[kictanet] Sir Tim Berners-lee web inventor on K24 Capital Talk on Monday 30th
Eric M.K Osiakwan
emko at internetresearch.com.gh
Thu Nov 26 12:41:33 EAT 2009
Oyi, i thought we had gone past this old school, not to be taken serious way of doing things......i hope he did not leave with the perception that Kenya is a closed remote controlled society.
The Ghana episode is @ http://www.ghanaconnect.org.gh/sir-timothy-john-“tim”-berners-lee-meets-internet-community-ghana with photos @ http://gasconi.jalbum.net/TimBerners-%20Lee%27s%20Visit/ and videos @ http://www.ghanaconnect.org.gh/videos
Eric here
On 26 Nov 2009, at 07:58, Harry Hare wrote:
> 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.
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> 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
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> "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
>> K24’s 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.
>>
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>> 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
>> Tim’s visit is to ACT now.
>>
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>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>>
>> Muriuki
>> Mureithi
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