[kictanet] Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world (was Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion – December 21-23rd, 2010)

[waudo siganga]

Congats Shem!  I remember those early days when I first logged
into the net in 1995 and read a storybook. You guys did great!
Looking fwd to your book.

Waudo

On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:04 +0800, "Shem Ochuodho"
<shemochuodho at yahoo.com> wrote:

Madada Philo na Betty,
Ahsanteni for the pongezi's. It was re-freshening to know the CTO
(Commonwealth Telecom Organization [1]www.cto.int) domiciled in
London, with current CEO being Ghana's former Minister for
Communication (Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah) could remember some of
Africa's Unsung Heroes. I am working on a book with that name to
catalogue the evolution of Internet in Africa - perhaps we should
look for royalties from FaceBook, Google, mPesa, YouTube, SEACOM,
etc! But the efforts could not have borne fruit without the
inputs of several other people, including the techies who
alongside Randy Bush burnt mid-night oil (Dr Martin Koyabe - now
with British Telecoms, Paul Olendo now @UN, Alfred Orimbo, etc) -
for several nights - to get it all work on Kenya's/indeed
Africa's then real terrible phone lines.
In the same vein, without Steve Goldstein of the US National
Science Foundation (who provided the boxes and technology) and
Peter Sutherland of UK's Overseas Development Agency (ODA now
DfID) who took up the initial leased line phone bills - used to
cost US$ 16,000 (yes, 16k) per month for just a mere 64KBps pipe
- it wouldn't have happened.
When in 2000 CSK (Computer Society of Kenya) felt I deserved
'Father of Internet in Kenya' title, I dedicated the award to
three people: Amb. Dr Benjamin Kipkorir (then Kenya's Ambassador
in Washington), Micah Cheserem (then Governor, Central Bank),
Brig. (Rtd) Wilson Boinnett (then DG, NSIS aka Special Branch).
Without these guys' intervention, the KANU regime of the time
wouldn't have allowed Internet to happen. Not that they didn't
try to block it - the then Head of Public Service wrote a letter
(I have a souvenir copy) to all PS's, Heads of Military, Special
Branch, etc warning them not to connect to ARCC/Internet/UNEP
without direct approval from his office. That partly explains why
these three Kenyan Wazalendo's perhaps deserve these awards more
than I.
Last but not least, Jeddy and the kids who allowed me to use one
of the family bedrooms for initial tests when sections of the
University felt by staying late in the labs night, we had 'lots
of idle time and needed to be given more teaching load' had
denied us space to do the experiments. But all the Glory must
always go to God the Almighty, Allah - the One and Only!
For those who missed the story (courtesy Visioner Augustine
Oduor), you can access it on:
[2]http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/news/InsidePage.php?id=20000244
40&cid=159&story=Honouring%20the%20man%20who%20linked%20Kenya%20t
o%20world.
Best rgrds,
Shem
2010 CTO/GoSS African Internaut (Internet Pioneer) Award
Recipient
  ____________________________________________________________

From: Philo Ikonya <philonikonya at yahoo.com>
To: NVK-Mageuzi at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, 11 December, 2010 18:51:39
Subject: Re: [NVK-Mageuzi] Update on Arrangements for Kisumu
Reunion – December 21-23rd, 2010


   Adhiambo,
   thanks very much for letting me know.. I did not know.. Congrats
   Shem. You did not say it even as I was telling you of my little
   works?\
   Philo

 Aung San Suu Kyi cannot be silenced because she speaks the truth and
because her words reflect basic Burmese and universal concepts - Vaclav
Havel

















   --- On Fri, 12/10/10, Betty Otieno <betty.otieno at gmail.com>
   wrote:

     From: Betty Otieno <betty.otieno at gmail.com>
     Subject: Re: [NVK-Mageuzi] Update on Arrangements for Kisumu
     Reunion – December 21-23rd, 2010
     To: NVK-Mageuzi at yahoogroups.com
     Date: Friday, December 10, 2010, 11:01 PM


   Congratulations Shem on the honor you received the other day,
   pioneer internet related Kenya.
   Adhiambo


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