<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">....Walu...so that is how old you are? Well around the same time I was
back in Kenya conducting fieldwork for my PhD studies and I kind of
reached a dead-end. Someone suggested that I should meet one Shem
Ochuodho as he was definetly on the cutting edge of many issues to do
with ICT4D. That meeting was the turning point for my PhD...Shem you
certainly deserve the honour due to you. I dare add that the great
things you did then were slightly overshadowed when you took a plunge
into politics.......but that is another matter. This recognition
took a while but for what you did then....it is well deserved.<br>
<br>
Nyaki<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 12/14/10, Walubengo J <i><jwalu@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com><br>Subject:
Re: [kictanet] Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world (was Update
on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion – December 21-23rd, 2010)<br>To: elizaslider@yahoo.com<br>Cc:
"'Madaraka Party'" <madaraka-kenya@yahoogroups.com>, "'NYCIV
Group'" <nyciv@googlegroups.com>, "'PICTA Kenya-LIst'"
<picta-kenya@yahoogroups.com>, "'ProgressiveMinds'"
<ProgressiveMinds@yahoogroups.com>, "'KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions'" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 2:35 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1237547696"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;" valign="top">True,<br><br>...around
the same time in '95, i was a young lecturer at the then Strathmore
College (oops, now you know am so old ;-) when Shem literally came to
show off "the Internet" to the College students and staff.
That afternoon, the Library was converted into an auditorium and
Shem had his 2hrs of fame - proudly beaming the graphical internet
(through netscape) as he browsed through sites in the US to over 200
curious student and faculty community.<br><br>walu.<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 12/14/10, Harry Karanja <i><kairo@softlaw.co.ke></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Harry Karanja <kairo@softlaw.co.ke><br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world (was Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion – December
21-23rd, 2010)<br>To: jwalu@yahoo.com<br>Cc:
"'Madaraka Party'" <madaraka-kenya@yahoogroups.com>, "'NYCIV
Group'" <nyciv@googlegroups.com>, "'PICTA Kenya-LIst'"
<picta-kenya@yahoogroups.com>, "'ProgressiveMinds'"
<ProgressiveMinds@yahoogroups.com>, "'KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions'" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 5:05 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1237547696yiv437762363"><style><!--
#yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363
filtered #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 {font-family:Wingdings;panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
#yiv1237547696 filtered #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 {font-family:"Cambria Math";panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
#yiv1237547696 filtered #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
#yiv1237547696 filtered #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 {font-family:Tahoma;panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
#yiv1237547696 filtered #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 {font-family:Consolas;panose-1:2 11 6 9 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
#yiv1237547696 filtered #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 {font-family:Verdana;panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
#yiv1237547696 filtered #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 {font-family:"Lucida Console";panose-1:2 11 6 9 4 5 4 2 2 4;}
#yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363
#yiv1237547696yiv437762363 p.yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal, #yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 li.yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal, #yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 div.yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal
{margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"serif";}
#yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 h1
{margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"serif";font-weight:bold;}
#yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 a:link, #yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 span.yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}
#yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 a:visited, #yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 span.yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:purple;text-decoration:underline;}
#yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 p
{margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"serif";}
#yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 pre
{margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";}
#yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 p.yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoAcetate, #yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 li.yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoAcetate, #yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 div.yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoAcetate
{margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";}
#yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 span.yiv1237547696yiv437762363body
{}
#yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 span.yiv1237547696yiv437762363Heading1Char
{font-family:"serif";color:#365F91;font-weight:bold;}
#yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 span.yiv1237547696yiv437762363HTMLPreformattedChar
{font-family:Consolas;}
#yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 span.yiv1237547696yiv437762363EmailStyle23
