[kictanet] Digital Confessions

[Wangari Kabiru]

Happy Thursday, 
The Digital Confessions!

Today marks yet another epic opportunity with the Digital Content Creation Expo @ KICD.

It is my prayer that our Tech community will rise up to be counted by raising the bar on what goes to our school-kids now and into the future without fear or favour. At this crucial time when the Kenyan Education system is undergoing reforms, go for the jugular!

I take the illustration of Digital TV which raised uproar even to eliciting Government ultimatums to industry players.

With the Easter season wrapping up, millions across the world are mourning in  celebration of Mother Angelica, founder of EWTN, the largest Catholic TV Station. EWTN has brought the papacy, Israel and other symbolic ceremonies right into the living room.
Until the digital wars opened up in Kenya, millions of Kenyans had a blackout to this now favorite station. Actually most heard of it when the comical Bamba man started being aired on radio.
What is amazing is that EWTN started in 1978, the Kenyan started watching over 30 years later! WHY? 
Someone needs to explain this.

Another angle, Vernacular TV is so exciting!

But most significant, in this knowledge age, all efforts should be put in place to leap-frog while not just following trends with copy and paste solutions. We must create our our Generation of Creators!
My people perish for lack of knowledge!
Please stand to be counted.

Please save us from digital confessions 30 years to come!

Do have inspired, next-generation deliberations!

Have a blessed day.

Regards/Wangari
On Mar 30, 2016 07:58, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> From: "Joly MacFie" <joly at punkcast.com>
> Date: Mar 29, 2016 11:35 PM
> Subject: [Internet Policy] WEBCAST TUE-FRI: South School on Internet Governance 2016 #SSIGOAS
> To: "internetpolicy at elists.isoc.org" <InternetPolicy at elists.isoc.org>
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> ​We are most of the way through day one, but there's plenty to go. Vint's opening keynote is superb.​
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> joly posted: "From Tuesday March 29 to Friday April 1 2016 the Eighth South School on Internet Governance (SSIG) will be held at the Organization of American States (OAS) Headquarters in Washington, DC. The main objective of the South School on Internet Governance is t"
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> From Tuesday March 29 to Friday April 1 2016 the Eighth South School on Internet Governance (SSIG) will be held at the Organization of American States (OAS) Headquarters in Washington, DC. The main objective of the South School on Internet Governance is to train new leaders of opinion in all aspects related with Internet Governance, from a global perspective and with focus on the Latin America and Caribbean Region. The program trains university and postgraduate students from the region and from the rest of the world in understanding the complexity related with Internet Governance and its importance in the future of the Internet. Speakers include Vint Cerf, Veni Markovski, Raquel Gatto, Larry Strickling, John Curran, Bill Drake, and Danny Sepulveda. The entire event will be webcast in both English and Spanish. The English version will be relayed and archived on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
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> What: Eighth South School on Internet Governance (SSIG)
> Where: Organization of American States (OAS) HQ,Washington, DC
> When: Tuesday March 29 to Friday April 1 2016
> Agenda: http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SSIG_schedule.pdf
> Webcast: http://livestre.am/5l2tN (English relay / archive)
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