[kictanet] Kenya IGF 2010 Mailing List Discussions Day 1 of 8 Theme : Review of the 2009 IGF Mailing List Discussions

Mon Jul 5 15:32:13 EAT 2010

On 5 July 2010 14:39, Judy Okite <judyokite at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Gentlemen,
>
> However, my question still remains, does or should KI-IGF have a stipulated
> mandate/time...where its tasks can be evaluated? has it been instrumental in
> achieving something to/for the stipulated Multi-stakeholders mentioned?
>
> can K-IGF be part of Kenya's vision 2030?
>
> ????
>
> Interesting thought here. KIGF's mandate should go beyond the EAIGF and as
you've suggested, be part of Vision 2030, since this is the only document
that has long term priorities for making Kenya a middle level society by
2030, or earlier, of course, unless, politicians mutilate it as they did
with our beloved proposed new constitution of Kenya.
In addition, what does the East African Community Protocol have in store for
the EAIGF? I see situations where we can exploit opportunities for
strengthening the forum in line with the protocol for the betterment of the
citizenry. I wouldn't like to believe that the Protocol is just limited to
products and not services!

> your thoughts are welcomed and appreciated.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Solomon Mburu Kamau <solo.mburu at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 5 July 2010 14:18, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for raising this interesting perspective Judy. In my humble
>>> opinion there is a local perspective to Internet Governance Issues and a
>>> Global Perspective to the same. The Local initiative is not tied to the
>>> global one and i suppose this might give us some leeway to review whether we
>>> need to continue with it or not. In my opinion, i do feel with or without
>>> the global initiative we have to carry on with our local version of the
>>> Internet Governance Forum. I might not have an authoritative opinion in so
>>> far as Internet usage statistics are concerned but as far as i know we still
>>> have less than ten million Internet users which leads me to ask the question
>>> why? to attempt to answer myself i will attempt to identify the various
>>> constituencies on the Internet
>>> Children
>>> Youth
>>> Small and Medium Enterprises
>>> Banks
>>> Academia
>>> Technical Community
>>> Governmnet
>>> all this are sources of income for the governmnet and if we are to grow
>>> our GDP it is imperative that we get all this stakeholders together and
>>> identify their priorities in so far as Internet Usage is Concerned.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Why should education be expensive with e-learning?, why should healthcare
>>> be costly with e-health, why should banking be costly with e-banking?
>>
>>
>> It think the main issue here is the classified into two aspects: the
>> willing buyer versus the willing seller (as-is) and the imposed buyer.
>> Logically, the reason as to why we find anything e-something is costly
>> than physical appearance, is because the society has not fully appreciated
>> and acknowledged the need for adapting to change.
>> In essence, mass education can work well in changing the mindset.
>>
>>
>>>  , i hope this makes a case for the vailidity of the Kenya IGF forum,
>>> differing perspectives are invited though :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Judy Okite <judyokite at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Barrack,All,
>>>>
>>>> thank you for this introduction and I look forward to these
>>>> deliberations, however my question is
>>>>
>>>> "how long is the mandate for the Kenya IGF?"
>>>>
>>>>  this year's focus on the global event is reviewing their 5year mandate
>>>> and look at its possible extension and why.....having borrowed the 'not a
>>>> decision making ,model'  from the global event, are we looking at a possible
>>>> time lapse as well?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Barrack Otieno <
>>>> otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear Listers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Another year has gone by and it is time to review the deliberations
>>>>> that were made during last years discussions which was moderated by Walu and
>>>>> Mwende Njiraini. While reflecting on this it is important to note that the
>>>>> IGF process is not a decision making mechanism but a platform for
>>>>> multistakeholder dialogue, the idea is to bring together organisations and
>>>>> persons involved in Internet public policy formulation. It is this
>>>>> organisations and persons that make the decisions or implement the changes
>>>>> that are required in the public space. This notwithsatnding, the Kenya IGF
>>>>> has made immense contribution to the East African IGF which is by far one of
>>>>> the best regional initiatives globally and provides a benchmark for other
>>>>> Regional initiatives that are coming up in Africa and the Global IGF
>>>>> process. Last years report is attached to this thread and i would like to
>>>>> invite listers to skim through it an identify issues that might need to be
>>>>> revisited and or reviewed. In addition you may propose areas that need to be
>>>>> taken into consideration as we prepare for the face to face discussions at
>>>>> the end of this Month. Please note that discussions around this theme will
>>>>> take one day however you may continue with the thread even after we have
>>>>> moved to the next theme which will look at Infrastructure issues.
>>>>>
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> what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”
> Kofi Annan
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