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

Thu Nov 26 16:25:09 EAT 2009

Nyaki,

Its tough to please everyone , let me congratulate the organizers of Sir
Tims visit as well as his handlers, in future i hope the government can
seize such opportunities to allow such eminent persons to address Primary
and Secondary school students , this would serve as an inspiration to them,
for our dear friends from the fourth estate, it would be great to square out
the issue through the right channel, maybe the media council if there are
any complaints, otherwise MM and team keep it up, that was a good start.

Regards

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Catherine Adeya <elizaslider at yahoo.com>wrote:

> So was Sir Tim's visit a success or not? Did it put Kenya 'on the map' in
> any way? Was it beneficial? Would we like more of such visits despite some
> of the bad international press we havew had? Fellow Listers, dont we have
> something to celebrate? Nyaki
>
> Eric M.K Osiakwan wrote:
> > 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.
> >>
> >> 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  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
> >>> Tim’s visit is to ACT  now.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Muriuki
> >>> Mureithi
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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