[kictanet] LGBT rights for ICT professionals and other engineers/scientists

[Dennis Kioko]

I'm surprised at the speed at which the West has switched to LGBT issues,
seeing the many issues that women still face in developing countries.
There's a lot of oppression and violence towards women that I believe we
can start by addressing first?

On Sunday, 9 June 2013, Walubengo J wrote:

> @Barrack, ICT Reseacher +1, Very True that.
>
> @Adam, In the value-chain of our local problems that ICT could positively
> intervene e.g corruption, disease, traffic jam, tribalism, insecurity,
> poaching, and many others, I would be very surprised if Listers will have
> time to spare to discuss how folks by the name LGBT could be assisted
> through ICT.
>
> walu.
>
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> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] LGBT rights for ICT professionals and other
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>
>
> According to World Health Organisation, every day 3,000 people commit
> suicide around the world for broad broad range of reasons. It would
> therefore be better to direct the concern to the international organisation
> for global action we focus our energies on trying to get some semblance of
> decent access to our vast majority(over 70 per cent of the population) at
> this point in time.
>
>
> ------------------------------
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 2:17 PM MSKS Barrack Otieno wrote:
>
> >Hi Adam,
> >
> >I think the position of the Kenyan Society is clear from the Wikipedia
> post
> >you have made , let us focus on ICT since we are united in promoting the
> >growth and development of the Information and Communications Technology
> >sector.
> >
> >Best Regards
> >
> >
> >On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'adam at varud.com');>>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I recently read with distress this email from Alan Turing written
> shortly
> >> before his suicide following conviction for "gross indecency after
> >> admitting to a sexual relationship with another man".
> >>
> >> http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/06/yours-in-distress-alan.html
> >>
> >> And then read this sad article summarizing the current state of affairs
> >> regarding LGBT rights in Kenya:
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Kenya
> >>
> >> Is there anything that the members of the KICTAnet community can do to
> >> support LGBT members of the engineering and ICT communities in Kenya?
> >>  Supporting individual rights is critical to creating an environment
> where
> >> innovation can happen.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Adam
> >>
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