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

Tue Dec 14 17:55:11 EAT 2010

....Walu...so that is how old you are? Well around the same time I was
back in Kenya conducting fieldwork for my PhD studies and I kind of
reached a dead-end. Someone  suggested that I should meet one Shem
Ochuodho as he was definetly on the cutting edge of many issues to do
with ICT4D. That meeting was the turning point for my PhD...Shem you
certainly deserve the honour due to you. I dare add that the great
things you did then were slightly overshadowed when you took a plunge
into politics.......but that is another matter. This recognition 
took a while but for what you did then....it is well deserved.

Nyaki

--- On Tue, 12/14/10, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com>
Subject:
Re: [kictanet] Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world (was Update
on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion – December 21-23rd, 2010)
To: elizaslider at yahoo.com
Cc:
"'Madaraka Party'" <madaraka-kenya at yahoogroups.com>, "'NYCIV
Group'" <nyciv at googlegroups.com>, "'PICTA Kenya-LIst'"
<picta-kenya at yahoogroups.com>, "'ProgressiveMinds'"
<ProgressiveMinds at yahoogroups.com>, "'KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions'" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 2:35 PM

True,

...around
the same time in '95, i was a young lecturer at the then Strathmore
College (oops, now you know am so old ;-) when Shem literally came to
show off  "the Internet" to the College students and staff. 
That afternoon,  the Library was converted into an auditorium and
Shem had his 2hrs of fame - proudly beaming the graphical internet
(through netscape) as he browsed through sites in the US to over 200
curious student and faculty community.

walu.

--- On Tue, 12/14/10, Harry Karanja <kairo at softlaw.co.ke> wrote:

From: Harry Karanja <kairo at softlaw.co.ke>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world (was Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion – December
 21-23rd, 2010)
To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc:
"'Madaraka Party'" <madaraka-kenya at yahoogroups.com>, "'NYCIV
Group'" <nyciv at googlegroups.com>, "'PICTA Kenya-LIst'"
<picta-kenya at yahoogroups.com>, "'ProgressiveMinds'"
<ProgressiveMinds at yahoogroups.com>, "'KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions'" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 5:05 PM

Daktari, that’s the name I came to know you by, courtesy of reading your emails on the internet.  It
was 1995, and my father had just signed up to your fledgling new ISP
from all the way in Njoro, Nakuru. We used the DOS interfaced email to
keep in touch with family abroad and would enjoy the daily snippets of
news you’d send. As one of three internet connections in the whole of
Nakuru district, we had all sorts of visitors coming to use the
internet from my dad’s bedroom J  From that introduction to the internet I’ve never looked back, and the internet has become my source of livelihood.   Thanks Daktari.  Harry Karanja n Director n SoftLaw Limited n Genius Executive Centre n 15th Floor View Park Towers  n Utalii Lane n Nairobi CBD n Tel: +254 20 342 225   From: kictanet-bounces+kairo=softlaw.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+kairo=softlaw.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Shem Ochuodho
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 12:05 PM
To: kairo at softlaw.co.ke
Cc: Madaraka Party; NYCIV Group; PICTA Kenya-LIst; ProgressiveMinds; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: [kictanet] Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world (was Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion – December 21-23rd, 2010)  Madada Philo na Betty,

Ahsanteni for the pongezi's. It was re-freshening
 to know the CTO (Commonwealth Telecom Organization 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: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/news/InsidePage.php?id=2000024440&cid=159&story=Honouring%20the%20man%20who%20linked%20Kenya%20to%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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