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Hi Harry,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for kicking this off, and also for helping us remember "why" we wanted to get together.</div><div><br></div><div>I think another useful item for the agenda (I don't know where this would fit in) is a "Gap Analysis" of the ICT landscape as far as e-participation is concerned i.e. are there any sub-sectors that are not covered/represented?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Brian</div><div><br><div><html>On Jul 21, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Harry Hare wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Dear Waudo,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">My understanding is that this is a “public forum” and therefore will have list members and non-members who may be members of other lists and organisations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Please see what Brian posted on 14<sup>th</sup> July which triggered this effort.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">We are proposing a Public Forum on Thursday 31st of July to be held at a suitable venue in Nairobi. The objective will be to provide all the different ICT stakeholder organisations within Kenya a chance to introduce themselves and their policies to the public. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">There will also be opportunity to evaluate Kenya's ICT ecosystem, especially with regards to the different entities, their missions, roles and goals. As well as provide organisations such as KEPSA with an opportunity to share their view/vision on how they expect ICT sector input/engagement.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Formal announcement will be posted once details have been worked out, but in the meantime please pencil this into your schedules. We can also explore the possibility of an IP stream for the Diaspora... if there is interest in tracking this.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Brian<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> waudo siganga [<a href="mailto:emailsignet@mailcan.com">mailto:emailsignet@mailcan.com</a>] <br> <b>Sent:</b> 21 July 2008 12:14<br> <b>To:</b> Harry Hare<br> <b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Forum Agenda - Lets focus<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Hi Harry - Thank you for your initiative. As we follow up I think we need to first establish who is going to be the audience. Is it Kictanet list members, public, or who?. And if public how do we market? Defining the audience will help us to ensure we have an agenda that sufficiently interests them otherwise we may end up with an empty hall. As an indicator I noted that hardly 30 people from the list voted for the facilitator out of a list population of, I presume, over 500. So should we focus or broaden the agenda given the statistics so far?.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Waudo<o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p> <pre>On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:28:16 +0300, "Harry Hare" <<a href="mailto:harry@africanedevelopment.org">harry@africanedevelopment.org</a>> said:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre> <blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"> <div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Now that we have democratically identified a facilitator for the forum, can we collectively discuss the agenda of the meeting? This will help in making sure that we achieve what we want to do at the forum.<o:p></o:p></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">So to begin with, I had floated some issues, so probably we could use the next few days to “panel beat” and come up with a concise programme for the forum. 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