[kictanet] President Kenyatta secures Microsoft support for computers

Wed Jun 5 12:06:18 EAT 2013

Good people of the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet). I spelt out the name
to bring out the philosophy of the networkŠ"Action". Unfortunately in the
last few years we have not lived to the philosophy of the network and turned
into an ordinary busy discussion list. The network gained its clout and
reputation by actually taking on policy issues and inputing directly into
them and presenting the network position paper/document to the relevant
offices/officers followed by serious lobbying. This is how you can influence
policy and make a contribution to the policy formulation of any government
not just our GoK.

If the network truly wants to make a contribution, and I don't mean
criticizing everything that government does and what others are offering to
do, the secretariat with the assistance of members needs to develop a
position paper on the policy pronouncement based on the documentation
provided for in the Jubilee Manifesto. The position paper should provide
answers to the many questions being asked and provide recommendations of how
this policy can be implemented. The draft can be circulated on this list for
further input before it is presented to the relevant offices. A sub
committee should then be formed and tasked with follow up and lobbying to
make sure that the recommendations in the position paper are taken into
account, or better still the position paper of turned into the "Government
Policy" itself.

As the madman of the list (aka Bobby Yaweh) said, Government works through
documents, so to get their attention, create a document!

Action 101.

Harry Hare

Director  |  African eDevelopment Resource Centre
PO Box 49475 00100 | Nairobi, Kenya
Tel +254 20 4041646  |  Cel +254 725 650044

From:  Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
Date:  Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:37:06 +0300
To:  Cio_Magazine Hare <harry at africanedevelopment.org>
Cc:  KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>,
"isoc at orion.my.co.ke" <isoc at orion.my.co.ke>
Subject:  Re: [kictanet] President Kenyatta secures Microsoft support for
computers

Agreed Bobby, 

Are you suggesting an occupy parliament sort of move *Hides*, Matogo's
Strathmore  offer sounds better maybe you can be the Master of Ceremony and
Walu the Moderator any takers/suggestions for panelists?, i agree with the
kind of energy demonstrated on the list there are many stakeholders itching
to do something and we need a middle ground or  a win win situation for that
matter.

Best Regards

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:28 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Barrack,
> 
> What we need is a 6 year old who is going to class 1 next year to perform an
> eloquent poem on what he/she expects when they arrive in class next year with
> their new electronic learning device (ELD)in hand.
> 
> It is unfortunate that even you have decided to take the side road, we have
> had months to take a position on this issue but as usual we have preferred +1s
> instead of actually doing something tangible.
> 
> What do we expect the President to do when he asks for help and the only
> people who come to his aid are Microsoft and elk.  If you have not noticed the
> iPad disappeared on day 2 of his term in the same way that Obama's blackberry
> vanished, the President is and never was on this forum so to get his ear we
> must go where his attention is, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) has also vanished
> from this digital domain and gone to the analogue world where government lives
> and where only documents in hard copy are considered.
> 
> I like the way Dr. Ndemo scuttled discussions by insisting that we include the
> ministry and kie on John Matogo's initiative to host a discussion, John also
> made the error of asking for financial support of this forum, which has proven
> itself to be a tweet shop.
> 
> Regards
> 
>                                 The show is not over until the plus sized
> person sings. (had to make it politically correct)
>  
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenyag
> 
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>   
>  
>  
>  
> 
>    From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
>  To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>;
> "isoc at orion.my.co.ke" <isoc at orion.my.co.ke>
>  
> Sent: Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 15:09
> 
>  Subject: Re: [kictanet] President Kenyatta secures Microsoft support for
> computers
>  
>  
>  
> 
> Walu,
> 
> I think its time we focused on other issues, seems this project is a foregone
> conclusion. We will take stock in 2017.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Whao!
>> 
>> When I grow up, I want to work for M$oft :-)
>> 
>> Sounds like they are concluding the deal to be on 1million laptops next year
>> - as we are busy tweeting on what Software is relevant for pupils in Standard
>> one. Read on
>> @ 
>> http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Uhuru-secures-Microsoft-support-for-computers/-/
>> 1056/1871904/-/7i517tz/-/index.html
>> 
>> walu.
>> 
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