<div dir="ltr">Rad,<br>Let us not bash ourselves, Kenya has always been the best i think we are having one of the biggest delegations at IGF09 from African countries which attests to this, even those with Library systems tried, that is just an isolated case, we simply need to bring the vehicle back to the road, The annual Engineering students expo needs to be scaled down to secondary school level , we don t need to re-invent the wheel, may be we should call it ICT congress<br>
Is Kevit online...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Esther Muchiri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emuchiri@andestbites.com">emuchiri@andestbites.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I totally agree with Walu.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Something must be changed in our education system to allow for
creativity and ‘hunger’ for additional knowledge in addition to ‘drilling’
the youth to pass exams. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Rad has said that Kenya is leading in Africa on the use of
Facebook! The question is – what information is being exchanged? Are the
youth (graduates) aware that Facebook has other useful content in addition to socialization?
Hmmm</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
kictanet-bounces+emuchiri=<a href="http://andestbites.com" target="_blank">andestbites.com</a>@<a href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">i agree. its not awareness...i remember pushing another
similar challenge from Microsoft, "Imagine Cup 2009" at Multimedia
University. It got a serious mute response...i think our students from
primary school are drilled to focus on and pass exams....anything that has
little or no impact on their exam tends to be neglected. <br>
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We seem to have failed to cultivate a culture of intellectual
"activism" in our education system. When I was growing up we used
to have something called "science-congress" where all high-schools
would compete from district, provincial and finally national level to
show-case their innovations. Not quite sure if this still happens...<br>
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walu. <br>
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--- On <b>Tue, 11/17/09, Rad! <i><<a href="mailto:conradakunga@gmail.com" target="_blank">conradakunga@gmail.com</a>></i></b>
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From: Rad! <<a href="mailto:conradakunga@gmail.com" target="_blank">conradakunga@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Africa's Absence From The Table<br>
To: <a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jwalu@yahoo.com</a><br>
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions"
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an issue. I recall reading some statistics some time back to the effect that
Kenya is one of the heaviest facebook users in Africa. It is the same
internet. Why are we unable to capitalize on it? The challange has been in
the public domain for years!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:29 AM, waudo siganga <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=emailsignet@mailcan.com" target="_blank">emailsignet@mailcan.com</a>>
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Rad! Is the awareness of such opportunities done? Maybe one needs to raise
the alert before rather than after the horse bolts!? </span></p>
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