Sir
> Tim went to the grassroots.
> First stop was first
> hand interaction  with
> the virtually impaired at the
> Kenya Society of the Blind.
> Yes, the blind
> who constitute up  to 3% of the Kenyan
> population need to
> access the web
> and software to help them is available both
> for the computer and
> the cell
> phones. According to the virtually impaired ,the
>  cost was a
> barrier,
> good  pc software cost about $500 while for
> the cell phone cost $300,
> and
>  open source was not as good. Equally, most of the
> Kenyan web
> developers
>  do not incorporate features for
>  virtually impaired.  
> 
> In
> addition,
> Sir Tim saw applications of the web as a social
> intervention to
> create
> jobs, reduce crime and organise a neighbourhood
>  by the excellent
> work by
>  Kimathi Information Centre,  and the
> power of the community radio
> to
> extend the power of the web to those in the slums as
> ably illustrated by
> the
> SIDAREC radio  Ghetto 99.9. To crown  the visit
> to  SIDAREC,
> he
> talked live on Ghetto 99.9 FM and  praised 
> the efforts of the
> SIDAREC to
> empower the poor with information.  
> 
>    
> 
> His
> visit comes at time
> when Kenya has just plugged into
> submarine optic fibres
> cables and  a
> repealed Kenya Communication Act
>   chaperoning Kenya
> to the  information
> society era. From the many
> interactions in his
> itinerary  it was clear
> that  all sectors 
> of the society are
> highly sensitised  on the
> opportunities created by www
> and ways  to
> exploit the web.  The only way
> to honour Sir
> Tim¹s visit is to ACT  now. 
> 
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> Cheers
>  
> 
>
> Muriuki
> Mureithi 
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