[kictanet] Sir Tim Berners-lee web inventor on K24 Capital Talk on Monday 30th
muriuki mureithi
mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke
Thu Nov 26 11:08:39 EAT 2009
Harry , Micheal
I totally agree it was not properly handled and it was a pity for an
otherwise successful programme.
I was not handling that component
Cheers
Muriuki
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e] On Behalf Of Harry Hare
Sent: 26 November 2009 10:59
To: mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Sir Tim Berners-lee web inventor on K24 Capital Talk
on Monday 30th
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
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>
> 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.
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>
>
> 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.
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>
> 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
>
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>
> Muriuki
> Mureithi
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