{font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;}
#yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 span.yiv1237547696yiv437762363BalloonTextChar
{font-family:"sans-serif";}
#yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 .yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoChpDefault
{font-size:10.0pt;}
#yiv1237547696 filtered #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
#yiv1237547696 #yiv1237547696yiv437762363 div.yiv1237547696yiv437762363WordSection1
{}
--></style><div class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363WordSection1"><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Daktari, that’s the name I came to know you by, courtesy of reading your emails on the internet.</span></p><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">It
was 1995, and my father had just signed up to your fledgling new ISP
from all the way in Njoro, Nakuru. We used the DOS interfaced email to
keep in touch with family abroad and would enjoy the daily snippets of
news you’d send. As one of three internet connections in the whole of
Nakuru district, we had all sorts of visitors coming to use the
internet from my dad’s bedroom </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">J</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span></p><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">From that introduction to the internet I’ve never looked back, and the internet has become my source of livelihood. </span></p><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Thanks Daktari.</span></p><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><div><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"
style=""><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: gray;" lang="EN-US">Harry Karanja </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" lang="EN-US">n</span></b><b><span style="color: navy;" lang="EN-US"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: gray;">Director</span></b><b><span style="color: navy;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" lang="EN-US">n</span></b><b><span style="color: navy;" lang="EN-US"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: gray;">SoftLaw Limited</span></b><b><span style="color: navy;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" lang="EN-US">n</span></b><b><span style="color: navy;" lang="EN-US"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: gray;">Genius Executive Centre</span></b><b><span style="color: navy;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:
7.5pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" lang="EN-US">n</span></b><b><span style="color: navy;" lang="EN-US"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: gray;">15<sup>th</sup> Floor View Park Towers</span></b><span style="color: navy;"> <b> </b></span><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" lang="EN-US">n</span></b><b><span style="color: navy;" lang="EN-US"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: gray;">Utalii Lane</span></b><b><span style="color: navy;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" lang="EN-US">n</span></b><b><span style="color: navy;" lang="EN-US"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: gray;">Nairobi CBD</span></b><b><span style="color: navy;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" lang="EN-US">n</span></b><b><span
style="color: navy;" lang="EN-US"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: gray;">Tel: +254 20 342 225</span></b><b><span style="color: navy;"> </span></b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-US"></span></p></div><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> kictanet-bounces+kairo=softlaw.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+kairo=softlaw.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Shem Ochuodho<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 12, 2010 12:05 PM<br><b>To:</b> kairo@softlaw.co.ke<br><b>Cc:</b> Madaraka Party; NYCIV Group; PICTA Kenya-LIst;
ProgressiveMinds; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br><b>Subject:</b> [kictanet] Honouring the man who linked Kenya to world (was Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion – December 21-23rd, 2010)</span></p></div></div><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Madada Philo na Betty,<br><br>Ahsanteni for the pongezi's. It was re-freshening
to know the CTO (Commonwealth Telecom Organization <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cto.int">www.cto.int</a>)
domiciled in London, with current CEO being Ghana's former Minister for
Communication (Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah) could remember some of Africa's
Unsung Heroes. I am working on a book with that name to catalogue the
evolution of Internet in Africa - perhaps we should look for royalties
from FaceBook, Google, mPesa, YouTube, SEACOM, etc! But the efforts
could not have borne fruit without the inputs of several other people,
including the techies who alongside Randy Bush burnt mid-night oil (Dr
Martin Koyabe - now with British Telecoms, Paul Olendo now @UN, Alfred
Orimbo, etc) - for several nights - to get it all work on
Kenya's/indeed Africa's then real terrible phone lines.<br><br>In the
same vein, without Steve Goldstein of the US National Science
Foundation (who provided the boxes and technology) and Peter Sutherland
of UK's Overseas Development Agency (ODA now DfID) who took up the
initial leased line phone bills - used to cost US$ 16,000 (yes, 16k)
per month for just a mere 64KBps pipe - it wouldn't have happened.<br><br>When
in 2000 CSK (Computer Society of Kenya) felt I deserved 'Father of
Internet in Kenya' title, I dedicated the award to three people: Amb.
Dr Benjamin Kipkorir (then Kenya's Ambassador in Washington), Micah
Cheserem (then Governor, Central Bank), Brig. (Rtd) Wilson Boinnett
(then DG, NSIS aka Special Branch). Without these guys' intervention,
the KANU regime of the time wouldn't have allowed Internet to happen.
Not that they didn't try to block it - the then Head of Public Service
wrote a letter (I have a souvenir copy) to all PS's, Heads of Military,
Special Branch, etc warning them not to connect to ARCC/Internet/UNEP
without direct approval from his office. That partly explains why these
three Kenyan Wazalendo's perhaps deserve these awards more than I.<br><br>Last but not least, Jeddy and the kids who allowed me
to use one of the family bedrooms for initial tests when sections of
the University felt by staying late in the labs night, we had 'lots of
idle time and needed to be given more teaching load' had denied us
space to do the experiments. But all the Glory must always go to God
the Almighty, Allah - the One and Only!<br><br>For those who missed the story (courtesy Visioner Augustine Oduor), you can access it on: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/news/InsidePage.php?id=2000024440&cid=159&story=Honouring%20the%20man%20who%20linked%20Kenya%20to%20world">http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/news/InsidePage.php?id=2000024440&cid=159&story=Honouring%20the%20man%20who%20linked%20Kenya%20to%20world</a>.<br><br>Best rgrds,<br>Shem<br>2010 CTO/GoSS African Internaut (Internet Pioneer) Award Recipient </span></p><div><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p></div><div><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-width: medium medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt; margin-left: 3.75pt; margin-top:
3.75pt; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><div class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><hr align="center" size="1" width="100%"></span></div><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Philo Ikonya <philonikonya@yahoo.com><br><b>To:</b>
NVK-Mageuzi@yahoogroups.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Sat, 11 December, 2010 18:51:39<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NVK-Mageuzi] Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion – December 21-23rd, 2010<br></span><br> </p><div id="yiv1237547696yiv437762363ygrp-mlmsg"><div id="yiv1237547696yiv437762363ygrp-msg"><div id="yiv1237547696yiv437762363ygrp-text"><table class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0in;" valign="top"><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Adhiambo,<br><br>thanks
very much for letting me know.. I did not know.. Congrats Shem. You did
not say it even as I was telling you of my little works?\<br><br>Philo<br> </p><h1><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Aung San Suu Kyi</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"> cannot be silenced because she speaks the truth and because her words reflect basic Burmese and universal concepts - </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Vaclav Havel</span></h1><h1><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></h1><div align="center"><table class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormalTable" style="width: 50%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="50%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div align="center"><table class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormalTable" style="width: 50%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="50%"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div><pre><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"> </span><span
style=""></span></pre></div><div><pre><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Darwish"><br></a></span></pre></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 12/10/10, Betty Otieno <i><betty.otieno@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:</p><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br>From: Betty Otieno <betty.otieno@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [NVK-Mageuzi] Update on Arrangements for Kisumu Reunion – December 21-23rd, 2010<br>To: NVK-Mageuzi@yahoogroups.com<br>Date: Friday, December 10, 2010, 11:01 PM</p><div id="yiv1237547696yiv437762363yiv1023469989"><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"> </p><div id="yiv1237547696yiv437762363yiv1023469989ygrp-text"><p><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Congratulations Shem on the honor you received the other
day, pioneer internet related Kenya.<br><br>Adhiambo</span><br><br><br></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="yiv1237547696yiv437762363MsoNormal"> </p></div></div><br>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br><br><div class="yiv1237547696plainMail">_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet">http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a><br><br>This message was sent to: <a rel="nofollow">jwalu@yahoo.com</a><br>Unsubscribe or change your options at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jwalu%40yahoo.com">http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jwalu%40yahoo.com</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table><br>
</div><br>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br><br><div class="plainMail">_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="/mc/compose?to=kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><a href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet" target="_blank">http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a><br><br>This message was sent to: <a ymailto="mailto:elizaslider@yahoo.com" href="/mc/compose?to=elizaslider@yahoo.com">elizaslider@yahoo.com</a><br>Unsubscribe or change your options at <a href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/elizaslider%40yahoo.com" target="_blank">http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/elizaslider%40yahoo.com</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>